The term "Rollback" refers to an operation that returns the Exchange server to its pre-installation state. Previously, the Exchange update process, lacking a rollback mechanism, could leave Exchange in an unknown state if the installation failed or ended prematurely. For this reason, there was no "Cancel...

For a brief period of time on August 9, 2008, a pre-release version of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB952580) was inadvertently made available to Microsoft Update , the Microsoft Update Catalog , and Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) servers for download. While we quickly...

There has been a lot of discussions in the Exchange ecosystem (see comments on this post and other posts on our blog for example) about the fact that Windows Server 2008 built-in backup application (Windows Server Backup) is not Exchange-aware. Even though we have also clarified that the limitation does...

In this post I'll talk a bit about the legacy Recipient Update Service (RUS) and explain the changes made to it for Exchange Server 2007. Recipient Update Service The Recipient Update Service was introduced in Exchange 2000 to discover and provision recipient objects. Recipients created through...

This is just a quick note to let everyone know that the End-to-End guidance for the Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino has gone live. You can download it here , or you can go read more about it here . Happy Reading! - Jenna Lyday

Exchange 2007 introduces a new Exchange term: "Server Role". Server role is a logical concept used to organize Exchange 2007 services and features across one or more servers. While Exchange 2003 provided primitive server roles called BackEnd server and FrontEnd server, Exchange 2007 has more granular...

We got two cool photos we wanted to share with you today: First, we have Dave Thompson , our Vice President (on the left) and Steven Connor, Director of Test in Exchange (on the right) showing off Exchange 2007 colors while snowboarding. Pretty cool, eh! Then, we wanted to show you Alek, son of Jeremy...

Get a comprehensive look at Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with the new "24 hours of Exchange" series. Our Exchange experts cover in-depth topics such as deployment and migration, the new Exchange Management Console and Shell, Unified Messaging, high availability, and security, providing you with the...

EDIT 5/24/2011. This survey is now closed. Thank you for incredible amount and quality of feedback you have given us! We wanted to reach out to our customers (you!) to learn a bit more about your public folder topologies and usage scenarios. In order to gather this feedback, we have created an...

Accepting inbound mail for a DNS domain and relaying it to responsible mail hosts outside your Exchange organization was a simple process in Exchange 2003, albeit one that required some explanation, which was discussed in the following articles: KB 321721 How to share an SMTP address space in Exchange...

With the introduction of Exchange Web Services in Exchange 2007, we began investing in a broadly capable developer interface. In the next version of Exchange, we will continue to invest in Web services by delivering new capabilities that provide a more efficient and optimized interface for Exchange and...

Exchange Message Tracking Logs hold a wealth of information about email messages during transport. Utilities that can parse message tracking logs and analyze them for administrators have historically been important tools when troubleshooting certain mail flow problems. With Exchange 2010, the message...

Today the Exchange CXP team released the following update rollups to the Download Center. All three releases cover Security Bulletin MS12-080 . Because this is a security release, the updates will also be available on Microsoft Update. Update Rollup 5-v2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 Update...

Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! There are a lot of usability improvements as well as a whole new section on Storage Design . A blog post explaining the calculator (updated for this new version) is here and...

UPDATE 10/21/2011: There is now a newer version of this tool that runs also on Exchange 2010. You can read about it here . There are many scenarios in Exchange 2007 Server which requires parsing, monitoring, and analyzing Message Tracking logs. For example, in transaction log file and / or Database...

CSS often fields questions about troubleshooting Exchange 2007 Client Access Server (CAS) publishing rules using ISA Server 2006. The ForeFront TMG team blog has a great post: Troubleshooting OWA 2007 Publishing Rules on ISA Server 2006 . If you're just getting started with publishing Exchange 2007...

Some customers have experienced a problem where the following error is generated when installing the Mailbox role on an Exchange 2007 server (typically the first Exchange 2007 Mailbox server in the org): Exchange server address list service failed to respond You might also see events logged in...

Following the December blog entry on Exchange 12 and 64 bit, Harold Wong asked me to record a podcast on the benefits of the 64 bit platform. Having never done a podcast before, I was a bit nervous, but it seems to have turned out ok, thanks to the interview style of Michael Murphy . If you are interested...

Microsoft IT has released 4 new whitepapers that can give you an inside look at how Exchange Server 2007 is run within Microsoft: Exchange Server 2007 Design and Architecture at Microsoft Managing the Calendaring and Collaboration Process By Using Exchange Server 2007 Web Services Daily Operations...

EDIT 8/6/2008: Please see this post for additional information related to Hub throughput and different message sizes. Large message size: effect of transport database cache size on throughput. Background Recently one of our support engineers came to us requesting performance data for a client...

Disclaimer OK, before you get too far into this posting I just want to let you know that most of this is about why different organizations might choose to go with Exchange to manage their mobile devices and other organizations might use System Center Mobile Device Manager (MDM for short).  This...

Have you been wondering what the aka.ms URLs we've been posting on Twitter and elsewhere are all about? They come from a Microsoft URL-shortening service. Not only does it allow us to shorten URLs to the minimum characters possible, it also creates vanity URLs that are easier to remember! Note, although...

There have been some blogs on VSS backups in the past. Over last few months, we have worked on several cases where troubleshooting VSS was required. Seeing that the documentation around how to troubleshoot this is somewhat lacking, we decided to put together this blog post. This post will give you VSS...

I recently (hopefully recently, my last post took two years to get published so I'm not sure when this one will go out, LOL) posted one of my typical light-hearted looks into life at Microsoft (it was about how office space is allocated, read it here ).  Although it was irrelevant to virtually everything...

Is reducing or controlling the high cost of the power to run and cool computer hardware is a top priority for your organization? Are you considering server virtualization solutions to reduce your server footprint and the associated power and cooling costs? Because the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange...