By now, many of you have seen the articles that discussed Address Book Policies , hosting changes , and the Hybrid Configuration Wizard , but deep down I know you all have been hoping that we would discuss the most sought after feature that we decided to include in Exchange 2010 SP2. What’s that you...

Last year when we released Exchange 2010 SP1, we posted about the change expired password feature in Outlook Web App and how you can enable it by creating the ChangeExpiredPasswordEnabled registry entry. See So you want to change your expired passwords in OWA... for details. Since then you've sent us...

Greetings, Exchange Administrators! In today’s edition of “and You”, we’ll be covering Exchange’s handing of messages generated by iPhones, iPads, and Macintosh Mail clients. Specifically, we’re going to cover what /mixed content body messages are, how Exchange handles...

Update 10/21/11 : Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 3 and later supports using a UPN in the change password dialog. Also, please see our TechNet documentation on the subject, here . A while back, I posted What you need to know about the OWA Change Password feature of Exchange Server 2007...

In my post just the other day I provided a link to the new guide covering Exchange publishing via Forefront TMG or UAG. One poster followed up by asking, “How do I set things up when I have both TMG/UAG with a web farm and a hardware load balancer?” It’s a great question, as these days hardware load...

While ISA 2006 SP1 includes a Client Access Web Publishing Wizard for both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007, the wizard does not have any knowledge of Exchange 2010. Exchange 2010 includes the following changes with respect to its URLs and virtual directories: Exchange 2010 Client Access Servers...

Many of you have been asking how you can transition your existing Exchange environment to Exchange 2010 from a client access perspective. For most of you, this will also mean coexisting with legacy Exchange and Exchange 2010 for a period of time. My previous blog article discussed the overall steps in...

NOTE: This article has been updated to correct the MSAS URLs mentioned in this article. By now most of you have heard about the release of Exchange 2010.  Those of you that are upgrading from Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 or a mixture of the two, are probably curious about the client access upgrade...

Today we released an updated version of the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer . For those of you not familiar with this site, it is a Web-based tool that helps you troubleshoot connectivity issues. The tool simulates several client logon and mail flow scenarios. When a test fails, many of the errors...

EDIT 10/14/2009: Made a few readability improvements as well as added a section based on feedback . Traditionally, in order to access an internal share or site link posted within an email, one had to be connected to the company network. In addition, access to internal files was not available directly...

Have you ever sent a really well thought out, important email, only to find out (through an automatic response) that the recipient is on vacation for two weeks? For most of us, this means either waiting two weeks for a response or emailing an alternate contact. For the recipient, it means dealing with...

We've put together a new video, sharing some of the cool new stuff you can expect to see with the next version of Exchange, code-named Exchange 14. Please take a few minutes to go watch it because, hey, we put a lot of work into it and it's no fun if you just skip the video and read only the text! ...

Update: We have new features available for password funcationality. See the new post, So you want to change your expired passwords in OWA... Recently, we've seen calls on OWA Change Password functionality and questions about the features with Windows Server 2008. The following is a quick synopsis...

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...

Lately we have seen more interest in certificate based authentication with Exchange 2007 Outlook Web Access. Using certificates for authentication can be considered more secure because a user cannot gain access to the mailbox simply by knowing the user name and password. The certificate option prevents...

In Exchange Server 2007 SP1, the EWS team added a new feature called EWS Request Proxying.  It is sometimes also referred to as EWS Proxy or HTTP Proxy.  Not much has been said about this feature, but if you care about performance, it is important to understand why it is there, why you want...

If you've not heard; Apple released iPhone 2.0 today which includes a software update to the existing iPhones in the market (yes, we mentioned it when it was announced as well). We're thrilled to add them to the family of Exchange ActiveSync licensees that enable all sorts of devices to connect to Exchange...

In the past, if you wished to use S/MIME for e-mail encryption with an external recipient, you would add the recipient to your Contacts folder. This was typically done by having the recipient send you a digitally signed item and then right click on the recipient in the From field and click "Save...

A few customers exploring the new Outlook Web Access customization features in Exchange 2007 SP1 have asked why when they add a button to the main OWA navigation bar does it appear as a small button only, or commonly stating that the text is "missing". The answer is relatively simple: To preserve...

With Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 you can now manage rules by logging into Outlook Web Access. The goal of the new rules interface is to provide Outlook users with a familiar experience for managing your rules. In the OWA options section is where you will find the rules management page. This page...

EDIT 5/30/2008: The content of this article has since been published in our official Exchange documentation. Please go here for the most updated version . As part of a broader investigation, we measured the network costs between Enterprise email clients and Exchange 2007 SP1. The values presented here...

Customers frequently ask Exchange Customer Support Services (CSS) engineers how Exchange Server organizations can be managed using multiple Web sites for Exchange Server-related virtual directories.  This is often used for segmentation purposes or for access by certain applications, apart from Web...

Right now there is no easy way to tell who is using Entourage, RPC/HTTP (Outlook Anywhere), Exchange ActiveSync, or OWA with what frequency.  I have found Logparser to be very helpful in answering a lot of these questions.  The tool is a bit intimidating to get started but once you get the...

Continuing on my previous post , I wanted to go into explaining how Exchange Server 2007 CAS Proxying works for Outlook Web Access (OWA). Proxying for Outlook Web Access is used when there is only one Internet-facing CAS Server. In this scenario the will be proxied to the CAS server where his mailbox...

In a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 organization, a computer that is running Exchange 2007 that has the Client Access Server role installed can act as a proxy for other Client Access Servers within the organization. This is useful when multiple Client Access Servers (CAS) are present in different Active...