We have seen a lot of cases where we get calls reporting that the number of their transaction logs has grown exponentially in last day / few days. This can cause big issues, especially if the disk housing the transaction logs is not big enough to accommodate for this growth between online backups. Here are a few things that are 1st to blame for unusually large amounts of transaction logs: Online maintenance - yes, during online maintenance, we move and shuffle data...

Prior to releasing Exchange Server 2003 we didn’t test this scenario, and since we only support scenarios that we have tested and have confidence in this was considered unsupported. However, with so many customers interested in this method of upgrading we decided to test it and document the process. A KB article will be released describing the process, but for now here are the steps you need to know. Summary: In some cases it may be preferable to do a clean install of...

Hi, I’m Anand Vijay. I’ve worked in Microsoft for two and half years. I’ve been an SDE/T with the Exchange Setup Test team. During this time I’ve developed tools, test frameworks and many scripts. These help deploy test-topologies, test Exchange Server Setup and maintain our labs. I’ve also owned the testing for Outlook Mobile Access and Device Update from the Setup point of view. It was a great thrill to see the shipping of Exchange Server 2003....

Hi folks, KC here. As I've mentioned before , we have many open SDET positions in Exchange. I thought it might help to pull together a few resources such as a post from an SDET in Exchange in combination with the job description. So, here is the job description from Zoe : Job Title: Software Development Engineer in Test Responsibilities: · Design, develop and implement automated tools and test infrastructure for validating Exchange features and interfaces; ·...

We're looking for some feedback on the mailbox manager feature, in three parts: #1: If you use it today, why - what scenarios do you use it for? For example, to reduce mailbox size to reduce backup time, to keep users under a certain SLA mailbox size, corporate retention policies, etc... just tell us any details you're willing to share on how and why you use it today. #2: What does it do today that you like? #3: What does it not do today, that you'd like to see it do...

I decided that working in the Microsoft Games Studio wasn’t interesting enough, so in November 2002 I came to the notorious Exchange team. I’m a content writer in the user education group and have worked on a few different things since starting my stint here, mostly related to Exchange administration or disaster recovery. These days, in my spare time I play Halo and SoF2 and teach the Bible to Jr. High students. My three brothers and myself all work at/for/on behalf...

The version of Exchange that ships with SBS is 99% the same as Exchange 2003 Standard. The only difference is that the SBS version of Exchange can only be installed on an SBS server since there was a minor change added to look for the SBS product key instead of the Exchange product key. - Gwen

Every quarter we look in various Exchange communities for active participants to see who might make good candidates for Exchange MVPs. In addition, we talk to the current Exchange MVPs to find out who are the outstanding contributors in the community. Some of the communities we actively look in are the following: Microsoft Newsgroups Tek-Tips Forums ( www.tek-tips.com ) Swynk Mailing List ( http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist ) ...

So you’re standing there in your machine room, staring at all the old machines you’d just love to retire. There’s all this new hot hardware, with a whole lot more storage. You just don’t need all those Public Folder servers any more. So? Why not just run setup and uninstall the server? Well, setup’s uninstall process makes no attempt to insure data preservation as it does for mailbox stores. The same goes for Exchange System Manager if you just...

If you’re a proud Smartphone owner, you might have noticed that the ‘Office Location’ field doesn’t get synched onto the device when it’s part of your Contact entries. For some, maybe not a big deal, but in the Microsoft GAL we have everyone’s office number populated in that field, and when I’m wandering the halls of building 34 it sure is handy to remember the office number of the people I’m going to see. Anyway, you know if you...