Hi. I'm DJ Schwend, a product designer working on the OWA team here in Exchange. I've put together this overview of the best new features in our Beta 1 release. We've made huge strides to improve the online experience and our goal is to keep being the...

PST Capture Download Documentation Ask and ye shall receive, mateys! As we announced in July , we are always looking for new ways to make your work easier - especially when your work involves ending PST proliferation. Today, we are happy...

Update 7/14/11: When contacting Microsoft Customer Support to obtain the Interim Update, you can reference KB 2581545 (please note that the article will be available at a later date on support.microsoft.com). 7/27/2011: Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 has been...

EDIT 8/22/2008: We have updated the troubleshooting section . Download information for Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2007 SP1 The update is live at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=63E7F26C-92A8-4264-882D-F96B348C96AB&displaylang...

It certainly has been an exciting couple of months with the UC Launch and hearing a lot of great feedback and excitement from customers and press about the work we've done in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1).  Today we are announcing the...

Exchange Server 2003 fits on a single CD. For Exchange 12, which is expected to be released in the second half of 2006, the disk space consumption for a full install of the product is much larger than previous versions, because of certain features that...

The Exchange Team would like to get your feedback on use of Exmerge in Exchange 2003, to make sure that we are focusing on right things in our next release. There are a few questions we have on the subject: - What are the scenarios where you use...

This is a heads up that Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 should be out on Tuesday February 10, 2009. As you can see the rollup release date coincides with the day Microsoft issues security patches. No points for guessing that this rollup contains...

Like Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1, Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 is a slip-streamed version. Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 introduces several new features, but in order to utilize Exchange 2007 SP2, you must perform the following steps: Extend the Schema...

This morning, we signed off Exchange 2007 for release to you! We've bet the company on this product. Here at Microsoft, we have over 120,000 mailboxes running in production on Exchange 2007 – exceeding our SLA of 99.95% availability. Likewise, over 200...

CALL TO ACTION A change in Exchange permissioning behavior may impact mobile communications and other add-on applications for Exchange. Shared and resource mailboxes may also be affected. By evaluating in advance whether this change will impact...

Inside Microsoft, we maintain a repository of tools written by our engineers and technical staff. Many of the tools that are posted are very specific to Microsoft engineering— tools to help developers and testers better manage their project in our internal...

EDIT 10/02/1008: We have updated the section on compatibility of Direct Push and Wi-Fi . Background Exchange 2003 introduced the Always Up To Date notification feature (AUTD) that kept devices up to date by sending SMS triggers to the device...

In my Exchange support experience, customers often ask me about the differences between using the Auto Accept Agent and Outlook Direct Booking. They want to know which they should use for their specific environment. After much research, I compiled the...

There has been a lot of speculation about the iPhone and its abilities to connect to Microsoft Exchange Server. For instance, Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg mentions in his June 26 All Things Digital column that, "It [the iPhone] can also...

We have some great news - today, Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Beta 2 is available as a community technology preview. This is a great milestone for the product and the team and builds on the great work we did in Exchange 2007. We are distributing...

We are happy to announce that Exchange 2010 is Code Complete! Our senior leadership team has signed off on the final code, and it has been sent to our early adopters for one final look before its public release. This Release to Manufacturing (RTM) milestone...

Update 7/13/2011: Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 has been removed. See Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 Removed from Download Center for details. Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 to the Download Center. This...

Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 to the Download Center. This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of SP1. See ' KB 2582113 : Description of...

Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 to the Download Center. This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of SP1. See 'KB 2608646: Description of...

Update 4/6/2011: The update has been re-released. See Announcing the Re-release of Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 3 (V3) . 3/30/2011 1:40 PM: Please see Exchange 2007/2010 Rollup 3 Status Update for updated status. We have received notification...

EDIT 11/4/2009: The information in this article is obsolete. Please read this post for new information on the subject. Since we announced the release of Exchange Server 2007 SP2 , we've received a few questions about running Exchange 2007 on Windows Server...

We've been hard at work on Exchange 14 (E14) for a few years now, and although we've shared a lot of details and code with customers on our TAP & Live@edu programs, we haven't been too chatty publicly. That's going to be changing over the coming months...

Update Rollup 5 for Exchange 2007 SP1 (announced a few days ago ) has been released. The rollup is available on the Download Center here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=652ED33A-11A1-459C-8FFE-90B9CBFE7903&displaylang...

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...