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...

A quick intro to ADModify: ADModify is a tool that was (and is still) developed and maintaned out of our Support Services (aka PSS) team, and was created to make it easier to modify / import / export objects in Active Directory in bulk. The tool has...

download what's new release notes prerequisites You have been eagerly waiting, and we have been working hard over the summer to deliver the latest Exchange Server 2010 enhancements as soon as possible. I am extremely happy to announce...

Based on the questions that we got on another post , it seemed appropriate to address the "Requesting data from the Exchange server..." or "Outlook is trying to retrieve data…" client popup messages in a separate post. While we have touched upon this...

Standby continuous replication (SCR) is a new feature being introduced in Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. As its name implies, SCR is designed for scenarios that use standby recovery servers. SCR extends the existing continuous replication...

While we appreciate all the positive feedback we've received on Exchange Server 2010, we know you all are eager to find out what's been going on in Redmond since November. Today, we are happy to give you a first look at what's coming later this year in...

Note : this blog post is the first in a Public Folder Troubleshooting series. Please also make sure to check out part 2 , part 3 and part 4 of the series. Introduction The purpose of this blog post series is to serve as a guide to troubleshooting...

Exchange Server 2007 introduces a new mechanism for distributing Offline Address Books (OAB) that doesn't require Public Folders. It instead uses HTTP(S) and the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). There are several potential advantages of...

The last time we talked about the future of Exchange Public Folders, was in Terry Myerson's blog post titled, " Exchange 12 and Public Folders ".  The main theme of this blog focused on the statement that Public Folders are being "de...

Outlook 2007 is the latest version of the e-mail client for accessing an Exchange mailbox. To make this version of Outlook very flexible, it can connect to a mailbox on the following versions of Exchange: Exchange 2000 Exchange 2003 Exchange 2007 However...

This is a second blog post about troubleshooting public folder replication issues. In first post we covered Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes. This blog post covers Troubleshooting the Replication of Existing Data and the last post in this...

What is the Allow/Block/Quarantine list? In Exchange 2010 we added a feature called the Allow/Block/Quarantine list (or ABQ for short). This feature was designed to help IT organizations control which of the growing number of Exchange ActiveSync-enabled...

One of the best utilities ever created for Exchange is EXMerge. You can get the latest version of this tool here, where it is listed as the Mailbox Merge Wizard: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/2003.asp What EXMerge does may sound simple and...

Exchange Server can benefit from having basic disk partitions track-aligned. Diskpar.exe is used for aligning a partition at the storage level, which, if used to create the partition, can have a significant positive performance impact on the storage and...

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...

EDIT 4/15/2010: Fixed two typos in examples. The process of finding a conference room in the building you want to meet and then hoping it is available can be a time-consuming process. Well this is all about to change! In the release of Exchange 2010 and...

"Spam is our e-mail customers' No. 1 complaint today, and Microsoft is innovating on many different fronts to eradicate it" - Bill Gates . With the release of Exchange 2003 Server SP2 Microsoft and the Exchange Server Product Unit are taking another...

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...

EDIT: This post was updated on 4/29/2008 to add more detail about the Exchange-aware backup on next version of SBS . In a previous blog post , we wrote about the various versions of Exchange Server and their support for Windows Server 2008. Now that Windows...

This is a third blog post about troubleshooting public folder replication issues. In first post we covered Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes. The second blog post covered Troubleshooting the Replication of Existing Data. This post in this...

This is one of those subjects that keep coming up. A while ago, we had a post on how to troubleshoot error 0x8004010f when downloading an OAB in Outlook. Dave Goldman has been working on updating this guidance with latest tips and tricks and has, after...

Exchange 2003 background and behavior In Exchange 2003, Recipient Policies (now Email Address Policies – EAP) were a bit ineffective in some cases. It was quite possible to create a Recipient Policy designed to manage the email addresses stamped onto...

Since the earliest versions of Exchange Server, the Information Store Integrity Checker (ISInteg) has offered Exchange administrators a way to check mailbox and public folder database integrity. ISInteg checks and fixes Exchange database errors that may...

Every so often people ask us - "How often do you recommend we run the offline defrag?" Meaning - how often do we run it to have the server run OK? The short answer would be - we do NOT recommend this to be run as any type of "regular" maintenance...

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...