The various documents in this link help to provide a detailed description of the features and functionality of Office 365 services currently in beta .

Finally Outlook 2007 now supports Exchange 2010 personal archives, you need to install an update that is now available in December 2010 Cumulative Update for Office 2007 follow this link for more details! Good to be back :)

The Office Maven had now released a completely new version of Windows Home Server Outlook add-in with full support for Microsoft’s new Outlook 2010. WHS Outlook is a Windows Home Server add-in that integrates the Microsoft Outlook software with the Windows...

A quick one - I recommend anyone about to deploy FPE to take a look at the new PFE 2010 capacity planning tool to ensure you have correct capacity (memory and CPU) on the server roles before going live! It can be downloaded here

Recently, the Bing Search team announced a new service that’s a mashup of the Bing search engine and Twitter: BingTweets . Through a partnership with Federated Media and Twitter , the site integrates real-time search results from the micro-blogging service...

Ten days after Windows 7's October 22 launch, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said: "Certainly we’ve seen initial sales be fantastic. The first ten days were bigger than the first ten days of XP or Vista or any other Windows launch that we have done."...

http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/archive/2010/04/22/etw-storport.aspx A fantastic new way in Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 to gather information on how your server is performing with your storage…

Greg Smith recently released this very detailed breakdown of Exchange performance when hosted on Server 2008R2 when compaired to Server 2008SP2. The findings are quite simply incredible. Please read on and let me know what you think; We recently compared...

Well, It’s been well over a year, but we have finally updated the Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator to coincide with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange 2007 Performance Benchmarking Guide whitepaper...

With the release of the new PFDAVAdmin a few weeks ago, some customers started running into an “Ambiguous SID” error when trying to add the Everyone group or Anonymous group in the permissions window. The error looks like this: When you add a new...

So, this post is completely off topic but worth sharing as it seems to be a very popular topic right now and good, reliable tips are hard to find in this area :) There are over 5 million people doing it and today a book is launched to help many more...

Common issues seen in Exchange 2007 migrations to Exchange 2010 Strange errors may appear during OWA/Outlook Anywhere, Offline Address book management (e.g. Event ID 9519 "Error 0x80004005" in the application event log, etc.). Event...

The hype-v BPA is now available for download from the Microsoft Download Site, linked here So, what is Best Practices Analyzer? But what is it? How do you use it? And why should you care? The Hyper-V Best Practice Analyzer is a tool that will...

Best practices in Exchange 2010 deployment Before kicking off the actual implementation stage, verify that the required third party products in your company (e.g. Antivirus, Backup, etc.) support Exchange 2010 and Windows 2008 R2. Remeber you may...

Im often asked about logging levels in Exchange and to be fair to my customers, when I'm not asked I will always turn the tables and start the discussion. Logging is an important troubleshooting step, and when implimented correctly can also become a powerful...

Telnet is a well known reliable protocol to communicate with different network hosts.It provides a bidirectional interactive communication facility between two hosts. If you want to use the Telnet application in Windows 7 then please note that it is not...

The following article will provide a summary on common issues in Exchange 2010 deployment in the Enterprise. The information in this article consists of my own experience and official Microsoft knowledgebase articles. Due to the fact that your Exchange...

Take a look at the two new videos on Windows Phone 7 - I'm very exciting about what’s coming – looks really user friendly - and about time!!! Enjoy. http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2010/04/28/office-and-email-on-windows-phone-7.aspx

Great news… the product is now RTM, refer the DPM Blog for details The RTM Evaluation Software for DPM 2010 is available at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/bb727240.aspx A single DPM server can protect – 100 production servers...

Office 2010 has finally reached RTM, which means that Outlook 2010 will now soon be available - this is great news as Exchange 2010 has a number of really great features that are pretty much dependent on Outlook 2010 (mailtips, online archive, etc.) Out...

I get asked if we have any step by step Exchange 2010 deployment templates/documents available anywhere on the web. The nice part about these guides are they are in Word format so you can build your own production build out documentation for your Exchange...

MIcrosoft has released the following update for Exchange Server : Security Update for Exchange 2000 Server (KB976703) Security Update for Exchange 2003 SP2 (KB976702) Update Rollup 10 for Exchange 2007 SP1 (KB981407) Update Rollup 4 for Exchange...

The latest from EHLO; 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...

Microsoft have release a new support statement regarding OCS2007R2 and Server 2008R2. Follow the link for details.

Follow this link for over 170MB of free OCS2007R2 documentation, including planning and deployment guides, help files, client guides and best practise information!!