Now that Office 2010 has RTM’ed, we’ve started to see a number of issues pop up where customers are finding that they are having problems reserving a conference room using it.  The reason is that Outlook 2010 by default has Direct Booking disabled...

After spending some time thinking about the question regarding whether you should deploy Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008, I decided to do some more research on it. I came up with the table below and I am including the public...

What functionality would you lose if you ran Outlook 2003 against an Exchange 2007 server instead of running Outlook 2007? http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/featurecomparison.mspx It looks like you would not have the following (listed in my...

You've heard it before, but just in case... This blog has been moved to http://blogs.technet.com/gerod_serafin/default.aspx . The old link should still work as well as the RSS feeds. My reasons for switching are: Better search. Ability for...

I found this on the NTBUGTRAQ mailing list from a Michael Maloney. I don't know the validity of this, but it seemed interesting enough to post. I would be interested in hearing whether or not this works. “ With the release of Beagle.H and Beagle...

Man what a week. Some customers are seeing that when opening someone else's calendar that it takes a long time at first but when they go back to the calendar it is fine for a while and then they see the slowness again. If you are seeing this, we may know...

I have been messing around with the installation of Exchange 2010 RC on Windows 2008 R2.  I chose to go with Windows 2008 RC since it already has more of the things needed to install Exchange like the right version of PowerShell and the .NET framework...

First of all, I want to let you know that I highly recommend that you run Exchange 2003 since the support date for Exchange 5.5 has already past (and 2003 rocks!), but since so many companies are still running 5.5 I wanted to forward you a list that I...

There is an article out there that addresses the issue that some of our customers are seeing: 828764 "Event 8197" Error Message Is Logged Repeatedly in the Application Event http://support.microsoft.com/?id=828764 It says that if you are getting this...

There are a number of switches that can be used for getting the Active Directory ready for the installation of Exchange 2007. The switches for preparing the AD can be found at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125224.aspx As you can see they...

Paul wrote about it first (as far as I know) as he is at Tech-Ed this year and posting stuff as it happens. One of the things that Exchange 2003 SP2 will do is increase the database size limit from 16GB to 75GB. The limit on the number of Storage Groups...

I found this internally and I asked one of our Exchange Program Managers why this wasn't public yet. His reply was: “No reason. Should at least be a KB”. So I wrote one. But in the meantime, I thought I would share it with you. Client...

A customer of mine mentioned that they were told by a vendor that Microsoft recommends that Exchange databases should not be more than 200 GB. I was not aware of this being a recommendation by us. Then I found the following link: Planning Disk Storage...

Microsoft has released on July 13th a revised edition of the Exchange Server 2003 Disaster Recovery Operations Guide . Some of the things covered in this document are: What not to backup when doing a full computer backup. How to backup...

Ok, this gets asked a lot because some companies have the policy of not allow their employees to archive mail to a .pst and the message from the Exchange server says: "You may not be able to send or receive new mail until you reduce your mailbox size...

Ok, first I guess I should give some history about the utility known as Performance Optimizer (Perfwiz). Years ago, when Exchange 5.5 was first released, Microsoft didn't have a whole lot of customers with really large Information Store (IS) databases...

(Credit - Paul Robichaux) ( http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/feb05/02-14NokiaCollaborationPR.asp This is yet another reason why I don't have an IPod . Way to go Nokia.

According to an article released today, after you install Exchange 2003 SP1 you may experience a crash in your Information Store because of malformed email messages. Should this prevent you from installing SP1? No. But you will want to install this fix...

Introduced today was the Best Practices Analyzer for SQL Server. This is interesting to Exchange Admins because next is the Best Practices Analyzer for Exchange 2003. This tool swill take a look at your environment and make recommendations based on what...

With Exchange 2003 SP2 coming out soon, Sender ID will become more important. How do you set up the DNS record for the domains in your organization? You can easily do this with the SPF Record Wizard. http://www.anti-spamtools.org/SenderIDEmailPolicyTool...

Q : What are the current recommendations for memory optimizations in Exchange 2003? A : The article 815372 “How to Optimize Memory Usage in Exchange Server 2003” mentions the current recommendations. There you will find information about...

I have one machine that had it's hard drive fail 4 times in one month. I guess that is a good reason for not posting in a while. I thought this might make up for it. Some of our customers are still running Exchange 5.5 even though mainstream support for...

Recently I got asked (again) about running the Exchange System Manager (ESM) on Windows XP. It works, but what if you use Outlook on the same machine? It is officially unsupported. Or to state it another way, if you have a problem with Outlook or the...

OK, if you are an Exchange Administrator you probably are trying to keep your hotfixes up to date, right? The most recent version of Store.exe is probably 5.5.2658.16 which is mentioned in 841639 Delegate recipient receives two update messages when a...

There has been some confusion as to what number should be put into the MinUserDC registry key if you decide to use it. Most people use this registry key to reduce the load on their PDC emulator (PDCE). 298879 Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange 2000...