There are some "new" or updated tools up on the Exchange 2003 download site . Exchange MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 Ok, not a tool. But it is interesting to note that this got posted. As the site says: "Starting with the Beta...

I work with Exchange Server, but all Microsoft employees are very aware of security. I am posting this just so you are aware. Stephen Toulouse has posted some blurbs about a security vulnerability in Word 2003 and Word XP. http://blogs.technet.com...

Under the heading of: "You may already be aware of this, but we wanted to make sure..." Some of our customers are having issues with permissions since they have upgraded to Exchange 2003 SP2 and a hotfix that makes the store.exe version 7650.23 or...

In the Event log on the server that generates your OAB you may see the following: Event Type: Error Event Source: MSExchangeSA Event Category: OAL Generator Event ID: 9325 Description: OALGen will skip user entry 'Display Name' in address list '\Global...

Well it is officially public now. The name is Exchange Server 2007. http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/preview/default.mspx And Vivek also is telling us that Monad is now called PowerShell . The downloads also have been updated to show this.

I gave some thought to some of the issues you might experience after a cross-site move of mailboxes. The main thing is that you must either recreate the profile or run the Exchange Profile Update Tool (ExProfRe.exe). Just putting changing the name...

Many people are aware of the changes in Exchange 2003 SP2 with the V4 OAB. What many are not aware of are the changes with the other two versions of the OAB, V3a and V2. Starting with SP2, when a change is done in your environment that would have required...

Does anyone else find the fact that you have to do an F4 in Outlook to Find something extremely annoying? I use CTRL-F for every other application to do a Find. But evidently Forwarding is more important. I found that Jenson Harris wrote about this...

I am in Redmond today and next week. It is always nice to get away from my office since I tend to have time to poke around in areas that I normally don't. I like scripts. The power a few short lines of code can possess never ceases to amaze me. That...

On March 20, 2006 we released an updated set up rules for EXBPA. Next time you fire up EXBPA you should be notified of this. This will update the rules to 2.11.2.0. You can verify this by clicking on "About the Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer...

One of the more common events we see in organizations that are migrating to Exchange 2003 from 5.5 is the 9548. Event Type: Warning Event Source: MSExchangeIS Event Category: General Event ID: 9548 Date: Date Time: Time Computer: Computer Name Description...

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...

Here is some recommended reading. Ross Smith IV has made another post about the changes in DSProxy that occurred with SP2. He does a very good job of explaining what will happen when you install SP2, but he also mentions that there is a hotfix available...

As you can see, I don't post much to this blog. There are many reasons for this, but most have to do with the time to post what I consider "quality" posts. However, it seems that most perople who read this blog would prefer that I post more often. I actually...

The article " 905872 You cannot limit the file size of the e-mail messages that you want to download in Outlook 2003 " doesn't really mention in it that this only applies to IMAP accounts and not MAPI accounts. If you look at the registry key you get...

I have been asked some questions recently regarding the Cross-site mailbox moves using the native tools in Exchange 2003. I have found a very good explanation from Evan Dodds of what we do in general with Move Mailbox: http://blogs.technet.com/exchange...

If you use Perfmon, it can get really old looking at all of the vertical lines in the graphs. Here is a tip that will revert back to the old view we had in the NT4 days. 283110 Vertical lines are displayed in the Sysmon tool that obscure the graph...

So, its been a while since I have posted. I've been on ICL and this time I actually took the whole month off to spend time with my new son instead of working... The Exchange Group has released a new Config XML file for EXBPA (2.9.0.1). When you fire...

Internally at Microsoft, we have had these things called "Exchange Technical Bulletins" that were organized by Nino Bilic . These nuggets of information were very useful and I have gone back to them many times to look for things that I had forgotten....

Exchange 2003 SP2 was released to the Web early this morning. It's a good idea to install this (after a backup and testing) as there are a number of fixes in this as you can see by looking at the fix list at KB article 906669 . If you look at the list...

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...

Just read this in the news: We are releasing SP2 for Office 2004 for Mac today. This includes much needed fixes to Entourage, the Exchange client for Mac. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/sep05/09-20EnhancedEntourage2004PR.mspx It is...

If you have downloaded the Microsoft Exchange server 2003 SP2 Customer Technology Preview (CTP), you may have noticed that the release notes are not updated. The current release notes have been released to the web for you to read at http://go.microsoft...

When running Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (EXBPA) you may get a report saying “ The number of free page table entries is low, which can cause system instability ” . This may be incorrect if you are running Windows 2003 but don’t have Windows 2003...

It looks like Paul Flaherty has updated the Microsoft Platform Support Reporting Utility (MPSReports) for Exchange. We have had this utility available for some time at this location , but the new version is not up there yet. You can download the new version...