New in Exchange 2003 SP1 - The ability to consolidate sites even from 5.5 to Exchange 2003! Prerequisites: The fix from KB article 836489 must be installed on 5.5 servers. Target server must be Exchange 2003 SP1 All ADCs must be running...

Internally at Microsoft, when you submit a Dr. Watson dump, they all get put into what we call buckets. This gives us the ability to see which issues are occurring the most frequently and prioritize them. During the Keynote, Steve Balmer mentioned that...

Well, I made it to San Diego for Tech-Ed 2004. I got a chance to look some slides for the roadmap for the future of Exchange, and some of the announcements that will be made here. It is all great news. As soon as the announcements are made public, I'll...

As part of the Coordinated Spam Reduction Initiative (CSRI), Microsoft is pushing to get introduced as a standard Caller ID for e-mail. They are not working alone on this. They are working with Amazon.com, Brightmail, and Sendmail and expect that this...

There are not that many customers that use IMAP to connect to Exchange 5.5 (MAPI is the most popular by far), but just in case your organization uses IMAP, you may want to consider reading the following article. 835632 Information Store service (Store...

If you are running an 8 processor box (or a 4 processor box with Hyper-Threading Technology) you may want to take a look at the following article: 823597 Information store may stop responding on an Exchange server with several processors http://support...

I got this from Adam . Not sure why I'm doing this, but here goes: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 23. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. “To this he said: 'Sovereign...

I see numerous threads where people are complaining about their SmartPhone not being able to keep its charge for more than 8 hours to a day. Many people suggest that they close programs or take out their SD card in order to save battery life. Instead...

Some customers feel that letting people know what kind of SMTP server they are running is a security vulnerability. I can see their point. Once a vulnerability is in the wild all you need to do is find the servers... So some would like to change that...

One of the most common questions we get is how does Outlook 2003 compare with previous versions of Outlook. Also, how does Outlook Web Access 2003 compare with OWA 2000? Well, now there is a real detailed look at the benefits of the newer versions. It...

Q : What are the advantages to using Windows 2003 Enterprise over the standard version when running Exchange 2003? A : More processors. (Updated: RPC over HTTPS is available on the Standard version as well, so I removed my mistake.) Q : How do...

Go get it now... http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx

Have you ever had your your phone system go down in your workplace? Did it effect your work? Most of us would agree that having a phone available at all times is a requirement for almost all white-collar jobs. That's why companies make sure that their...

Ok, I just found this article linked from Slashdot and perhaps you have seen it already, but I must say, it sounds very interesting. Speed Meets Feed in Download Tool http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,62651,00.html

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...

Sometimes customers see slow performance when accessing OWA over Dial-up and using SSL. Here are some things that you should check to make sure that you are getting the best performance. Make sure that compression is enabled on the FE server...

Sometimes customers see slow performance when accessing OWA over Dial-up and using SSL. Here are some things that you should check to make sure that you are getting the best performance. Make sure that compression is enabled on the FE server...

Q : Can I do an in-place upgrade of 55 to Exchange 2003. A : No, you can upgrade Exchange 2000 to 2003 or install Exchange 2003 and them move mailboxes from 5.5 to 2003. Q : How many GCs do I need dedicated for Exchange 2003? A : A good ratio...

Q : If I use OWA at a kiosk, what data is cached on the client? A : All OWA user data except attachments are sent with a no cache directive so that the browser shouldn’t cache anything. Non-user data like gifs and scripts are cached. To prevent...

Well, I was traveling way too much yesterday and I am in class this week so I am going to cheat a little and post some FAQ questions that I have compiled. Some of these may not be interesting to you , but some may. Q : Are there any problems with doing...

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...

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...

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...

Today I decided to set up my first Exchange 2003 cluster server using ISCSI to connect to the quorums. I'm also going to do this through Virtual Server so this should be pretty interesting. I'll let you know more when I have this finished. Don't know...