Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) has been designed specifically to help meet the challenges of any business and the needs of all the different groups with a stake in the messaging system. Exchange Server 2007 SP2 is a mission-critical communications tool that enables employees to be...

Bill Thompson has written a great whitepaper on considerations for Exchange 2007 servers running both the CAS and Hub roles. This white paper provides information about the scalability of computers running Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with the Client Access server role and the Hub Transport server...

I have had many interesting conversations about my post on Advantages of DAS over SAN storage in Exchange 2007 and the related session I delivered at Tech.Ed 2008… many sceptics have seen the light, although some remain sceptical. It’s interesting to see that Forrester have published a paper titled...

Two big announcements for Exchange 2007 SP1: Microsoft now supports Exchange Server 2007 SP1 running on Hyper-V or other hypervisors validated under the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) . Microsoft is waiving its 90-day license reassignment policy to enable customers who virtualise...

In case you haven't heard the news, we have released Hyper-V into the wild. In fact did you know that 25% of microsoft.com is already running on Hyper-V VMs? So what about Exchange Server? As we recently announced at Tech.Ed USA, Microsoft will be publishing a support statement with respect to...

You may have heard me talk about this at TechEd, and some of my customers will recall long discussions with me about the merits of using Direct Attached Storage rather than SANs in Exchange 2007. Storage Area Networks (SAN) have become increasingly common in Enterprise environments in recent years...

We've had a whitepaper available for some time that allows you to work out the bandwidth and network requirements for clients running Outlook/Exchange 2003. Great news is that we now have updated guidance for Outlook/Exchange 2007 - it is available at http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/04/10/448668...

From You Had Me At EHLO... Ever wondered how Exchange Server evolved over the years? And how come Exchange Server 2007 shows "8.0" as its version number? Here is a brief history of time... it might add a bit to the known history ! http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/01/02/447806.aspx Technorati Tags...

Over at You Had Me At EHLO Matt Gossage has written a great article on some ideas for large mailboxes and how to optimise your OST for performance. Technorati Tags: exchange 2007 , ost

From You Had Me At EHLO... To demonstrate upgrading a CCR cluster from Exchange 2007 RTM to SP1, I have created a video demo that takes you through the process of upgrading the passive node followed by upgrading the CMS to SP1 and finally upgrading the active node. This demo also demonstrates "Managing...

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) has been designed specifically to help meet the challenges of any business and the needs of all the different groups with a stake in the messaging system. Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is a mission-critical communications tool that enables employees to be...

This poster highlights the architecture and feature set of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Aside from showing the high-level architecture, this poster highlights the feature set of Exchange Server 2007. Sections include: Management and Monitoring High Availability Client Access, Edge Transport, Hub Transport...

The Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Certificate-Based authentication tool provides several utilities to assist an Exchange administrator in configuring and validating client certificate authentication for Exchange Server ActiveSync. The Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Certificate-Based authentication...

Please go on our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! A blog post explaining the calculator (updated for this new version) is here . Technorati Tags: exchange , storage , tools

From You Had Me At EHLO... Beta 2 of Service Pack 1 Exchange Server 2007 is available for public download and preview for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. As I wrote in my blog entry, Standby Continuous Replication in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 , SCR extends the continuous replication technology...

From You Had Me At EHLO... As a follow-up to our Exchange 2007 SP1 announcement , I wanted to let you know that we have finished preparing two additional ways in which you can experience Exchange 2007 SP1 Beta 2: SP1 Hosted demo: please visit https://signmeup.exchange2007demo.com/exchange2007demo/ to...

From the UC Group blog .... Great news from the Unified Communications Group and the Exchange Product Team. Exchange 2007 SP1 Beta 2 has been released as a commuity technology preview for subscribers of MSDN and TechNet Plus . To learn more about it, please check out the Exchange Team Blog http://www...

TechNet Webcast : Exchange Server 2007 Client Access and Web Services (Level 200) Friday, 1 June 2007, 9:08:15 PM | Microsoft TechNet Team <webcasts@microsoft.com> In this webcast, we focus on Client Access Services in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The overall goal of Client Access Services...

While I was having lunch with one of our Exchange Engineers today I asked "what is the most common support call that comes in for Exchange 2007?". The answer was certificates - customers can be confused about what type of certificate to get, what hostnames are used (most customers use different namespace...

One of the best, and most talked about, capabilities coming in Exchange 2007 SP1 is Standby Continuous Replication or SCR. This features allows you to have a standby Exchange server for DR/BCP purposes, in addition to your CCR cluster for HA - in different datacentres of course :) So by having three...

TechNet Webcast: Troubleshooting Exchange Server Mail Flow Issues Using the Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant 1.1 (Level 300) "In this webcast, we explore the Microsoft Exchange Server Mail Flow Analyzer, which is part of Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant. We describe how the Microsoft Exchange...

Unified Messaging provides the functionality of having voice mail, email and fax to a single location that is the user's mailbox. In Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging the fax feature is limited to inbound fax only. Which means that, an external or internal caller can call to the UM server and leave a fax...

This post focuses on two aspects of Active Directory (AD) design for Exchange 2007: The recommended ratio of Exchange 2007 servers to Active Directory global catalog (GC) servers When to use dedicated Active Directory sites for your Exchange 2007 servers http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/03/28/437313...

The Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator has been updated - http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/01/15/432207.aspx We have also updated the Configuring, validating and monitoring your Exchange 2007 storage article - http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/01/15/432199.aspx

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/03/08/436871.aspx There once was a gal with FiveFive Her mail system was barely alive She sat at her desk And thought “oh what a mess” I need to upgrade to survive So she upgraded to E2003 And she experienced some level of glee Her transport state was a link And...