Back by popular demand, the Unified Communications team are doing a tour of the UK in 2007 visiting a number of locations up and down the country and we want you to come along ! The tour starts off at Microsoft Campus @ Thames Valley Park in Reading, the 'home town' of the tour members, but will then...

Exchange Hosted Filtering Trial Find out more about how Exchange Hosted Filtering can block spam and viruses before they ever reach your corporate network, reducing the load on your messaging infrastructure. Sign up for a free 30-day trial today by requesting service activation and see how our services...

The TechReady 2007 Exchange Web Services samples show you how you can integrate Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 data within line-of-business applications and third-party solutions by using the new Exchange Web Services feature. You can download them here Technorati tags: Exchange , Exchange+2007

Microsoft Windows Vista: Doing Deployment Right! This one-day session is a combination of presentations that focus on growing services opportunities for partners, and a series of new technical exercises that highlight some of the compelling new design enhancements in deploying Windows Vista desktops...

The Exchange Best Practice Analyser is a great FREE tool for helping resolving and troubleshooting a variaty of support issues. It’s like having your own personal Microsoft Support Person :-) We’ve got a web cast coming up on April 10th which will talk about this great little utility.

Great article by the Exchange Team on choosing server hardware now that you can reused for Exchange 12 For the full article go here. .

Eileen has blogged about an Exchange 12 Overview event she’s running in the UK with fellow Exchange 5.5 Unplugged Tour member Ewan . If you’d like to register for this event then just go here.

Microsoft Operations Manager is a great product for managing not only your Exchange infrastructure but also the rest of your Microsoft (and non Microsoft) infrastucture. Where it differs from a lot of other Management products is that it’s proactive rather than reactive. Microsoft Operations...

The Microsoft Exchange "12" home page has been recently updated . If you’ve got a TechNet subscription then you’ll be able to get hold of the Exchange “12” Community Technology Preview. There’s also going to be a series of webcasts to give you an overview of some of...

Congratulations to Mr Mark Deakin on his new role – He’snow going to be looking after Exchange, Live Communication Server and Mobility. Unified comms or mobility is an area you’re looking at getting in to then I’m sure he won’t mind you popping him an email :-)

I often get to hear some “interesting” stories about sizes of peoples mailboxes but nothing comes close to some of the things that were posted in response to Ewans Post on the Exchange Teams Blog last year. Some of the highlights are customers with :- 250,000 users per server and 9...

If you’re a partner who’s currently speccing up hardware for an Exchange 2003 implementation, you may want to think about suggesting the customer goes for x64 bit now, rather than 32 bit. Why ? As you’ve probably heard, Exchange 12 will be 64 bit only. The great thing is that Exchange 2003 can run on...

“The next version of Microsoft Exchange Server, code-named Exchange "12", is designed to meet the growing demands of messaging for your organization. Exchange "12" offers a stable, reliable enterprise messaging platform that covers the fundamentals of e-mail and calendaring while delivering innovative...

Just thought I’d blog this for my own reference as much as anything else – When you’re integrating Notes/Domino and Exchange you may want to move the incoming and outgoing SMTP email to the Exchange 2003 server. In certain circumstances you may get an issue where the mail received on...

Well today we release a few updated tools that assist with the co-existence with and migration from Lotus Notes and Domino. First there’s the new Lotus Notes Connector. “The Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Connector for Lotus Notes supports messaging and calendaring interoperability between Lotus...

I often get asked if a partner should use Microsoft Clustering or a 3rd party solution for use with Exchange – and the simple answer usually comes down as to whether you want a supported or a non supported solution. Article 895847 explains just why a lot of these solutions aren’t supported. Deployment...

If you don’t know, there’s quite a few of us on the road at the moment doing an Exchange ‘unplugged’ tour . It’s been a lot of fun so far, but those 5 o’clock starts really don’t suit me. Anyway, todays event is just up the road from me in Sheffield so not too much of a trek today :-) If you’re...

So you’ve implemented your nice shiny Exchange server and you’re meeting your Service Level Agreements with your end users and the rest of the business. But how do you prove you are ? Well you could use the Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 SLA Scorecard for Exchange. To download it just go...

I’ve had a few partners ask me if Exchange 12 is going to be 64 bit only – If you’re on the beta prog then this may affect the hardware you’re getting to test it on. Well the answer is yes .. .. “As part of its commitment to 64-bit computing, Microsoft has been delivering products that are optimized...

Just seen that there’s a couple of new tools available which build on the Exchange Best Practice Analyser - Microsoft Exchange Server Disaster Recovery Analyzer Tool v1.0 The Exchange Server Disaster Recovery Analyzer programmatically collects configuration data and header information from databases...

We’ve now got a home page for Exchange 2003 SP2 with things like Top 10 reasons to Install Exchange 2003 SP2 FAQ on Exchange 2003 SP2 Exchange 2003 SP2 Webcast Week The Windows Mobility Feature Pacl and lots of other good stuff. Microsoft Exchange Server: Exchange Server 2003 SP2

Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) offers new features and improvements to Exchange Server 2003. New features include support for mobility and message hygiene. Improvements have been made to address performance and reliability with public folders and with database size restrictions. New for mobility...

Want to know more about Sybari Antigen and how you can use it with Exchange and SharePoint to scan for Viruses and block content ? Then book on to these hands on labs specifically designed to get partners up to speed. Sybari Antigen Hands On Lab - Table of Contents Module A: Protecting an Exchange...

Just a quick update on the Exchange 12 Beta Program - We're still looking for MVPs, Partners and Customers in the UK to nominate for the beta program. I’d just like to clarify what the requirements are - You don't have to install this into a Live Environment - In fact you definitely shouldn't. It...

Exchange 5.5 is quickly approaching end of support on December 31, 2005. Learn how to boost your business by assisting Microsoft Exchange 5.5 customers with migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. In addition to end of support, the new SP2 product improvements also provide motivation for customers...