The Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack provides comprehensive service health information for your Exchange organization. The Exchange 2013 Management Pack is engineered for organizations that include servers running Exchange 2013. The key feature of this management pack is user focused monitoring...

Three weeks ago the Exchange Server team announced the RTM of Exchange Server 2013 on their team blog .  Since that time the team has been working diligently to get the product ready for general availability via the various channels.  We’re happy to say Exchange Server 2013 is now generally...

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or...

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Its important to note that Windows Phone 7 devices only support a subset of the Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) policies available with Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, and Exchange 2010. A new Exchange TechNet Wiki page written by Microsoft MVP Henrik Walther contains information about using Windows Phone 7...

For the past couple of years I’ve been on our hosted Exchange services for my personal email.  Because it was the dogfood service, it isn’t exactly the same service that you can buy at microsoft.com/online .  I decided to take the plunge and purchase a real production subscription to Exchange...

Register for the Forefront Virtual Event on June 23 and 24 to hear from and ask questions directly to the product team as we deliver technical demonstrations and provide instruction on all Forefront products ( FEP , FIM , TMG , UAG , FPSP , FPE , FOPE ) and on Active Directory Rights Management Services...

Head on over to http://www.microsoft.com/2010/ and check out the 2010 wave and downloads.

For those of you that have TechNet Plus subscriptions, you’ll notice that Exchange Server 2010 is now in the subscriber download area.  If you haven’t looked at some of the new capabilities, here’s an overview of some of the top features. Reduced deployment cost - Exchange Server 2010 helps you...

All of the slides from the launch events are now posted and available for viewing.  If you create a slideshare account, you can also download the PowerPoint file.  Here are the relevant locations for the materials: Windows 7 - http://www.slideshare.net/keithcombs Windows Server 2008 R2 - http...

Experience The New Efficiency Microsoft Launch Event Live from San Diego October 26th Virtually! View and download 18 IT Professional and Developer focused live sessions from San Diego starting at 9am PDT October 26th . Focusing on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Exchange Server 2010, you can...

The logistics team for the launch events has opened up registration again on some of the remaining event locations and dates. REGISTER NOW before things fill back up.  It can happen in seconds so don’t delay.  Go to http://www.microsoft.com/business/thenewefficiency/default.aspx or click the...

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate helps IT Professionals achieve new levels of reliability with greater flexibility, enhanced user experiences, and increased protection for business communications. Flexible and reliable - Exchange Server 2010 gives you the flexibility to tailor your deployment...

For those of you that read my blog and have come to my live events lately, you’ll recall I mentioned a program we call the IT Pro Momentum Program.  It’s one of the best, if not the best programs I’ve seen us come up with in a rather long time.  What I haven’t disclosed until now are the results...

In addition to this swanky new logo, the Microsoft Exchange team has announced information about the new product.  Exchange 2010 will help organizations reduce costs, protect communications and delight e-mail users with capabilities to do the following: Lower costs with more flexible deployment...

I am considering setting up some hosted Exchange accounts. So I was interested in the new whitepaper that just came out that describes the various supported migration scenarios. Here’s an excerpt from the paper’s intro: Microsoft® Online Services supports migration of the contents of local Microsoft...

At TechEd 2008 Harold Wong managed to snag a bunch of the Exchange Team and get some interviews on camera.  Harold does a really good job of interviewing them and as you can see he has now posted some of the videos to the edge.technet.com website. To simplify matters a bit, I grabbed the embedded...

Clive Eastwood at the OpsMgr, SCM and MOM blog is reporting that some new management packs are now available for Windows Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2007. I’m looking forward to having the full compliment of Windows Server 2008 roles covered but that is going to take a little more time. The Hyper...

A whole bunch of guides were released over the past few days so here’s a nice little list for your download consideration. Windows Essential Business Server Product Overview – get it @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=01a0a2ec-18dc-4217-9591-ade0a1d7ae08&DisplayLang=en . Windows...

Regardless of the hiccups today on activation of the Apple iPhone 3G, you have to hand it to Apple and at&t on what appears to be a pretty decent product launch.  I mean after all, how many people played “sick” or “hookie” today in order to stand in line all day and buy an iPhone? Let’s see...

I’ve been listening to our customers a lot lately.  I get a lot of good feedback here, but it’s no substitute for the direct frank conversations we’ve had at the live events, launch events and conferences like MMS or TechEd. One of the complaints I’ve been hearing more and more is centered around...

It's still a few months off, but this week Apple and Microsoft announced that Apple has licensed ActiveSync for the iPhone.  Exchange Server is the premier messaging system on the market and is widely used by corporations around the world.  The iPhone has garnered it's share of publicity and...

So you have that fancy new terabyte drive all dressed up and no dance partner, right?  Well, our server folks have been busy making plans on how to fill some space.  In fact, here's some killer (yet massive) downloads you should consider: Exchange Server 2007 SP1 VHD - 1.8GB download SQL Server...

I'm going to assume a lot of you have at least seen or heard about email rules.  Hopefully you use them to triage messages hitting your Inbox.  I know people in my org who don't use rules.  Today would have been a wake up call for those people.  As you might have guessed from my blog...

As you can see at http://edge.technet.com , we are launching a new online portal for IT Pros. Expect to see lots of content in the form of podcasts, screencasts and videos. I have some interesting stuff coming. My EDGE id is KingCobra. Head on over and register if you want a cool name, before all of...