Interesting article just released that shows how Exchange 2010 Outlook Anywhere benefits from running on Windows 2008 R2 over Windows 2008. This is due to the performance improvement done by the RPC/HTTP team in Windows R2 and not due to Exchange modification...

Exchange 2010 build guide template just released on TechNet… You can use these templates as a starting point for formally documenting your organization's server build procedures for servers that will have Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 server roles installed...

Exchange team just released our Exchange 2010 SP1 information, read the details here http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/04/07/454533.aspx You will see that with SP1 we can now host the Archive mailbox on different database from the users primary mailbox...

You surely have seen it on TV - some people really think that sitting on a boring island and blogging about clouds going by is “the best job in the world” (not to mention the risk of being bitten by a jelly fish). Here at Microsoft however, we are absolutely...

Finally the TMG 2010 capacity planning tool is released. The tool will allow you to calculate the WAN bandwidth and number of users a particular a hardware configuration will support, and can recommend server hardware based on the features, bandwidth...

The platform team released an update to the Windows 2008 FSW that affects the cluster state of the FSW is in a failed state and come back online. Consider the following scenario: You configure a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster to use a Node and File...

Hay, the first Tech-Ed event in the middle east will happen from 1st of March and till 3rd of March. This is an excellent opportunity for readers in the region to go there and attend some excellent sessions from top notch people. You can get more info...

Finally it’s here, http://blogs.technet.com/fss/archive/2009/12/18/forefront-protection-2010-for-exchange-server-fpe-capacity-planning-guidance-v-2.aspx

Very nice info, i needed it badly:) http://blogs.technet.com/ramo/archive/2008/07/08/how-to-enable-appear-offline-presence-status-in-office-communicator.aspx

For all of those in the Arabic countries, TechNet is in Arabic language now. Just visit http://technet.microsoft.com/ar-sa/default.aspx and you will find what you need.

DGoldman blogged a very important info about generation of warning (9359) on Exchange 2010 servers whenever you attempt to generate the OAB. The warning is: Log Name:    Application Source:         ...

One of the great changes in Exchange 2010 over Exchange 2007 is the ability to combine both CAS & Hub roles on mailbox servers configured as DAG, this gives you the flexibility to have a highly available solution with just 2 servers. Note that you...

In Exchange 2007 we introduced the concept of proxying and redirection to manage the multi sites deployments (Internet facing & Non-Internet facing). In transitioning to Exchange 2010 CAS it’s a must now to use a new legacy Exchange environment with...

From http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/windows-7-breaks-amazon-uk-pre-order-volume-record-ousts-harry/ This is really amazing... Windows 7 rocks:)))

What is a DAG? A database availability group (DAG) is the base component of the high availability and site resilience framework that is built into Exchange 2010. A DAG is a group of up to 16 Mailbox servers that host a set of databases and provide...

Exchange 2007 SP2 is coming very soon and I thought of highlighting some important facts about it: Installations of Exchange 2007 SP2 will require Windows Installer 4.5 Exchange 2007 SP2 will Include Exchange 2010 schema. This will not eliminate the need...

We have released Update Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB 970162) to the download center. The release of the rollup via Microsoft Update will happen on July 28. Read the details at http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/07/17/451835...

An Excellent article that you should read at http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/07/07/451737.aspx   Thanks Scott Landry , Mohammad Nadeem and Bill Long for this great blog,

From few weeks I was reading about Exchange 2010 archiving and I thought of blogging about it to summarize what we can do with Exchange 2010 Archiving and what is the advantage from using it. Why Archive E-Mail: As data volume grows inside the...

This is an interesting section in the Exchange 2007 help file that i wanted to share and recommend you to read it,   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd577077.aspx

Key new features of Exchange Server 2007 SP2 unveiled today include: Enhanced Auditing - New Exchange auditing events and audit log repository enable Exchange administrators to more easily audit the activities occurring on their Exchange servers. It allows...

In this article I’ll give you a tour for the Exchange 2010 setup wizard, if you deployed Exchange 2007 before you will be familiar of the Exchange 2010 setup wizard, if not then here is how it looks: Finally here is the Exchange 2010 EMC. Exchange 2010...

As of 19th of April 2009; Windows XP will go from the mainstream support to the extended support phase. What What kind of support will customers receive during the Extended Support phase? During the Extended Support phase, Microsoft will continue to provide...

Wanted to test and play with Exchange 2010, go and get the beta from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1898ed2c-2f88-48ac-824e-d3d20fad77d7 also you can find the beta documentation at http://technet.microsoft...

This week I was working with a colleague in bringing up a staging environment as a replica from the production one and off course we used Hyper-V to host the virtual machines and System Center Virtual Machine Manager “SCVMM” to do the Physical to Virtual...