• Direct Booking using Outlook 2010 against Exchange 2003 Servers

    Now that Office 2010 has RTM’ed, we’ve started to see a number of issues pop up where customers are finding that they are having problems reserving a conference room using it.  The reason is that Outlook 2010 by default has Direct Booking disabled...
  • 200 GB limit on Database Sizes?

    A customer of mine mentioned that they were told by a vendor that Microsoft recommends that Exchange databases should not be more than 200 GB. I was not aware of this being a recommendation by us. Then I found the following link: Planning Disk Storage...
  • Preparing your AD for Exchange 2007 SP1

    There are a number of switches that can be used for getting the Active Directory ready for the installation of Exchange 2007. The switches for preparing the AD can be found at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125224.aspx As you can see they...
  • Restricted Views and Shared Calendars

    Man what a week. Some customers are seeing that when opening someone else's calendar that it takes a long time at first but when they go back to the calendar it is fine for a while and then they see the slowness again. If you are seeing this, we may know...
  • Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008?

    After spending some time thinking about the question regarding whether you should deploy Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008, I decided to do some more research on it. I came up with the table below and I am including the public...