Microsoft Exchange 2010 includes a new (and great) feature, called online archive, which enables you as an IT administrator to provision your mailbox-enabled users with a familiar personal archive, available online, providing you with a lot of features to preserve and discover e-mail data.

And there is Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive, which is available now, and can be summarized as "a centralized, easily accessible, and multi-functioning e-mail and IM repository to assist organizations manage increasingly complex retention, compliance, e-discovery, and regulatory requirements" (as taken from the MsOnline site).

If you want to know more about the archiving features included with Exchange 2010, head over to the following site:

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/Archiving-and-Retention.aspx

And if you want to know more about Exchange Hosted Archive, head over to this site:

http://www.microsoft.com/online/exchange-hosted-services/archive.mspx

To answer a very recurring question: can we upload historical data to Exhange Hosted Archive?

The answer can be found in this document:

Upload Historical Data to Exchange Hosted Archive 9.2

-Ilse

When you have been working for some time with Exchange, you might wonder which troubleshooting tool is available, and if the tool you have used in the past for troubleshooting Client Access for example can still be used in your current Exchange 2007 organization. Today I got a question whether or not MDBVU was still usable against an Exchange 2007, and when running a search (using Bing) I found the following interesting link:

Tools to manage and troubleshoot an Exchange 2007 organization, which provides you with a list of tools, a description, and where you can find them :-)

Bookmark the link, it might come in handy someday :-)

-Ilse 

My first blog on my new blog here on blogs.technet.com. And what an amazing time to start working for Microsoft. Joining the company as a Technology Advisor - Unified Communications just two weeks ago, it's been a pleasure to see Exchange 2010 has reached it's "I'm ready" state :-)

More information can be found here: Exchange 2010 is Code Complete and on its way to General Availability

And there is a lot more coming, Windows 7, Windows 2008 R2, and much much more. So I hope you can join me in Berlin, for Tech Ed Europe, where I will dive into two amazing features of Exchange 2010: Information Protection and Control and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Here are the session abstracts: