Introduction By now you've probably noticed that Exchange Server 2007 has a brand spankin' new icon. Gone is the familiar "Globe and Mail" icon of Exchange versions past, replaced with a new, dynamic and somewhat abstract "X." So how did we come up with Read More

The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce the following new feature articles. Our theme for these articles is "Operational Efficiency in Exchange Server 2007." Exchange Server 2007 Deployment: 10 Tips When Installing What's New with Read More

As of today, Microsoft is offering Office and Vista to customers... and oh so very soon, Exchange 2007 will be available as well. I've been running all 3 for well over a year, and I can't imagine going back. If you're interested in following the launch Read More

Migrating mailboxes from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange Server 2007 directly is not supported. Using native tools, administrators will have to perform this kind of migration as a two-step process which includes: Migrating from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 Read More

Exporting Mailbox Content Export-Mailbox is a task developed by the migration team to allow Administrators to export content from active mailboxes to a folder inside other active mailboxes. The initial idea for this task was to be a complete replacement Read More

Introduction One of the most common questions we hear is, "How do I open another user's Calendar in Exchange 2007?" One of the most common misconceptions around this functionality is the level of permissions that are required. This Tech Tip was written Read More

This blog post continues to explore how Exchange uses WMI in representing the Status and Monitoring node in Exchange System Manager. In this post, we will cover general troubleshooting of ESM "status" problems. Using the monitoring node, you can view Read More

EDIT: This blog post has been updated and reposted with newer information based on Exchange 2007 RTM build. Please see the following for the newer and expanded version of this post:   http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/01/16/432222.aspx Read More

I search the Exchange Team Blog frequently to provide content for customers I work with as this site is full of great information on Exchange. I found a way to make the searches even easier with Internet Explorer 7 and wanted to share it. Using Read More

Policies in Exchange are designed to enable flexible administration of large numbers of Exchange objects. A policy is a collection of configuration settings that can be applied to one or more Exchange objects of the same class. This blog post gives Read More

Overview Software Quality Metrics (SQM, also known as the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program) is a set of anonymous data that can be sent back to Microsoft for the purposes of understanding what features of a product our customers are Read More

Although they are very similar, because the Edge Transport and Hub Transport servers were designed specifically for the role that they play, they have different default settings. For example, the Edge Transport role is configured by default to accept Read More

The e-mail address recipient policy concept in Exchange 2003 is separated into two concepts in Exchange 2007: E-mail Address Policies (EAP) and Accepted Domains. This blog post covers the relationship of EAP and accepted domains in Exchange 2007 and Read More

Summary A cumulative security update has been recently released for Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. This update changes the way in which Internet Explorer handles some Web Read More

Exchange Server 2007 introduces a new mechanism for distributing Offline Address Books (OAB) that doesn't require Public Folders. It instead uses HTTP(S) and the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). There are several potential advantages of Read More

Yesterday afternoon, I was trying to send a large video of my new born baby to my mom through Exchange Server 2007 Outlook Web Access (OWA). And when I tried to upload the video, OWA would not let me do so. Darn it - cannot even share my baby's first Read More

As many of you know, there will be a change next year in the transition dates for US daylight saving time. I won't go into all the gory details here, but if you want them follow this link http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone/dst2007.mspx This site Read More

After the success of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, the Microsoft Exchange team was pondering what the next-generation Exchange Server should look like. We had several high-level goals, which we won't go into in this blog, but let's look at a few specific Read More

We get the following questions quite often: What will be the difference between Standard and Enterprise versions of Exchange 2007? What about CALs (Client Access Licenses)? And the answers are on this page. - Nino Bilic Read More

A little while ago we posted about a little swag giveaway we wanted to do: see here and here for more details. The wait is over. We know the suspense has been killing you! Out of many excellent submissions (thank you!!) and with the help of highly sophisticated Read More

I wanted to draw some attention to this article as I think it is very cool as it shows how different analyzer tools have impacted you, our customers, and us in Support Services, when helping you. Ed Beck wrote the article titled Exchange Analyzer Read More

As discussed in the earlier blog post introducing the new Exchange 2007 console, the Exchange Management Console GUI has been completely redesigned in Exchange 2007. While redesigning the Exchange Management Console for Exchange 2007, we used specific Read More

There is a lot of emphasis on Exchange database backups. As a result most Exchange administrators plan regular backups with considerations for their specific environment. In the process of developing a backup solution, Exchange administrators have to Read More

NOTE: the updated, newer version of this article can be found here. Working with Active Directory directory service permissions related to Microsoft Exchange can be a complex task. This article has been written to aid Exchange architects in their understanding Read More

Edit: This post has been updated on 5/11/07 to change the wording around hybrid forest deployment. Cross-org Mailbox Moves Cross Org migrations are the ones where a mailbox needs to be moved from one Exchange Organization to another. Since there Read More

Routing changes recap By now you're probably aware of the basics of Exchange Server 2007 routing: No more routing groups (except for legacy purposes) No more routing group connectors (except for legacy purposes) Uses AD sites and site links instead Read More

The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce the following additions and changes to our content. For a complete list of topics that changed, see Exchange Server Documentation Updates. Changes to Online Content The following topics are Read More