In order to classify the different types of email users out there, we often talk about "filers" (people who file their emails away into specially-named folders) and "pilers" (people who just leave everything in the Inbox and rely on Read More

Many people use rules to automatically sort messages from various distribution lists into folders in order to keep the volume of email traffic in their inbox to a manageable level. This works for the most part - until someone decides to BCC a list. Read More

Recently I came across a situation where it was reported that Connection Filtering stopped working (IPs on the Blocklist and RBLs were no longer being blocked). The solution led me to write this blog to clarify some confusion about "when" connection Read More

EDIT 8/22/2008: Corrected a typo in a "DisabledComponents" registry key name. It's been a while since I've been thinking of writing a blog post about various aspects of Outlook Anywhere that people have been asking questions about. Somehow, Read More

There has been a lot of discussions in the Exchange ecosystem (see comments on this post and other posts on our blog for example) about the fact that Windows Server 2008 built-in backup application (Windows Server Backup) is not Exchange-aware. Even Read More

Recently we have published the updated Exchange Developer Roadmap over on Exchangedev blog. This covers Exchange Server beyond Exchange Server 2007. You can read about multiple things there, including: APIs that Will Be Removed APIs Moving To Read More

Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! There are a lot of usability improvements as well as a whole new section on Storage Design. A blog post explaining the calculator Read More

Every so often, a question comes up for us that are running this blog: how do you do it? What is the process that you follow for your blog posts? Where do you get ideas from? Recently - as part of the INTERACT2008 conference, I had a chance to present Read More

This week, TechED 2008 IT Professionals is going on in Orlando, Florida. If you did not make it there, you can still keep up with latest and greatest news announced there by going to TechED Online site: http://www.microsoft.com/techedonline/default.aspx Read More

The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce updates to the Exchange Server content. To see what content has changed for Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1, take a look at Exchange Server 2007 Documentation Updates. To see Read More

If you've wanted to know more about why high item counts and restricted view requests can impact the performance of your Exchange environment, we've just released some detailed information about the behavior you may see as item counts in your critical Read More

...YOU. We've just opened up the Exchange 2007 product library to community annotation.  That gives you the ability to add content to our topics that you think others might find helpful.  The basic idea here is allow members of the Exchange Read More

This has been discussed / asked about several times on this blog (namely in various posts comments) - so I wanted to make sure you knew that this was now released. You can find the download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94274318-27c4-4d8d-9bc5-3e6484286b1f&DisplayLang=en Read More