This is a part 2 of blog posts on this subject, you can read part 1 here. Within the first part of this post, I showed you had to remove the Reply-All functionality via GPO. At its core the process is relatively straight forward (obtain Outlook ADM templates, Read More

Just recently I was speaking to a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE) who had just returned home from a rather arduous onsite dispatch. While onsite he was tasked with unwinding a phenomenon commonly referred to as a "Reply-All" storm (defined below). Read More

Introduction Users often delete data from their mailboxes that they later want recovered. Recovery of these deleted items is the most common reason for IT admins to recover data from traditional point-in-time backups today. With previous versions of Read More

We are interested in hearing feedback on your experience deploying and/or managing Unified Messaging in Exchange. We are conducting research to understand users' pain points and frustrations around deployment and management of unified messaging. Please Read More

By now you may have read or heard that the /PrepareDomain operation in the Exchange 2010 Release Candidate (RC) applies certain Access Control Entries (ACEs) on the AdminSDHolder object within Active Directory. In particular, /PrepareDomain grants the Read More

Many Exchange Server customers have reported issues logging on to Exchange using iPhone devices older than iPhone 3GS. iPhones support Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), the same protocol supported by Windows Mobile devices, and licensed by many other mobile Read More

EDIT 11/4/2009: The information in this article is obsolete. Please read this post for new information on the subject. Since we announced the release of Exchange Server 2007 SP2, we've received a few questions about running Exchange 2007 on Windows Server Read More

<update (9/21/2009): This post has been update to include additional information that was accidentally left off of the original post><update 2 (10/15/2009) The link to part 3 is now added in the first part of the overview below>Overview Read More

We have released the updated Setup prerequisite files for the problem we wrote about in Exchange 2007 SP2 Setup fails if all domain controllers are running Windows Server 2008 R2. This fix will unblock Exchange 2007 SP2 setup in those environments. Installation Read More

What's New in Exchange 2007 Search Search in Exchange 2007 (Exchange Search) is completely different from earlier versions of Exchange. Improvements were made to performance, Content Indexing, and Search. New items are indexed almost immediately after Read More

This is a continuation and a final of our introduction of new EMC functionality in Exchange 2010. Part 1 of this series can be found here and Part 2 is here. Diagnostic Logging Management Diagnostic Logging Management is back in Exchange Server 2010. Read More

This is a continuation of our showcase of new EMC functionality in Exchange 2010. Part 1 of this series can be found here. Certificate Management In Exchange Server 2010, significant improvements have gone into managing certificates with the EMC. To Read More

Welcome to Exchange Server 2010! Exchange Server 2010 continues the tradition of providing more and more Messaging features for the enterprise, and at the same time, significantly lowering mailbox associated costs. This new version brings a slew of Read More

With the release of Exchange 2007 SP2 we are providing a supportability matrix that identifies the various supported configurations of Exchange Server (operating system, Active Directory, Clients, .Net Framework, etc). You can find this document on our Read More

We received this post from our good friends over on the MacBU team - enjoy! It's been an exciting few weeks for us in the Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) at Microsoft. We released some details about the direction we're taking with Exchange. First, Entourage's Read More

In today's installment of "Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Highlight", I bring you a brief overview of how we have made auditing mailbox access easier (in the aforementioned service pack 2 - yes, for Exchange Server 2007). Auditing access Read More

Virtualization continues to be a hot topic for many of you with questions raised around whether Exchange should be virtualized.  We started talking about this back in January (http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/01/22/450463.aspx) and continue Read More

EDIT 9/16/2009: We have now published fixes for this problem and have an updated blog post about it. Please go here to read the updated information. We have learned of and analyzed the problem where the Exchange 2007 SP2 installation can fail during Read More

We have released the Exchange Load Generator 2010 Beta to our downloads site. Exchange Load Generator 2010 Beta (64 bit) Exchange Load Generator 2010 Beta (32 bit) There have been several changes made since the last available build. Some of the "coolest" Read More

Download location:  Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress 2010 Beta (64 bit) Jetstress has been updated to support the new IO characteristics of Exchange 2010. This build is now available for everyone to test with. CHM Help File The Jetstress 2010 Read More