The latest release of Microsoft Exchange can help you achieve better business outcomes while controlling the costs of deployment, administration, and compliance. Exchange 2010 delivers a wide range of deployment options, integrated information leakage Read More

Today I am pleased to announce the release of the Exchange Server Pre-Deployment Analyzer (ExPDA). You can use the Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer to perform an overall topology readiness scan of your environment. When you run the Exchange Pre-Deployment Read More

In Exchange Server 2010, there is no more single instance storage (SIS). To help understand why SIS is gone, let's review a brief history of Exchange. During the development of Exchange 4.0, we had two primary goals in mind, and SIS was borne out of Read More

Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! A blog post explaining the calculator (updated for this new version) is here. Comments welcome! - Ross Smith IV Read More

In Exchange 2010, users can easily create call answering rules to have a call answered based on the specified conditions. Users can create rules to answer calls from specified callers or Contacts in a certain way, handle calls differently based on their Read More

The Outlook team recently reported an issue on their blog about message sizes in the Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta. A bug in the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta increases the message size of some e-mail messages sent from Outlook 2010 Beta. The Office team Read More

The Exchange 2010 install of the CAS role includes the installation of the legacy Exchange Virtual Directories. The Exchange, Public and Exchweb Virtual Directories are placed and configured directly in the IIS metabase, therefore these Virtual Directories Read More

With the launch of Exchange 2010, we have introduced a new way to manage the set of languages available for Exchange. In previous versions of Exchange, you had one server language per DVD. In Exchange 2010, we have changed to a new language neutral Read More

In this blog post, we will be highlighting some of the most common errors that may be seen when attempting to open the Exchange Management tools (Exchange Management Console and Exchange Management Shell). To start off, you first need to be aware that Read More

In many organizations the skill sets that administer Exchange, Active Directory (AD), Domain Naming System (DNS), and the network infrastructure are often segregated. Since Exchange is heavily dependent on communication with AD and that communication Read More

The new Exchange 2010 webcast series is live! Register to attend in-person via Live Meeting or download the recorded video or podcast. A full schedule of topics and presenters is below. Each webcast is 60min in length. Looking for something shorter? Read More