Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 SP2 (KB979784) to the download center. The release of the rollup via Microsoft Update will happen on March 23rd. KBA 979784 lists the fixes included in this rollup.  Here are Read More

When constructing Transport Rules, it is pretty straight forward to define a set of conditions and then specify the action to take when those conditions are met. It is easy to overlook an optional third component: Exceptions. Several customer questions Read More

No matter how many lines of code it has, every software application has scalability limits. Some limits can be caused by limits that are external to the application itself, while others can be inherent within the application. As a software engineering Read More

So I just installed RU1 on my brand new Exchange 2010 server and then I issue a Get-Exchangeserver -Identity MyExchangeServer and get the following output for AdminsDisplayVersion and ExchangeVersion: Ok that looks a little familiar for some reason. 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

Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (KB 972076) to the download center. In addition to bug fixes reported by customers we have added new rules to the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer to check the health Read More

There is potential for calendar related problems when new diagnostic logging for Message Access, which is available in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is raised from its default setting of Lowest.  A Knowledge Base article and a fix are Read More

It is common for Exchange organizations to include different versions of Exchange. Interoperability scenarios present challenges to administrators for maintaining the different tool sets required to manage different versions of recipient and configuration Read More

EDIT 12/8/2009: Made a few modifications to the post and script based on feedback received. Working in Exchange Customer Service and Support, we often see cases where user performance, or overall server performance, is impacted because of a high number Read More

Six or seven years ago, I was faced with several cases where the permissions on public folders had been made non-canonical by programs running against the M: drive. This was back in the Exchange 2000 days when IFS was still around, and it exposed the Read More

With the release of Exchange 2007 SP2 we provided a Supportability Matrix which outlined the supported configurations for Exchange 2000 SP3, Exchange 2003 SP2, and Exchange 2007 (RTM, SP1, and SP2).   But as many are aware, with the release of Windows Read More

EDIT 11/24/2009: Corrected the permissions needed in KB 970104 section. It has been about a couple of months since we released Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2. About 3 years ago when we shipped Exchange Server 2007 we promised cumulative update rollups Read More

NOTE: This article has been updated to correct the MSAS URLs mentioned in this article. By now most of you have heard about the release of Exchange 2010.  Those of you that are upgrading from Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 or a mixture of the two, are Read More

In Microsoft CSS (Customer Service and Support) we deal with many anti-spam questions. While the anti-spam features that come out of the box with Exchange 2007 provide a robust level of protection against unwanted garbage in your inbox, there is still Read More

EDIT 2/15/2010: Please see this post for updates on this subject. We always talk about listening to customers and sometimes this is written off by many as 'marketing speak'.  In fact, we do take feedback seriously and no input is more important Read More