In discussions with some of our friends over in the DPM team (System Center Data Protection Manager), we’ve found that there is a rather high incidence of VSS errors in installations where DPM is being used to back up Exchange 2010. Turns out that in Read More

One of my favorite things about my job is that I get to learn new stuff everyday! It's like being in school all of the time! And yes, I was that person in class that always ruined the curve for everyone else. If you have been using either Exchange 2003 Read More

In the recently released Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3, there’s a version mismatch between the Outlook Web Access (OWA) S/MIME Control, an Active X control used to provide S/MIME support in OWA. After you install SP3, users who have the control installed Read More

At EHLO, we love customer success stories about Exchange! How Exchange, Outlook and Office make users' lives better, improve productivity, and make work fun is what excites us. Today's post is the second in a series of customer testimonials we bring Read More

I am very pleased to let you all know that Exchange Server 2007 SP3 is available for download. As we highlighted in Updates to the Exchange Supportability Matrix this past November, this third service pack for Exchange 2007 enables Exchange 2007 to Read More

During the installation of Exchange rollup update for Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010, some of the Exchange services e.g. the Microsoft Exchange Transport Service may fail to start. This issue occurs because there is a problem with the way Read More

You may have noticed that we've added some improvements to the Update Rollup installation process starting with Update Rollup 1 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2. This blog post walks you through the features we've added and what's happening behind the Read More

Today, we updated both the Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculators. For the Exchange 2007 calculator, the changes were minor (bug fixes essentially).  Head on over to the Updates Tracking page to see what is changed Read More

In response to customer feedback with regards to native image generation (NGen) taking too long (and in some cases leading the user to believe that the installation process had hanged), we separated the NGen process into pre and post-installation NGen Read More

Edit 6/10/2010: Corrected the script path. Certain 3rd party software such as anti-virus and anti-spam have their own services running on the Exchange server and these can sometimes prevent Exchange services from being stopped successfully. This in turn Read More

The term "Rollback" refers to an operation that returns the Exchange server to its pre-installation state. Previously, the Exchange update process, lacking a rollback mechanism, could leave Exchange in an unknown state if the installation failed or ended Read More

We've noticed that customers may experience Exchange services timeout or long wait times for services or application to start up. This problem occurs when a server has no internet access or occasionally when a server has limited internet access. The Read More

It’s been well over a year, but we have finally updated the Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator to coincide with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange 2007 Performance Benchmarking Guide whitepaper update.  Read More

We have released security updates for the following versions of Exchange: Security Update for Exchange 2000 Server (KB976703) Security Update for Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (KB976702) Update Rollup 10 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Read More

An updated version of the PFDAVAdmin tool has been released to the web. You can get it from the download center at this link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=635BE792-D8AD-49E3-ADA4-E2422C0AB424. This update contains various bug Read More