Over the years, displaying recipient photographs in the Global Address List (GAL) has been a frequently-requested feature, high on the wish lists of many Exchange folks. Particularly in large organizations or geographically dispersed teams, it's great Read More

For various reasons, there are times when an administrator does not want a part of the ECP to be accessible by some users and they desire a features' tab or entry point to not be visible at all. The web.config file for the Exchange Control Panel (ECP) 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

While ISA 2006 SP1 includes a Client Access Web Publishing Wizard for both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007, the wizard does not have any knowledge of Exchange 2010. Exchange 2010 includes the following changes with respect to its URLs and virtual directories: Read More

Seeing that many will be finding a copy of Exchange 2010 under the tree soon (...right?), we wanted to let you know that we have been working to create the performance counter guidance for Exchange 2010 as we have for Exchange 2007 (see Monitoring Without Read More

Many of you have been asking how you can upgrade your existing Exchange environment to Exchange 2010 from a client access perspective. For most of you, this will also mean coexisting with legacy Exchange and Exchange 2010 for a period of time.  My Read More

Many of you have been asking how you can transition your existing Exchange environment to Exchange 2010 from a client access perspective. For most of you, this will also mean coexisting with legacy Exchange and Exchange 2010 for a period of time.  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

Today we released an updated version of the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer. For those of you not familiar with this site, it is a Web-based tool that helps you troubleshoot connectivity issues. The tool simulates several client logon and mail flow 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

EDIT 10/14/2009: Made a few readability improvements as well as added a section based on feedback. Traditionally, in order to access an internal share or site link posted within an email, one had to be connected to the company network. In addition, access Read More

Have you ever sent a really well thought out, important email, only to find out (through an automatic response) that the recipient is on vacation for two weeks? For most of us, this means either waiting two weeks for a response or emailing an alternate Read More

If you haven't heard the buzz yet about what is new with our Exchange 2010 developer story then head over to the Exchange Developer Center and start digging in to the Exchange Web Services Managed API Beta and our other new features. Download the first Read More

Have you ever installed an Exchange server and wanted to verify your Internet facing services were setup and configured properly? Things like Exchange ActiveSync, AutoDiscover, Outlook Anywhere (RPC/HTTP), and inbound email. Sure there are cmdlets included Read More

EDIT 3/24/2009: Added a link to WinSAT documentation based on reader feedback. Hopefully you have seen the news regarding the release of the Outlook 2007 SP1 February 2009 cumulative update. If you haven't, then you can read http://support.microsoft.com/?id=968009 Read More