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

Early 2008 we have posted a blog entry with a VB script that generates some pre-canned reports that are based on message tracking logs. The script has proven to be useful in understanding Microsoft's Exchange work load and guide some design decision for Read More

You requested it... and we delivered it in Exchange 2010! One of the most requested items in exchange 2007 was something like this... ...we have 5-12 external domains that we need to allow some users to send to, but prevent sending to all other domains... Read More

The Delivery Reports feature which was introduced in Exchange 2010 enables both Information Workers, and administrators to view delivery status of messages and discover answers to questions such as: why a message was not delivered, where a message is 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

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

I wanted to take a moment to get out the latest information concerning Exchange Anti-Spam Filters for the different Exchange products that have been released. This definitely will not answer all the questions but it should help in clarifying things that Read More

By now, you've seen a few of our Spotlight on Exchange 2010 postings. If you have, hopefully you're excited about the great work that has been going on to make Exchange 2010 the best version of Exchange yet. So then the practical side of you kicks in Read More

EDIT 10/14/2009: We updated the section that recommends settings for environments that need to support messages larger than default 10MB message size. Already an expert on large messages? You'll still want to check out the updated "Best Practices" section Read More

The observant among you may have noticed that starting in Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1, Rollup 4, a new parameter debuted for Set-TransportConfig: DSNConversionMode. Those of you who like to experiment have probably already derived what it is that this Read More

EDIT: We updated this post on 12/9/2008 and corrected the step 4 below. I had a case earlier this month where the customer wanted a simple way to export the results of message tracking.  In the Exchange Management Console, he used the Message Tracking Read More

Introduction We have been working on a problem that surfaced with the release of Exchange 2007 Rollup 5. A number of customers reported that some of their Exchange 2007 managed services did not start automatically after Rollup application, however they Read More

Performance analysis and troubleshooting can be a very complex and daunting area with Exchange Server. Being able to quickly and accurately identify and resolve issues requires a thorough understanding of the most interesting and important performance Read More

Hi! This is my first post to the Exchange Team Blog - hope this is of use! My name is Robert Gillies, and I'm a Senior Consultant in the Federal Civilian Practice of Microsoft Consulting Services. One of my recent projects for one of my customers had Read More

Before you can install Exchange Server 2007 SP1 on a Windows Server 2008 there are varying prerequisites that need to be installed, depending on the Exchange 2007 Server role you plan on installing. Details on how to install those prerequisites manually Read More