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

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

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

Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 RTM (KB 979611) to the download center. KB 979611 lists all the fixes included in this rollup. Here are some of the product improvements and critical bug fixes we'd like to call 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 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

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 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