When you use a single server in your organization, but wish to publish Free/Busy for Exchange users from another organization (using the Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace cmdlet and InterOrg replication or third party solutions), it is important to remember Read More

To read the updated Exchange 2007 Storage Cost calculator blog post and get the calculator, go HERE. All future calculator updates will be rolled into this page, sorted from newer to older. UPDATE ON 12/02/2008: Version 4.0 This release of the Storage 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

Update Rollup 5 for Exchange 2007 SP1 (announced a few days ago) has been released. The rollup is available on the Download Center here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=652ED33A-11A1-459C-8FFE-90B9CBFE7903&displaylang=en Read More

This is a heads up that Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is in the final stages of getting released and should be out in a couple of days. The next step for the Exchange team will be to release the Update Rollup onto the Download Center and then Read More

As we have released Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 4 on Microsoft Update two days ago, a question came up: how do you tell which version of the Update Rollup is installed? The simplest answer is to go to Add or Remove Programs Control Panel applet. Read More

EDIT: This post has been updated on 12/2/2008 to match the newest version of Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox Server Storage Cost Calculator. Overview Earlier versions of Exchange did not scale well enough, at a low enough cost per mailbox (because of expensive Read More

We had a case come in a few months ago where we were restoring Message Tracking Logs from backups and couldn't use the Get-MessageTrackingLog properly when specifying an -EndDate parameter. Consequently, we run into this same problem when trying to load Read More

EDIT 10/9/2008: We updated the MU (Microsoft Update) release date of this patch as well as the Installation Notes section. We have released the final version of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 (KB952580) The update is live at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8B492ED2-EA92-412F-A852-3AA1C58D9499&displaylang=en Read More

As mentioned in my previous post on the subject of Autodiscover Service and Outlook Providers - I wanted to follow-up with the discussion of modifying the providers. What is the impact when we change the Outlook provider configuration? In what scenarios Read More

We've recently encountered a small handful of customers who reported mailflow problems shortly after running Exchange 2007's /prepareAD, or after they installed their first Exchange 2007 role (which auto-launches the pre-requisite prepareAD process).  Read More

Many companies and users consider mobile access to Exchange data an essential feature.  Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) is very popular as it allows this access and many devices have licensed and implemented EAS (including Windows Mobile).  Some companies Read More

Hi from Alabama. This is a follow-up to my last post, which was about building a lab with Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2003 using a PowerShell script. This post is about building the same lab using Exchange Server 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2008. I Read More

Just wanted to post a quick note that yesterday we have released a new Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) hotfix rollup package for Windows Server 2003. This is all in relation to a blog post on the subject that we have posted a while ago. Mike has posted Read More

Just wanted to drop a quick note that we have now released a version of Exchange 2003 Exchange System Manager (ESM) that runs on Windows Vista. this has been a frequent request so - now it is here! You can download the package and related release notes Read More