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

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

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

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

It is common for Exchange organizations to include different versions of Exchange. Interoperability scenarios present challenges to administrators for maintaining the different tool sets required to manage different versions of recipient and configuration Read More

We have started getting more and more questions (as well as some support cases) around Address List Segregation with Exchange 2010. Some of our customers have also assumed that the existing Exchange 2007 documentation on the subject would just apply to Read More

MailTips brings together information from many sources; its value to users is taking what can be complicated on the backend and presenting it very simply. This does mean, however, that there are a few different places to look when troubleshooting MailTips.  Read More

Let's say you have a business process that requires the approval of two different people. Well, with moderation and transport rules, you can automate that process with Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010. In this example, we'll set up transport rules so that 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

EDIT 12/8/2009: Made a few modifications to the post and script based on feedback received. Working in Exchange Customer Service and Support, we often see cases where user performance, or overall server performance, is impacted because of a high number 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

This one can be a bit counter intuitive for folks coming from any legacy version of Exchange... Issue You got your shiny new Exchange 2010 download and excitedly installed it on your 2010 hardware. You have setup all your CAS server settings, your DAG Read More