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

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

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

Just a quick note to share the news! We have just released the Exchange 2010 Update Rollup 1. You can download the update here and read more information about fixes included in the following KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976573 - Nino Bili Read More

With the release of Exchange 2007 SP2 we provided a Supportability Matrix which outlined the supported configurations for Exchange 2000 SP3, Exchange 2003 SP2, and Exchange 2007 (RTM, SP1, and SP2).   But as many are aware, with the release of Windows Read More

EDIT 11/24/2009: Corrected the permissions needed in KB 970104 section. It has been about a couple of months since we released Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2. About 3 years ago when we shipped Exchange Server 2007 we promised cumulative update rollups 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

We heard concerns from our early adoption Exchange Server 2010 customers regarding transitioning from Exchange Server 2003 and/or Exchange Server 2007 in a few key areas. One of which is the fact that you, Exchange/IT administrators, are burdened with Read More

This is an update to the blog post Next version of Exchange and Single Label Domain (SLD) policy under review. In response to customer feedback, the Exchange team has updated their testing matrix and has determined that Exchange Server 2010 will be supported Read More

It was mentioned before that Exchange 2007 SP2 contained Exchange 2010 schema completely back ported to it, but if you check the LDF files that generate the schema you may notice that they are in fact different. Back porting the schema was not a straight Read More

By now you may have read or heard that the /PrepareDomain operation in the Exchange 2010 Release Candidate (RC) applies certain Access Control Entries (ACEs) on the AdminSDHolder object within Active Directory. In particular, /PrepareDomain grants the Read More

EDIT 11/4/2009: The information in this article is obsolete. Please read this post for new information on the subject. Since we announced the release of Exchange Server 2007 SP2, we've received a few questions about running Exchange 2007 on Windows Server Read More

We have released the updated Setup prerequisite files for the problem we wrote about in Exchange 2007 SP2 Setup fails if all domain controllers are running Windows Server 2008 R2. This fix will unblock Exchange 2007 SP2 setup in those environments. Installation Read More

EDIT 9/16/2009: We have now published fixes for this problem and have an updated blog post about it. Please go here to read the updated information. We have learned of and analyzed the problem where the Exchange 2007 SP2 installation can fail during Read More

We are pleased to announce the release of Service Pack 2 for Exchange 2007. This marks an important milestone in the development process for Exchange Server 2007. Our team has provided a couple of blog posts here and here outlining what is available in Read More