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

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

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

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 Outlook team recently reported an issue on their blog about message sizes in the Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta. A bug in the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta increases the message size of some e-mail messages sent from Outlook 2010 Beta. The Office team 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

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

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

The management experience given by Exchange 2010 through PowerShell has been moved all the way from Local to Remote. This will mean that enterprise Admins will have to adjust their regular scripts to connect to Remote PowerShell instead of creating a Read More

This post applies to Exchange 2010. By default, PowerShell has 7 Cmdlets loaded in the remote session for "import-session *" scenario which leads to about 30 MB of memory spike. Any additional Exchange help files that are loaded will cause additional Read More

This is a continuation and a final of our introduction of new EMC functionality in Exchange 2010. Part 1 of this series can be found here and Part 2 is here. Diagnostic Logging Management Diagnostic Logging Management is back in Exchange Server 2010. Read More

This is a continuation of our showcase of new EMC functionality in Exchange 2010. Part 1 of this series can be found here. Certificate Management In Exchange Server 2010, significant improvements have gone into managing certificates with the EMC. To Read More

Welcome to Exchange Server 2010! Exchange Server 2010 continues the tradition of providing more and more Messaging features for the enterprise, and at the same time, significantly lowering mailbox associated costs. This new version brings a slew of Read More

The Exchange UI team is investigating possible technologies we could use in future releases of management tools. One potential technology we could use is Silverlight. This would provide the ability to offer rich management features in a web-based interface, Read More