We have always recommended that customers prepare formal server build documentation for their Exchange environments. Until now, we've not provided any formal guidance around what that documentation should look like. We now have build documentation templates Read More

Lately, we've been getting a lot of questions related to Exchange 2007 memory consumption and why Exchange uses so much of the paging file. Well, there are some valid reasons why and some misconceptions that need to be corrected. Comparing memory usage Read More

A little trick from Jeffrey Snover over on PowerShell team blog: Speeding Up PowerShell Startup. Running the script mentioned by Jeffrey speeds up PowerShell startup times. Yes, hard to believe at first, but after having run this on a few servers, as Read More

So you've heard some folks saying large mailboxes are a good idea. Your users have been screaming for mailboxes with more than 1GB quotas. Your management wants you to be able to recover from outages in minutes, not days. Everyone is telling you to do Read More

In order to help our customers configure their servers better, we have been working on a tool that you will be able to run from a workstation and configure your Exchange 2007 servers easier. Some of those options are not easy to configure otherwise, and Read More

EDIT: This post has been updated on 6/19/2008 - the Resolution section has been updated. Issue: Exchange support has become aware of an issue where Exchange 2007 SP1 administrators are receiving an error message in the Exchange Management Console Read More

We have been made aware that some of our Exchange 2007 customers have been experiencing the following issue today: When trying to make certain configuration changes such as new-mailbox or enable-mailbox, certain set of our customers would receive the Read More

While working with (playing around with) PowerShell on Exchange 2007 I found myself typing in the same series of commands over and over. These were commands that I was using on a regular, repeated basis while managing my particular environment. Being Read More

There is some confusion and misperceptions about the correct tools to use to manage a clustered mailbox server (CMS) in a single copy cluster (SCC) or cluster continuous replication (CCR) environment. Specifically, folks are asking the following questions: Read More

At Exchange Support one of the most common support issue that we see is Exchange 2007 uninstall failing due to presence of Public folder replicas. When you try to Remove Exchange 2007 using the "Add/Remove Programs" from control Panel you would get an Read More

For an administrator who manages public folders in their Exchange organization, the introduction of Exchange 2007 poses somewhat of a dilemma as to how to administer public folders that exist on Exchange 2007. There are however some easy ways to complete Read More

There might be times when an Exchange Administrator will need to export the contents of individual mailboxes to offline files in order to present specific users with a format that is easily portable and ready to consume using Outlook clients. To fulfill Read More

After installing Exchange 2007 into your existing Exchange organization, the address lists and recipient policies must have OPATH filters specified in order to administer them from the Exchange 2007 tools. As discussed in the earlier blog post, OPATH Read More

Evan Dodds posted a very good reference kind of post on his blog - talking about what the filterable properties are in Exchange 2007 RTM. He provides the reference tables for the following: RecipientFilter Get-CASMailbox Get-Contact Get-DistributionGroup Read More

NOTE: This article has also been published in the official Exchange 2007 documentation here. We recommend that you check the documentation for the most up-to-date version. This is an update to an earlier article we posted. The main updated areas are: Read More