Microsoft has learned of a potential change to the observance of daylight saving time (DST) in Iraq. This change may affect customers who use the Baghdad time zone. An early, unsubstantiated report says that the Ministry of Iraq has decided that the country Read More

The government of Argentina has announced (read more about it here, here and here) the implementation of daylight saving time (DST) in Argentina. The following are the start and end dates for the daylight saving time defined: Daylight saving time Read More

If you have not used the Time Zone Data Update Tools in your environment previously and you have users with appointments that appear to be off by one hour during the week of October 28, 2007 – November 4, 2007 then you should consider whether or Read More

Back in February we have posted a video series on how to use DST 2007 tools. Those were a great success (based on the feedback we have received). I wanted to let you know that the original post has been updated because Steve Justice has recorded a new Read More

EDIT: This post has been updated on 10/9/2007 to address comments and questions that we got from you on original post. The Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool was not designed to work in a report only mode through the tool's UI. However, there Read More

Well, it's that time again.  Time for the clocks to change, as a result of Daylight Savings Time (DST).  If you are an Exchange administrator, and haven't heard how the time changes impact your messaging environment, then you have probably been Read More

I wanted to let you know that there is going to be a DST related Webcast this coming Friday. Event details: Available on Friday, September 14th at 9am PT: Preparing for Daylight Saving Time: This Webcast will provide an overview of information on Microsoft Read More

Heard of the term "calendar concierge"? Look up http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/07/24/428390.aspx. In this blog post I am going to talk about what happened to Auto Accept Agent in Exchange Server 2007 and how you can define, schedule and manage Read More

In this video, we are demonstrating how to use the updated Outlook Time Zone Tool to update a resource mailbox. We are also demonstrating one of scenarios where a meeting item may become double booked if Direct Booking is used. Please view this to help Read More

If you did not see our Webcasts for daylight saving time changes in 2007 page yet, you should know that there are two DST Webcasts coming up this week: Preparing for daylight saving time: How to make the DST transition step-by-step Microsoft DST team Read More

EDIT: This post has been edited on 9/14/2007 to point to new versions of videos. We have put together three demos that you can use to familiarize yourself with the process of running the DST tools. We think that the following three scenarios cover Read More

If you have been checking our DST Webcast page, you could see the following Webcast is coming up shortly: Preparing for Daylight Saving Time: How To Make The Transition Step-by-Step Event ID: 1032330844 Language(s): English. Product(s): Exchange Server,Outlook,Windows. Read More

When running the Exchange Time Zone Update tool, or the Outlook Time Zone update tool, issues may arise with Resource mailboxes. There are two methods of managing Resource mailboxes. The first method is using the Auto Accept Agent. The second method Read More

With the new DST changes, many customers are asking about how to identify all their public folder calendars and their owners. Fortunately, this is very easy to do using PFDAVAdmin. When you create a folder that holds appointment items, this sets the Read More

We have put together a step-by-step walkthrough on how to run the Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool (MSExTMZCFG.EXE). This is a server-side tool that can be used as part of the 2007 DST process for Exchange. We have also included some information Read More