Mike, one of our readers, sent us the link of a funny story how an out of office reply got printed on a bi-lingual traffic sign. Thought that it was pretty funny: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7702913.stm That got me thinking of some of funny OOF Read More

We noticed the following in the Wikipedia article about ESE: Well, here's your citation for you - and we added a few names: Developers who have contributed towards the success of JET Blue include Cheen Liao, Stephen Hecht, Matthew Bellew, Ian Jose, Read More

I got a lot of great feedback for the recent post I wrote about the Microsoft Certified Master Program, and not unsurprisingly there were some comments posted about the price. Given the state of the world's economy, and knowing that costs for things Read More

There has been a lot of interest and discussion about the MCM | Exchange Server 2007 Program since Microsoft announced it earlier this year, and as the PM responsible for the Exchange Program I wanted to give you some of the history of the program, tell Read More

Our friends over at Office Communication server wanted to get the word our on their upcoming release which they are promoting through their website. Here's their announcement, go check it out! Office Communications Server 2007 R2 will launch on February Read More

It's now been 3 whirlwind weeks since taking the helm of the Exchange team. As I'm getting to know the team, I wanted to take this opportunity to better introduce myself to the Exchange community. I feel fortunate to inherit such a strong product and Read More

Our friends over at Mactopia.com announced the release of the 12.1.4 update. According to their site, this fixes an issue from the 12.1.3 and scheduling meetings when an Entourage identity is configured with more than one mail account. Check it out here: Read More

On Thursday, 6 November, at 21:00 (9:00pm), get ready to rub shoulders with some of the world's most powerful IT Professionals and community influencers. Exclusively for Microsoft MVPs, TechNet Plus Subscribers, Microsoft Certified Masters and Microsoft Read More

This post is mainly for other softies who read the blog, but we hope our customers and partners enjoy it with us as the squeaky lobster has long been part of Exchange culture and lore and -- if we have anything to do with it -- will continue to embarrass Read More

Are you prepared for outages that affect e-mail service or data availability? Have you defined recovery strategies and procedures for disasters big and small? This Webcast will cover the recommended strategies for protecting Microsoft Exchange Server Read More

Hello, Hi, my name is Karl Bystrom, I'm a researcher on the Exchange team. As part of our efforts to improve Exchange, the User Experience team will occasionally send out surveys to enable you to give input and feedback on a variety of topics. We'd Read More

Please join us next Wednesday July 30th, 4-7PM PST for the next meeting of the UCDoers - Pacific Northwest Unified Communications User Group meeting!The UCDoers will meet at the McKinstry Company located at:5005 Third Avenue South Seattle, WA  98134 Read More

Wanted to let you know about this Webcast as it is happening next week... Ross Smith IV is presenting; you can expect an awesome look into designing Exchange 2007 Storage! You can find the details and register here: TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Exchange Read More

In order to classify the different types of email users out there, we often talk about "filers" (people who file their emails away into specially-named folders) and "pilers" (people who just leave everything in the Inbox and rely on Read More

Every so often, a question comes up for us that are running this blog: how do you do it? What is the process that you follow for your blog posts? Where do you get ideas from? Recently - as part of the INTERACT2008 conference, I had a chance to present Read More