We wanted to announce the new major build of ExBPA that we released today: v2.6 (U.S. English).   We did a lot of work to improve usability of the tool in this release. Here are the major differences and improvements that we have made since ExBPA Read More

This is a 3rd blog post on the subject of Auto Accept Agent. You can go here to see the 1st one and here to see the 2nd one. In this blog post, I wanted to cover how to troubleshoot Auto Accept Agent issues by using the support scripts that come with Read More

This post is a 2nd in the series talking about Auto Accept Agent (see the 1st post here). As mentioned in my previous post, I wanted to go over troubleshooting the most common issues with Auto Accept Agent. In this post, we will cover issues with installation Read More

The msExchESEParamLogBuffers storage group attribute governs the number of Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) log buffers that are used by the Exchange information store. ESE uses a set of log buffers to hold information in RAM before it writes to the transaction Read More

We recently posted details on how to use Log Parser to parse out Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) information to produce helpful reports that can give you a better idea of the usage load of your EAS deployment.  In that blog we relied solely on LogParser Read More

The Exchange Team would like to get your feedback on use of Exmerge in Exchange 2003, to make sure that we are focusing on right things in our next release. There are a few questions we have on the subject: -          Read More

In my Exchange support experience, customers often ask me about the differences between using the Auto Accept Agent and Outlook Direct Booking. They want to know which they should use for their specific environment. After much research, I compiled the Read More

We have received a lot of feedback recently about your need to better understand the usage of your Exchange 2003 ActiveSync (EAS) deployment.  With all of the great features built into EAS, it’s important for you as an IT Professional to know the Read More

Since the initial release of the update Notes mail migration tools (here) last December (and more recently the announcements about the application tools) there have been a wave of questions from customers, partners, consultants, industry experts and Read More

PFDAVAdmin Content Report - First step to explore the ‘jungle’ of your public folders Did you ever want to know how many items each public folder contains? Or do you want to know when the newest item was created in a public folder? These are common Read More

Summary In order to clean up Routing Engine’s Cache, we no longer have to recommend customers’ to shut down all their Exchange Servers simultaneously in the entire org.  This was required to force concurrent destruction of Org object that lives Read More

Included in this month’s Exchange Tools Web release (direct link) is a new analysis tool called the Microsoft Exchange Server Profile Analyzer Tool (or EPA). We created this tool to help server administrators understand their user profile to help Read More

Yesterday we released a major new update to the ExBPA Config XML - this is version 2.9.0.1. We wanted to give you some information on the enhancements made between this and the previous version that we published (2.7.0.1). #1 - Detection of Read More

Last year, we delivered the Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer, or ExBPA for short.  Since then we've made several upgrades to that tool as well as published monthly updates to the validations the tool does.  The feedback loop Read More

Since I occasionally troubleshoot performance problems, I thought I’d write up the basics of the process I use.   Due to the nature of this topic, this isn’t going to be a comprehensive coverage of all possible performance problems.  I Read More