I'd like to introduce a relatively new Exchange 2003 tool called xdr-fixup. It's a handy tool, because it allows Exchange 2003 servers to continue to function after a Windows 2003 domain rename procedure. xdr-fixup is not technically part of Exchange Read More

OWA normally posts only 2 months of FB data by default, this is done across all users on the Exchange server. Outlook has the ability to let each user post as much or as little FB data as they need. (Tools | Options | Calendar Options | Free/Busy Options). Read More

Today I want to write about how to use the Exchange 2003 Sp1 (hereafter called E2003 Sp1) Migration Wizard (hereafter called Mailmig). There have been some real good posts recently about how to use ExMerge for disaster recovery and migrations. Please Read More

The billg bit or the DoNicknameResolution bit is a setting in the Active Directory that controls how Outlook ambiguous name resolution (ANR) works.  Normally, when resolving a name in Outlook, a query is done against the AD using the string passed Read More

  As Evan already mentioned on his blog, Raymond Chen has a great series on /3GB switch on his blog. What is really cool is that Raymond takes on some myths about the /3GB switch and  the fact that he makes great analogies to explain them Read More

OWA and Outlook both post and poll the same FB data to the public store, but each client has its own method and time frame when data is posted. When Outlook needs to post data, each client simply calculates the data and writes it directly to the public Read More

The Exchange team has released the July 2004 Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Post-Service Pack 3 (SP3) Update Rollup to the Microsoft.com Download Center.  The KB article for this update is located at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=870540.  Read More

In Exchange 2000/2003 mailbox manager policies may not process items as some administrators might expect.  For example, if you set up a mailbox manager policy to delete messages from the inbox after 30 days, you may find that some of the messages Read More

Lee Derbyshire wrote an article over at msexchange.org - on how to create your custom Exchange 2003 OWA themes. To make this more fun, we made the files needed for XBOX-inspired OWA theme available here. A little preview of this eye-candy: Read More

I’m a participant on an internal discussion alias where field people will ask pretty narrow technical questions about Exchange. A lot of these are of the form: I’ve got a customer here who’s trying to use the geflazzle feature in conjunction with geocaching Read More

We've followed Raymond and Larry's leads and created a suggestion box. If you have a topic you'd like us to blog about, post a comment to the suggestion box. We're not guaranteeing we'll write about every suggestion, but we do guarantee we'll read every Read More

As Paul already posted, there is a new security bulletin out - 04-026 - and it affects Exchange 5.5 OWA servers (and NOT Exchange 2000/2003 servers). Please head over here to read more about it. - Nino Bilic Read More

A problem like this seems to happen every so often - files on your Exchange server seem to be mysteriously locked, in use by some process. There has been a number of cases where database engine was not able to get to database files or transaction logs. Read More

On August 3rd we went live with a revamped content Web site at www.microsoft.com/exchange/assistance, which is the first step in improving our Exchange customers’ online content experience. Our goal is to reduce the sea of content that customers Read More

A quick intro to ADModify: ADModify is a tool that was (and is still) developed and maintaned out of our Support Services (aka PSS) team, and was created to make it easier to modify / import / export objects in Active Directory in bulk. The tool has Read More

This seems to be one of most favorite questions ever: "How come that Exchange Store.exe keeps on grabbing more and more memory, even on the server that is not very busy? Is there a memory leak?". This is many times followed by "I am rebooting my server Read More