There's a new Blog in town - the new MS Small Business Community Blog. The tree components of the Small Business Community now are: 1) MS Small Business Community SharePoint Site2) MS Small Business Community User Group3) MS Small Business Community Blog Read More

Like many of the product groups within Microsoft, Exchange relies heavily on a fairly small but dedicated set of our customers who make up the Technology Adoption Program (or TAP). TAPs exist in varying sizes and flavors, but the basic idea is that they Read More

Few weeks ago, we had something quite interesting happen:   On 12/4/04 we went over 1,000,000 hits on the Exchange Team blog site. Those are cumulative hits, since the first post back in February 2004 when KC boldly broke the ice after creating Read More

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced Exchange Edge Services, a set of technologies designed for e-mail protection, enhanced security and management of junk email for Exchange customers. Since that time, Microsoft received extensive input from customers Read More

Exchange Server 5.5 was released in 1998 when the world of email was a very different place.  The last seven years has seen a dramatic increase in the volume of emails and spam, increasingly sophisticated viruses and Internet attacks, and stronger Read More

This solution accelerator provides detailed guidance for planning and executing upgrades, migrations, and consolidations to Exchange Server 2003 from legacy Exchange environments. It provides relevant information to help organizations migrate and consolidate Read More

In order to make it easier for you to search all blog post titles that we ever posted (in case you are looking for a specific subject and are wondering if we ever posted about that) - we have created a new category called "All posts". By default, it will Read More

This afternoon I received the Exchange Server ActiveSync (EAS) usage statistics for the month of November.  Our friends at MS IT told me that our internal user base is growing:  we are at about 7000 unique users at Redmond!!! These users Read More

Since this blog was started, we had two "suggestion boxes" created. Here was the first one and here the second one. We covered multiple subjects that you suggested and still have some to cover, but can always take on more suggestions.   The problem Read More

As Chris and Neil already mentioned - we released the new version of ExBPA. Here is "what is new", as listed by Paul Bowden: 1.1 provides some improvements and refinements to the overall ExBPA experience. There are no major code changes in 1.1, we've Read More

A common strategy for increasing the cost of would-be mail abuse uses a technique called tarpitting. Mail servers that tarpit wait a specified period of time before issuing SMTP responses to the client, thus increasing the time investment needed to successfully Read More

The Exchange team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Offline Address Book Best Practices Guide. The guide provides you with best practices for deploying, managing, and troubleshooting offline address books with Microsoft Exchange Read More

This post is the continuation of my VSAPI posts, the second one that goes into troubleshooting. Please see part 1, part 2 and part 3 for architecture details and part 4 for troubleshooting using Performance monior. The following events Read More