A primary use for MFCMAPI is to look at objects in an Exchange store and view the MAPI properties on them. MAPI properties are identified by property tags which are 32 bit numbers, like 0x0FFF0102. It’s no fun to have to memorize a bunch of 32 bit numbers Read More

Here's something different - we’ll be running 12 TechNet IT Pro Exchange Server 2003 webcasts for the entire week of November from 11/8~11/12! Lots of opportunity to learn more about Exchange 2003. Some opportunity to win some cool stuff in the process Read More

We've been asked many times over the last several months why we don't talk about our competition in the Exchange blog, and I wanted to take an opportunity to explain why. The purpose of this blog is to help Exchange customers with Exchange; blogging Read More

Every so often there is a question: "Should we run file-level defragmentation software on Exchange servers?" Usually, this comes from confusion that file system defragmentation actually helps Exchange as - well, Exchange databases get fragmented too. Read More

iCal, or internet calendaring, generally isn't heavily used or widely understood. When it is used, it generally creates some confusion since it produces different results based on what server and clients are used. Rather than babble on about all the RFC Read More

(Note: this article is #1 in the series that covers the Exchange VSAPI. For part 2 please go here and for part 3 please go here. There will be additional parts added in the future too.) Keying off one of the comments regarding the VSAPI, I thought Read More

The Exchange Team is going to be at IT Forum, and we’d like to talk to you!  Senior program managers from the Exchange product group will be conducting a few “focus groups” with selected IT Forum attendees during the conference, and we’d like to Read More

For those of you who do use Full-Text Indexing, how many of you wished there was a way to better administer Full-Text Indexes as well as get more information about the Full-Text Indexes?  Your wish is our command! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=46FD5644-BD0D-4CFA-95F8-64BA34BDE6A7&displaylang=en This Read More

So for many weeks I've debated about what to post here.  My colleagues and I have worked pretty hard since the release of Exchange 2000 to document the SMTP Transport stack.  So I figured by now everyone knew everything there was to know about Read More

Exchange Blog Readers, Today Microsoft released the Security Bulletin Summary for the month of October (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-oct.mspx).  In this bulletin there are a couple of fixes that relate to the Exchange Server: Read More

As Chris mentioned in his blog - there will be a WebCast on Hosted Exchange 2003. Seeing that in Support Services we hear many questions about Hosted Exchange, here is a great chance for you to hear more about it in the WebCast format! TechNet Support Read More

While I was at TechEd, I had a great time talking with our customers and hearing about their experiences as Exchange administrators.  One of the areas that have come up in discussion a lot has to do with planning sufficient disk throughput Read More

To browse the Exchange SDK documentation online visit the Exchange Developer Center, at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/exchange To download the SDKs and tools visit the Exchange downloads list page at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/exchange.asp Read More

The NT Backup team is looking for feedback from customers who use it to back up Exchange databases today, to help improve it in the future. If you use NT Backup with Exchange and have time to exchange email with us and answer some questions about how Read More

Getting a piece of email to a main-enabled public folder actually takes a bit more work than one might expect.   That is because public folders have some interesting characteristics that separate them from other mail-enabled objects in the directory: Read More

The Exchange team is coming up on our 1-year anniversary of launching Exchange Server 2003 and we would love to hear your success stories.  Have you upgraded from Exchange 5.5 or Exchange 2000?  Did you migrate from another messaging system Read More

We’ve received several requests on the tools newsgroup for the history of the development of ExBPA, so here it is.  The concept for such a tool has been around for several years, and there have been a few prototypes created previously.  For Read More