The week of Feb. 7th Dave Thompson, our VP of our Exchange Server Group will be visiting the Rocky Mountain district office in Denver, CO. to meet with customers and partners and also present at an Exchange user group on February 8th.  He will be Read More

You've probably been seeing the news reports about E12 and wanting to know more. Well, the one-year anniversary of this blog is coming up on February 9th, and we thought that would be a good opportunity to give our readers a chance to ask us questions Read More

The Exchange team would love to hear your ExBPA story!  If you have had a great experience with our latest tool, please email "exrefcom AT microsoft DOT com" with your story! - Michael Liu Read More

The vast majority of modern messaging environments have a challenge of establishing and maintaining reliable and secure Internet e-mail connectivity.  While the task of enabling Internet e-mail routing is relatively straight forward and usually well Read More

I’m often asked the question: Why does the Exchange 2003 ADC create accounts with a bizarre logon field? (For Example, ADC_BDZQOKNUIZDWPPHG )   It’s usually hard to answer this question if the person asking it doesn’t have a certain level of ADC Read More

Thanks to David Cumps for the original search button code! EDIT: After working on this search for a while, I decided to switch the search engine for Google, until MSN Search has functionality equivalent to Google's "inurl". This is all in the interest Read More

As I already mentioned on my blog, here is some information on a somewhat confusing subject. I added two more questions about MSDTC that we hear often:   Over the years, the best practice recommendations on where to place the MS Distributed Transaction Read More

Some of the most common issues the Exchange Client-Server Integration team sees regarding S/MIME issues with Outlook and Exchange are:   -     Trust Failures - the Trusted Root Certification Authority certificate is not installed Read More

I got a chuckle out of this yesterday when I realized that searching for www.exbpa.com on some search engines I got 0 results. I also noticed that our MSN Beta search got me a hit! That’s going to change now of course, as it’s blogged about. Read More

One may think that making changes to the e-mail address of a mailbox is a simple thing, but Exchange does a bit of work to ensure the changes are correct and will not cause problems in the system. Here's an overview of how the UI updates e-mail addresses Read More

It was brought to my attention that following the steps listed in KB327000 (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=327000), which applies to Exchange 2000 and 2003, to assign a user "Send As" permission as another user did not appear to work.  I too Read More

The Migration Wizard matches target NT accounts based on matching the SID of the source mailbox with the SID History (e.g. account migrated with ADMT), SID (e.g. accounts domain was upgraded) or msExchMasterAccountSID (e.g. resource forest scenario) on Read More