As Terry Myerson already blogged about, Microsoft was in the process of acquiring FrontBridge Technologies. Today we want to announce that Microsoft completed the acquisition of FrontBridge Technologies, now a Microsoft wholly owned subsidiary.  Read More

Before Exchange 2003 SP2, database file headers did not contain any information about number of ECC fix-ups (which was an Exchange 2003 SP1 feature). Additionally, there was no way of telling how many corrections were made when specific database file Read More

Not so long ago, we had this question as a blog subject suggestion, so here it is: Exchange implements many of its services through the remote procedure call (RPC) facilities provided by Windows.  RPC is not limited to any particular transport Read More

By this time, you all must be already aware of new anti-spam features provided in Exchange Server 2003 SP2. Alexander Nikolayev discusses all the anti-spam features of Exchange server 2003 SP2 in his article at: http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2005/07/18/407838.aspx Read More

Exchange performance problems are sometimes quite hard to troubleshoot and figure out. Recently, we have seen some performance problems on Exchange servers being caused by “desktop search” products that plug into the Outlook client and then index mailboxes Read More

Today we have released the Community Technology Preview (CTP) build of upcoming Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). The download can be found here. Please don't miss the Release Notes!   SP2 will offer a huge leap forward in mobility Read More

Recently, several articles have been written that Monad has been attacked by a virus and that Monad will be shipping with the next release of Exchange. I think there may have been a bit of confusion that I wanted to clear up.  Monad was not attacked Read More

Do you remember those American Express® credit card commercials from a few years ago called the "Do you know me?®” commercials? Before the advent of 24x7 cable and satellite TV, famous people were known more by their names than their faces. To capitalize Read More

Few days ago, we've refreshed the Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer v2.1 package at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/exbpa. If you run the MSI, it will identify itself as v2.1a. You can in-place upgrade from v2.1 to v2.1a. Application version number Read More

Exchange Server can benefit from having basic disk partitions track-aligned.  Diskpar.exe is used for aligning a partition at the storage level, which, if used to create the partition, can have a significant positive performance impact on the storage Read More

Is public folder replication failing on your Exchange 2000 server? Do you notice the following events in your application log when you turn up diagnostic logging on the problem server?   Event id 3086 and Event id 3085:   Read More

This post will go into the steps that happen during the OMA 2003 logon process. As I work in Support Services, I get to explain this a lot so I wanted to share it. The general flow goes like this:     User Information in our example: Domain Read More

Wanted to talk about a subject that is very often a source of questions, especially in our Support Services. That subject is the “Replication Status” node in ESM under the public folder store object. The question is – does this really show you what the Read More

OAB Version 4 is a new addition to the Offline Address Book infrastructure. It was designed to help remove most Outlook OAB download related problems   Once Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 has successfully been installed on to the Exchange server, Read More