I recently worked on an interesting issue where certain Distribution Groups (DGs) in the Active Directory (AD) were not replicating properly with the Exchange 5.5 Directory Service (DS).  After adding several members to a DG in the AD, the changes Read More

Some countries like Chile, Brazil and Israel adopt a variable Daylight Saving Time dates (DST). The initial and end dates change every year following the government decision.   As a result, users in these countries experience inconvenience with Read More

The Exchange Solution Reviewed Program – Storage (ESRP) is a Microsoft Exchange Server program designed to facilitate third party storage testing and solution publishing for Exchange Server.  The program combines a storage testing harness (Jetstress) Read More

What’s a blogcast? As Eileen Brown said it:   "It's a mini Webcast, typically about 5 minutes long, and shows a visual demo of the technology.  Audio is embedded along with the .WMP file and you can view this on demand over and over again.  Read More

It seems we have some badly worded docs on some Microsoft sites that may lead you to believe that you cannot run Exchange 2003 on x64 bit systems. Also the release notes seem to be in error as well. Let me assure you that this information is incorrect Read More

Working in Support Services, I get to explain this subject a lot, so I thought I’d share it here too. This blog post will explain what the flow of the client access a BE server through a FE server looks like, including access to domain controllers that Read More

It’s been a while since we posted something about this blog site itself.   We wanted to gather some direct feedback from you, our readers, on how we are doing with this blog. Be honest! What could we improve? Here are some of the areas that we Read More

As Ewan mentioned a little while ago, there are some pretty extreme things going on in some our customer’s Exchange environments.  One of the things that I could definitely relate to was the customer who sent a message that was 2.4GB that was successfully Read More

Operations Manager (Messaging and Collaboration)   Microsoft IT Messaging and Collaboration team has an excellent opportunity based in Redmond for someone who can work under high pressure with a high profile. You need to be able to juggle and focus Read More

Pre-Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Behavior Prior to Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Outlook MAPI clients would receive either a referral to a global catalog server or use the Exchange server to proxy directory related requests; specifically, Read More

A while ago we posted about the Exchange Server Learning survey that you could take, but it was for US residents only; we also said that there would be an "international" version of the survey in the future. Well - it is here now! If you live outside Read More

Last year, we delivered the Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer, or ExBPA for short.  Since then we've made several upgrades to that tool as well as published monthly updates to the validations the tool does.  The feedback loop Read More