I just posted instructions on how to create this OWA theme on my blog: In addition to the cow look, it also has a moooooooooooo for a new mail sound, and a cowbell for the reminder. Have fun! - KC Lemson Read More

We are happy to announce a new per user licensing model, branding and roadmap for Exchange Hosted Services (EHS) - formerly FrontBridge Technologies.   Exchange Hosted Services provides a fully managed hosted service solution for email archiving, Read More

Seeing that the Exchange 12 CTP build has been available for some time now, we have learned that some of our customers that are not on Exchange 12 TAP program have been installing Exchange 12 into their production environment.   Unfortunately, Read More

With the development of OAB version 4 in Exchange 2003 SP2 and Outlook 2003 SP2 you may want to verify your Outlook clients are using OAB version 4. If your clients are still using OAB version 3 they cannot take advantage of all the new features offered Read More

Lately I've seen a lot of questions regarding the use of homeMDB in policy filters. I want to use this post to explain the reason that ExBPA warns about this, and hopefully clear up the confusion about how to address this.   Linked Value Replication Read More

As mentioned before - we now have CTP build of Exchange 12 those of you that have MSDN and TechNet subscriptions can install it.   One issue that seems to come up frequently for those of you that have tried installing this build is the following Read More

No doubt many of you are familiar with the event commonly seen in application logs of Exchange 2000 and 2003 servers, MSExchangeIS event 9548, indicating that the information store came across a disabled user who is missing the msExchMasterAccountSid Read More

This is a 3rd blog post on the subject of Auto Accept Agent. You can go here to see the 1st one and here to see the 2nd one. In this blog post, I wanted to cover how to troubleshoot Auto Accept Agent issues by using the support scripts that come with Read More

In November 2005 I posted an article on the DSProxy referral changes that are included in Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2.  For the full article, please see http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2005/11/04/413669.aspx.   To refresh Read More

This post is a 2nd in the series talking about Auto Accept Agent (see the 1st post here). As mentioned in my previous post, I wanted to go over troubleshooting the most common issues with Auto Accept Agent. In this post, we will cover issues with installation Read More

We have several Exchange 12 Webcasts running this week, starting with one today. To keep up with what might come up on the subject, please go to this page.   To summarize, this is what we have going on this week:   TechNet Webcast: An Overview Read More

Introduction   When selecting hardware for your Exchange servers, there are many things that you must consider. Two of the most critical resources are processor and memory.   This blog provides rough guidelines for processor/memory configurations Read More

The msExchESEParamLogBuffers storage group attribute governs the number of Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) log buffers that are used by the Exchange information store. ESE uses a set of log buffers to hold information in RAM before it writes to the transaction Read More

We now have a solution for a problem that was described last month in Exchange Does Not Always Use Local GCs. The gist of the problem is that Exchange makes occasional requests to out-of-site DCs and if a WAN link is flaky or the remote DC is unresponsive, Read More

The winners from our Limerick Contest (see original post) have been chosen! We had a great time reading the submissions (and are in the process of printing out copies of each one and hanging them around our building). They were all geeky, some were Read More

We recently posted details on how to use Log Parser to parse out Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) information to produce helpful reports that can give you a better idea of the usage load of your EAS deployment.  In that blog we relied solely on LogParser Read More

When we released Beta 1, we promised the release would be available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers early this year. Well, that time has come. Beta 1 is now being distributed via CD shipping to TechNet subscribers; MSDN subscribers will be able to download Read More

Following the December blog entry on Exchange 12 and 64 bit, Harold Wong asked me to record a podcast on the benefits of the 64 bit platform. Having never done a podcast before, I was a bit nervous, but it seems to have turned out ok, thanks to the interview Read More