Hi, this is Kevin Allison, and I lead the User Education group within the Microsoft Exchange product organization.  I am pleased to announce that the beta documentation for Exchange 2007 has just been posted to the Microsoft Exchange Server TechCenter! Read More

I am very happy to announce that Exchange Insider articles are now live on the Exchange Server TechCenter site. There are several articles that have been published, and many more are to come, so keep checking for updates!   Let me also give you 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

Want to go to Microsoft Tech·Ed 2005 next week, but can't because it is sold out?  I've got some good news for you, and it's not about saving a bunch of money on your car insurance.  Due to overwhelming customer demand, we're excited to announce Read More

Do you want to be on a team that is helping to shape the future of the next generation email messaging and collaboration applications? Do you have great writing skills?  Are you passionate about writing technical documentation and pride yourself Read More

Greetings from the Exchange User Education (UE) team!  As this is our first official team blog entry, we decided to start off with a little background about who we are and what we do.   Exchange UE, a unit of the Windows Server System User Read More

This solution accelerator provides detailed guidance for planning and executing upgrades, migrations, and consolidations to Exchange Server 2003 from legacy Exchange environments. It provides relevant information to help organizations migrate and consolidate Read More

The Exchange team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Offline Address Book Best Practices Guide. The guide provides you with best practices for deploying, managing, and troubleshooting offline address books with Microsoft Exchange Read More

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

Included in this month’s Exchange Web release (direct link) is a new analysis tool called the Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool.  ExBPA is a revolutionary new analysis tool that checks an Exchange deployment, looks for known Read More

As Chris mentioned on his blog - we have a new paper out that talks about Optimizing Storage for Exchange Server 2003. Definitely a good read that talks about where Exchange generates most IO, what the best practices are for placing Exchange Read More

Larry Osterman has a very interesting series on his blog - dealing with SIDs. Here are posts on the subject up to now; last one is Exchange related: What is this thing called, SID? Fun things to do with SIDs How Exchange's role SIDs work (aka. NT's security Read More

On August 3rd we went live with a revamped content Web site at www.microsoft.com/exchange/assistance, which is the first step in improving our Exchange customers’ online content experience. Our goal is to reduce the sea of content that customers Read More

This might have gone unnoticed, but Exchange 2003 Online Help was updated for SP1 too. This update includes additional topics that were not included on the product CD. The Exchange 2003 Help is designed to assist you in day-to-day administration of Read More

Microsoft and the Exchange team are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the June 2004 editions of the Software Development Kits for Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003. The following are now available: - Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SDK Read More