Since I occasionally troubleshoot performance problems, I thought I’d write up the basics of the process I use.   Due to the nature of this topic, this isn’t going to be a comprehensive coverage of all possible performance problems.  I Read More

Dave Goldman has a couple of recent posts that may be of interest: How to troubleshoot the OAB generation process OABInteg and how to use it to troubleshoot OAB generation issues - KC Lemson Read More

I have the pleasure of working for the Exchange Critical Situation team in North Carolina, so quite a few Disaster Recovery cases end up on my phone line.  The number one reason they end up there is that the company just has not planned for a failure.  Read More

In Exchange 12 (“E12”), we have focused our public API story on: Web Services for accessing information stored on the server Managed Agents for processing mail flowing through the server Windows Scripting Shell (Monad) “cmdlets” for managing the Read More

As we mentioned before here, Exchange 2003 SP2 brings us increased database size limits for Exchange 2003 Standard servers with SP2 installed. There is more here than meets the eye, however, and I wanted to cover what the changes are exactly and how to Read More

1 Background   A few weeks ago, I returned from a two week bicycling adventure through the fjords of Norway.  Accompanying me on this trip was an old racing buddy and friend from grade school as well as a bit of his extended family.   Read More

Introduction The Message Transfer Agent (MTA) Stacks service in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server and in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 is primarily used to provide backward-compatible message transfer services between Exchange 2000 Server or Exchange Server Read More

A while back, we asked you what you thought about having Exchange 12 ship on DVD. We also did some market and customer research outside of the blog and carefully weighed all of the feedback together to make our decision: Exchange 12 will ship on a single  Read More

Because of the fact that the Community Technology Preview (CTP) build of Exchange 2003 SP2 is now available, we wanted to mention a permissions requirement for the FIRST SP2 installation into the organization.   With Exchange Server 2003 Service Read More