KC just pointed out to me that Office 2007 Beta 2 is now available for everyone to download and test. In order to get it, you should go to this page: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/getthebeta.mspx If you are on Exchange 2007 BETA or have Read More

Someone asked the following, so I thought I would try and address the issue as I think it is one that is commonly misunderstood:   Could you enlighten us on what happens when an Outlook user uses the permissions tab on a folder to grant access 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

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

You may already know that Exchange 2003 SP2 includes a new feature for SenderID support.  SenderID (http://www.microsoft.com/senderid) is the e-mail authentication framework that targets one of the most common security issues in the world of SMTP Read More

For those of you who have enabled Full-Text Indexing, you know that when it works it executes searches very quickly returning results for not only e-mail messages but also Word, Excel, HTML, and PowerPoint documents/attachments.  However, since Outlook Read More

Hi, I’ve hopefully met many of you at TechEd, IT Forum, or another Exchange community event – but if not, I hope to meet you there soon and I’ll introduce myself now to get it out of the way. I’m the General Manager of the Exchange product team. I’ve Read More

Based on the questions that we got on another post, it seemed appropriate to address the "Requesting data from the Exchange server..." or "Outlook is trying to retrieve data…" client popup messages in a separate post. While we have touched upon this subject Read More

I am pleased to announce that this month's Exchange Web release contains a tool that the Exchange performance, development, and operations teams at Microsoft have used for quite some time called Exchange User Monitor (Exmon) and can be downloaded Read More

This post provides a brief explanation of how the body of a message (HTML in particular) is handled by the different versions of Outlook (Outlook 97, Outlook 98, Outlook 2000, Outlook XP and Outlook 2003) and Exchange (Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000, and Read More

JC Hillerman wrote a comment in on my bio: I heard that Exchange was purchased by Microsoft, but it seems clear that you were working on new development. Maybe it was just the MTA that was purchased? I also heard that Exchange was initally written Read More

One question I see asked a lot is if there is a way to publish Free/Busy information for all users from the server-side.  In Outlook the default is to publish 2 months of Free/Busy information  per user. So is there a way to extend the default Read More

Exchange Free Busy (FB) data itself is not simple or easy to read. This will describe what the data looks like in the Exchange store, how it’s calculated and processed through the Outlook client.   FB describes when a user is busy over a Read More

Exchange 2003 SP1 brings us a lot of new features that customers have been requesting, as well as product fixes since Exchange 2003 was released. Here is a list of major features that SP1 is bringing with some descriptions. Please do ask questions on Read More

The Exchange 2003 Auto Accept Agent is a new tool that extends the benefits of resource scheduling to both Outlook and OWA users.  Meeting organizers can schedule resources (usually meeting rooms) by adding them as a meeting attendee and sending Read More