Exchange 2003 used several recipient types, but it was often difficult to determine exactly what type a given object was. For example, a mail-enabled user and a mailbox-enabled user looked identical in ADUC without careful inspection. It required opening Read More

Web Part URL formats can be used to access Outlook Web Access web parts contents directly. Exchange Server 2007 OWA has a new URL format to be used for requests to the /owa virtual directory.  Exchange Server 2007 will use this format when forwarding Read More

Exchange Management Console provides an easy way of filtering data. If you have thousands of users in your organization you can use filtering to find a particular user. Filtering can also be used to find other objects such as servers or e-mail messages. Read More

The "Centro" Product team is looking to you to help test the Beta of "Centro". "Centro" is the code name for a new Microsoft infrastructure solution that will help midsize businesses with less than 250 PCs in their environment.  Centro will Read More

We run into the following two questions every so often: "I have a non-English server, and when I run ExBPA on it (English version), it produces a report that is not in English; any way that I can make ExBPA create reports in English?" The answer to that Read More

The Exchange Server 2007 Availability service improves free/busy data access for information workers by providing secure, consistent, and up-to-date free/busy data to clients that are using Availability Web Service (like Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Read More

Scott Roberts posted about this update going live over on the WSUS Product Team Blog. Short version: An update that applies to the S/MIME control in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 has been released to the download center. This update resolves a critical Read More

Exchange Server 2007 introduced a new GUI management console (Exchange Management Console) to replace the Exchange System Manager (ESM) of previous versions. This earlier blog post The new Exchange 2007 Management Console overview gives an overview of Read More

Seeing that we have seen some support calls on this already, we wanted to highlight a KB article that was written about the above mentioned issue. The article in question is: Meetings are unexpectedly moved one hour ahead in the last week of October in Read More

The Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program, also known as SQM or Software Quality Metrics, is a way for Microsoft to get usage information back from customers for the purposes of product planning.  This information is anonymous, and we Read More

Keeping control of your messaging data can often be a frustrating experience. Administrators can often spend a lot of their time trying to balance the competing requirements of the user community, IT management and industry. Users need bigger mailboxes 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, several users in these countries experience inconvenience with Read More

After installing Exchange Server 2007 with Client Access Server or Unified Messaging roles some of you might have noticed a new process - MSExchangeFDS.exe started. This is the Microsoft Exchange File Distribution Service, and it takes care of two independent Read More

An interesting Beta opportunity... Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a key member of the Microsoft System Center family of management products, designed to help IT Pros manage their Windows environment.    Today, DPM 2006 delivers centralized Read More

Over time, several people have inquired about the differences between the "Delete Mailbox" and "Remove Exchange Attributes" functionality in Exchange 2000/2003. Note: The Remove Exchange Attributes option only appears in the Exchange Tasks wizard within Read More