In Exchange 2007, recipient management is incorporated into the Exchange Management Console and Exchange Management Shell based on Windows PowerShell technology. Shell based management for these recipients allows us to overcome several current challenges Read More

If you're part of an organization of any kind, that organization probably has records.  These records can exist in a variety of forms, from paper to Word documents to e-mail. And if you have records, you probably have some way of managing them. They Read More

Yesterday we gave an overview of the new Exchange 2007 Console, and today I want to cover just the recipient management aspect of the console in a little more detail.   Exchange 2007 Recipient console workcenters   Exchange 2007 incorporates Read More

Exchange 2007 introduces a completely updated GUI management console to replace the Exchange System Manager of previous versions. This new Exchange Management Console is still a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in, just like the old version, and Read More

Web servers, network security appliances, and system network stacks have a number of time-based thresholds that are intended to insulate these systems from buggy or malicious clients.  For example, a denial-of-service (DoS) attack could be mounted Read More

In this video, Vivek Sharma (Program Manager) and Mihai Jalobeanu (Software Dev Engineer) show several aspects of Exchange Management Shell in action. This was a part of their Interview that we posted here.   This video is about 10 minutes long, Read More

In addition to the Mobile Messaging paper that we blogged about, there are two more Messaging related IT Showcase papers available that we did not mention yet: Messaging Hygiene at Microsoft: How Microsoft IT Defends Against Spam, Viruses, and E-Mail Read More

Last week, we released an updated version of Microsoft Exchange Server Public Folder DAV-based Administration Tool (aka PFDAVAdmin) Version 2.6 (Build 7830) to the web. You can download it from:   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=635BE792-D8AD-49E3-ADA4-E2422C0AB424&displaylang=en Read More

CALL TO ACTION   A change in Exchange permissioning behavior may impact mobile communications and other add-on applications for Exchange. Shared and resource mailboxes may also be affected.  By evaluating in advance whether this change will Read More

Recently MSIT wanted to make some global changes to the retention time of public folders. In the past we had a global limit of 3 years retention on items in public folders. The plan was to change the default limit to 1 year, and then exempt folders as Read More

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

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

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

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