As many of you know, there will be a change next year in the transition dates for US daylight saving time. I won't go into all the gory details here, but if you want them follow this link http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone/dst2007.mspx This site Read More

There is a lot of emphasis on Exchange database backups. As a result most Exchange administrators plan regular backups with considerations for their specific environment. In the process of developing a backup solution, Exchange administrators have to Read More

Working with Active Directory directory service permissions related to Microsoft Exchange can be a complex task. This article has been written to aid Exchange architects in their understanding of how they may implement a split permissions model. In 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

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

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

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 article, an update to an article originally posted on 3/13/2006, provides Read More

I've been asked to provide an overview of the user logons performance counters. To understand these counters, I need to define logons, connections and sessions first. Please note that the terminology for these three terms has been used differently in Read More

Beginning with Exchange Server 2003 SP1, there are two methods for moving mailboxes depending on the organization mode in which your Exchange environment is operating. If you are in mixed mode, the Move Mailbox Task will present you with two options: Read More

As most people know, back in the days of Exchange 5.5, Exchange servers were grouped into sites, representing groups of well-connected servers.  In Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 we introduced the idea of routing groups, which represented well-connected Read More

From working with customers there seems to be some confusion around how Free Busy information is generated and read by the client.  There is even further confusion about how to balance Free Busy access across multiple sites.  In this post I Read More

Introduction   I regularly meet with customers and discuss their Exchange Server architecture.  Two topics frequently come up so I thought I'd discuss them with everybody and give my perspective on them.   Many customers tell me that Read More

Dave Goldman posted a very interesting post on his blog a little while ago, talking about how mailbox quota limit messages can impact Exchange server performance. He goes into different ways to customize the mailbox quota messages, how the process 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

This is my 4th blog post on the subject of Exchange 2003 Auto Accept Agent. If you want to see previous posts, you can see them here: one, two and three.   The listings of Mailboxes that are registered on any given server are currently homed in Read More