http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=43F5CDF6-D1E6-4476-B5F2-E17371236C3C&displaylang=en If you already downloaded this update, get it again - it was re-released to correct a problem with the original. Update 6/1/2004:The patch 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

Here are the instructions to Expose SCL via OWA using a custom view: 1) Follow the steps in this article to expose SCL to Outlook2) From Outlook Create a new view:   a) View   b) Arrange by   c) Current View   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

When making decisions on what SCL levels to set in the Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) configuration, it’s useful to see what SCL is stamped on particular mail.  The deployment doc describes how to expose the SCL through an x-scl header when Read More

As you may have heard by now, Exchange released a cool new feature yesterday that goes by the name of Intelligent Message Filter (IMF).  You can find out more details on this cool feature at www.microsoft.com/exchange/imf.  On Exchange, we are Read More

Ever had problems with your badmail?  Need to keep them under control but cannot completely disable them for various reasons?  If so, the Badmail Deletion and Archival script is for you!  Use the Badmail Deletion and Archival script to Read More

Sorry for not posting yesterday, but I was really busy at Tech-Ed. For the rest of this week, each day we'll focus on something that's new in either Exchange 2003 SP1, or in the latest update of the web release tools. Lots of fun stuff going on in the Read More

I don't post blogs very often - I tend not to have much to say that isn't random and am rather focused on the product, work in general, or trying to battle traffic to get home. But a comment in this recent blog post was mentioned to me.   To help Read More

We will be conducting focus group sessions (with Exchange Administrators) at the below dates/times on email management, email policies (retention, expiration, deletion, journaling, compliance, etc), as well as Calendaring (focus on Free/Busy issues and Read More

We've made some changes to http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/community/default.mspx in the last few months: added the meet the MVPs page, rearranged and added to the related communities page, and added a page for Exchange & SBS user groups among Read More

Last night I uploaded a 1.1.0 test release of the Quota Message Service to http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/quotamsgsvc. This is the first release to include a true installer.  During setup, the installer asks for the primary SMTP address of Read More

This post is to clarify and answer some questions raised by my post last week on recovering when your Exchange log drive fills up. Several readers wrote in with additional workarounds, and I also had quite a few questions offline. So I'll address all Read More

I am sure many of you have at one time or another wanted to do a Deep Traversal (subfolder) Search on the MAPI Public Folder Tree.  However, as many of you probably know, Exchange does not allow for Deep Traversal (subfolder) Searches on the MAPI Read More

A common question we hear over and over again from customers sounds like a simple one: "How many and what kind of servers do I need to support X users?"  Have you ever wondered why it’s difficult to get a straight answer to this question?  Read More

Introduction   Every change made to an Exchange database must first be written in a transaction log file. Most Exchange administrators keep Exchange transaction log files on a dedicated drive. If the drive fills up, all Exchange databases in an Read More

As 60 of you have noticed, I put together an OPML of Exchange bloggers at the suggestion of a reader (thanks for the idea). If you know of or are a blogger who blogs about Exchange, please add a comment here with the URL and I'll update the OPML. [Update Read More

This is for our VP, Dave Thompson. He's giving a talk at Tech-Ed, and as part of that talk, we're trying to put together the top ten questions IT pros have about Exchange so that he can answer them. These questions don't need to come from existing Exchange Read More

We have seen a lot of cases where we get calls reporting that the number of their transaction logs has grown exponentially in last day / few days. This can cause big issues, especially if the disk housing the transaction logs is not big enough to accommodate Read More

Prior to releasing Exchange Server 2003 we didn’t test this scenario, and since we only support scenarios that we have tested and have confidence in this was considered unsupported.  However, with so many customers interested in this method Read More

Hi folks, KC here. As I've mentioned before, we have many open SDET positions in Exchange. I thought it might help to pull together a few resources such as a post from an SDET in Exchange in combination with the job description. So, here is the job description Read More

We're looking for some feedback on the mailbox manager feature, in three parts: #1: If you use it today, why - what scenarios do you use it for? For example, to reduce mailbox size to reduce backup time, to keep users under a certain SLA mailbox size, Read More

Every quarter we look in various Exchange communities for active participants to see who might make good candidates for Exchange MVPs.  In addition, we talk to the current Exchange MVPs to find out who are the outstanding contributors in Read More

The version of Exchange that ships with SBS is 99% the same as Exchange 2003 Standard.  The only difference is that the SBS version of Exchange can only be installed on an SBS server since there was a minor change added to look for the SBS product Read More

So you’re standing there in your machine room, staring at all the old machines you’d just love to retire. There’s all this new hot hardware, with a whole lot more storage. You just don’t need all those Public Folder servers any Read More

If you’re a proud Smartphone owner, you might have noticed that the ‘Office Location’ field doesn’t get synched onto the device when it’s part of your Contact entries. For some, maybe not a big deal, but in the Microsoft Read More