Included in this month’s Exchange Web release (direct link) is a new analysis tool called the Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool.  ExBPA is a revolutionary new analysis tool that checks an Exchange deployment, looks for known Read More

After 6 months of feedback and contributions by the folks over in the IMFAM workspace, I’m happy to announce the final release of the 2nd IMF Archive Manager.   For those that don’t know, IMFAM is a C# GUI tool released as shared source on GotDotNet Read More

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There's a lot of buzz in the industry about storage management especially as it pertains to compliance in Microsoft Exchange (and other) environments. Typically compliance discussions lead down the road towards archival solutions, and we have archival Read More

The following has come up in various guises in internal questions and so I thought it was about time this was given to a wider audience.   I’ve just sent an email to a public folder – how did it actually get there, given I have multiple replicas Read More

As Chris mentioned on his blog - we have a new paper out that talks about Optimizing Storage for Exchange Server 2003. Definitely a good read that talks about where Exchange generates most IO, what the best practices are for placing Exchange Read More

From time to time, we get requests for customer references when a potential customer likes what they see in the product, but wants to talk to another customer first to hear about their experiences with Exchange. We act as a router in this case and Read More

The XDR-Fixup tool runs in two modes.  The default mode is a mainline rename of Exchange attributes in the Active Directory (AD), and the verification mode checks that all changes made were appropriate.  You might be wondering what this verification Read More

Larry Osterman has a very interesting series on his blog - dealing with SIDs. Here are posts on the subject up to now; last one is Exchange related: What is this thing called, SID? Fun things to do with SIDs How Exchange's role SIDs work (aka. NT's security Read More

Here is something out of Exchange tester's toolbox: Before testing or using GB18030, you must configure your client and server as below for correct display of GB18030 characters. Client machine Set the system locale to Chinese 1)      Read More