In Exchange 2003, Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) was the place to go for recipient management. This was frustrating to some, as it was a management environment totally separate from the Exchange system management console. In Exchange 2007, Read More

We would like to solicit those in the Exchange community that have built mobile applications in the way that we described to share their impressions with us. This will help us refine these facilities in Exchange Server 2007 to better support the types Read More

On November 6-9, 2006, we'll be in Las Vegas to talk about Exchange Server 2007 at the Exchange Connections event, along with some folks from Office 2007 and Vista.  In all, the event has over 200 in-depth sessions,  as well as hands-on labs, 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

To enable Exchange Unified Messaging (UM) functionality, Exchange Server 2007 needs to be connected to your telephony systems. This requires some telephony equipment, knowledge and skills not previously required by your Exchange administrators. To help Read More

When using the Exchange Management Shell to view mailbox properties using the get-mailbox task, the output of the task may contain the following information: The value of “unlimited” above can be deceiving depending on the circumstance. In order Read More

In my last post, I wrote about why records management is important. This post will cover how Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007 will help you with this. 1. Place your e-mail content in a place where you can manage it: Exchange 2007 offers a wealth of records Read More

A few days ago, we posted blog Exchange Server 2007 recipient management one-liners covering common recipient management scenarios in Exchange Server 2007 using Exchange Management Console ("console"), and the one-liners behind the scenes - single-line Read More

Overview Previous versions of Exchange did not rely on the usage of property sets to a great extent for applying permissions in the domain partition. While this was not an issue in typical deployments, this became an issue for distributed environments Read More

When multiple paths exist to a destination, Exchange Server 2007 Routing uses deterministic algorithms to choose one of the paths. The algorithms are deterministic because one of the paths is always chosen (as long as the contributing factors do not Read More

Hello. My name is Nathan Breskin-Auer. Some of you may already know me as the father of the kid that does the wicked Mr. Roboto number in "that accessibility video", but - in fact - I am also the Product Designer and PM for Microsoft Exchange 2007 Outlook Read More

Exchange 2007 introduces a new Exchange term: "Server Role". Server role is a logical concept used to organize Exchange 2007 services and features across one or more servers. While Exchange 2003 provided primitive server roles called BackEnd server and 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

By now, most of you have heard that Exchange 2007 will only be supported on x64 Hardware.  That decision hinged on the impressive performance gains to be had from 64-bit's expanded access to more RAM.  More RAM means less Disk I/O for Exchange Read More

The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce the following additions and changes to our content. For a complete list of topics that changed, see Exchange Server Documentation Updates. Changes to Online Content The following topics are Read More

On the heels of my previous post about Dedicated Active Directory Sites for Exchange, I wanted to go a bit more into measuring AD performance. To decide if additional AD sites are required for your Exchange environment you should look at measuring the Read More

A few days ago, we posted blog The new Exchange 2007 Management Console overview and Recipient Management in Exchange 2007 - Overview giving an overview of the completely updated GUI management console and recipient management in Exchange 2007. This Read More

(Or, Using Direct Push to Build Low-Latency, Offline-Capable Mobile Applications) A little over a year ago, we wrote an article that described the motivation for and design of Direct Push, the mechanism that Exchange uses to quickly replicate the changes Read More