Exchange Server 2007 introduces a new mechanism for distributing Offline Address Books (OAB) that doesn't require Public Folders. It instead uses HTTP(S) and the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS). There are several potential advantages of Read More

Yesterday afternoon, I was trying to send a large video of my new born baby to my mom through Exchange Server 2007 Outlook Web Access (OWA). And when I tried to upload the video, OWA would not let me do so. Darn it - cannot even share my baby's first Read More

After the success of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, the Microsoft Exchange team was pondering what the next-generation Exchange Server should look like. We had several high-level goals, which we won't go into in this blog, but let's look at a few specific Read More

We get the following questions quite often: What will be the difference between Standard and Enterprise versions of Exchange 2007? What about CALs (Client Access Licenses)? And the answers are on this page. - Nino Bilic Read More

As discussed in the earlier blog post introducing the new Exchange 2007 console, the Exchange Management Console GUI has been completely redesigned in Exchange 2007. While redesigning the Exchange Management Console for Exchange 2007, we used specific 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

Cross-org Mailbox Moves Cross Org migrations are the ones where a mailbox needs to be moved from one Exchange Organization to another. Since there can only be one Exchange Organization per Forest, that means moving the mailbox between two different Forests. Read More

Routing changes recap By now you're probably aware of the basics of Exchange Server 2007 routing: No more routing groups (except for legacy purposes) No more routing group connectors (except for legacy purposes) Uses AD sites and site links instead Read More

Introduction Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging (UM) supports automatic speech recognition (in English, only). UM-enabled users who call into UM can speak to it for command and control in Outlook Voice Access (e.g. "Next message", "I'll be 20 minutes Read More

Introduction The process of migrating mailbox content between Exchange servers has been greatly improved for Exchange 2007. Differently than previous versions, our tools are now part of the server code and are therefore more integrated and functional. Read More

Exchange 2003 used several recipient types, but it was often difficult to determine exactly what type a given object was. For example, a mail-enabled user and a mailbox-enabled user looked identical in ADUC without careful inspection. It required opening Read More

Web Part URL formats can be used to access Outlook Web Access web parts contents directly. Exchange Server 2007 OWA has a new URL format to be used for requests to the /owa virtual directory.  Exchange Server 2007 will use this format when forwarding Read More

Exchange Management Console provides an easy way of filtering data. If you have thousands of users in your organization you can use filtering to find a particular user. Filtering can also be used to find other objects such as servers or e-mail messages. Read More

The Exchange Server 2007 Availability service improves free/busy data access for information workers by providing secure, consistent, and up-to-date free/busy data to clients that are using Availability Web Service (like Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 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