Of the various processes for logging into a POP3/IMAP4 service of the Exchange server, the most commonly used is Basic Authentication through an SSL encrypted session.  When choosing this method, each client is asked to provide a username and password.  Read More

To browse the Exchange SDK documentation online, visit the Exchange Developer Center at http://msdn.microsoft.com/exchange. To download the SDKs and tools, visit the Exchange downloads list page at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/exchange.asp Read More

In PSS, one of our most frequent support call generators is when a mailbox store dismounts after reaching the 16GB limit.  This 16GB limitation applies to all versions of Exchange Standard Edition.  In Exchange 2000/2003, the 16GB limit is the Read More

Read all about it on David's blog. Read More

Outlook 2003 introduced a ton of new UI concepts, many of them with the aim of helping those of us who get so deluged by email that we can barely manage to handle it all. One of the improvements is the ability to create Search Folders, which look like Read More

Some customers running Exchange are responsible for multiple SMTP domains in their org.  For example, they are running a single Exchange server at a corporate level, but their individual branches have their own SMTP domain.  That way, when people Read More

Zoe posted today about a hiring event for SDETs for Exchange. See the jobsblog for more information. Read More

Several times I've received mail from OWA users kindly notifying us of pop-up ads associated with OWA. I know this is rational on their part - they start up OWA and suddenly there's pop-up ads for various companies selling unmentionables. Well, folks, Read More

In Microsoft, there are a number of standard job titles.  The most important one is SDE – Software Development Engineer.  The rest can be considered the supporting cast (one requirement of being an SDE is to be so supremely confident that Read More

Here’s a handy tip for any Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) aficionados out there… how to add a simple Blog web part into your team site. Firstly, look at the top right of your WSS site – you should see a “Modify My Page” Read More

We're all pretty familiar with the common SMTP address - spam@make.it.go.away.com. And a lot of folks are happy with just one or two of these. But if you've migrated any users lately, setup cross-forest with MIIS, or if you've just tried Read More

This is a handy KB article that describes delivery status notifications in Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=284204 - Pretish Abraham Read More

If you do any work with migration/coexistence from 5.5 to 2000/2003 you may have noticed that when configuring a recipient connection agreement in the ADC console that on the "From Windows" tab there are two somewhat mysterious checkboxes at the bottom Read More

Amanda Langowski, a program manager on the Exchange team, gave birth to a baby boy, Iain Patrick, on March 17th. Congratulations! Read More

VERY often in troubleshooting Exchange problems we have to compare two files - such as different logs, LDP dumps of objects, CSV exports, DSACLS dumps, registry exports etc. While there are several tools out there that can do this (Windiff, for example) Read More

Disable services, features and components that you are not using. Exchange is a complex product that provides many features.  Many of the features are not used by every Exchange customer.  In Exchange 2003 we changed the install to only Read More

Exchange 5.5 Security When an Exchange client contacts the Exchange 5.5 store, the Exchange client specifies an Exchange DN to represent the user on the Exchange server.  The NT user’s account is validated to ensure that it has the “receive-as” Read More

Well we’ve seen a fair amount of reminiscing in the blogs to date.  It’s interesting even to me to hear from the Exchange veterans about the high-flying times back in the 4.0 and 5.5 days.  I’m a relative gremmie on the Exchange Read More

Move mailbox in Exchange 2003 has significant improvements related to reliability and performance.  Previously, to run multiple instances of mailbox moves, you would have to open up multiple MMC consoles and initiate multiple moves, or write a script Read More

A hotfix is a special build for specific customers to fix a specific problem.  Microsoft recommends that most hotfixes be applied only to systems that are experiencing the problem. Hotfixes are available free of charge for those fixes that solve Read More

You may notice that your Exchange 2000/2003 environment has difficulty routing and delivering mail. In the scenario I'm thinking about messages go into the Destination Unreachable queue. In other words, we have a way to get the message there, but the Read More

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Store based eventing is a feature that was added to Exchange 2000.  These events are fired when messages or other storage items are delivered, modified, deleted, etc.  They enable an application to take action based on activity it is interested Read More

A word or two about Exchange PSS hold times…   It is something we hear quite often these days here in PSS, Exchange specialty: "I had to wait a few hours to talk to you". "I called in, waited for an hour and the they told me I'd get a call Read More

In Exchange 2003 some of the default settings were changed to tighten security. One of these settings is the sending and receiving message size settings. In Exchange 2000, no default size was set, but in Exchange 2003 the Sending message size and Read More

http://www.cafepress.com/ehlo The coworker who came up with the logo idea bought one of the “MAPI makes me HAPI“ t-shirts and wore it to an internal meeting today with the store team, and he told me about another coworker's reaction: “He told Read More

I love using my Pocket PC with its wireless LAN card to read my work e-mail at meetings. But, for various reasons, I don't use Pocket Inbox. Instead, I use Outlook Mobile Access and Outlook Web Access. And, instead of making a Favorites link, I created Read More

With viruses spreading quick out there today, we had several cases where Exchange transaction logs got either deleted, quarantined or "cured" by file-level anti-virus software that is running on Exchange servers... the result is a bad thing... stores Read More

Every so often I hear about an Outlook Web Access customer looking to host the viewer portion of OWA (without the navbar) inside an IFRAME.  The URL of choice is often something like: /exchange//Inbox/?cmd=contents">http://<server>/exchange/<user>/Inbox/?cmd=contents  Read More

Clarissa's not available, so Jeremy explains it all. Read More

If you’re lucky enough to own a Windows Mobile-powered Smartphone (like the Motorola MPx200), there’s one cool little function that isn’t altogether obvious. Like most handsets, Smartphones have various profiles between which you can switch (Normal, Silent, Read More