Now that Windows 2003 SP1 is out, I wanted to mention a tool that has shipped as part of Windows 2003 SP1. While the tool itself is not installed by SP1, the shortcut to the Help file is placed on the server desktop when SP1 is installed. What does that Read More

Site Replication Service is always a confusing topic for some in both E2K and E2K3. Sometimes our customers see some Exchange 200x have SRS turned on in one mixed site by setup, while other Exchange 200x servers in the same site does not have SRS, therefore Read More

As you all would expect, Exchange Server ActiveSync (EAS) requests get recorded in the IIS logs by default at “%windows%\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1”.  What you may not know is that EAS does extend the standard log by adding some custom fields.  Read More

We have moved our blog from blogs.msdn.com to http://blogs.technet.com/exchange. Your RSS feeds should update but in case they don't - this is the new feed location. All links to "old" posts should keep working as well. There are some cool Read More

We are looking at improving strings (text, wording) of error messages, event log messages, Perfmon counters, popups etc for next version of Exchange. We'd like to get some feedback on what you see as problematic areas in this subject. Good examples would Read More

Yesterday I uploaded the 1.1.0 release of the Quota Message Service, which allows you to send custom messages to users who exceed their quota.  New to this build - setup improvements, including logging via MSI of setup actions and failures, a fix Read More

This is a 1st post related to Mailbox Manager in this series, where I am trying to answer some most common questions about how this works. What is Mailbox Manager?   Mailbox Manager is a tool that was designed to help enforce corporate message Read More

Last September we announced the release of the Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool.  This tool has been extremely successful and widely used.  Building on that success, we are now announcing the release of version 2.  Read More

In Exchange 2000 and earlier, 10% of Exchange users used the Offline Address Book was the statistic that was most often repeated to me.  But with Exchange 2003 and Office 2003, that number has gone way up due to Outlook's usage of Cached Mode Exchange.  Read More

Many times I've been asked to give a guideline on how large a mailbox can be before performance degrades, or on the recommended size for a mailbox.  Unfortunately, this question is like asking "How many cookies are enough?"  There may be a lot Read More

You can! Give feedback on a short online survey about Exchange Server and get a free software or hardware gift if you are one of the first 500 to respond. Please email nancyp AT microsoft DOT com for a secure PIN code and link for the survey. Read More

We would like to gather some feedback on Exchange Cummunities to see how they are working for you. There are several questions that we have: 1. Which of the Exchange Community tools do you currently use? (Blogs, User groups, Exchange websites Read More

Greetings from the Exchange User Education (UE) team!  As this is our first official team blog entry, we decided to start off with a little background about who we are and what we do.   Exchange UE, a unit of the Windows Server System User Read More

Exchange Server 2003 fits on a single CD. For Exchange 12, which is expected to be released in the second half of 2006, the disk space consumption for a full install of the product is much larger than previous versions, because of certain features that Read More

A few weeks ago, we asked you for your list of questions about E12 and said we'd pick a few and post answers on the one year anniversary of this blog, February 9th. Well as you can see, I totally missed that date :-) Very sorry about that and I'd be happy Read More