Dave Goldman posted a very cool write-up on the OAB generation process on his blog. He broke it down into the following sections: - Offline Address List Generation Overview- Active Directory Issues and the OAB Generation process- Exchange Component Overview- Read More

What is Regtrace?   Regtrace is an extremely useful debug tool, which helps Exchange Escalation Engineers and Developers to diagnose and resolve an Exchange 2000 problem, usually transport related problems.  There are many scenarios where Read More

Alex MacLeod posted an excellent article on Exchange TechCenter that deals with creating and editing files needed for Exchange 2003 unattended setup. Really a great read if this is what you were wondering about! Check it out here! - Nino Bilic Read More

A little over a month ago I said we'd post once a month about E12... well, what can I say, I'm human. I should have said "roughly once a month" :-) We're super busy right now wrapping up one of the major milestones of the E12 project as well as preparing Read More

Once a site has no Exchange 5.5 servers in it, that old "Highest Priority" policy based on legacyExchangeDN isn't needed anymore. As people decommission their 5.5 servers and move to pure Exchange 2000 and 2003 sites, the question on how to get rid of Read More

This is a third and the last post in my Mailbox Manager series. Please go here for Part 1 and here for Part 2!   Here are some of the most frequently asked questions that we have seen on Mailbox Manager:   Q: Does moving a user’s mailbox Read More

An Exchange Server related security bulletin was released today. Here are some details; please go and get the patches that apply to your Exchange version! Issued: April 12, 2005 Impact of Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution Maximum Severity Rating: Read More

The Customer Experience team (CXP - because everything at Microsoft has to have a TLA :-) is looking for a program manager to join our team and focus on making Exchange easier and cheaper to use. With the usual program manager position, you own a certain Read More

Do you want to be on a team that is helping to shape the future of the next generation email messaging and collaboration applications? Do you have great writing skills?  Are you passionate about writing technical documentation and pride yourself Read More

This is a part 2 of my 3 part series on Mailbox Manager, please go here to read the part 1! There is a task (CMBCleanTask) within MAD.EXE that runs every 15 minutes and figures out if the schedule information says it is now time to run. The schedule Read More

When diagnosing problems with Exchange, particularly Exchange clients like outlook, or API consumers like server applications, it is common to encounter confusion about which components are actually doing the work for any particular operation.  It's Read More

I am pleased to announce that this month's Exchange Web release contains a tool that the Exchange performance, development, and operations teams at Microsoft have used for quite some time called Exchange User Monitor (Exmon) and can be downloaded Read More

This time I have been asked to explain how Advanced Queuing behaves -- how retries work and when we decide to reroute mail.  Since I’ve had plenty of questions on this in the past, buckle your seatbelts – this one is going to be interesting.   Read More