What is a Dialing Rule Dialing rules are created to modify a phone number before sending it to the PBX for outbound calls. Dialing rules serve two purposes: 1. Specify the numbers that can be dialed as outbound calls internal or external. Administrators Read More

We wanted to follow up on the survey post that we ran not so long ago and give you an idea of what some results told us. Although 44% of you tagged yourselves as lurkers, we had an overwhelming amount of participation in the "Community and Help Read More

Recent question I heard sounded really interesting: Anyone know a way to add many addresses to the IP Allow List at one time versus one at a time? I have over 100 configured on one server that I want to add to another server. I thought about it a bit Read More

Busy Day... Week... Year... Today, Microsoft publicly announced its new set of tools to make the transition from Lotus to Microsoft easier.  The announcement details: A new set of coexistence and migration tools (Microsoft's Transporter Suite 2007 Read More

In Exchange 2007, the Recipient Configuration node and its child nodes (Mailbox, Distribution Group, Mail Contact, Disconnected Mailbox) of the Exchange Management Console (console) are used for recipient management. By default, up to 1000 recipients Read More

Exchange 2007 introduces a completely rewritten Setup GUI experience, designed to match the Administrative experience you'll get with Exchange 2007 Management Console once the installation is completed. Like the Exchange 2007 Management Console, the Read More

Get a comprehensive look at Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with the new "24 hours of Exchange" series. Our Exchange experts cover in-depth topics such as deployment and migration, the new Exchange Management Console and Shell, Unified Messaging, high Read More

Transport Dumpster is a new feature of Exchange Server 2007 Hub Transport servers through which the transport can defer the deletion of certain emails in their queues. The condition for an email to be retained in the transport dumpster is that at least Read More

NOTE: This article has also been published in the official Exchange 2007 documentation. We recommend that you check the documentation for the most up-to-date version. Please see the following links: Planning Processor Configurations - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998874.aspx Read More

EDIT: This post has been updated on 9/23/08 for the new version of storage calculator. For the list of latest major changes, please see THIS. In order to assist customers in designing their storage layout for Exchange 2007, we have put together a calculator Read More

NOTE: The content of this article has been published in the official Exchange 2007 documentation. We recommend that you check the documentation for the most up-to-date version. Please go here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124518(EXCHG.80).aspx Read More

We realize we just shipped Exchange Server 2007, but we're already hard at work in defining where we should go in the release after that. To that end, we'd like to gather some information from both end users and Exchange administrators. We realize our Read More

Scott Roberts posted the following two posts over on WSUS Product Team Blog and seeing that you might have wondered about those, here they are: Intelligent Message Filter for Exchange Server 2003: Release cycle begins on the 17th of this month Intelligent Read More

As discussed in this earlier blog post on OPATH Filters, Exchange 2007 uses a new style of filter syntax to replace the LDAP filters of previous versions. This blog post will talk about the steps you can take to upgrade your legacy LDAP filters to the Read More

OPATH is basis for the filtering syntax used by PowerShell, and is therefore the filtering syntax used by Exchange 2007. It replaces the complicated syntax of LDAP used in Exchange 2003, and will allow for filters which are easier to create and interpret. Read More

As a followup to Elizabeth's previous post I wanted to let you know that the "Preparing for daylight saving time changes in 2007" page has been updated with more information related to Exchange, Outlook, Windows and other products. Please keep checking Read More

Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Outlook Could Allow Remote Code Execution (925938)Published: January 9, 2007 Version: 1.0 Summary: Who Should Read this Document: Customers who use Microsoft Outlook Impact of Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution Maximum Read More

Queue Viewer wasn't left behind in the Administrative GUI facelift for Exchange Server 2007. You can find the GUI for monitoring mail-flow tucked away in the Toolbox of the Exchange Management Console. Unlike Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007's new Queue Read More

There are 2 ways that Exchange Server 2007 UM is integrated with your OOF.  The first is from the telephone using Outlook Voice Access (OVA) and the 2nd is from the desktop using Outlook or Outlook Web Access (OWA): 1. By using logging into OVA, Read More

Exchange 2003 background and behavior In Exchange 2003, Recipient Policies (now Email Address Policies – EAP) were a bit ineffective in some cases. It was quite possible to create a Recipient Policy designed to manage the email addresses stamped onto Read More

When: January 16 through March 1. Where: There are 74 different events in cities across the US.  Specific dates and locations can be found at the links below. Who: The events are for TDMs (Technical Decision Makers), IT Pros, and Devs with up to Read More

EDIT: this post was edited on 9/25/2007 to clarify information related to the hotfix mentioned in KB 937031. Thanks to Vanitha for the edit! As we mention in Exchange 2007 documentation, the first server role that should be upgraded when migrating Read More

Scott Schnoll posted a very interesting blog post on his blog, where he goes over some frequently asked questions about Exchange Server 2007. He talks about: Editions and Licenses 32-bit vs. 64-bit Exchange 2007 and Virtualization Evaluations and Product Read More

1. Introduction E2007 Routing employs several least cost deterministic algorithms to route emails to remote AD sites, connectors, remote Routing Groups etc. Some of these algorithms are explained in Exchange Server 2007 Active Directory Site and Connector Read More

An important factor in maintaining consistent spam protection over time is ensuring updates to the anti-spam filters are in place.  Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 leverages the proven Microsoft Update infrastructure for providing anti-spam filter Read More

NOTE: When we say "Exchange 2003 Standby Cluster" we are referring to the configuration discussed here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d2492381-e9d5-4827-b7ff-7ac614ccc36d.aspx With Exchange 2007 we have the ability to recover an Exchange Read More