We have a couple of breaking news today for you on the subject of your favorite email system - Exchange Server! We are nearing the end of research on what to do with next version of Exchange. We are seeing a trend towards "zero administration" systems. Read More

In this blog post, which is a continuation of previous post on the subject of WebReady document viewing, I'll go over how to customize the settings for attachments when using Exchange Server 2007 Outlook Web Access. OWA 2007 allows you to specify which Read More

This post focuses on two aspects of Active Directory (AD) design for Exchange 2007:  The recommended ratio of Exchange 2007 servers to Active Directory global catalog (GC) servers When to use dedicated Active Directory sites for your Exchange Read More

Folks over on the Unified Communications Group Team Blog have announced the release of Office Communicator 2007 beta client, part of the Office Communications Server 2007 Public Beta today. Some really exciting features in this client for you to try! Read More

When you add an SMTP Address to an existing user account, Exchange (and we are talking Exchange 2003 here) is responsible for determining if the address is unique within the organization. Specifically, this validation is handled by the Exchange Read More

One of the biggest feature requests we had in Exchange 2003 OWA was a way to let users view attachments without having to save them to disk or open them in a locally-installed application.  In Exchange 2007 OWA, we are introducing WebReady Document Read More

All those Exchange administrators who wondered how they will migrate their huge list of allow/deny addresses, block list providers and blocked senders and domains - now you have a reason to smile. Exchange team has just released a tool that allows you Read More

Introduction For the last few years in the Exchange team, we have embarked on a series of programs intended to bring our engineers closer to our customers and the experience they have with actually using our products.  We've been doing a number Read More

EDIT: This post has been edited on 5/19/2008 to add a note about pointing Exchange 2003 mailbox stores to Exchange 2007. Exchange 2007 saw a fundamental change in the elimination of a couple of well-known key concepts in prior versions: Administrative Read More

The updated blog post can be found here. Edits made on 7/3/07: - Updated the Log Capacity guidelines in Capacity section Edits made on 3/15/07: What has changed? Calculation cleanup to align with new recommendations Read More

...that we blogged about here. What's new, you ask?  Quite a bit... we've been busy. We have changed the way you input transaction log growth.  In the previous versions you had to enter how many transactions (in gigabytes) you expected the Read More

After installing Exchange 2007 into your existing Exchange organization, the address lists and recipient policies must have OPATH filters specified in order to administer them from the Exchange 2007 tools. As discussed in the earlier blog post, OPATH Read More

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs Read More

As our Limerick contest ended close to 2 weeks now, we figured we should announce our winners. Without further ado, here they are! 1st prize winner (will receive an Exchange branded Zune) There once was a gal with FiveFive Her mail Read More

The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce the following new Exchange Server 2007 content. Getting Started with Outlook Voice Access Autodiscover and Exchange 2007 Preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2007 White Paper Description Read More

If you want to learn how Microsoft IT used the features of Exchange 2007 Edge Transport role, check this out. Here is an official summary: In deploying the Exchange 2007 based messaging protection solution, Microsoft IT used all messaging protection features Read More

Summary This document provides recommendations and prescriptive guidance for updating Outlook calendars to comply with the Daylight Saving Time (DST) 2007 rule changes. The goal is to provide an Outlook user with a "personal touch" experience to Read More

Outlook 2007 is the latest version of the e-mail client for accessing an Exchange mailbox. To make this version of Outlook very flexible, it can connect to a mailbox on the following versions of Exchange: Exchange 2000 Exchange 2003 Exchange 2007 However, Read More

We got such great responses from the surveys we did in January, we decided to do another one! This survey is for end users who use Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, or OWA as their primary e-mail client at work.  We are interested in finding out how Read More

In this video, we are demonstrating how to use the updated Outlook Time Zone Tool to update a resource mailbox. We are also demonstrating one of scenarios where a meeting item may become double booked if Direct Booking is used. Please view this to help Read More