Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 introduces several changes in the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE). Two of these are: Removal of page dependencies Disablement of partial merges But first, in order to understand what is discussed below, we should have Read More

Some customers have experienced a problem where the following error is generated when installing the Mailbox role on an Exchange 2007 server (typically the first Exchange 2007 Mailbox server in the org): Exchange server address list service failed Read More

It certainly has been an exciting couple of months with the UC Launch and hearing a lot of great feedback and excitement from customers and press about the work we've done in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1).  Today we are announcing the Read More

This is a second in my series of posts that deal with using Log Parser tool to analyze your Exchange 2007 transport logs. For the first post, please go here. I have written this blog post in a way that I walk you through building more and more complex Read More

EDIT: The poster actually comes in December 2007 issue, not November 2007. You might be interested in this: December 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine comes with a 30" x 20.5" poster called Exchange Server 2007 Component Architecture. Here is Read More

In August we blogged about the release of our recruiting website, http://www.exchangeyourcareer.com. I wanted to let you know that we've made several updates to http://www.exchangeyourcareer.com. First off is the addition of a bi-weekly comic called (what Read More

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 is coming soon to a server near you. As you've read here before, there are a lot of new mobility features coming in Service Pack 1 and I hope I can provide you with some of the juicy details you've been waiting for. Note Read More

One of the more common requests we hear is that customers want a way to export the configuration settings for their Client Access servers. One reason for this is due to the unique way in which a Client Access server stores configuration settings and data. Read More

There's been some confusion about how to gracefully remove a public store on an Exchange 2007 server, so I want to briefly review the topic and hopefully clear up a particular point. In order to remove the store, you must follow the steps described in Read More

Exchange Server 2007 uses new transport logs file formats that are easy to parse with one of our favorite Swiss Army knife tools, "Log Parser".  Log Parser (also referred to as LP in the rest of this blog post) is commonly used for analyzing Read More

Matt Ward, who works for one of our TAP customers took being close to email to a new level. Really! Here's what he had to say: "Now I consider myself to be well and truly wedded to the magic & mysterious black art of email, and so I decided Read More

In Exchange Server 2007 SP1, the configuration of Outlook Anywhere (formerly known as RPC over HTTP) has been changed to accommodate the different ways Exchange CAS servers are deployed on the Internet. This blog post provides an overview of these changes. Read More

The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce the following new Exchange Server 2007 content. Service Pack 1 Highlights History Is Made by Those Who Show Up Poster: Exchange Server 2007 Component Architecture Planning, Deploying, Read More

MAPI Messaging Benchmark (MMB3/MMB4) has been the benchmark for measuring the performance and scalability of computers running Microsoft Exchange Server.  While MMB has served its purpose, it also has limitations in helping our customers compare Read More

Office Communications Server 2007: Learn how to take advantage of the enhanced e-learning collection on enterprise capabilities provided by Office Communications Server 2007, and get a richer experience using virtual labs designed for the final Read More

If you've spent any time in the PowerShell, then you're probably familiar with get-command (gcm). Here's an example I threw together taking that to the next level. This will help you when you can't remember the command you want to use. Say you want to Read More

A while ago we told you about the setup prerequisite change in Exchange 2007 SP1 that allows setup to ignore unreachable domains and domains that do not have any domain controllers running a minimum of Windows 2003 SP1. That post is here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/07/30/446579.aspx Read More