This blog post discusses several top issues seen to date by the Microsoft Exchange Product Support Team regarding the Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) feature introduced in Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1. We wanted to share this information as it can Read More

Recently we've seen some cases in Exchange Support where the error event 623 gets generated immediately at the start of the Information Store service.  So far we've only witnessed this on some Exchange 2003 Servers. Please note that this is specifically Read More

We've just redesigned the homepage of the Exchange TechCenter to give Exchange administrators a single place to start when they're looking for information about Exchange. We're pretty confident that you're going to find it easier to get where you want Read More

I learned that there is a new UC user group being formed in Pacific Northwest area: Pacific Northwest Unified Communications User Group (PNWUCUG). Now, say that acronym 3 times fast! :) Anyway, the group's site can be found here: http://www.ucdoers.org/. Read More

EDIT 8/6/2008: Please see this post for additional information related to Hub throughput and different message sizes. Large message size: effect of transport database cache size on throughput. Background Recently one of our support engineers came to Read More

Summary Exchange 2007 SP1 has a default transport database cache size of 128MB. This size doesn't allow as much dynamic growth as may be necessary on Hub servers with higher than normal message rates, or when an unexpected load from increased message Read More

A customer of ours sent in a funny photo, showing how they solved one of those real-world problems that many an IT Admin must face.  So we wanted to share with you the concept of Redundant Coffee Cluster: It does appear like one has to bring Read More

The ability to continue to provide a full service to your user community in the unlikely event of the loss of a datacentre is an increasingly common requirement. Continuous Replication (CCR and SCR) with Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 can be used to provide Read More

I wanted to post a follow-up to Cathy's documentation announcement with a bit more information on RPC Client Throttling. With the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, a new feature known as RPC Client Throttling is available to administrators to Read More

The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce updates to the Exchange Server content. To see what content has changed for Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1, take a look at Exchange Server 2007 Documentation Updates. To see what Read More

Hi! This is my first post to the Exchange Team Blog - hope this is of use! My name is Robert Gillies, and I'm a Senior Consultant in the Federal Civilian Practice of Microsoft Consulting Services. One of my recent projects for one of my customers had Read More

It's been a while since we last blogged about this Outlook feature that most users feel is an error, the RPC Dialog Box. You might get a popup error that will say: Outlook is retrieving data from the Microsoft Exchange Server <Server name>. Read More