Just wanted to post a quick note that yesterday we have released a new Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) hotfix rollup package for Windows Server 2003. This is all in relation to a blog post on the subject that we have posted a while ago. Mike has posted Read More

There have been some blogs on VSS backups in the past. Over last few months, we have worked on several cases where troubleshooting VSS was required. Seeing that the documentation around how to troubleshoot this is somewhat lacking, we decided to put together Read More

The third session in the MCS Talks Infrastructure Architecture Webcast series will build on the previous sessions by sharing MCS field experience of how messaging solutions are being implemented today. Enterprises face many decisions when deploying Read More

Exchange 2007 was the first release of Exchange to include Unified Messaging (UM) and this was the first time many of our customers started considering replacing their existing voice mail systems with UM. As with any new technology, many have sent in Read More

Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! A blog post explaining the calculator (updated for this new version) is here. Comments welcome! - Ross Smith IV Read More

Today Microsoft announced some significant changes to its licensing and support policies for applications in hardware virtualization environments. There are two key parts of the announcement worth highlighting for Exchange customers: Microsoft now Read More

Just wanted to drop a quick note that we have now released a version of Exchange 2003 Exchange System Manager (ESM) that runs on Windows Vista. this has been a frequent request so - now it is here! You can download the package and related release notes Read More

This August 2008, Microsoft has released an update to the Outlook Time Zone Update Tool. This new version (Version 3.0) offers, amongst others, better support for Israel and Brazil with regards to time zone handling and rebasing of calendars. The Exchange 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

Are you prepared for outages that affect e-mail service or data availability? Have you defined recovery strategies and procedures for disasters big and small? This Webcast will cover the recommended strategies for protecting Microsoft Exchange Server Read More

Hello, Hi, my name is Karl Bystrom, I'm a researcher on the Exchange team. As part of our efforts to improve Exchange, the User Experience team will occasionally send out surveys to enable you to give input and feedback on a variety of topics. We'd Read More

Update! The actual song is now available for download in the link below. Enjoy! So, how exactly do you encourage developers to adopt good development practices when such practices are not explicitly enforced?  We thought about embroidered socks Read More

We have always recommended that customers prepare formal server build documentation for their Exchange environments. Until now, we've not provided any formal guidance around what that documentation should look like. We now have build documentation templates Read More

Lately, we've been getting a lot of questions related to Exchange 2007 memory consumption and why Exchange uses so much of the paging file. Well, there are some valid reasons why and some misconceptions that need to be corrected. Comparing memory usage Read More

In Part I of this blog post I covered the specifics of the -519 Jet_errLogSequenceEnd issue and the resolution. We had a great follow up question from our readers about the when and how often Exchange issues the ESE 514 warning events? We'll answer those Read More

A little trick from Jeffrey Snover over on PowerShell team blog: Speeding Up PowerShell Startup. Running the script mentioned by Jeffrey speeds up PowerShell startup times. Yes, hard to believe at first, but after having run this on a few servers, as Read More