The observant among you may have noticed that starting in Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1, Rollup 4, a new parameter debuted for Set-TransportConfig: DSNConversionMode. Those of you who like to experiment have probably already derived what it is that this Read More

EDIT: We updated this post on 12/9/2008 and corrected the step 4 below. I had a case earlier this month where the customer wanted a simple way to export the results of message tracking.  In the Exchange Management Console, he used the Message Tracking Read More

Background This is a follow up to my recent post: A study of Exchange 2007 SP1 Hub throughput with different message sizes . Please refer to this post for full background information and test details. I promised in that post that I would add results Read More

Introduction We have been working on a problem that surfaced with the release of Exchange 2007 Rollup 5. A number of customers reported that some of their Exchange 2007 managed services did not start automatically after Rollup application, however they Read More

We're exploring making improvements to the experience of configuring Transport Rules. As part of this, we want to make sure we account for exactly how you are using Transport Rules today. The script linked to below will output some Transport Rules usage Read More

Performance analysis and troubleshooting can be a very complex and daunting area with Exchange Server. Being able to quickly and accurately identify and resolve issues requires a thorough understanding of the most interesting and important performance Read More

Many people use rules to automatically sort messages from various distribution lists into folders in order to keep the volume of email traffic in their inbox to a manageable level. This works for the most part - until someone decides to BCC a list. Read More

Recently I came across a situation where it was reported that Connection Filtering stopped working (IPs on the Blocklist and RBLs were no longer being blocked). The solution led me to write this blog to clarify some confusion about "when" connection 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

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

Before you can install Exchange Server 2007 SP1 on a Windows Server 2008 there are varying prerequisites that need to be installed, depending on the Exchange 2007 Server role you plan on installing. Details on how to install those prerequisites manually Read More

There are many scenarios in Exchange 2007 Server which requires parsing, monitoring, and analyzing Message Tracking logs. For example, in transaction log file and / or Database growth scenarios, Server got hit with spam messages, Looping message scenario, Read More

Mike Lagase wrote a great blog post on his blog talking about two issues (we have fixes for both) that can cause excessive paging on your Exchange 2007 servers. Those fixes are described in two KB articles: FIX: You may notice that the memory load is 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