EDIT 10/4/2007: Since this post has been published, we have updated the Exchange 2007 Autodiscover Service whitepaper to include this information. Please consult the whitepaper for most up-to-date information. With Exchange 2007 we introduce the idea Read More

Starting off a series of posts dealing with Exchange 2007 setup, we wanted to talk about setup phases and what they do. Setup BootStrap process Setup.exe is a wrapper for additional executables and libraries. Setup.exe calls in to the boot strapper Read More

Update 6/4/2008: Please note that we have posted our new guidance around this subject here: New File Share Witness and Force Quorum Guidance for Exchange 2007 Clusters. Exchange Server 2007 introduced Continuous Cluster Replication (CCR), which utilizes Read More

By now, I am sure that everyone has heard of RPC dialog box popups in Outlook. More and more, we have seen this issue being related to the number of items in users' mailbox folders. "That's great" you say... "But exactly how do I determine the number Read More

This free trial service enables enterprise customers to experience Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, the industry's leading platform for e-mail, calendaring and unified messaging. The trial service will be implemented and managed by Unisys Corp., a worldwide Read More

As you might know, EXTRA 1.1 was released to the web on the 4th April (please see www.ExBPA.com for download details). In order to help with understanding of how to use EXTRA 1.1, we have organized three Webcasts to be presented by the lead developers Read More

EDIT 10/01/2008: To read the updated (and more comprehensive) guidance for troubleshooting errors 0x8004010f, please go here. There are a multiple reasons for why an Outlook client can receive the 0x8004010f sync error. Unfortunately, 0x8004010f is Read More

Unified Messaging provides the functionality of having voice mail, email and fax to a single location that is the user's mailbox. In Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging the fax feature is limited to inbound fax only. Which means that, an external or internal Read More

Introduction Usually there is one question that is always asked when dealing with mail-enabled public folders: How does the message get delivered to a replica? To answer that question, let's take a walk down memory lane. Exchange 5.5 In Exchange Read More

While this is an Exchange Server blog and not Outlook blog, I did want to call this out as it has been mentioned a few times in comments on our blog. Office team has released an update for Outlook 2007 which addresses Outlook 2007 performance problems Read More

There might be times when an Exchange Administrator will need to export the contents of individual mailboxes to offline files in order to present specific users with a format that is easily portable and ready to consume using Outlook clients. To fulfill Read More

SCCP 2007 provides the IT professional with the guidance required to plan new deployments of Exchange Server 2007 and Operations Manager 2007 in the most efficient manner, while also delivering "what-if" analysis to optimize existing implementations.  Read More

EDIT: This post was edited on 8/13/2007 to add a section about domain controller OS version. If you haven't heard, Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 is now available. In the final few months leading up to the RTM of Exchange 2007, we performed Read More

The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce the following new Exchange Server 2007 content. Customizing the Look of Outlook Web Access Look How Easy Setup Is Using the Exchange Management Shell for Bulk Recipient Management What Administrators Read More

EDIT 1/24/2008: Please see the Part 2 of this post which has additional information on how to resolve this problem. After applying SP2 to an Exchange 2003 server, users may have problems updating Distribution list membership and delegating permissions Read More

Business users are increasingly on the move and many of them want to take their Exchange mailbox data with them. Exchange Server 2007 provides built in mobile access through Exchange ActiveSync. Users can synchronize their email messages, contacts, Read More

Update / clarification 6/6/2008: The original information in this blog post was meant to let you know about some "gotchas" when you are using pre-Outlook 2007 clients with the new Exchange 2007 feature. However, after Exchange 2007 shipped Read More

We got two cool photos we wanted to share with you today: First, we have Dave Thompson, our Vice President (on the left) and Steven Connor, Director of Test in Exchange (on the right) showing off Exchange 2007 colors while snowboarding. Pretty cool, Read More

Windows Server Performance Team started a blog not so long ago... and one of subjects they talked about is issues that they are seeing when customers start keeping PST files on network shares. While this is not supported since Exchange 4.0 times, it seems Read More