Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! Some great new enhancements and features such as: Projected Number of Mailboxes Growth Network Failure Tolerance Read More

We have been made aware that some of our Exchange 2007 customers have been experiencing the following issue today: When trying to make certain configuration changes such as new-mailbox or enable-mailbox, certain set of our customers would receive the Read More

On the heels of rollup 6 for Exchange 2007 RTM we released few days ago, we have just released rollup 1 for Exchange 2007 SP1. if you are for any reason still on Exchange 2007 RTM, then rollup 6 for RTM is for you if you have already deployed Exchange Read More

Following our announcement of the Configuring Virtual Organizations and Address List Segregation in Exchange 2007 whitepaper, we have heard some questions around applicability of this whitepaper to Exchange 2003. I have written about this subject on Read More

Today Microsoft kicked off the release of a series of exciting new products including Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008. I borrowed the following list of interesting related links from the Ask Perf blog: Heroes Happen Here Read More

Microsoft's Usability group is recruiting IT administrators who have experience working with PowerShell for upcoming usability studies. This is a unique opportunity to provide feedback and improve the user experience of PowerShell version 2. The study Read More

I wanted to post a quick post about the rollup 6 that was released last week, as there seems to be some misunderstanding about what it applies to: Rollup 6 is for machines running Exchange 2007 Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version. Rollup 6 is Read More

We created these email signatures for people on the Exchange team to advertise our career site, but since they have some geeky email-related humor in them, we thought that you might enjoy them too... here they are. Clicking on signatures will take you Read More

I wanted to give you a quick reminder that our comics contest is going on for 5 more days... We got some really good submissions already. But I am sure there is more out there and all you need is a small encouragement. Did I mention that the winner will Read More

EDIT 03/26/08: Please see our later post on this subject for the location of updated prerequisite check XML file. Summary This is a follow-up to an earlier post: Single-label Domain Names and Exchange Server 2007 SP1. Please refer to it for background Read More

Overview The Autodiscover service for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 provides automatic profile configuration for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 clients that are connected to your Exchange messaging environment. When you install the Client Access Read More

Yes indeed, today marks the 4 year blogoversary of our blog! Can you believe it? Here was the first post! We get all mushy and kind of proud around here this time of the year... It has been a really wild ride for us, and we hope that you have enjoyed Read More

Single instance storage is a feature of Exchange that we haven't talked about much since the 1990s. We made some changes to how single-instancing works in Exchange 2007, so I wanted to give everyone an overview of what's changed and why. But first, some 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

Amir told me that he posted a two part series that covers new features of Entourage 2008 on his blog. Part 2 talks quite a bit about Exchange integration too so I figured people would be interested: Entourage 2008 – New Features (Part I) Entourage Read More

I wanted to specifically call out a white paper that Cathy mentioned in her February Documentation Update: White Paper: Configuring Virtual Organizations and Address List Segregation in Exchange 2007 Over time, there have been several versions of documentation Read More

The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce the following Exchange Server content. Mobile Device Security and Exchange 2007 White Paper: Configuring Virtual Organizations and Address List Segregation in Exchange 2007 White Read More

SCCP 2007 just RTM'd and is now freely available for all to download.  Previously, this tool was available only for TechNet Plus and MSDN Premium subscribers, but now it's available for all. See http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/sccp/default.mspx Read More

Join Microsoft at INTERACT2008 - an exclusive event for key community influencers in the unified communications space. This event provides a unique opportunity for you to develop deep technical knowledge on Microsoft's unified communications products, Read More

I recently (hopefully recently, my last post took two years to get published so I'm not sure when this one will go out, LOL) posted one of my typical light-hearted looks into life at Microsoft (it was about how office space is allocated, read it here).  Read More

The Exchange Web Services team is proud to announce that MS Press has released the first book describing the new unifying API in Exchange 2007. Authored exclusively by members of the Exchange Team, this book is a hefty 928 pages filled with in-depth coverage Read More

One of the most common questions I'm asked is if we have any resources that document the default settings for the Exchange-related virtual directories in Exchange 2007 - specifically with regards to the authentication and SSL settings. This aims to Read More