Today the Data Protection Manager (DPM) team has released the DPM 2007 Storage Requirements Calculator to the web.  You can download it here - http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2007/10/31/data-protection-manager-2007-storage-calculator.aspx.  Read More

I guess shopping season is really here... Harold Wong blogged the other day how to get $100 off on TechNet Plus Direct Subscription. Check it out if interested! - Nino Bilic Share this post : Read More

Are you ready for the Next Generation? Be on the cutting edge of Microsoft technologies by joining our Enterprise Messaging Support team! Learn the nuts and bolts of our revolutionary new enterprise messaging and collaboration product – Exchange Read More

EDIT: This post has been edited on 5/19/2008 to add a note about pointing Exchange 2003 mailbox stores to Exchange 2007. We have heard from you that there hasn't been enough information on moving of public folder replicas from Exchange 2000 to Exchange Read More

This is just a quick note to let everyone know that the End-to-End guidance for the Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino has gone live.  You can download it here, or you can go read more about it here.  Happy Reading! - Jenna Lyday Read More

If you have not used the Time Zone Data Update Tools in your environment previously and you have users with appointments that appear to be off by one hour during the week of October 28, 2007 – November 4, 2007 then you should consider whether or Read More

EDIT: This post was edited on 11/28/2007 to mention KB944752. The update is live at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=41EC35E7-79A0-4ECB-A644-1ECE94178F9D&displaylang=en It will also be offered via Microsoft Update. The Read More

There is some confusion and misperceptions about the correct tools to use to manage a clustered mailbox server (CMS) in a single copy cluster (SCC) or cluster continuous replication (CCR) environment. Specifically, folks are asking the following questions: Read More

One of the strengths of Windows PowerShell scripting is the ability to leverage both .NET and COM objects. Scripting with System.DirectoryServices is now possible, the main purpose of this blog post is to provide a sample script used to bulk modify Active Read More

Every so often I hear questions around IPv6 and Exchange 2007 SP1. If you too are interested in this subject, I would suggest you check out the following article in Exchange 2007 documentation: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb629624.aspx Read More

Today Bill Gates and Jeff Raikes (my boss) launched Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS), and announced that Exchange Server 2007 SP1 will be available in the 4th quarter of this year. Here is a long list of enhancements within SP1 – but given the Read More

The Office for Mac team has started posting more details about Entourage 2008 on the Mac Mojo blog. If you are an Entourage user, check it out! Additionally, you can find the official Office 2008 for Mac site here: http://www.macoffice2008.com - Nino Read More

As a last part in my series of posts covering Exchange 2007 CAS Proxying and Redirection (see previous posts here and here) - I wanted to cover Proxying for ActiveSync. There are three steps involved in handling a request: Determining whether to Read More

One of the areas we know can be costly for our customers is the cost of having a large helpdesk staff to investigate and resolve issues reported by users. We've done an extensive scrub of MSIT's helpdesk data (pivoted by root cause rather than symptom) Read More

Please go on 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

What is it? As part of Microsoft's software + services strategy, we are enhancing the way we build, test and deliver Exchange.  On October 1, 2007, we announced Exchange Labs, a new program for testing the next version of Exchange in high-scale Read More

The ability to continue to provide a full service to your user community in the event of the loss of a data center is an increasingly common requirement. The use of Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) with Exchange 2007 is an obvious choice in providing Read More

As you may have read in our Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2008 blog post, the RTM version of Exchange 2007 cannot be installed on Windows Server 2008, but Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will be supported for installation on Windows Server Read More

Following our content update announcement - I would like to separately call out the release of new documentation related to the Exchange 2007 Autodiscover Service that was recently developed through the joint efforts of Exchange User Assistance and Customer Read More

The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce the following new Exchange Server 2007 content. Public Folders Get a New Pad in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 White Paper: Exchange 2007 Autodiscover Service - Updated You can see these Read More

Back in February we have posted a video series on how to use DST 2007 tools. Those were a great success (based on the feedback we have received). I wanted to let you know that the original post has been updated because Steve Justice has recorded a new Read More