This one can be a bit counter intuitive for folks coming from any legacy version of Exchange... Issue You got your shiny new Exchange 2010 download and excitedly installed it on your 2010 hardware. You have setup all your CAS server settings, your DAG Read More

The management experience given by Exchange 2010 through PowerShell has been moved all the way from Local to Remote. This will mean that enterprise Admins will have to adjust their regular scripts to connect to Remote PowerShell instead of creating a Read More

This post applies to Exchange 2010. By default, PowerShell has 7 Cmdlets loaded in the remote session for "import-session *" scenario which leads to about 30 MB of memory spike. Any additional Exchange help files that are loaded will cause additional Read More

This is a continuation and a final of our introduction of new EMC functionality in Exchange 2010. Part 1 of this series can be found here and Part 2 is here. Diagnostic Logging Management Diagnostic Logging Management is back in Exchange Server 2010. Read More

This is a continuation of our showcase of new EMC functionality in Exchange 2010. Part 1 of this series can be found here. Certificate Management In Exchange Server 2010, significant improvements have gone into managing certificates with the EMC. To Read More

Welcome to Exchange Server 2010! Exchange Server 2010 continues the tradition of providing more and more Messaging features for the enterprise, and at the same time, significantly lowering mailbox associated costs. This new version brings a slew of Read More

The Exchange UI team is investigating possible technologies we could use in future releases of management tools. One potential technology we could use is Silverlight. This would provide the ability to offer rich management features in a web-based interface, Read More

You may experience problems performing mailbox move operations if the number of characters on a given Exchange attribute is greater than the default values defined by /SchemaPrep. Most commonly this issue occurs because of an administrative and unsupported Read More

In my last blog post on named properties, I detailed the history of named properties, how they are arranged, mapped, and how Exchange (since Exchange 2000) has created named property mappings for x-headers on inbound messages. Rollup 8 for Service Pack Read More

We frequently get this question in many newsgroups and forums - what's the maximum number of members you can add to a Distribution group? The member attribute of groups - both Distribution and Security groups, is a multi-valued attribute. So the answer Read More

Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (announced a few days ago) has been released. We would like to call out the following fixes included in this rollup: 1) Fix for a security issue which has been assigned a severity rating of critical. Read More

This is a heads up that Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 should be out on Tuesday February 10, 2009. As you can see the rollup release date coincides with the day Microsoft issues security patches. No points for guessing that this rollup contains Read More

I wanted to bring to light a specific issue that may occur during mailbox moves in complex environments with multiple Active Directory Sites and multiple Exchange servers. There are several other settings which must be in place in order for this issue Read More

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