Single Item Recovery in Exchange Server 2010

MS Exchange Team Blog - Introduction Users often delete data from their mailboxes that they later want recovered. Recovery of these deleted items is the most common reason for IT admins to recover data from traditional point-in-time backups today. With previous versions of ..... read more.....

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Outlook is retrieving data from the Microsoft Exchange Server

OZ Casey Dedeal - Outlook is retrieving data from the Microsoft Exchange Server mail1.smtp235.org; Christmas Balloon is not welcome for many exchange administrators. In the past I blog ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2010 and Resolution of the AdminSDHolder Elevation Issue

MS Exchange team Blog - By now you may have read or heard that the /PrepareDomain operation in the Exchange 2010 Release Candidate (RC) applies certain Access Control Entries (ACEs) on the AdminSDHolder object within Active Directory. In particular, /PrepareDomain grants the ..... read more.....

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Exchange Server 2007 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2

MS Exchange Team Blog - Since we announced the release of Exchange Server 2007 SP2, we've received a few questions about running Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2. We wanted to provide some additional information on how we made the decision to support Exchange Server ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2007 Search - Part 2: Content Indexing

MS Exchange Team Blog - Overview In part 1 of this series, we covered what is new in Exchange 2007 search. Part 2 will focus on ..... read more.....

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Exchange Server: What’s your learning strategy?

Amit Tank - This has been asked quite a lot of times by newbies that how to start learning Exchange Server. I would say MsExchange.org is the most tasty and crispy site for any Exchange hungry learner, Exchange Server TechNet Library is properly managed and untreated ..... read more.....

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Introduction to Exchange 2007 Search

MS Exchange Team Blog - What's New in Exchange 2007 Search Search in Exchange 2007 (Exchange Search) is completely different from earlier versions of Exchange. Improvements were made to performance, Content Indexing, and Search. New items are indexed almost immediately ..... read more.....

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What's New in the Exchange Management Console for Exchange Server 2010 - Part 1/2/3

MS Exchange Team Blog - 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.

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/09/09/452381.aspx
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/09/10/452405.aspx
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/09/10/452423.aspx

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What is business justification going from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010

Oz Casey Dedeal - I got perfect response to previous post from Mark Arnold whom I respect *Tons* here is the link to his article. With all respect here is my response and my vision for near future, the cost saving ( exchange 2010) and evenSP2 ..... read more.....

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Exchange Server 2007 Supportability Matrix

MS Exchange Team Blog - With the release of Exchange 2007 SP2 we are providing a supportability matrix that identifies the various supported configurations of Exchange Server (operating system, Active Directory, Clients, .Net Framework, etc). You can find this document on our ..... read more.....

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Forcing the removal of Exchange Attributes on a Directory User (the RemoveExchangeAttributes tool)….

Andy Grogan - There have been may points over the years where I have personally (not sure if anyone else out there has encountered this) where I have forcibly needed to disassociate (or remove) a user account from its mailbox. ..... read more.....

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Unable to Remove Exchange Mailbox Database or Exchange Server

Jim McBee - "I can't remove an Exchange mailbox database" or "I can't remove an Exchange server".I have seen this question a few times in the online forums recently and this is something that I frequently see myself as I move mailboxes around ..... read more.....

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Service Pack 2 Highlight: Mailbox Access Auditing

MS Exchange Team Blog - In today's installment of "Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Highlight", I bring you a brief overview of how we have made auditing mailbox access easier (in the aforementioned service pack 2 - yes, for Exchange Server 2007). Auditing access ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2007 SP2 Setup fails if all domain controllers are running Windows Server 2008 R2

MS Exchange Team Blog: We have learned of and analyzed the problem where the Exchange 2007 SP2 installation can fail during the prerequisite check stage. The installation can fail for both the upgrade or for new installation of Exchange 2007 SP2 ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2010: Load Generator & Jetstress (Beta - 64 bit)

Nitin Gupta: Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress 2010 Beta (64 bit) and Exchange Load Generator 2010 Beta (64 bit) have been released. Microsoft Exchange ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 Prerequisites

MS Exchange Team Blog: Like Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1, Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 is a slip-streamed version. Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 introduces several new features, but in order to utilize Exchange 2007 SP2, you must perform the following steps: ..... read more.....

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Spotlight on Exchange 2010: Voice Mail Preview - Part 1: Introduction

Exchange Team Blog - Voice Mail Preview will literally transform the way that you look at voice messages in Exchange. Exchange Unified Messaging (UM) makes it easy to manage your voice messages by delivering them in your Inbox. You can then use many types of Exchange mail client software to review your voice mail. Microsoft Outlook ..... read more.....

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Report: Spam Levels Continue To Surge

RedmondMag - Spam levels have always comprised the bulk -- the overwhelming majority, in fact -- of all corporate e-mail. Last month, according to Symantec Corp. subsidiary MessageLabs, the spam tally surged even more, eclipsing 90 percent of all business ..... read more.....

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Windows 7 and Direct Access: The Anywhere Experience

ExchangePedia - Over the past few weeks, Windows 7 Release Candidate has been widely downloaded, used, praised (including by some very vocal critics), and loved. It's easy to fall in love with the Windows 7 user experience, and I don't just mean the lovely wallpapers and themes that are in stark contrast ..... read more.....

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Spotlight on Exchange 2010: Delivery Reports Part II (for Administrators)

MSExchange Team Blog - I'll review the different things administrators can do with message tracking. We'll discuss disclosure and privacy control settings and do a quick review on which roles have access to message tracking and how to grant access to a user or group of users ..... read more.....

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Spotlight on Exchange 2010: Delivery Reports

MSExchange Team Blog - Exchange 2010 provides an easy way to verify whether that very important message was delivered to every recipient with a new feature we call delivery reports.
Delivery Reports contains delivery information about messages you sent ..... read more.....

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Results of Survey – No x32 bit Version of for Exchange 2010

TelnetPort25 - First of all, I would like to thank all of the people whom took the time to complete the above survey. There were a total of 24 respondents – which I understand is not representative of the Exchange community as a whole, but there is certainly some interesting views portrayed within the resultsthis ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2007: One or more users cannot be added to the folder access list. Non-local users cannot be given rights on this server

MSExchange Tips - When attempting to add a user to a public folder permssion you receive the following error. One or more users cannot be added to the folder access list. Non-local users cannot ..... read more.....

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Google Apps Sync Disables Outlook Search

MS Outlook Team Blog - The Outlook team has recently been made aware of a serious bug / flaw with the recently announced Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, and as a result we wanted to provide the Outlook user community with additional details around this problem as well as information on how to address it ..... read more.....

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Using Secondary Email Address to Send Emails in Exchange 2007

Exchange Geek - Due to design limitations outlook and exchange together wont allow to send emails using the secondary email address on some user account. There are some third party utilities like IvaSoft which will allow to use secondary email address as a primary or to send emails. Here I am explaining the way to use Exchange Server 2007 features to achieve this ..... read more.....

PS: I am not too keen on this method, but well it is one of the methods

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Using an Exchange 2007 Edge Server as the Mail Relay of an Exchange 2003 Organization (Part 2)

MSExchange.org - Adding an Edge Transport server as the mail relay server of an Exchange 2003 organization: final configuration tasks and tests. ..... read more.....

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Video: High Availability in Exchange Server 2010 - Part 4

MS Exchange Team Blog: In Part 4, the final part of this blogcast series, I perform a database switchover using the Exchange Management Console, and show you a switchover from an administrator's perspective. Then, I perform a second database switchover using ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2010 EMC and Certificates Management Part – 2

Exchange Geek - This is the second part of the blog entry Exchange 2010 EMC and Certificate Management Part – 1 in the previous post I wrote about creating a certificate request and the limitations of the new certificate request wizard. In this part we will be looking at obtaining a new certificate and ..... read more.....

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Apologies for being away for soooo long......

As you would be aware by now, that I was not able to blog on Exchange Daily for the past 4 weeks due to recurring Health issues (well I always felt that I had a strong immune system) and Long Vacation, I would ensure that I do all the catching up and provide summaries here of all happenings in the last 1 month, not and easy task though.....Still thanks for bearing with me

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Exchange 2010 EMC and Certificates Management Part - 1

Exchange Geek - Microsoft chose moving to secure messaging and secure service access since Exchange Server 2007. The only troublesome task for administrators was to manage these certificates. Folks who are highly addicted to GUI found it little hectic. Good news for those who don’t want to take too many efforts and would like to have a graphical interface that can manage certificates for ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2010 Management Architecture – Using a single machine to manage multiple Exchange 2010 Organizations

MSExchange.org - Exchange 2007 was the first Exchange version where the management architecture was based on Windows PowerShell (more specifically PowerShell 1.0). Actually, both the Exchange 2007 Management Console and Shell were built on top of the PowerShell engine bringing many benefits with it. Although it took some time, many Exchange administrators ..... read more.....

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Introducing Attachment Inspection in Transport Rules

Exchange Team Blog - Transport Rules provides an organization with the tools needed to enforce messaging policies across their Exchange organization. You may be familiar with Transport Rules in Exchange Server 2007, and the ability to inspect different parts of a message such ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Ok, just got this peice of news from Exchange Team Blog, that Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) should be available in the Second half of 2009 (Q3)…..thats good news isn’t it. Why ? - Here are some reasons why..... read more.....

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Exchange 2010: Custom Search Engine

Amit Tank (MVP) - Often people ask about official document and information on various new features of Exchange Server 2010. You can get all information available at primary Exchange 2010 site and/or at TechNet..... read more.....

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Installing, Configuring Exchange 2007 Edge Server (Part 2)

Alexander Zammit [MVP - MS Exchange] - The EdgeSync service glues together the internal Exchange 2007 servers to the perimeter Edge servers. This is achieved whilst retaining the necessary isolation between the two network segments. ..... read more.....

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How to Configure Application Server Relay trough Exchange 2007 HTS Server.

MsExchange Smtp25@blogspot - You have application server and you wish to let this server relay mails trough your exchange 2007 server. I will show you how to set this up on exchange server and how to troubleshoot to make sure it is working or now ..... read more.....

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Forefront Security 2010 for Exchange Beta 2

Rui Silva - Now that the Beta version of Exchange Server 2010 is publicly available, it is good to know that the “better together” security product ..... read more.....

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Quick Tip: Move-ClusteredMailboxServer: Common Cluster Failure Exception 0x800713B2

Andy Grogan - Just a a very quick tip for those of you whom might come across this problem when trying to move an Exchange 2007 SCC Clustered Mailbox Server instance over to the passive node: [PS] C:\>Move ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2010: Resource Mailbox Properties Revealed to EMC

ExchangeShare (Amit Tank - MVP) - So finally Resource Mailbox properties exposed to Exchange Management Console (EMC) in Exchange 2010 which we used to set in OWA or with PowerShell in Exchange 2007. Here are list ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2010 Beta1: Bunch of FAQs, Tips & Known Issues

ExchangeShare (Amit Tank - MVP) - Exchange 2010 has many new features, advance administration methods, significant changes in Information Store to give better performance, new and simple high-availability approach and role based access control features for permissions. Sounds great so who doesn’t want ..... read more.....

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Last Week as it was....

Exchange Team Blog

Tips on Remote File Access in Exchange 2007 - Traditionally, in order to access an internal share or site link posted within an email, one had to be connected to the company network ..... read more.....

Introducing MailTips - Have you ever sent a really well thought out, important email, only to find out (through an automatic response) that the recipient is on vacation for two weeks? For most of us, this means either waiting two weeks for a response ..... read more.....

Exmon for Exchange 2007 SP1? Check! - Just a quick note to share the news that we have just published the updated Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor tool, aka. Exmon, for Exchange 2007 SP1 - ..... read more.....

ExchangePedia - Using Outlook's Instant Search on Windows Server 2008 - If you have Microsoft Outlook 2007 installed on Windows Server 2008 (perhaps because you're also using a lab server as your workstation, or require Outlook for testing), when you start Outlook ..... read more.....

Daniel Perti - Configuring Exchange 2007 as an Authenticated or Anonymous SMTP Relay - By default Exchange 2007 is configured to only accept SMTP email for domains it is authoritative for, and will only relay email onto other ..... read more.....

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A Long Sick Leave !

Friends,

I was sick with fever and hence could not continue with Exchange Daily for more than a week. My apologies for the same, I will try to combine some new items of last week in one post and post them here, as a ready reference.

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Introducing the Exchange Web Services Managed API 1.0 Beta

Exchange Team Blog - If you haven't heard the buzz yet about what is new with our Exchange 2010 developer story then head over to the Exchange Developer Center and start digging in to the Exchange Web Services Managed API Beta and our other ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2010: Hub Transport Role Installation Fails

ExchangeShare (Amit Tank - MVP) - It has been reported by many people that Hub Transport Role installation fails while starting MSexchangeTransport service and below error reported in setup window when you try to install ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2010: What are your Admins doing?

ExchangeShare (Amit Tank - MVP) - A new feature of Exchange Server 2010 allows you to keep an eye on all the activities of administrators performed through Exchange Management Shell, Exchange Management Console, or by Exchange Web management interface and it is called Administrator Audit Logging...... read more.....

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Exchange Server 2003 Shifts to Extended Support

Rui Silva - Exchange Server 2003 shifted into Extended Support on April 14, 2009. Details on the lifecycle policy for Exchange 2003 can be found at ..... read more.....

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Forefront Security for Exchange Server SP1 Capacity Planning Tool

Microsoft has released the Forefront Security for Exchange Server SP1 Capacity Planning Tool. Overview: The new Forefront Security for Exchange Server SP1 capacity planning tool helps customers understand what hardware, architecture, and configuration settings will produce recommended ..... read more.....

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Beta Update & Your Questions

Exchange Team Blog - Wednesday was a big day for us, and I'm pleased to tell you that the response to Exchange 2010 has been awesome! In the last two days, more than 10,000 people have downloaded the beta. Along and with the 2,000+ educational institutions and 5 million people already testing Exchange 2010 as a service, we ..... read more.....

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"Can I install Exchange 2010 Beta in production?"

Exchange Team Blog - This question comes up during every Beta release (see here and here) and we have again seen it pop up in both Exchange 2010 forum as well as on our blog. The short answer is: No! Many people know that we run several ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2010: Availability

Paul Down - Scott Schnoll and his posse delivered a great session on availability technology in Exchange 2010 at INTERACT yesterday. We've been using this technology for a while now at 3Sharp, and it really is very, very cool. So, the really big availability news in Exchange 2010 is the introduction of a new construct, the..... read more.....

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Exchange Server 2010 Beta - Its Out !!!!!!!

Yes, Exchange Server 2010 Beta has been officially released by Microsoft today.
Here are some quick links for you: Exchange Server 2010 Home ..... read more.....

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How to Install Exchange Server 2010 Beta

Is this thing on - Now that Exchange Server 2010 is available to download and try in Beta format, I wanted to provide a quick blog on how to install the Exchange Server 2010 Beta.
Installing Exchange Server 2010 begins with installing and preparing the operating system. Exchange Server 2010 can be installed only on Windows Server 2008 Standard ..... read more.....

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Presenting Exchange Server 2010

Exchange Team Blog - Over the past couple of years the Exchange Team has been hard at work building Exchange Server 2010. We are excited to announce an important milestone - we would like to share the Beta release with you today!
We have already discussed ..... read more.....

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Thread Compressor for Microsoft Outlook

Rui Silva - Thread Compressor is an add-in to Microsoft Outlook, which removed unnecessary emails from a "thread" - reducing the amount of storage required (maybe keeping your mailbox within its size quota) and reducing the number of emails you need to read...... read more.....

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System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RC Deployment Document (Part2)

Justin Gao - Microsoft(China) ..... read more.....

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System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RC Deployment Document (Part1)

Justin Gao - Microsoft(China) ..... read more.....

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VIDEO: How to configure Outlook Anywhere to work with a wildcard certificate

MSExchange.org - How to configure Outlook Anywhere to work with a wildcard certificate ..... read more.....

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How to Move Exchange 2007 Log Files on a CCR Cluster

EXPTA {blog} - You cannot move the Exchange 2007 transaction logs to a different location while the CCR cluster is running. You must suspend the cluster, move the transaction log configuration *only* using EMS, and then resume the ..... read more.....

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TechNet Magazine – May 2009

Rui Silva - The May edition of TechNet Magazine is now available online or, if you prefer, you can download it as an HTML Help .chm file for offline reading ..... read more.....

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Named Properties, X-Headers, and You

Exchange Team Blog - Coming soon to a roll up near you is a set of changes to the way that Exchange Server handles x-headers and named properties, specifically named properties that represent x-headers. This represents a change in behavior that has been this way for nearly a decade, so it bears explanation of the old way, the new way, ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2007 - Message Tracking Logs Corruption

Message Tracking Logs are one of the best friends of any Exchange Administrator, we need them day in day out. But what happens, if the logs start reporting partial issues. The Error: Couple of days ago, I was assisting someone, in resolving an issue in reporting the Message Tracking Logs. The error was something like this: Get-MessageTrackingLog : An internal processing error caused the search to fail At line:1 char:23 ..... read more.....

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Exchange Alternatives @ SMB - Are they?

Was reading an Article at Network World, where they tested 6 Messaging Products against to Exchange features. The products tested were: CommuniGate Pro ..... read more.....

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Quick Tip: Exchange 2007 – Using Template Databases…

Andy Grogan - Back in Exchange 2003 most of us will have used the concept of policies to apply global settings such as Limits, Maintenance Intervals and deleted item retention – and indeed I liked that feature very much as it was a good way to configure a number of settings across databases with a single click.
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Exchange Server 14 Ignite Workshops (Dallas and Orlando, April 2009)

Exchange Team Blog - In a time when your organization requires its communication tools to be adaptable and cost effective, Microsoft Exchange Server 14 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater business mobility. Microsoft Exchange, the cornerstone of Microsoft’s unified communication solution, has long been the choice of organizations like yours to enable rich and productive ..... read more.....

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On the bleeding edge of Enterprise email server UI...

Exchange Team Blog - We wanted to let you know of some exciting changes that we have decided to act on in Exchange future...Since the release of Exchange 2007, there was a lot of discussion about user interface options. GUI vs. Command Shell and all that ..... read more.....

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Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer: Test Exchange from outside the firewall

ExchangePedia - Exchange 2007 brought with it a number of Exchange shell cmdlets that let you test Exchange functionality (scroll down to the end of this post for a list of the test cmdlets). But how do you test Exchange services are actually available and usable from the Intern ..... read more.....

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MX Record and Mail Delivery in Basic

SMTP25 @ Blogspot - Mail Exchanger record is the record tells other DNS servers who the authoritative mail server is for the requested SMTP name space. If my SMTP name space is ..... read more.....

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Internet Explorer 8 and OWA: Where Are The Images?

ExchangePedia - Internet Explorer 8 was released last week at MIX09. It's likely many users may already be running either the RTM version or one of the earlier betas.IE 8 is more secure ..... read more.....

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Announcing the release of Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer

Exchange Team Blog - Have you ever installed an Exchange server and wanted to verify your Internet facing services were setup and configured properly? Things like Exchange ActiveSync, AutoDiscover, Outlook Anywhere (RPC/HTTP), and inbound email. Sure there are cmdlets included in Exchange 2007 like test-ActivesyncConnectivity ..... read more.....

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Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer Video

The Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer is a web site for IT Administrators to validate and diagnose end-to-end Exchange scenarios. The site simulates multiple Exchange client ..... read more.....

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Exchange Web Services - What You Didn't Know

Exchange Team Blog - Hey folks, we're back again with another video. We've already told you about how we're building the next version of Exchange to be cloud-ready and some of the cool features you can get through Outlook Web Access or Outlook Live ..... read more.....

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OST Sizing Guidance Changes

Exchange Team Blog - Hopefully you have seen the news regarding the release of the Outlook 2007 SP1 February 2009 cumulative update. If you haven't, then you can read ..... read more.....

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Managing Outlook 2007 through Group Policies (Part 1)

MSExchange.org -In this article series we are going to use Group Policies to help exchange administrators to manage some Outlook 2007 features. There are a lot of questions about Outlook 2007 configuration in Microsoft Technet forums, and most of those questions can ..... read more.....

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Digicert SAN Certificate screencasts available

MSExchange.org - If you got problems generating CSRs and installing your SAN certificates, then please check out the following two screencasts from Digicert ..... read more.....

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Update Roll-up 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 has been released.

Exchange Team Blog - We have released Update Roll-up 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB 960384) to the download center. The release of the roll-up via Microsoft Update will happen on March 24. Yes, it has been only 5 weeks since we ..... read more.....

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Exchange Server Documentation Updates - March 2009

Exchange Team Blog - The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce updates to the Exchange Server content. To see what content has changed for Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1, take a look at ..... read more.....

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Microsoft Blogger Recommends Free "ClearContext" Personal Organizer Add-in for Outlook 2007

The Road to Know Where - ClearContext Personal- a free Outlook add-in to organize your email and make your inbox better. (Thanks Roberto) Instantly file and organize email ClearContext ..... read more.....

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Microsoft Certified Master (MCM): Pre-Reading List

I had talked about “The Master Blog“, in Januray, around the time it was launched. Well, the Pre-Reading list for all the MCM Programs has been released on the blog. It is yet to be made ..... read more.....

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Best Practices and Guidelines for Hyper-V with Exchange Server 2007 SP1

Alaa Al-Ankar - Today we will talk about the new Hyper-V technology support for the Messaging virtualization from Microsoft, Microsoft released its hardware virtualization software a while ago and eventually the Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is supported in the production environment, in able to make it supported, certain aspects and conditions must be met otherwise you ..... read more.....

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Verify a Standby Continuous Replication Copy

MSExchnage.org - How to verify a standby continuous replication copy ..... read more.....

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Microsoft Transporter Suite now supported on Windows Server 2008

MSExchange.org - I’ve got many questions in regards to installing the MS Transporter Suite on Windows Server 2008. Every time I’ve said that there were a new version of the Transporter Suite to be released in the near future. Admitted it has been delayed several times, but now ..... read more.....

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Integration Of Exchange 2007 and OCS 2007

Vinay Pal Singh - In the last post, I discussed about the Microsoft's core solutions on Unified Communications - Exchange Server 2007 UM and OCS 2007. I had a chance to setup a test environment where they both operate together ..... read more.....

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Encapsulate This!

Exchange Team Blog - Heads up, gateway developers and consumers of raw mime data from drop directories! If you do not develop gateways for Exchange 2007 and write mime devouring applications, I highly suggest you use this opportunity to ..... read more.....

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TechNet Magazine – April 2009

Rui Silva - The April edition of TechNet Magazine is now available online or, if you prefer, you can download it as an HTML Help .chm file for offline reading ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2007 Server Installation Guide Updates

Exchange Team Blog - We have made the following updates to the installation guides:
We have finally released an Windows Server 2008 Cluster Continuous Replication Installation Guide (yeah we know ..... read more.....

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Installation Guide - Cluster Continuous Replication on Windows Server 2008

Microsoft has released the Installation Guide for Cluster Continous Replication on Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition operating system platform. It is available at ..... read more.....

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Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Help File

The latest version of Exchange Server 2007 SP1 help file has been published by Microsoft. It is around 21 MB in size. Overview: The Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Help can help you in the day-to-day administration of Exchange ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2007 / 2003 - Free Busy information availability

I have been asked this question many times now - My users who are on (else moved to) Exchange 2007 server cannot see the Free/Busy (Free Busy) information for Exchange 2003 users. ..... read more.....

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A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 4)

MSExchange.org - The Exchange 2007 infrastructure has slowly been taking shape over the first three parts of this article. So far, I now have two combined Hub Transport and Client Access Servers as well as a two-node Clustered Continuous Replication (CCR) environment ..... read more.....

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Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with System Center Operations Manager 2007

TheEssentialExchange - Just a few days ago, my new book (of the subject title!) started shipping from Amazon. If it hasn't already, it should start appearing in your local bookstores this week.
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Microsoft Online Goes Global

Exchange Team Blog - Today, we are launching Microsoft Online Services in 19 countries worldwide. People in these countries can try Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Office Communications Online this month, and next month, these services will be available for purchase ..... read more.....

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A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 3)

MSExchange.org - This is the third part of an article series covering a project to transition from an existing Exchange 2003 environment to a new Exchange 2007 environment. If you have read parts one and two already, you will know that so far I have covered the installation ..... read more.....

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 performance tutorial

SearchExchange - Monitoring, troubleshooting and enhancing Exchange Server 2007 performance can help optimize server functionality. Analyzing native and third-party tools, understanding hardware dos and don'ts and implementing configuration best practices are critical ..... read more.....

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How to Create and configure a meeting room mailbox with Exchange Server 2007

Exchange Team Blog - On a recent project I had to consider how to implement meeting rooms in Exchange 2007 SP1. I read all of the available TechNet articles and posts and then I realized that it was not necessarily easy to set up meeting rooms with correct policies on the first try. So, I made a synthesis on how to quickly create the meeting room of your dreams ..... read more.....

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RMS vs. S/MIME: When to Use Each One

WindowsITPro - Before I get into this week's extended discussion on Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) and Secure MIME (S/MIME), I wanted to mention the upcoming Spring 2009 edition of ..... read more.....

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It’s the binding order, stupid!

Rui Silva - Recently, when I was trying to enable the automatic anti-spam updates on an Exchange Edge server, I kept getting this error: Enable-AntispamUpdates : An error occurred while accessing the registry of the specified server: "E2K7EDGE". The error message: "The network path was not found."..... read more.....

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Enterprise Communications Support moving to call-back model

Exchange Team Blog - On March 9th, 2009 the Professional level "Enterprise Communications Support" business at Microsoft will transition to a call-back model for all Professional support incidents in the United States ..... read more.....

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Transport Rules - Conditions | Actions | Exceptions

What a Transport Rules - They are a new feature included as a part of Exchange Server 2007. For any e-mails that come in, go out or routed via an Exchange 2007 organization, using Tranport Rules we can apply messaging policies, and varoius AV/AS restrictions ..... read more.....

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Maximum number of members in a Distribution Group?

Exchange Team Blog - 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 is more about how many values can a multi-valued Active Directory ..... read more.....

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Are Distribution Groups really being used?

ExchangePedia - Over the years, you end up creating a large number of Distribution Groups based on user demands. The regular departmental Distribution Groups such as Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and HR. The geographical ones such as AllUS, All-California, All-BayArea, and so on. The ..... read more.....

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Replacing Exchange 2003 Frontend OWA Server with Exchange Server 2007 Client Access Server

MSExchange.org - A lot of companies are still running on an Exchange Server 2003 environment (which has been deployed some years ago now) and the design aspects and recommendations that have been issued were only suitable at that time. This means that many may be ..... read more.....

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Applying Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 6

ExchangePedia - Perhaps I should have picked another day for applying Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 6. I ran into the services not starting issue documented in KB 944752 Exchange Server 2007 managed code services do not start after you install an update rollup for Exchange Server ..... read more.....

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A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 2)

MSExchange.org - Transitioning from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, covering the Hub Transport and Client Access Server installation as well as preparation of the CCR environment ..... read more.....

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Virtualization Series (MS ASAPPro)

With Virtualization virtually an integral part of today’s infrastructure and almost all solutions utilizing the technology with various objectives like Cost/Go-Green/Consolidation ..... read more.....

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Exchange Server 2007, OWA and ISA Server 2006 - Part 2

ExchangeExchange - This is my second post outlining the configurations necessary to publish Exchange Server 2007 OWA in a DMZ with ISA Server 2006 in a workgroup configuration, in particular how this differs from the TechNet procedures documented here. In th ..... read more.....

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Did pigs fly? Exchange embraces FireFox, Safari

ExchangePedia - It was a common belief Microsoft would never support the premium Outlook Web Access (OWA) experience on web browsers other than Internet Explorer (IE). OWA Premium ..... read more.....

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Exchange Server 2007 SP1 - Update Rollup 6

Yes, it has been released. Download it from this Download-Link Like previous Rollups, I must mentioned again that Update Rollup 5 is a cumulative update and only ..... read more.....

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TechNet Magazine – March 2009

Rui Silva - The March edition of TechNet Magazine is now available online or, if you prefer, you can download as an HTML Help .chm file for offline reading.
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MS Press Book, Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions, available for Free Download

Harold Wong - I just received an email about an MS Press book that is available for free downloading. Understanding ..... read more.....

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Exchange Server 2007, OWA and ISA Server 2006 – Part 1

ExchangeExchange - Yes, I'm back after another long absence. I thought I'd start up my blogging again by talking about my experiences with publishing Exchange Server 2007 OWA in a DMZ with ISA Server 2006. This has been documented to some extent on TechNet and a few other places ..... read more.....

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How To: Customize RBL Rejection Response in Exchange 2007

ExchangeShare (Amit Tank) - When RBL is configured in Exchange Server and any message gets blocked, sender gets the bounce back response. This response can be customize to provide some vital information to sender like which IP blocked, why and where so it makes easier for them to go ..... read more.....

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Introduction to Exchange Online - Uncovering BPOS (Part 1)

MSExchange.org - As some of you probably recall, back in September 2007, Microsoft laid out the next phase in its strategy for online services, offering a road map for new offerings that synthesize client, server and services software for people and businesses ..... read more.....

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Continous prompting in Outlook Anywhere

Exchange-Genie - had not brought this up as I thought RU5 was suppose to have the fix in it however I just was on a call and it sounds like this was never added to the current RU.
There is an issue ..... read more.....

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Managed Folders: Why aren't Calendar items expired?

ExchangePedia - You're testing Exchange 2007's Messaging Records Management (MRM) features to implement your organization's messaging retention policies.You ..... read more.....

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Got Checklists?

Exchange Team Blog - Did you notice the checklists in the blog post "Should You Virtualize Your Exchange 2007 SP1 Environment?" Did you think those were a pretty handy thing to have? Turns out you're on to something. Recently, th ..... read more.....

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How to Configure Autodiscover Service for Cross Forest Mailbox Move

In one of my previous Articles I had discussed the Auto-discover Service, a new feature that provides Exchange features like Offline Address Book, Availability Service and UM, along with very easy and simple configuration of profiles ..... read more.....

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Moving mailboxes? Make sure your Deleted Mailbox Retention is not set to "0".

Exchange Team Blog - 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 to present itself. ..... read more.....

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The Master Blog - MCM / MCA

Here we go, we finally have a blog from Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) & Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) Program team. All the MCM wanna be's including me (wish I had all ..... read more.....

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Missing Drafts folder in Outlook 2007: Found again with MFCMAPI

Eileen Brown's WebLog - Techy: Someone that won’t let something go till they get to the root of the issue. That’s me…That damned missing Drafts folder in Outlook has been bugging me and I’ve had lots of mails and Tweets asking me whether I’ve found it. I couldn’t let it rest at all. I’d started Outlook with the /resetfolders switch, and the /resetfoldernames ..... read more.....

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Exchange E-mail Addresses and the Outlook Address Cache

Simple-Talk - Because Exchange auto-complete cache uses X.500 addresses for e-mail sent to addresses within the Exchange organization, it will bounce back messages from a re-created mailbox even after you give the user ..... read more.....

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Next version of Exchange and Single Label Domain (SLD) policy under review

Exchange Team Blog - Please be advised that Single Label Domain (SLD) support in the next version of Exchange is under review. In February 2008 we announced that Exchange 2007 would be supported on an SLD. At the same time we announced ..... read more.....

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Microsoft - Fix it for me !!

Most of us at some point or another have been a victim of wrong registry changes made even after following a step by step procedure as described in any KB article, - either ourselves or times when delegated to any of our ..... read more.....

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Automating Exchange 2007 Prerequisites for Windows Server 2008

EXPTA {blog} - Each server role in Exchange 2007 requires Windows prerequisite software before the Exchange role can be installed on a Windows 2008 server. All Exchange server ..... read more.....

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The Case of the Missing E-Mail Addresses Tab

EXPTA {blog} - Recently a customer came to me with a problem. One of his users was missing the E-mail Addresses tab on the user object in Active Directory. The user had been ..... read more.....

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Replacing the Exchange 2007 Self-Signed Certificate (Part 2)

ExchangeInbox.com - Installing a new Certificate involves, creating a Certificate request on Exchange 2007, submitting the request to a Certification Authority and installing the returned Certificate on Exchange. Here is how we went about completing these steps ..... read more.....

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EMS TitBit: Search/Find Email Addresses

ExchangeShare (Amit Tank) - How do you search/find email addresses in Exchange 2007 using wildcard? Well, Exchange Management Console has capability to filter recipients but it has limited power hence while working in enterprise or big environment when you want to find all kind of recipients ..... read more.....

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How to Allow Application Servers to Relay via Exchange 2007 Server

In almost every organization that deploys a messaging server like Exchange 2007. there is a need to use the Server as SMTP Server for sending Alerts//Mails/Notifications from Application Servers like Helpdesk Management, CRM, ..... read more.....

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Exchange Server 2007 SPAM filtering features without using Exchange Server 2007 Edge Server

MSExchange.org - Many Exchange Server administrators know how to use features from Exchange Server 2003 which will not be available by default, if they do not use Exchange Server 2007 Edge Server Role as message hygiene server in the DMZ. This feature ..... read more.....

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How to Move the SMTP Queue in Exchange 2007

EXPTA {blog} - Unlike previous versions of Exchange, all SMTP queue activity in Exchange Server 2007 happens in a new ESE database. By default, this database (and its logs) exists in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange ..... read more.....

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Exchange KBs for December 2008

One Technical Account Managers (TAM) Postings and Finds....Exchange KBs for December 2008 (yes this is a late posting) ..... read more.....

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Exchange 14 (E14) - First Video !!

Yesterday, the first video on Exchange 14 was released at Technet. It was an interview with KC Lemson and Jim Lucey from the prodcut team. Well there are already 3.5 ..... read more.....

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Replacing the Exchange 2007 Self-Signed Certificate (Part 1)

ExchangeInbox.com - Exchange 2007 makes ample use of Certificates for securing connections from clients and across servers. To start-off Exchange makes use of an automatically generated self-signed Certificate. This is valid for 1 year and can be renewed ..... read more.....

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Report: Gmail about one-third as expensive as hosted e-mail".. but, we think.. 'You get what you pay for!'

MS Exchange Blog - An interesting read, and it has reminded me of the ‘should we be considering saving money by moving to Google Mail instead of using Exchange’ question that is floating around a bit more recently, including at a Corporate level.
Well, it's very ..... read more.....

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A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 1)

MSExchange.org - In this multi-part article I want to walk you through the process that I used recently to transition an existing Exchange 2003 environment to Exchange 2007, including the methods I used to build the new Exchange 2007 environment. I won’t have space within this article to d ..... read more.....

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PowerShell: Export Multivalued Properties

ExchangeShare (Amit Tank) - You would have seen that, when we try to export multivalued property to CSV file with Export-CSV command, it just copies Definition instead of all the values of that multivalued property. ..... read more.....

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Exchange 2007 on Domain Controller (Global Catalog) - Services do not Start !

Exchange 2007 on a Domain Controller is not advised in any case. I co`me across this issue where by if Exchange 2007 is installed on a DC that is also a Global Catalog, the Exchange services fail to start. No No this issue is not new it has been there since Exchange 2000 days..... read more.....

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How To: Schedule PowerShell Script for an Exchange Task

ExchangeShare (Amit Tank) - This is commonly asked question, How to schedule a PowerShell script to run an Exchange task automatically? Here is the procedure to get it done...... read more.....

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New XML update for ExBPA

Exchange Team Blog - The following tools have received an updated set of rules:

1. Best Practices Analyzer
2. Disaster Recovery and Performance Troubleshooter

..... read more.....

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Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updated to v 16.3

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/01/06/450366.aspx

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Exchange Team Blog - The larger the organization the less it seems that the Exchange Administrators talk to or work with the Active Directory Administrators. This is usually a two-way street. This lack of understanding can severely impact your Exchange environment. The purpose of this blog post is to educate YOU the Exchange Administrator on what you need to understand about Active Directory (AD), a few AD basics, and a few tips..... read more.....
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OWA authentication and its affect on OWA functionality

Lasse Pettersson - You’re probably aware of that you can configure different authentication methods for OWA (Outlook Web Access). But different authentication mechanisms for OWA alter some behavior in OWA..... read more.....

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Exchange Server - Release Dates

A ready reference for you to be able to see all Exchange versions to date along with Release dates.

http://www.nitingupta.in/blogs/index.php/2008/08/27/exchange-build-numbers-and-release-dates

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Exchange Library & Team Site !

Now, that you have seen the Exchange TechCenter, you would have seen the Library too, if not visit the Exchange 2007 Library. Also, as a base you should be aware of MS Exchange Team Blog, your source of major news and activities on Exchange server.

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Microsoft Exchange Server TechCenter: Documentation, Downloads and Additional Resources

To start this series, the first thing to be known is the Exchange Server TechCenter. Visit it to start your journey into the best Messaging Product in the industry today !!

Nothing can beat the information provided by Microsoft themselves on Exchange Server, why?, well they are the developers of the product ;-) !!

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Exchange Times - What is it !

What is Exchange Times ?

Exchange Times is a new series by Nitin Gupta (gupnit) [http://www.nitingupta.in] on Exchange Server 2007 updates and news as maded available online by MS MSFT MVP Partners Fellow Bloggers.

The aim is to keep readers aware of happening / events in the Microsoft Messaging space. Do put in your comments, if you want me to focus on any specific area.

Happy Reading.

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Happy New Year

A very happy new year to all !!

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