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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