The article and the 2 parts following it describes the Data Loss Prevention feature in exchange 2013. It goes through the new feature creation of policies etc... more »

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In the four part article the author gives a good understanding of Rights Management Server on Exchange 2010... more »

When you need help troubleshooting most calendar issues in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange, you have to collect and provide lots of data for the Microsoft support professional. This is primarily because of the complexity of the calendar feature set in Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server and because of the varied .. more »

Starting with Exchange Server 2007 all SMTP traffic in Exchange Server is routed through the Hub Transport Server. The reason behind this is ‘compliancy’. By routing all messages through the Hub Transport Server it is always possible to track messages. It is also possible to temporarily store these messages so when a disaster strikes Exchange can .. more »

Most organization, have sensitive data residing on mailboxes. For eg . mailboxes of the CEO, HR or Payroll departments, Compliance, or Legal departments. Although normally administrators are not concerned with the content of user’s mailboxes, there might be someone less honest that attempts to access someone’s mailbox in order to obtain info.. more »

We wanted to let you know that the Exchange Team Blog is now available in 10 languages! Selected posts are localized and published on a monthly basis. The localized versions of blogs are available here: Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional German Spanish French Italian Japanese Korean Brazilian Russian .. more »

By now, many of you have seen the articles that discussed , but deep down I know you all have been hoping that we would discuss the most sought after feature that we decided to include in Exchange 2010 SP2. What’s that you say? Yes, I know, Tony said that the “new features in SP2 are unlikely to cause much of a fuss” and that there are not that m.. more »

Over the last several months there has been significant chatter around what is background database maintenance and why is it important for Exchange 2010 databases. Hopefully this article will answer these questions. What maintenance tasks need to be performed against the database? The following tasks need to be routinely performed against Exchange .. more »

Over the next several months Microsoft will deploy the Exchange Online December 2011 Service Update. As a part of this update, we will also make high availability architecture enhancements in all datacenters that host Office 365 tenant domains. These updates will be staggered globally, beginning in December 2011, and we expect full deployment to .. more »

During the beta of Office 365 for Enterprises, we received great feedback from our customers and wanted to vastly simplify the process for configuring Exchange in a hybrid deployment with Office 365. We are introducing the in Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 to refine the deployment process as a result of that feedback. What is the Hybrid Configuration .. more »

With the changes in strategy announced by the Exchange team a few months back we wanted to take the opportunity to make clear what is supported in what are typically referred to as hosting scenarios. would be able to use Exchange 2010 SP2 to provide hosted Exchange services once we released it. Well, we just released it and we have now also .. more »

that Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 would be coming this year – and it’s here! I’m pleased to announce the availability of Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 which is ready to We’re delighted to continually add value to Exchange as part of our ongoing release rhythm and the enhancements in this Service Park are largely due to your feedback. SP2 incl.. more »

You hear from us pretty often. While we absolutely want you to read and factor in transaction log space in your capacity planning or listen to Perry talk about how we’ve shifted to a services culture , we like hearing from you too. As part of our video series, we asked some folks in the Exchange community, “If you could give one piece of advice to o.. more »

In early August of this year, the Windows SE team released the following Knowledge Base (KB) article and accompanying software hotfix regarding an issue in Windows Server 2008 R2 failover clusters: KB2550086 - A transient communication failure causes a Windows Server 2008 R2 failover cluster to stop working This hotfix is strongly recommended for .. more »

A few months Bruce Langworthy wrote an excellent article regarding some new recommendations for setting the Windows Disk Timeout value - This post got me thinking about Exchange and how we deal with I/O problems. If you haven't read Bruce’s article, it explains that the default disk timeout of 60 seconds means that Windows will not report the hu.. more »

Over the years, there has been a lot of debate around features in Windows which are usually referred to as Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (individual features are known as Receive Side Scaling (RSS) and Chimney/TCP Connection Offload/TOE), and the effect of having them enabled or disabled on our servers. Taking the trip down the memory lane - .. more »

$stats = Get-StoreUsageStatistics –Database Starting from service has performed this activity on the server: I think all of us understand how critical it is to ensure that there is enough capacity to ensure that your database availability is not affected. Hopefully this information helps in planning your transaction log capacity... more »

On the Exchange team, it’s always important to us to get feedback from our customers on what we’re doing well and what we could be doing to make the experience better for you. In Exchange 2007, in response to one of the biggest Exchange 2003 OWA feature requests, we . This let OWA users preview attached Microsoft Office documents and PDFs in a web .. more »

Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of SP1. See 'KB 2608646: Description of Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1' This update contains a number of customer reported and internally .. more »