" is close to quota limit. Current number of named properties: . Quota limit for named properties: . User attempting to create the named property: . Named property GUID: . Named property name/id: " because the number of named properties reached the quota limit (). User attempting to create the named property: . Named property GUID: . Named property .. more »

Wondering what’s new in Exchange Best Practices Analyzer for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 ( How do I get ExBPA E14SP1? Since Exchange Server 2007, the Best Practices Analyzer (along with other useful Exchange troubleshooting tools) has been part of the product and installed during Exchange setup. You can find ExBPA and the tools in the ) will not do.. more »

Starting with Exchange Server 2007, we added protection for Exchange data paths to Client Access Servers using In Exchange 2010, we introduced new certificate management interfaces in the Exchange Management Console ( (CSR) to request a certificate signed by a CA with its private key (the private key must be marked as exportable when creating the .. more »

One of the things about Exchange 2010 that many of my customers find very attractive (and I have to agree with them) is the idea of the multi-role or “all-in-one” DAG server. This means having all three of the core Exchange 2010 roles installed on all of the servers in the DAG – Mailbox, Hub Transport and Client Access. There are a lot of reason.. more »

In my post just the other day I provided a link to the new guide covering Exchange publishing via Forefront TMG or UAG. One poster followed up by asking, “How do I set things up when I have both TMG/UAG with a web farm and a hardware load balancer?” It’s a great question, as these days hardware load balancers are becoming commonplace, and trying.. more »

Exchange Server 2007 used the cmdlet to move mailboxes between mailbox stores. This is a high level comparison of Exchange Server 2007 vs. Exchange Server 2010. There is a radical change in mailbox moves from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 environment. In Exchange 2010, we implemented online mailbox moves. When you move a mailbox in previous .. more »

Since joining the Exchange Customer Experience team a few months ago, a question I am commonly asked (aside from “When are you taking over the storage calculator from Ross? He’s a busy chap and as the new guy on the team you should help him out so he can take a break now and then.” – these comments added by Ross as a pre-condition to publishi.. more »

One of the most frequent questions I get as the Product Manager for Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) is for a list of . Along with licensing our Intellectual Property (IP), we provide public access to the As part of their implementation, each licensee makes the decision about what parts of Comparison of Exchange ActiveSync Clients You may notice that this .. more »

Recently we posted about Perry Clarke’s blog and the Geek Out With Perry series of chalk talk videos – see Check out our our new blog and video series - Geek Out With Perry Geek Out with Perry on Data Protection Answered: Data Protection questions on Geek Out With Perry . If you haven't yet started to "Geek Out with Perry", now’s a great time to sta.. more »

In the recently released Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3, there’s a version mismatch between the Outlook Web Access (OWA) S/MIME Control, an Active X control used to provide S/MIME support in OWA. After you install SP3, users who have the control installed will get prompted to install the latest version of the control. The way this works – the code.. more »

the Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant (ExDeploy), a free web-based tool which can help you deploy Exchange Server 2010. With ExDeploy, you can create Exchange Server 2010 on-premises deployment instructions that are customized to your environment. The Deployment Assistant asks you a small set of questions, and based on your answers, it .. more »

Recently Apple released iOS 4 (the new name for the operating system that runs on iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads). Since its release there have been numerous reports ( ) of a number of issues with new iPhone 4s (and older iPhone models running the updated software version) when using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). I wanted to put up a quick posting .. more »

At EHLO, we love customer success stories about Exchange! How Exchange, Outlook and Office make users' lives better, improve productivity, and make work fun is what excites us. Today's post is the second in a series of customer testimonials we bring you to highlight what we're hearing about Exchange from our customers. In this post, David Aird .. more »

During Microsoft TechEd 2010 in New Orleans, I interviewed a few of the Exchange Server Program Managers and Technical Managers. These interviews are live on my blog as well. iCal and Calendar Publishing Adam Glick, Senior Technical Product Manager discusses iCal and Calendar Publishing capabilities in Exchange Server 2010 SP1    High Av.. more »

Have you ever wanted to talk to someone behind the technology we all use? Well now's your chance. When you participate in a Microsoft , you become part of our product and services development process. In helping us understand your needs, you'll help shape the future of technology. In addition to playing with some very cool technology no one else .. more »

I am very pleased to let you all know that Exchange Server 2007 SP3 is available for download. As we highlighted in Updates to the Exchange Supportability Matrix this past November, this third service pack for Exchange 2007 enables Exchange 2007 to be installed on the Windows Server 2008 R2 version of the operating system. We heard you loud and .. more »

During the installation of Exchange rollup update for Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010, some of the Exchange services e.g. the Microsoft Exchange Transport Service may fail to start. This issue occurs because there is a problem with the way in which the Exchange services interact with Forefront during the patching process. The problem .. more »

You may have noticed that we've added some improvements to the Update Rollup installation process starting with Update Rollup 1 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2. This blog post walks you through the features we've added and what's happening behind the scenes. After reading this post you will have a better understanding about what may go wrong and .. more »

Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 RTM (KB 982639) lists all the fixes included in this rollup. Here are some of the product improvements and critical bug fixes we'd like to call out starting with 5 improvements we made to prevent crashes in very unique scenarios. The RpcClientAccess process on an Exchange .. more »

Today, we updated both the Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculators. For the Exchange 2007 calculator, the changes were minor (bug fixes essentially).  Head on over to the Updates Tracking page to see what is changed and/or download the revised version.  As for the Exchange 2010 calculator, well as usual, th.. more »