It has been about a couple of months since we released Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 . About 3 years ago when we shipped Exchange Server 2007 we cumulative update rollups every couple of months. Keeping with that promise we have released Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (KB 971534) to the download center today. The .. more »

: The host names, mail.contoso.com or legacy.contoso.com, that are referenced in this document are not hard-coded or required. You can utilize whichever names make the most sense for your environment (e.g. owa.contoso.com and legacyowa.contoso.com). From a documentation perspective, we are going to utilize mail.contoso.com and legacy.contoso.com so .. more »

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 is up and running. Your pilot users have been moved over and everything went well. Now you move .. more »

By now you have seen our interviews with both and you've heard what excites them most about moving to Exchange 2010 check out the video interviews with . We headed down to Memphis to visit one more  customer, to get their take about why they too moved to Exchange 2010.  Morgan Keegan CIO John Threadgill, says the number one reason they chose to mo.. more »

have more rights than its parent role; even if the parent role is a custom role. This is critically important! RBAC roles are not like security permissions where the most restrictive wins. RBAC instead provides the end user with the UNITY of all roles that have been assigned to them. So only apply the exact roles to a user that you want them to .. more »

In Microsoft CSS (Customer Service and Support) we deal with many anti-spam questions. While the anti-spam features that come out of the box with Exchange 2007 provide a robust level of protection against unwanted garbage in your inbox, there is still a lot of confusion out there as to how all the parts work together. The purpose of this post is to .. more »

The Virtual Launch Event Site: If youre lucky, you had the opportunity to attend one of the two events this week that included an Exchange 2010 keynote: TechEd EMEA in Berlin or Exchange Connections in Las Vegas. However, anyone can attend the Virtual Launch Event online and watch on stage with Julia White, who demos the new features of Exchange. .. more »

We heard concerns from our early adoption Exchange Server 2010 customers regarding transitioning from Exchange Server 2003 and/or Exchange Server 2007 in a few key areas. One of which is the fact that you, Exchange/IT administrators, are burdened with complex migration steps (multiple firewall rules, multiple certificates, multiple external .. more »

The data points provided in the calculator are an example configuration. As such any data points entered into the Input worksheet are specific to that particular configuration and do not apply for other configurations. Please ensure you are using the correct data points for your design There are many input factors that need to be accounted for .. more »

"Performance with large mailboxes greatly exceeds our expectations. With the growing amount of data that needs to be retained, it is not uncommon for us to have 30-gigabyte plus mailboxes, making these performance improvements crucial to our business. I have been using Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010 for e-mail since June and have been extremely .. more »

Coming off the heels of our interview with Lifetime Products and hearing what excites them most about moving to Exchange 2010 (check out the interview here), I caught up with our customer, Global Crossing, while attending the recent SharePoint conference in Las Vegas. Global Crossing is upgrading to Exchange 2010 to take advantage of the great new .. more »

We've just finished our 6 part series of webcasts on six key topics that developers need to know about as they start planning for moving their applications to Exchange 2010. Those webcasts are now available as on-demand webcasts below, check them out today! If you'd like a bit more human contact than these webcasts, then come join us at TechEd in .. more »

We always talk about listening to customers and sometimes this is written off by many as 'marketing speak'. In fact, we do take feedback seriously and no input is more important to our engineering processes than your voice. Earlier this year we made a decision in one direction, and due to the feedback we have received on this blog and elsewhere, we .. more »

I had a chance to go on the road and talk to a few of our Exchange 2010 early adopter customers. My first stop was in Clearfield, Utah where I met up with the folks at Lifetime Products. Lifetime Products is an early adopter of E2010, and appreciates the concept of a unified Inbox-and related cost savings.  also thinks Lifetime Product's story is p.. 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 local session. Here are some examples on how can this be achieved and the differences that may .. more »

Three weeks ago we announced that Exchange 2010 was code complete. As we get ready for launch, we're seeing some amazing results from our early adopter customers. Julia White, Director of Exchange Marketing, shares some of these early highlights on the Unified Communications Blog. Check out her post and see how Exchange 2010 (and you) can do the .. more »

We've got a great webcast coming up next week to discuss recommendations for virtualizing Exchange server and the benefits of choosing Hyper-V + System Center as your virtualization solution. TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Best Practices for Exchange Server (Level 300) Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 10am Pacific time Virtualizing business .. more »

This is an update to the blog post Next version of Exchange and Single Label Domain (SLD) policy under review. In response to customer feedback, the Exchange team has updated their testing matrix and has determined that Exchange Server 2010 will be supported on Single Label Domains (SLD), Disjoint Namespaces, and Discontiguous Namespaces. This .. 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 spike. We will see this spike when users would call get-help on our Cmdlets, PowerShell is just .. more »

We sometimes hear customers talking about putting Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 Client Access Servers (CAS) into the Perimeter network (sometimes referred to as the "DMZ" - Demilitarized Zone). A Perimeter network is a network zone many companies deploy between the Internet and their intranet as defense-in-depth. The idea behind a perimeter .. more »