Introduction We have been working on a problem that surfaced with the release of Exchange 2007 Rollup 5. A number of customers reported that some of their Exchange 2007 managed services did not start automatically after Rollup application, however they Read More

Recently I came across a situation where it was reported that Connection Filtering stopped working (IPs on the Blocklist and RBLs were no longer being blocked). The solution led me to write this blog to clarify some confusion about "when" connection Read More

It's been a while since I've been thinking of writing a blog post about various aspects of Outlook Anywhere that people have been asking questions about. Somehow, I keep getting myself caught up in one thing or another, and have consequently delayed Read More

Recently we have published the updated Exchange Developer Roadmap over on Exchangedev blog. This covers Exchange Server beyond Exchange Server 2007. You can read about multiple things there, including: APIs that Will Be Removed APIs Moving To Read More

...YOU. We've just opened up the Exchange 2007 product library to community annotation.  That gives you the ability to add content to our topics that you think others might find helpful.  The basic idea here is allow members of the Exchange Read More

This blog post discusses several top issues seen to date by the Microsoft Exchange Product Support Team regarding the Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) feature introduced in Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1. We wanted to share this information as it can Read More

Recently we've seen some cases in Exchange Support where the error event 623 gets generated immediately at the start of the Information Store service.  So far we've only witnessed this on some Exchange 2003 Servers. Please note that this is specifically Read More

Large message size: effect of transport database cache size on throughput. Background Recently one of our support engineers came to us requesting performance data for a client deploying Exchange 2007 SP1 (E2K7 from now on). The client wanted to know Read More

The ability to continue to provide a full service to your user community in the unlikely event of the loss of a datacentre is an increasingly common requirement. Continuous Replication (CCR and SCR) with Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 can be used to provide Read More

Hi! This is my first post to the Exchange Team Blog - hope this is of use! My name is Robert Gillies, and I'm a Senior Consultant in the Federal Civilian Practice of Microsoft Consulting Services. One of my recent projects for one of my customers had Read More

It's been a while since we last blogged about this Outlook feature that most users feel is an error, the RPC Dialog Box. You might get a popup error that will say: Outlook is retrieving data from the Microsoft Exchange Server <Server name>. Read More

In the past, if you wished to use S/MIME for e-mail encryption with an external recipient, you would add the recipient to your Contacts folder. This was typically done by having the recipient send you a digitally signed item and then right click on the Read More

A few customers exploring the new Outlook Web Access customization features in Exchange 2007 SP1 have asked why when they add a button to the main OWA navigation bar does it appear as a small button only, or commonly stating that the text is "missing". Read More

I am sure many of you might have seen the issues that can be caused by the Windows Scalable Networking pack and incompatibilities with certain NIC drivers, as previously mentioned in http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/07/18/446400.aspx. As of yesterday, Read More

On March 3 at the SharePoint Conference in Seattle, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will offer Microsoft Online Services to businesses of all sizes. Microsoft Online Services include Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, and Exchange Read More