Many people use rules to automatically sort messages from various distribution lists into folders in order to keep the volume of email traffic in their inbox to a manageable level. This work for the most part - until someone decides to BCC a list. Since Read More

Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! There are a lot of usability improvements as well as a whole new section on Storage Design. A blog post explaining the calculator Read More

This has been discussed / asked about several times on this blog (namely in various posts comments) - so I wanted to make sure you knew that this was now released. You can find the download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94274318-27c4-4d8d-9bc5-3e6484286b1f&DisplayLang=en Read More

In order to help our customers configure their servers better, we have been working on a tool that you will be able to run from a workstation and configure your Exchange 2007 servers easier. Some of those options are not easy to configure otherwise, and Read More

As I previously posted about the DPM 2007 Storage Requirements Calculator, I wanted to post a quick note saying that it got updated today. You can get it here: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2007/10/31/data-protection-manager-2007-storage-calculator.aspx.  Read More

Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! Some great new enhancements and features such as: Projected Number of Mailboxes Growth Network Failure Tolerance Read More

There are many scenarios in Exchange 2007 Server which requires parsing, monitoring, and analyzing Message Tracking logs. For example, in transaction log file and / or Database growth scenarios, Server got hit with spam messages, Looping message scenario, Read More

SCCP 2007 just RTM'd and is now freely available for all to download.  Previously, this tool was available only for TechNet Plus and MSDN Premium subscribers, but now it's available for all. See http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/sccp/default.mspx Read More

We have released the updated version of the Microsoft Transporter Suite. The download is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=35FC4205-792B-4306-8E4B-0DE9CCE72172&displaylang=en More details upcoming to the CollabTools Read More

The government of Argentina has announced (read more about it here, here and here) the implementation of daylight saving time (DST) in Argentina. The following are the start and end dates for the daylight saving time defined: Daylight saving time Read More

It's been a while since we announced an update to Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator. Yesterday we have updated the calculator to version 13.0. Updates: We have updated the log generation numbers per message profile Read More

Some customers have experienced a problem where the following error is generated when installing the Mailbox role on an Exchange 2007 server (typically the first Exchange 2007 Mailbox server in the org): Exchange server address list service failed Read More

This is a second in my series of posts that deal with using Log Parser tool to analyze your Exchange 2007 transport logs. For the first post, please go here. I have written this blog post in a way that I walk you through building more and more complex Read More

One of the more common requests we hear is that customers want a way to export the configuration settings for their Client Access servers. One reason for this is due to the unique way in which a Client Access server stores configuration settings and data. Read More

Exchange Server 2007 uses new transport logs file formats that are easy to parse with one of our favorite Swiss Army knife tools, "Log Parser".  Log Parser (also referred to as LP in the rest of this blog post) is commonly used for analyzing Read More