Essential Exchange

As you are probably aware, Exchange 2010 service pack 1 was released last week, on the Internet (a so-called RTW [release to web] by Microsoft) at the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog . The release posting was The Future of Exchange Starts Here: Exchange Server 2010 SP 1 Is Now Available . In my opinion...

One of the prerequisites for both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 is to install the "filter packs". The filter packs are responsible for "filtering" the content of Microsoft Office documents and passing those contents back to the Indexing Service (ok, it's not called the Indexing...

Public Folder Contacts Can't Replicate If you have a public folder contact that includes an e-mail address, there is also an e-mail address type field that is associated with every e-mail address. Note: You cannot see this e-mail address type field by default - but it's still there. To view it...

The TrustedInstaller - Isn't. Generally, when applying patches (whether service packs or hotfixes or rollups), the installation process will automatically acquire all the necessary permissions - if the user executing the process CAN acquire those permissions. This is especially relevant under Server...

Incoming e-mail CAN'T come in! This issue is not exclusive to Exchange 2010 - it also exists in Exchange 2007. The default receive connector created by the Exchange setup process does not include permissions to include "Anonymous users" on the default server permission group. Microsoft...

As I work through migrations to Exchange Server 2010 with my various clients, I'm developing a list of Exchange 2010 "gotchas". Not necessarily things that are earth-shattering, but do have the potential to be surprising to administrators. Gotcha #1 revolves around the fact that an Offline...

After a wait of almost 24 hours - the download is available. Yesterday, the Microsoft Exchange team announced the immediate availability of the Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate with this posting. However.... there was a complication... it wasn't available! As of a few minutes ago (1630 EST...

I'm working with a client this week on migrating them from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007. Their Exchange 2003 environment is a weird one - a A/A/A/P/P cluster. That's right - Active/Active/Active/Passive/Passive. Whoever sold them that solution made some serious money! :-) I'm...

I was recently a guest on the "Get-PodCast PowerScripting" podcast, discussing (primarily) Exchange Server 2010. To listen to the podcast, Episode 73, MVP Michael Smith Talks Exchange . Until next time... If there are things you would like to see written about, please let me know!

Microsoft is preparing to make a potentially breaking change that deals with how Exchange Server 2007 handles named properties. This change is scheduled to be a part of Service Pack 2 and of Exchange Server 2010 at RTM. This change involves the promotion (i.e., the visibility to non-MAPI clients) of...