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Since I am on the east cost and we are getting a nice little snow storm I thought it woudl be fitting to add the snow theme to the site

For those that use LCS or OCS in you environments, I wanted to make you aware of a potential issue with one of Microsofts  latest security updates that could cause an outage by showing LCS or OCS running as an evaluation version and then noting it as expired.  The hotfix (MS09-056) is detailed @ http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-056.mspx  Please refer [...]

Today Microsoft has released an RC build of Exchange 2010 build 639.11, if you have used the earlier Beta there are a large number of changes to the product since the Feb Beta release. http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/08/17/451974.aspx

User Message Delivery Quite often users send emails and do not know what happens after they click the send button, did the message queue on the server, and was the message delivered. Exchange 2010 has provided users the ability to view delivery reports and track what has happened to their messages.   Once you have [...]

How to join a group  Another new feature to Exchange 2010 provides users the ability to manage groups from the web UI, if you are a group owner you can configure settings on the group and add members. However, if you do not own the group you have the ability to attempt to join the [...]

Database Availability Group (DAG) Now that Exchange 2010 has been officially released and I am allowed to blog on the topic I wanted to start with what I believe is one of the best features added to Exchange 2010. There may be some heart break of the removal of a few features from Exchange 2007 [...]

Today Microsoft released Exchange 2007 SP1 RU6 this is a critical rollup to apply and should be put on without hesitation http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=93cb3f66-ae72-4356-bdbf-35029cff6df1&displaylang=en

I typically dont post items related to patches here however MS is concerned about this so I thought it would be a good idea to post this background Win32/Conficker.B exploits a vulnerability in the Windows Server service (SVCHOST.EXE) for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2008. While Microsoft addressed this [...]

If you have seen a slow down in the number of blogs that I have been writing let me explain with the little information that I am allowed to finally release. Yesterday the Exchange team released a sneak peak video of OWA for Exchange Labs which is running the next version of Exchange code name [...]

I would like to welcome everyone to the start of my new site http://www.Exchange-Genie.com all information has been ported over from the old site hosted on blogspot. One of the newest features that I have added is a forum for registered users to be able to discuss with me and other community users any issue [...]