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As you know a earlier released build of RU4 slipped onto Microsoft Update and was pulled, see the Exchange blog for more information. http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/09/11/449787.aspx Now the real RU4 has been released today but will only be listed on the Windows Download site and not on the Microsoft Update servers. Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server [...]

Exchange 2007 Message Tracking At some point in time most messaging administrator have received the age-old complaint about mail not arriving or being delivered. I revert to the message tracking logs quite often on the systems that I manage. There are a number of logs available from the content agent logs for antispam, Protocol logs, [...]

Updated April 22, 2008 Exchange 2007 has rebranded rpc/https which is now called Outlook Anywhere and has even made some slight modification from RTM to Exchange 2007 SP1. + http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/11/08/447484.aspx When utlizing Outlook 2007 the autodiscover service is heavily tied into Outlook anywhere functionality, I am going to reference a previous posting that explains those [...]

Since Windows 2008 was just released I figured I would put togethor a quick article on how to install Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008 since there are some additional steps. Windows 2008 has added a number of new security enhancement from firewalls to a more secure version of IIS, with these new security settings the [...]

Often Admins feel the need to delegate users the right to see a calendar when using a room mailbox, in the past with Exchange 200X users needed a higher level of permissions like editor to be able to book a meeting. This has changed with Exchange 2007! OWA Lets Logon to OWA 1. Create New [...]

Exchange 2007 has continued to improve upon its Anti Spam features with each version of the product. In this article I want to focus on installing and configuring the antispam agent on a hub transport server. By default the agents are not installed on the hub role since this server is intended to be a [...]

For a number of years people have been creating mailboxes to schedule conference room, equipment, etc.. in previous versions of Exchange a user could user Direct Booking a feature of Outlook and later Auto Attendant event sink to allow the functionality users needed. Now Exchange 2007 has made drastic improvements and made managing resource quite [...]

Exchange 2007 has added the native ability for users to classify messages in OWA and Outlook 2007. This article will show how to use, create, and modify message classification and then deploy for Outlook 2007 users (requires enterprise version). There are a few pre configured messsage classifications that Microsoft has already create for Exchange 2007 [...]

Exchange 2007 Recovery Storage Group : utilizing power shell Microsoft introduced the Recovery Storage Group with Exchange 2003 which added some nice recovery functionality; we no longer needed a recovery AD forest to restore items to mailboxes or a single mailbox. Exchange 2007 has kept this feature however has drastically changed the interface and added [...]

*Updated March 16 2008* A new feature in Exchange 2007 is autodiscover service which is required for users running Outlook 2007 to get many features like OOF, OAB, to function in an Exchange 2007 envrionment. In my opionon this cool new feature is one of the number 1 problems people encounter during set up. For [...]