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Updated 8/18/2010 One of the major changes with Exchange 2010 is related to the mapi end point. In all previous versions of Exchange the Outlook client (using mapi) would connect directly to an Exchange mailbox server, with Exchange 2010 the Outlook client will connect to an Exchange server running the CAS role as its mapi [...]

In my last article I briefly touched on the fact that everything in Exchange 2010 is now controlled by EMS and RBAC and can be controled by creating custom roles and assigning them to users.  In this article I am going to go over the default view a user will see in ECP without any [...]

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

Now that we have take an look into a number of new features in OWA (http://www.exchange-genie.com/2009/08/owa-2010-part2-calendaring/ and http://www.exchange-genie.com/2009/07/owa-2010-part1-inbox/) its time to move onto OWA options that is now called Exchange Control Panel or ECP.  The ECP has a number of new features, as well as some features that were present in previous versions of OWA. A [...]

As we work our way through the OWA web UI the next  stop will be the calendar. There hasnt been a large number of changes to this feature so you might ask why I decided to write an article about it? One of the major product enhancements is the ability to share ones calendar from [...]

As the code in Exchange 2010 keeps maturing it will be time for me to start publishing a lot of new articles. Exchange 2010 builds upon Exchange 2007 yet has made significant changes to the product that I believe makes this the best version of Exchange that has been built to date.  Now that Microsoft [...]

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 [...]

Installing Exchange 2010 from the command line In this post I will install Exchange from the command line to show the flexablitly. I have extracted the bits to c:\ex2010\bits Microsoft now includes a scripts folder with the extracted binaries which contains several xml files  that can be used to install all of the Windows required componets. Lets [...]

Microsoft has released its public Beta of the next version of Exchange named Exchange 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/default.aspx (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1898ed2c-2f88-48ac-824e-d3d20fad77d7) If you have been wondering why I have not posted to many articles lately its because I have been working with Microsoft on Exchange 2010 since Jan 2008 and I have been unable to release information on the [...]

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 [...]