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http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/01/29/453908.aspx
Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (KB 972076) to the download center.
 In addition to bug fixes reported by customers we have added new rules to the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer to check the health of your system. Starting this rollup, customers who wish to deploy the [...]

Microsoft has provided a nice easy command to show you how large your current databases are,  this one line command can be pipped to a file or used in a report
Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | fl name,databasesizes
Name         : DB001
DatabaseSize : 141.8 GB (152,220,270,592 bytes)
 Name         : DB002
DatabaseSize : 98.17 GB (105,412,362,240 bytes)

Let me start out with this is not a supported item by Microsoft however is vary functional!
Today in Exchange 2010 when a user logs onto OWA and selects the options button they are taken into what is now called the Exchange Control Panel or ECP which has added some functionality for users.  One problem that [...]

I have been Beta testing Exchange 2007 SP2 for many months now along with Exchange 2010 and Microsoft has released the final product as of today. If you plan on deploying Exchange 2010 into your Exchange 2007 envrionment SP2 will be a requirement.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4c4bd2a3-5e50-42b0-8bbb-2cc9afe3216a
Whats new:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/05/11/451281.aspx
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/05/13/451311.aspx

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 users [...]

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 start by creating a [...]

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 product until the [...]

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 related [...]