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Yesterday Microsoft released the latested service pack for Exchange 2010 and as with most SP released a few new features have been added to the product. The most notable item is ABS – Adress book Segmentation which will allow via policy you to control which user can see each other in the gal.  You can [...]

Have you ever considered taking the most intense Exchange training to become a Microsoft Cerified Master on Exchange? If so here is a nice 30 minute video on on some information you would see in that course. http://blogs.technet.com/b/themasterblog/archive/2010/12/28/mcm-exchange-video-preview.aspx

Exchange 2010 introduced that ability to provide a user an archive mailbox however this was only available in Outlook 2010 or OWA.  Microsoft later made an announcement to back port this feature into Outlook 2007 do to customer demand. Wait no longer, the December Outlook updates provide archive mailbox support for Outlook 2007 and more [...]

Did you know if you are an educational institution you can get free Exchange 2010 email hosting from Microsoft? Thats right Microsoft has a system called Live @ Edu that allows educational institutions free email hosting with 10 GB mailboxes  and Sharepoint Portals.  The Portal can be customized to the instituion and provide a collaborative [...]

Recently Microsoft acknowledge they have been working on  Service Pack 1 for Exchange 2010 and have started to release what feature improvements/enhancements that will be added in the service pack. More information can be found on the Exchange Team page located here http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/04/07/454533.aspx

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]