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  • Blog Post: Knowing your limits

    Recently MSIT wanted to make some global changes to the retention time of public folders. In the past we had a global limit of 3 years retention on items in public folders. The plan was to change the default limit to 1 year, and then exempt folders as needed. But there were a couple of complications...
  • Blog Post: Meet the Exchange team!

    During Terry's keynote on INTERACT2008 conference, we showed a 5 minute video that introduces some of the members of the Exchange Team and gives some insight into what they do. We figured that some of you might be interested in seeing it too so it is now posted for everyone to see here: If you...
  • Blog Post: Exchange news!

    A new frontier for Exchange was entered today, as we announced our intent to acquire FrontBridge Technologies . They are one of the leading providers of managed services that address corporate email security, compliance, and availability requirements. We’re really excited about this acquisition because...
  • Blog Post: When customers put pre-release Exchange code in production...

    Like many of the product groups within Microsoft, Exchange relies heavily on a fairly small but dedicated set of our customers who make up the Technology Adoption Program (or TAP). TAPs exist in varying sizes and flavors, but the basic idea is that they replace the former array of early-adopter, joint...
  • Blog Post: Solving the Phone Synchronization Problem End-to-End

    (or, The Design of Exchange Direct Push in Exchange 2003 SP2) Background I bought my first cell phone in the summer of 2000 – the venerable Nokia 5160. With the attendant giddy excitement of a new consumer electronics purchase, I started adding names and numbers to the addressbook on the phone...
  • Blog Post: Easy ways to evaluate Exchange Server 2007 SP1 today

    As a follow-up to our Exchange 2007 SP1 announcement , I wanted to let you know that we have finished preparing two additional ways in which you can experience Exchange 2007 SP1 Beta 2: SP1 Hosted demo: please visit https://signmeup.exchange2007demo.com/exchange2007demo/ to register for an online trial...
  • Blog Post: Exchange 2003 SP2

    Hi, I’ve hopefully met many of you at TechEd, IT Forum, or another Exchange community event – but if not, I hope to meet you there soon and I’ll introduce myself now to get it out of the way. I’m the General Manager of the Exchange product team. I’ve been a member of the Exchange team for 4 years...
  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 is Best Mail Server - InfoWorld's 2011 Technology of The Year Award Winner

    I'm delighted to share the news - Exchange Server 2010 has won InfoWorld's Technology of the Year award for the best mail server! From InfoWorld: Microsoft Exchange 2010 continues Redmond's longstanding market leadership in mail servers and related software. This release shows why the company's once...
  • Blog Post: Configuring Hot-Add and Large Memory for Exchange 2003

    INTRODUCTION This is the second flash about Windows 2003 kernel memory issues and Exchange 2003. The first flash provided technical background. This flash discusses important hardware issues that may affect Windows kernel memory and cause Exchange instability. The next flash (available in about...
  • Blog Post: The SDE career path at Microsoft

    In Microsoft, there are a number of standard job titles. The most important one is SDE – Software Development Engineer. The rest can be considered the supporting cast (one requirement of being an SDE is to be so supremely confident that such a statement as the previous one can be made without actually...
  • Blog Post: Some exciting updates to the Exchange web site

    Over the past few months there have been some exciting updates to the Microsoft Exchange product website at microsoft.com/exchange . We've made these changes to showcase the product to a wider audience, including customers who want to learn about Exchange Online , and make it easier to learn about Exchange...
  • Blog Post: Exchange Protocols Documentation is live on MSDN

    Today Microsoft released preliminary protocol documentation for Exchange 2007 (as well as Microsoft Office 2007 and SharePoint Server) as part of Microsoft's Interoperability Principles . The Exchange protocols are now publicly available on the Open Protocol Specifications section of MSDN in preliminary...
  • Blog Post: Time to get involved with creating Exchange Online!

    On August 3 rd we went live with a revamped content Web site at www.microsoft.com/exchange/assistance , which is the first step in improving our Exchange customers’ online content experience. Our goal is to reduce the sea of content that customers have to wade through to get to the information...
  • Blog Post: Updated Exchange Public Folder Guidance

    The last time we talked about the future of Exchange Public Folders, was in Terry Myerson's blog post titled, " Exchange 12 and Public Folders ".  The main theme of this blog focused on the statement that Public Folders are being "de-emphasized".  While Exchange 2007 is...
  • Blog Post: Give us input for the next release of Exchange

    We realize we just shipped Exchange Server 2007, but we're already hard at work in defining where we should go in the release after that. To that end, we'd like to gather some information from both end users and Exchange administrators. We realize our readers are mostly IT pros, so for the end user survey...
  • Blog Post: Exchange Team at the IT Forum - it is almost here!

    We got a lot of great responses from you as IT Forum is approaching . In case that you have decided to attend since we first blogged about this , or in case you just haven’t responded yet, we are still looking for people. So - if you haven’t already sent in your information and are interested - please...
  • Blog Post: A survey for end users using Outlook 2003, 2007 or OWA

    We got such great responses from the surveys we did in January , we decided to do another one! This survey is for end users who use Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, or OWA as their primary e-mail client at work. We are interested in finding out how end users deal with the flow of work-related e-mails they...
  • Blog Post: Exchange 12 and Public Folders

    EDIT 3/31/2008: We have posted the updated public folder guidance for versions of Exchange past Exchange 2007; you might want to read it . A frequent topic of discussion with customers is the future of Public Folders, thus I think it would be good to capture that discussion on our blog. In summary: Public...
  • Blog Post: Get help from the Exchange newsgroups... over the web.

    If you've never used WebNews , now's the time to give it a try. They just upgraded to a new version that adds some great features that will make it easier to find answers to questions. Take a look at microsoft.public.exchange.admin , for example. A few highlights: Click on the “All Threads“...
  • Blog Post: Why we named a bit in the directory after BillG

    The billg bit or the DoNicknameResolution bit is a setting in the Active Directory that controls how Outlook ambiguous name resolution (ANR) works. Normally, when resolving a name in Outlook, a query is done against the AD using the string passed in. The AD will try to match the string against all of...
  • Blog Post: Update on Exchange Edge Services

    Earlier this year, Microsoft announced Exchange Edge Services, a set of technologies designed for e-mail protection, enhanced security and management of junk email for Exchange customers. Since that time, Microsoft received extensive input from customers requesting that Edge Services be broader than...
  • Blog Post: Microsoft Exchange Labs

    What is Exchange Labs? As part of Microsoft's software + services strategy, we are enhancing the way we build, test and deliver Exchange. On October 1, 2007, we announced Exchange Labs , a new program for testing the next version of Exchange in high-scale services environments. Who can use Exchange...
  • Blog Post: Microsoft IT Messaging job for grabs!

    Microsoft IT Messaging team has a great opportunity in Redmond, WA for someone who is interested in designing Exchange based IT messaging solutions for the dynamic enterprise environment, such as Microsoft’s internal messaging deployment! We need a strong messaging engineer with leadership skills to...
  • Blog Post: Need ExBPA? Go to www.exbpa.com !

    I got a chuckle out of this yesterday when I realized that searching for www.exbpa.com on some search engines I got 0 results. I also noticed that our MSN Beta search got me a hit! That’s going to change now of course, as it’s blogged about. In any event - this is something that has not been mentioned...
  • Blog Post: How are we doing with this blog?

    It’s been a while since we posted something about this blog site itself. We wanted to gather some direct feedback from you, our readers, on how we are doing with this blog. Be honest! What could we improve? Here are some of the areas that we are interested in hearing about: - How is the technical...