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RPC Client Access Cross-Site Connectivity Changes
Nearly two years ago, I presented a session called High Availability Design Considerations at TechEd North America 2010. During my session I described the changes we were making around how MAPI...
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Holy COW! Changes to Recoverable Items versioning in Exchange 2010 SP2 RU3
Over the course of the last several months, we've received reports of excessive growth of the Recoverable Items folder (what many term Dumpster, although we no longer refer to it as such). There are...
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Everything You Need to Know About Exchange Backups* - Part 1
*But Were Afraid to Ask If you find the inner workings of Exchange data backups using Volume Shadown Copy (VSS) a bit mystifying take comfort in not being alone. Administrators may ask, “What’s all the...
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Check Out Some TechNet Radio Podcasts on Hybrid Deployments
TechEd North America 2012 is coming and folks on the Exchange team will be there to talk to you about Exchange hybrid deployments and Exchange Online migrations! We've gotten a lot of questions on...
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Exchange at TechEd North America 2012
TechEd North America 2012 happens next week in Orlando, Florida. This year, there are several Exchange break-out sessions and hands-on labs for IT pros and developers, including sessions on Exchange...
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Extended Rollout of Exchange Online December 2011 Service Update
Back in December 2011, the Exchange team first started making the Exchange Online December 2011 Service Update available to customers. This rollout was staggered globally, with full deployment...
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Everything You Need to Know About Exchange Backups* - Part 2
* But Were Afraid to Ask Part 2 of this series (Part 1 is here) breaks down the events that take place during the backup of a mounted and active replicated database in an Exchange 2010 Database...
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Released: v19.9 of the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator
We've made several enhancements and bug fixes based on community feedback. Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version!...
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Exchange Client Bandwidth Prediction – the time zone problem…
The latest release of the Exchange Client Network Bandwidth Calculator includes several updates but arguably the most significant is time zone support. I have been looking at how to deal with the time...
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Establishing Exchange Content Index Rebuild Baselines – Part 1
One of the first actions most Exchange Administrators generally take when troubleshooting suspected problems with Exchange Content Indexing will be to rebuild the impacted Mailbox Database's content...
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Microsoft Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool (OCAT) v2 released
OCAT download Documentation download As the original blog post about OCAT release was quite popular, we wanted to let you know that we have just released the version 2.0 of the tool, with many...
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Establishing Exchange Content Index Rebuild Baselines – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I explained the E2K7_IndexRebuildAnalyzer.ps1 script. In this article, I will discuss the Search Rebuild Framework that Anatoly Girko and I developed. This framework was...
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Mailboxes on a database are Quarantined in an environment with System Center...
We wanted to bring to your attention an issue that we have been seeing recently in CSS where many mailboxes on the same mailbox database become quarantined seemingly for no reason. Upon inspecting the...
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Establishing Exchange Content Index Rebuild Baselines – Part 3
In Part 1 of this series, I explained the E2K7_IndexRebuildAnalyzer.ps1 script and in Part 2, I discussed the Search Rebuild Framework that Anatoly Girko and I developed. Before concluding this series...
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Remote Connectivity Analyzer gets an updated CAPTCHA experience
We are happy to announce improvements to the Remote Connectivity Analyzer CAPTCHA experience. Several of you told us how frustrating the previous experience was to use. And we agree… it was very...
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Crazy About Dogfood and Dogfooding Hybrid
We eat our own Dogfood in Exchange and talk about it often so we wanted to share some very special insights with you on the process. What is Dogfood? It's a slang term we use for using our own...
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Everything You Need to Know About Exchange Backups* - Part 3
* But Were Afraid to Ask In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we looked at the fundamentals of Exchange backups using VSS, and the flow of an active DAG database backup. In Part 3 we break down how a...
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Announcing a licensing change for Multi-Mailbox Search
In Exchange 2010, we introduced the ability for discovery managers to search mailboxes across an Exchange 2010 organization using Multi-Mailbox Search. Along with Personal Archives, which allow you to...
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The New Exchange
Last Monday, at an event in San Francisco, Steve Ballmer introduced the new, modern Office to the world. An exciting set of capabilities were showcased, including Windows 8 integration, Office as a...
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Microsoft Security Advisory 2737111 and Microsoft Exchange
Yesterday Microsoft Security Research Center issued Microsoft Security Advisory (2737111) - Microsoft is investigating new public reports of vulnerabilities in third-party code, Oracle Outside In...
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