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Obviating Outlook Client Restarts after Mailbox Moves
The History Historically, when an administrator moved an Exchange 2010 mailbox from one database to another, the user's Outlook client would present them with a message stating: The Exchange...
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GAL Segmentation, Exchange Server 2010 and Address Book Policies
Since the early days of Exchange Server our customers have used various methods to provide different views of the Global Address List (GAL) to subsets of users within the same Exchange Organization....
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UDP Notification Support Re-added to Exchange 2010
I am very pleased to let you all know that in response to your feedback we are adding support for User Datagram Protocol (UDP) notification functionality back into Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. While...
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Important update about Exchange 2010 Personal Archives support in Outlook 2007
Quick post to inform you that we've found an issue in Exchange 2010 Personal Archives support for Outlook 2007 in the December 2010 Cumulative Update for Office 2007, which may result in users being...
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Exchange ActiveSync and Windows Phone 7 "phantom data" issue
Some of you may have seen stories about higher than expected data usage for a very small percentage of Windows Phone 7 users being caused by an inefficiency between Windows Phone 7 client and Yahoo!...
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Automatic Processing of Recurring Meeting Requests with Conflicting Instances
The behavior of the Resource Booking Attendant may seem confusing when it comes to processing a recurring meeting request where individual recurrences conflict with existing calendar items. Some...
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Exchange 2010 Diagnostics: The Unified Messaging Troubleshooting Tool
Requirements Supported Operating Systems Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Software Requirements Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5...
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Windows 2008 R2 SP1 general availability and what it means for Exchange
Now that you might have seen the announcement for general availability of Windows 2008 R2 SP1, we wanted to get ahead of the inevitable question: "Is Exchange supported running on Windows Server 2008...
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Geek Out with Perry on RBAC
At Tech.Ed Europe in Berlin and many other events, folks have asked me questions that they wanted Perry to geek out on. One topic that came up is how Exchange management makes decisions and what sort...
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How fragmentation on incorrectly formatted NTFS volumes affects Exchange
I wanted to give you a quick pointer to a very interesting blog post that discusses the subject of Exchange database fragmentation on incorrectly formatted NTFS volumes, what the ramifications of...
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Exchange 2010 SP1 and Exchange Online (Office 365) Calendaring FAQ
Exchange 2010 SP1 and Exchange Online (Office 365) incorporate federation to enable secure organization-to-organization free/busy and calendar sharing with other Exchange organizations. Also new is...
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Everything you wanted to know about read receipts and delivery reports but...
A question that comes up often enough to merit a post is: "How does one block read receipts from leaving or entering my org?" Good question. I'm glad you asked! And to answer that we need to go into...
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New High Availability Feature Article and Updated Support Guidance for...
A database availability group (DAG), together with mailbox database copies, can provide automatic recovery from a variety of server, storage, network, and other hardware failures. A DAG can also...
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Released: Office 2007 Cumulative Update for February 2011
Earlier this month we'd posted about an issue with Outlook 2007's support for Personal Archives, and that a fix has been checked in to the February 2011 Cumulative Update. The Office team has released...
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Ask The Exchange Perf Guy: How do large item counts & IMAP clients affect CAS...
We recently updated our maximum item count guidance for Exchange 2007 when IMAP clients are being used. As a result, I've gotten a number of questions about the reasons for the change. Hopefully this...
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How to Configure the Availability Service for Cross-Forest Topologies
The Availability service improves information workers' calendaring and meeting scheduling experience by providing secure, consistent, and up-to-date free/busy information. By default, this service is...
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Released: Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2010 SP1 and Exchange 2007 SP3
Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released the following Update Rollups for Exchange Server 2010 and 2007 to the Download Center. Release via Microsoft Update will occur on March 22nd 2011. Update...
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EHLO Maintenance
The Exchange team blog database will be locked for maintenance from Thursday 3/10/2011 at 10:00 a.m. through Monday 3/14/2010. The site will be accessible, but you'll be unable to post comments during...
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EHLO Again!
Earlier last month, the Exchange team blog turned seven. Our first post, creatively titled “First Post!!!” of the Microsoft Exchange team blog, was dated Feb 09, 2004. From the squeaky lobster to the...
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Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup 3 and BlackBerrys sending duplicate messages
We have received notification of an issue impacting some customers which have RIM BlackBerry devices connecting to an Exchange 2010 SP1 RU3 environment. At this stage we are actively working with RIM...
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