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Blog platform maintenance later today
I just wanted to drop a quick note that our and other blogs hosted on TechNet will go down later today for scheduled maintenance. We expect that this will not last more than a few hours. The scheduled...
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Released: Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1
Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 to the Download Center. This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since...
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Introducing Office Web App Integration with Outlook Web App in Exchange Online
On the Exchange team, it’s always important to us to get feedback from our customers on what we’re doing well and what we could be doing to make the experience better for you. In Exchange 2007, in...
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Capacity Planning – Yes Transaction Log Space is Critical to Keeping your...
The other day I was chatting with one of our Supportability Program Managers, Nino Bilic, and he mentioned something that was rather alarming - the number one reason why our Premier customers open...
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Time to revisit recommendations around Windows networking enhancements...
Over the years, there has been a lot of debate around features in Windows which are usually referred to as Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (individual features are known as Receive Side Scaling...
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Windows Disk Timeouts and Exchange Server 2010
A few months Bruce Langworthy wrote an excellent article regarding some new recommendations for setting the Windows Disk Timeout value -...
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Recommended Windows Hotfix for Database Availability Groups running Windows...
In early August of this year, the Windows SE team released the following Knowledge Base (KB) article and accompanying software hotfix regarding an issue in Windows Server 2008 R2 failover clusters:...
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Exchange Advice Video – YOUR Advice
You hear from us pretty often. While we absolutely want you to read Ross’ blog and factor in transaction log space in your capacity planning or listen to Perry talk about how we’ve shifted to a...
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Released: Exchange Server 2010 SP2
download what’s new release notes prerequisites I had previously mentioned that Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 would be coming this year – and it’s here! I’m pleased to announce the availability of...
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Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 and Hosting
With the changes in strategy announced by the Exchange team a few months back we wanted to take the opportunity to make clear what is supported in what are typically referred to as hosting scenarios....
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Exchange Online December 2011 Service Update
Over the next several months Microsoft will deploy the December 2011 Exchange Online Service Update. As a part of this update, we will also make high availability architecture enhancements in all...
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Introducing the Hybrid Configuration Wizard
During the beta of Office 365 for Enterprises, we received great feedback from our customers and wanted to vastly simplify the process for configuring Exchange in a hybrid deployment with Office 365....
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OWA Cross-Site Silent Redirection in Exchange 2010 SP2
By now, many of you have seen the articles that discussed Address Book Policies, hosting changes, and the Hybrid Configuration Wizard, but deep down I know you all have been hoping that we would...
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Database Maintenance in Exchange 2010
Over the last several months there has been significant chatter around what is background database maintenance and why is it important for Exchange 2010 databases. Hopefully this article will answer...
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EHLO Blog goes International
We wanted to let you know that the Exchange Team Blog is now available in 10 languages! Selected posts are localized and published on a monthly basis. The localized versions of blogs are available...
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Geek Out with Perry in 2012
Happy New Year! Kick off 2012 by Geeking out with Perry! In Perry’s recent blog and latest video installment, Perry answers a frequently asked question about our service, “How can you provide large...
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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-100 and Exchange Server
On December 29th, Microsoft released Security Bulletin MS11-100 to address a publicly disclosed vulnerability and three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework. For details about...
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Released: Migrating Exchange from HMC 4.5 to Exchange Server 2010 SP2 whitepaper
To follow on from the recent blog post where I covered changes to hosting scenarios in Exchange Server 2010 SP2, we have been working on some documents to help our hosting customers migrate to SP2. The...
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Custom (aka. Extension) attributes in Exchange 2010 SP2 and their use
Some of sharper readers of our documentation talking about schema changes that Exchange makes (see Exchange Server Active Directory Schema Changes Reference, November 2011) have noticed that in...
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Recurring Meeting Requests with Conflicting Instances 2: The Power of Delegates
The key takeaway from my last post on this topic was that the Resource Booking Assistant never allows double booking of a resource room calendar as a result of a recurring meeting request (please see...
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