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Configuring Interorg Free/Busy in a single server Exchange Server 2007 organization

When you use a single server in your organization, but wish to publish Free/Busy for Exchange users from another organization (using the Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace cmdlet and InterOrg replication or third party solutions), it is important to remember...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2008 10:34 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Role: Client Access, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Calendaring

Updates to Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox Server Storage Cost Calculator

To read the updated Exchange 2007 Storage Cost calculator blog post and get the calculator, go HERE . All future calculator updates will be rolled into this page, sorted from newer to older. UPDATE ON 12/02/2008: Version 4.0 This release of the Storage...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2008 11:42 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Tools, Storage, Clustering

Troubleshooting top Exchange 2007 SP1 SCR issues

This blog post discusses several top issues seen to date by the Microsoft Exchange Product Support Team regarding the Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) feature introduced in Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1. We wanted to share this information as it can...

Published Wed, May 05 2008 12:12 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Clustering

Exchange 2007 SP1 Continuous Replication Disaster Recovery Decisions flowcharts

The ability to continue to provide a full service to your user community in the unlikely event of the loss of a datacentre is an increasingly common requirement. The use of Continuous Replication (CCR and SCR) with Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 is an obvious...

Published Mon, May 05 2008 11:28 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Clustering

Building Exchange Server 2007 labs/demos often? This is for you!

Hi! This is my first post to the Exchange Team Blog - hope this is of use! My name is Robert Gillies, and I'm a Senior Consultant in the Federal Civilian Practice of Microsoft Consulting Services. One of my recent projects for one of my customers...

Published Mon, May 05 2008 12:04 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Role: Client Access, Tips 'n Tricks, Setup, Role: Mailbox, Role: Edge Transport, Role: Hub Transport, Clustering

Troubleshooting Outlook RPC dialog boxes - revisited

It's been a while since we last blogged about this Outlook feature that most users feel is an error, the RPC Dialog Box. You might get a popup error that will say: Outlook is retrieving data from the Microsoft Exchange Server <Server name>....

Published Fri, May 05 2008 9:18 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Outlook

Default settings for Exchange-related virtual directories in Exchange Server 2007

One of the most common questions I'm asked is if we have any resources that document the default settings for the Exchange-related virtual directories in Exchange 2007 - specifically with regards to the authentication and SSL settings. This aims to...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2008 10:27 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Role: Client Access, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Security

Two fixes for excessive paging on Exchange 2007 servers

Mike Lagase wrote a great blog post on his blog talking about two issues (we have fixes for both) that can cause excessive paging on your Exchange 2007 servers. Those fixes are described in two KB articles: FIX: You may notice that the memory load is...

Published Fri, Dec 12 2007 7:21 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Role: Client Access, Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Role: Hub Transport

Optimizing Outlook 2007 Cache Mode Performance for a Very Large Mailbox

My mailbox size is 7.4GB. I send/receive around 200 emails a day; so that 7.4GB of email goes back several years. I don't use too many rules so most of my email ends up in my Inbox (30k items). If you have read Exchange mailbox sizing guidance , you...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2007 10:45 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Outlook

How do Exchange Server rules work?

You've been using Outlook for years now and you've probably established some delivery rules for yourself. Maybe mail from your manager is automatically routed to a subfolder of your inbox. If you're using Outlook 2003 or later, you've...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2007 10:03 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Outlook

Detecting LDAP filters that could cause Exchange 2007 setup problems

Some customers have experienced a problem where the following error is generated when installing the Mailbox role on an Exchange 2007 server (typically the first Exchange 2007 Mailbox server in the org): Exchange server address list service failed to...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2007 8:21 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Tips 'n Tricks, Setup, Role: Mailbox, Tools

Clarifying the public folder store removal on Exchange Server 2007

There's been some confusion about how to gracefully remove a public store on an Exchange 2007 server, so I want to briefly review the topic and hopefully clear up a particular point. In order to remove the store, you must follow the steps described...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2007 10:22 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox

The extended Daylight Saving Time period for the US and Canada begins this Sunday (Oct. 28 2007)

If you have not used the Time Zone Data Update Tools in your environment previously and you have users with appointments that appear to be off by one hour during the week of October 28, 2007 – November 4, 2007 then you should consider whether...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2007 9:29 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Calendaring, Tools

Moving public folder replicas from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007

We have heard from you that there hasn't been enough information on moving of public folder replicas from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007 so I wanted to provide some information to fill in the gaps. Firstly, if you have installed the Exchange 2003...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2007 12:45 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Tools

Running the Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool in report only mode

The Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool was not designed to work in a report only mode through the tool's UI. However, there is a technical work around that will allow you to run the tool in this mode and we are investigating making this an...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2007 8:13 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...