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Year: 2010
Call Answering Rules (Part 2): Call Answering Conditions
In Exchange 2010, users can easily create call answering rules to have a call answered based on the specified conditions. Users can create rules to answer calls from specified callers or Contacts in a certain way, handle calls differently based on their availability (Free/Busy status) or time of day. The call answering rule will only…
Fixed: Message size issue in Outlook 2010 Beta
The Outlook team recently reported an issue on their blog about message sizes in the Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta. A bug in the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta increases the message size of some e-mail messages sent from Outlook 2010 Beta. The Office team has been hard at work building a fix for this issue, and…
How to recreate the legacy Exchange Virtual Directories in Exchange 2010?
The Exchange 2010 install of the CAS role includes the installation of the legacy Exchange Virtual Directories. The Exchange, Public and Exchweb Virtual Directories are placed and configured directly in the IIS metabase, therefore these Virtual Directories are only local to the Server and no longer objects located in Active Directory. Additionally, the Exchange 2010…
What’s new with Exchange 2010 languages support?
With the launch of Exchange 2010, we have introduced a new way to manage the set of languages available for Exchange. In previous versions of Exchange, you had one server language per DVD. In Exchange 2010, we have changed to a new language neutral design. This allows us to release all available languages in a…
Troubleshooting Exchange 2010 Management Tools startup issues
EDIT 12/7/2010: For additional help resolving those issues, please see our newer blog post Resolving WinRM errors and Exchange 2010 Management tools startup failures. In this blog post, we will be highlighting some of the most common errors that may be seen when attempting to open the Exchange Management tools (Exchange Management Console and Exchange…
Triaging Exchange Performance issues related to Active Directory (AD) Performance (including Networking and DNS performance)
In many organizations the skill sets that administer Exchange, Active Directory (AD), Domain Naming System (DNS), and the network infrastructure are often segregated. Since Exchange is heavily dependent on communication with AD and that communication must traverse the network, the ability for the Exchange Administrator to have a basic understanding of how each of these…
New Exchange 2010 Webcasts and Videos
The new Exchange 2010 webcast series is live! Register to attend in-person via Live Meeting or download the recorded video or podcast. A full schedule of topics and presenters is below. Each webcast is 60min in length. Looking for something shorter? We also have a new series of “How Do I” videos dedicated to Exchange…
Released: Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2
Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (KB 972076) to the download center. In addition to bug fixes reported by customers we have added new rules to the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer to check the health of your system. Starting this rollup, customers who wish to deploy…
Interception and Redirection of Messages Using Transport Rules or Journaling
When looking for Exchange controls to copy messages for regulatory compliance needs, you may have come across both Transport Rules and Journaling and wondered, “Which one best serves the needs of my organization?” Both features have the capability to intercept and copy messages to another mailbox, but they differ in how they intercept messages and…