Over the years that OWA has been developed we’ve kept our focus on improving user productivity through supporting many of the timesaving features present in Outlook and other Windows applications. Unfortunately many users don’t realize that these features are available in OWA since features like hot-keys aren’t often available in web applications. I think we…
Year: 2005
On Exchange ActiveSync and our partners
Hello, I am Ed Hott, the Director of Business Development for Microsoft Exchange with primary responsibility for the Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol licensing. There have been a few questions recently around our work with partners in licensing the ActiveSync protocol so I want to provide some information that I hope will clear things up. We license…
New rules synch behavior in Exchange 2003
A solution is now available for a problem which might be encountered when moving a large number of mailboxes between Exchange servers (Knowledge Base article 899328). When you move several mailboxes from one Exchange server to another there may be a delay in synching the rules on the new mailbox and the mailbox rules…
Exchange Insider articles are now live on the Exchange TechCenter!
I am very happy to announce that Exchange Insider articles are now live on the Exchange Server TechCenter site. There are several articles that have been published, and many more are to come, so keep checking for updates! Let me also give you a bit of history behind this new content: Over 3…
Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is here!
We are happy to announce that Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 is now available for download. The RTM version number is 7638.2. The service pack and documentation are available at www.microsoft.com/exchange. The direct download links for the different languages are: English – http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/D/A/2DA38F90-A580-46F7-8812-63DCEC999FE5/E3SP2ENG.EXE Italian – http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/2/3/D239E44A-C722-448D-9BA0-01354F048498/E3SP2ITA.EXE Japanese – http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/A/7/CA7424F0-FFBF-400F-982D-612F118E5744/E3SP2JPN.EXE French – http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/5/9/4593BAA1-605E-4842-BC3B-8F051E8E8B9D/E3SP2FRA.EXE Chinese-Taiwan – http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/6/8/96878FB8-C723-49E9-BAE0-CF33728CC93A/E3SP2CHT.EXE German -…
How ESM Matches Public Folder Objects to Directory Objects
I recently worked on a few support cases where questions came up on “what exactly happens” when we use the Exchange System Manager (ESM) to pull up properties of public folders. How does the ESM find a matching public folder directory object in Active Directory, to display the public folder email addresses? In order to…
Sender ID
You may already know that Exchange 2003 SP2 includes a new feature for SenderID support. SenderID (http://www.microsoft.com/senderid) is the e-mail authentication framework that targets one of the most common security issues in the world of SMTP message transfer, which is spoofing. In short Sender ID allows administrators of an e-mail domain to protect the identity…
Looking for customers under 500 employees/users for the Exchange 12 TAP program
We have a few openings on the E12 Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for some small and medium companies (less than 500 employees/users). The E12 TAP program is designed to validate Exchange 12 by having customers test and deploy pre-release builds of the next version of Exchange. This gives participants the opportunity to provide design feedback to…
Special invitation for EHLO readers to the E12 Developer Conference!
On November 7th and 8th 2005, we will be holding a Developer Conference on campus in Redmond WA that is targeted to our key Exchange ISV and Developer communities. The conference will provide selected ISVs with an early look at the “E12” investment areas and will provide you with an early look at the “E12”…
Entourage 2004 SP2
The Entourage team has blogged recently about the release of Entourage 2004 SP2: What’s new in Entourage 2004 SP2 SP2 details: Enforcing Exchange Permissions within Entourage Entourage 2004 SP2: Common GAL issues – KC Lemson