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Retention Hold and Litigation Hold in Exchange 2010
In Exchange 2010, you can place a mailbox on retention hold or legal hold. Both holds serve a different purpose. It's important to understand the functionality provided by both.Retention Hold: As the...
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It Takes a Long Time…
Following our recent announcement of the release of Update Rollup 1 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 you will see we released a ton of fixes and I wanted to blog about one specifically, and maybe at...
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CalCheck - The Outlook Calendar Checking Tool
Over the past year or so I have been working on this tool - adding functionality and checks based off my experience as an Outlook engineer, and from suggestions given by other engineers. Well, this...
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Released: Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool (OCAT)
OCATDocumentationLast month we released the Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool (OCAT) on the Microsoft Download Center site.OCAT was developed by two Microsoft support engineers with over 30 years of...
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Updated Facebook Provider for Outlook Social Connector and Group Policy settings
This post describes an update to the Facebook provider for the Outlook Social Connector and the related policy settings that are available for Administrators.Outlook 2010 includes a feature called the...
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Microsoft Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool (OCAT) v2 released
OCAT downloadDocumentation downloadAs the original blog post about OCAT release was quite popular, we wanted to let you know that we have just released the version 2.0 of the tool, with many features...
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Office 365 – Password Expiration Notifications in Outlook
The Microsoft Outlook team has released updates for Outlook 2010 and 2007 that provide Office 365 users with password expiration notifications. The advance password expiry notification will be...
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Managing OAB in Exchange Server 2013
The Exchange team blog article OAB in Exchange Server 2013 introduced the new Offline Address Book (OAB) generation and distribution architecture in Exchange Server 2013. Take a few moments to visit...
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New Outlook Calendar best practices document for Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010...
For about as many years as you’ve used Outlook, you’ve likely used the guidance in the older Outlook meeting requests: Essential do’s and don’ts article. However, if you read the older document, you...
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Released: Office Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT)
On March 8th, we released the Office Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT) to the Microsoft Download Center, replacing Outlook Configuration Analyzer (OCAT), the original diagnostic tool for Microsoft...
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Outlook Connectivity to Office 365 Troubleshooter Now Available
Outlook Connectivity to O365 TroubleshooterIt is no secret that if you are an Exchange/Office 365 administrator you will no doubt have to troubleshoot Outlook connectivity at some point. Whether you...
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Outlook Mobile Update
Now you can keep valuable information at hand with the new Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile Update and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. The Outlook Mobile Update is available for Windows Mobile 6.1...
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Scheduling Meetings with Room Finder
EDIT 4/15/2010: Fixed two typos in examples.The process of finding a conference room in the building you want to meet and then hoping it is available can be a time-consuming process. Well this is all...
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Common Client Access Considerations for Outlook 2003 and Exchange 2010
There are several scenarios for consideration when deploying Exchange Server 2010 in an environment where Outlook 2003 is used. Most of these scenarios have been documented prior to the product release...
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GAL Photos: Frequently Asked Questions
In GAL Photos in Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010, I posted about the new GAL Photos feature in Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010. Since then, there have been many implementation-related questions...
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Combining Web Farm publishing with Software or Hardware Based Load Balanced...
In my post just the other day I provided a link to the new guide covering Exchange publishing via Forefront TMG or UAG. One poster followed up by asking, “How do I set things up when I have both...
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Yes Virginia, there is Exchange 2010 archive support in Outlook 2007
In Yes Virginia, there is an Exchange 2010 SP1, we announced Outlook 2007 support for Personal Archives in Exchange 2010 SP1 timeframe. This is now available in February 2011 Cumulative Update for...
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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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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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