Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 has been released
It has been about a couple of months since we released Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2. About 3 years ago when we shipped Exchange Server 2007 we promised cumulative update rollups every couple of months. Keeping with that promise we have released Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (KB 971534) to the download center today. The release of the rollup via Microsoft Update will happen on November 24. Update rollups are service pack dependent, so you need to first upgrade to Exchange Server 2007 SP2 before deploying this Update

Transitioning Client Access to Exchange Server 2010
By now most of you have heard about the release of Exchange 2010.  Those of you that are upgrading from Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 or a mixture of the two, are probably curious about the client access upgrade strategy.  To satisfy your curiosity, we are releasing a series of blog articles on the subject.  The first in this series provides a summary of the steps that are required to introduce Exchange 2010 within your environment from a client access perspective.  More detailed information about the upgrade process is discussed in TechNet and within the

How to Manage Groups that I already own in Exchange 2010?
This one can be a bit counter intuitive for folks coming from any legacy version of Exchange... Issue You got your shiny new Exchange 2010 download and excitedly installed it on your 2010 hardware. You have setup all your CAS server settings, your DAG is up and running. Your pilot users have been moved over and everything went well. Now you move over the executives and not two days later they are in your office complaining that they can't manage the distribution groups that they own. They were able to do it previously but now it isn't working. A little bit of testing later and you see that they are right. You are hitting an error message in Outlook 2007 when trying to m

RBAC and the Triangle of Power
Introduction Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is the new permissions model in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. With RBAC, you don't need to modify and manage access control lists (ACLs), which was done in Exchange Server 2007 and earlier. On the flip side - as with anything new, RBAC can seem a bit intimidating at first. I am going to try an explain how to think about RBAC, and the order to create things in so that you end up with a working RBAC setup that does exactly what you want. As we go thru each piece we will be setting up a custom role so feel free to follow along with the commands in your environment. The Triangle of Power We jokingly call this image the R

Morgan Keegan & Company Cites Cost Savings as #1 Reason they are moving to Exchange 2010
By now you have seen our interviews with both Global Crossing and Lifetime Products and you've heard what excites them most about moving to Exchange 2010 àcheck out the video interviews with Global Crossing and Lifetime Products. We headed down to Memphis to visit one more  customer, Morgan Keegan & Company to get their take about why they too moved to Exchange 2010.  Morgan Keegan CIO John Threadgil