Next week is Penton Media’s twice-annual Connections conference. Sporting separate tracks and many dedicated sessions on Exchange, LYNC, SharePoint, Windows, ASP.Net, and Visual Studio; it is one of the best attended technical conferences held in the United States. If you read technical blogs, magazines, e-zines, or websites; many of the names you know as authors of  

Arguably the best feature introduced in Outlook 2010 was support for multiple Exchange mailboxes within a single Outlook profile. Before we begin discussing that feature, let’s introduce a couple of concepts. The first is called "message fidelity". It’s fun to say. :) The basic concept is that a message created by Outlook can have many attributes  

Disks get bigger. Data storage requirements grow. Employees don’t want to delete anything – because who knows – someday they may need this information again. Companies don’t want to delete intermediate work product because they may need to prove something in court one day. Litigation of all types requires discovery of stored information, proof of  

In Exchange 2003, Microsoft introduced RPC/HTTP in order to provide a mechanism for computers "outside the firewall" to easily connect to the Exchange server "inside the firewall". In a nutshell, the protocol works by encapsulating (enclosing, wrapping) the difficult part of the connection (the RPC part) inside of the easy part of the connection (the  

Earlier this week, at TechEd in Atlanta, Greg Taylor of the Exchange Product Team introduced the upcoming Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2010. As part of that presentation, Greg shared that we can expect it before the end of this calendar year. At just about the same time that Greg was making his presentation,  

Email over the Internet is basically insecure. Let’s talk about why, and what we can do about it. Email over the Internet uses a protocol called SMTP – the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. And really, it is quite simple. SMTP was originally defined in a documented called RFC 821, which was released in August of  

Microsoft’s Exchange team invested a great deal of time and effort in both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 in order to reduce the input-output (I/O) load generated by Exchange on its disk subsystem and to change the I/O profile so that Exchange’s database engine (called ESE) would generate large sequential I/O requests (as opposed to  

In Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft introduced a new search capability, which they titled “Multi-Mailbox Search”. However, the icon in the Exchange Control Panel used to access the feature is labeled Discovery, so the feature is most commonly referred to as Discovery Search. With this capability, a user who has the appropriate permissions can execute searches  

In my May EMO article (Exchange Server 2010 and Archive Folders), I discussed the availability of the new personal archive that is available for each mailbox in Exchange Server 2010. In my July article (Exchange Server 2010 and Large Mailboxes), I continued discussing some of the enhancements that were made to Exchange Server 2010, including  

When setting up Outlook in cached mode, a common “Synchronization Failed” error is 0x8004010f – which means “address list not found” (the technical description of this is MAPI_E_NOTFOUND). There are three very common issues that may cause this: 1] You haven’t waited long enough! Unless you manually download a pre-created address book, it can take