Starting with Exchange 2007, installation of the current version of Office Filter Packs is a prerequisite. For Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 RTM, the pre-req was 2007 Office System Converter: Microsoft Filter Pack. In Exchange 2010 SP1, this was updated to Office 2010 Filter Packs. The filters are used by Exchange Search to index email attachments on Mailbox servers and by the transport rules agent to scan attachments on transport servers. The filters are also important for discovery searches in Exchange 2010 – Multi-Mailbox Search uses content indexes generated by Exchange Search.

In Exchange 2010 RTM and Exchange 2007, you need to register the IFilters with Exchange Search (for Exchange 2007, see ‘KB 944516 How to register Filter Pack IFilters with Exchange Server 2007′). In Exchange 2010 SP1, IFilters included in the Office 2010 Filter Pack are automatically registered by Exchange Setup. You must register any third-party filters you install.

An updated filter pack, Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office Filter Pack 2010 (KB2460041) 64-bit Edition is now available on Download Center. The Filter Pack has been tested with Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007. The updated filter pack doesn’t have any fixes or updates that impact Exchange scenarios or functionality. If you have the RTM version of Office 2010 filter packs installed, you can update it but it’s not required. For new installs, we recommend going with the current versions.

Source: Bharat Suneja

Exchange Server

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

Exchange Server 2010

Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1

We are excited to announce that the Remote Connectivity Analyzer tool has been updated! In addition to the standard set of connectivity tests, we’ve added an Office 365 tab and a Single Sign-On test. The new Single Sign-On test will validate users’ ability to log on to Office 365 with their on-premises credentials. It also validates some basic Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS) configurations.

Here’s an overview and video demo.

Video: RCA ADFS Intro

In addition to the new tests, you will see the same great tests that were always available.

The Remote Connectivity Analyzer is available at https://www.TestExchangeConnectivity.com/.

Tip: you can also get here by going to exrca.com. Same site… just fewer characters to type.

We’re always excited to hear from you – please send us your feedback to ExRCAFB address.

Remote Connectivity Analyzer Release Notes (Also available here)

Version 1.3 (June 2011)

Known Issues

• A couple of the tests allow you to "Ignore trusts for SSL". Checking this option only tells the tool to not fail if the certificate you are using is not in the list of Trusted Root Certificates – for example, if you were using a certificate from your own Windows CA. This option does not allow the test to be completed over a non-SSL connection. If you do not have a certificate and want to test whether Exchange ActiveSync works over port 80 – this tool cannot perform this validation. We will not be able to add this feature in the future.

  Note: Due to limitations in the RPC API, we are currently unable to ignore the trust requirement for SSL for the RPC over HTTP / Outlook Anywhere tests. We are looking into alternatives for future releases.

• Copy to clipboard doesn’t work in Firefox by default (You have to enable it)
• Some localized strings are in English if they were modified during this update. These strings will be localized in the future.
• While performing tests, the stage of testing will no longer update while the test is being performed. This is a necessary change for the moment due to some underlying changes to the Remote Connectivity Analyzer code. Your full test results will be available once the test is complete.

New / Modified Features

• Microsoft Exchange Remote Connectivity analyzer is now the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer. The future direction for this tool is to incorporate more products as we have done with Office 365. Thus dropping "Exchange" from the name made sense. There are still lots of strings where you’ll see ExRCA or Exchange; we’re cleaning these up in a future release.
• Tabbed user-interface to support multiple products and Office 365.
• Office 365 Single sign-on validation. This test allows you to validate identity federated scenarios with Office 365. Specifically, this new test targets the "Basic Authentication" federated scenario where a client sends credentials to Office 365 which in turn validates them against the on-premises ADFS server.
• Fixed an issue where ExRCA wouldn’t validate certain top-level domains such as .travel and .museum.
• Added code so if the Enter key is pressed in the wizard, the default action is "next" instead of "previous". Previously, this didn’t work for browsers other than IE.
• Better cross-browser support, fully supporting IE8-IE9 standards mode as well as other major browsers.

Source: MSExchange Team

We have discovered an issue impacting some customers who have installed Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 into their Exchange environment and as a result have removed SP1 RU4 from Download Center and recommend customers do not proceed with any planned deployments of SP1 RU4.

A small number of customers have reported when the Outlook client is used to move or copy a folder that subfolders and content for the moved folder are deleted. After investigation we have determined that the folder and item contents do not appear in the destination folder as expected but may be recovered from the Recoverable Items folder (what was previously known as Dumpster in older versions of Exchange) from the original folder. This behavior occurs due to a customer requested change in SP1 RU4 which allowed deleted Public Folders to be recovered. Outlook and Exchange are not correctly processing the folder move and copy operations causing the folder contents to appear to be deleted. OWA and Exchange Web Services clients are not affected by this change and process the folder move or copy actions correctly.

We will be providing an updated Exchange fix which prevents the apparent content loss in SP1 RU5, which is scheduled for release in August. In addition, we are also working with the Outlook development team to examine their code for proper behavior and identify if a fix is necessary from the client. If you have already deployed SP1 RU4, we recommend obtaining an Interim Update that resolves this issue.

If you are a customer seeing this issue or would like to receive the Interim Update, please contact Microsoft Customer Support.

We are commencing an internal review of our processes to determine how we can best prevent issues such as this one arising in future.

Once again, on behalf of the Exchange Product Group, I want to thank you for the patience you continue to show us while we work through these issues. We deeply regret the impact that this issue has had on you, our customers, and as always, we continue to identify ways to better serve your needs through our regular servicing releases.

Source: MSEXCHANGE TEAM

Πρόσφατα, αντιμετώπισα ένα θέμα το οποίο ήταν κατά κάποιο τρόπο θα το έλεγα «κουφό». Μετά από καθαρή εγκατάσταση SBS 2011, ενώ όλα πήγαν καλά με την εγκατάσταση και ενεργοποιούμε τον SBS 2011 όλα κανονικά χωρίς κανένα απολύτως θέμα, πάμε λοιπόν να ανοίξουμε την Κονσόλα διαχείρισης του Exchange 2010 SP1. Άμεσα, εμφανίστηκε το παράθυρο το οποίο μας έλεγε ότι ο Exchange server θέλει ενεργοποίηση «activation».

Το παρόν πρόβλημα είχε εμφανιστή και στον SBS 2008 το έχω αναφέρει εδώ.
Η αιτία του παραπάνω προβλήματος εμφανίζετε σε 2 περιπτώσεις:

• Μετά από repair των Exchange server roles.
• Μετά από αποτυχημένη εγκατάσταση του SBS Setup 2011.

Το παρόν θέμα επιλύετε με το ακόλουθο Hotfix KB 2527626 οποίο είναι διαθέσιμο και επιλύει το παρόν πρόβλημα KB 2527626.

Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 to the Download Center.

This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of RU3. For a list of changes included in this rollup, see KBA 2509911 Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3. We’d like to specifically call out the following fixes which are included in this release:

• 2531208 You cannot synchronize a folder hierarchy by using Outlook for Mac 2011 in an Exchange Server 2007 SP3 environment
• 2528437 EWS applications cannot connect to Exchange Server 2007 servers after you make changes on accepted domains
• 2521063 You are incorrectly displayed as a meeting organizer after you synchronize the meeting by using your mobile device in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 is currently scheduled to release in August 2011.

Source: MSExchange Team

As more and more of you evaluate and deploy the email archiving, retention and discovery capabilities of Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange Online, we understand that Personal Folders (.pst files) remain a challenge for you. You have told us that having the ability to search your network to discover and then import .pst files across your environment is critical, and that you need an admin-driven and straightforward tool for doing these things.

We’re excited to announce that later this year we’ll be adding a new tool to our already rich portfolio of planning and deployment tools. This new tool, PST Capture, will be downloadable and free, and will enable you to discover .pst files on your network and then import them into both Exchange Online (in Office 365) and Exchange Server 2010 on-premises. PST Capture will be available later this year. It doesn’t replace the New-MailboxImportRequest cmdlet that exists already for importing known .pst files into Exchange Server, but instead works in parallel to enable you to embark on a systematic search and destroy mission to rid yourself of the dreaded .pst scourge <*pirate growl*>.

We’ll make more details available as we approach the release of the tool, but given the high demand for this capability, we wanted to let you know that we are working on this for you.

Source: Exchange Team

Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for both Office 2010 and the Office Filter Pack 2010. While the first one interests a wider audience, the latter is only for Exchange admins & is only used as a prerequisite for Exchange 2010 Hub and Mailbox role installations. The Filter Pack is used to “filter” Office document contents and help with indexing it, for a better search result.

Download the Office 2010 SP1 here (32-bit) and here (64 bit).

Download the Office Filter Pack SP1 here

Enjoy

The MOF Technology Library provides guidance and best practices to help you better understand how to use MOF with Microsoft technologies. The newest component of the library is the first Technical Service guide and workbook. These resources provide the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep technologies running smoothly so IT can deliver the services an organization expects.

Files in this download

The links in this section correspond to files available for this download. Download the files appropriate for you.

Reliability Workbook for Active Directory Certificate Services.zip  Download
Reliability Workbook for Active Directory Domain Services.zip  Download
Reliability Workbook for DirectAccess.zip  Download 
Reliability Workbook for Exchange 2010 Client Access and Transport.zip Download
Reliability Workbook for Exchange 2010 Mailbox Services.zip Download
Reliability Workbook for Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010.zip Download
Reliability Workbook for Hyper-V.zip Download 
Reliability Workbook for Internet Information Services.zip Download
Reliability Workbook for Microsoft Application Virtualization.zip Download
Reliability Workbook for Network Load Balancing.zip Download
Reliability Workbook for SQL Server 2008.zip Download
Reliability Workbook for System Center Configuration Manager.zip Download
Reliability Workbook for System Center Operations Manager 2007 and R2.zip Download
Reliability Workbook for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.zip Download
Reliability Workbook for User State Virtualization.zip Download
Reliability Workbook for Windows Server 2008 DNS Server.zip Download
Reliability Workbook for Windows Server 2008 R2.zip Download
Reliability Workbooks – All.zip Download
Technical Service Reliability Guide for Dynamic Datacenter.zip Download

Overview

Administrator’s Guide for Reliability Workbooks. This administrator’s guide provides an overview to help you customize these technologies for your organization.

MOF Reliability Workbook for Active Directory Certificate Services. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Active Directory Certificate Services running smoothly.

MOF Reliability Workbook for Active Directory Domain Services. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Active Directory running smoothly.

New! MOF Reliability Workbook for DirectAccess. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep DirectAccess running smoothly.

New! MOF Reliability Workbook for Exchange 2010 Client Access and Transport. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Microsoft Exchange 2010 Client Access and Transport running smoothly.

New! MOF Reliability Workbook for Exchange 2010 Mailbox Services. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Microsoft Exchange 2010 Mailbox Services running smoothly.

New! MOF Reliability Workbook for Forefront Unified Access Gateway. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Microsoft Forefront® Unified Access Gateway (UAG) running smoothly.

MOF Reliability Workbook for Hyper-V. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Hyper-V running smoothly.

MOF Reliability Workbook for Internet Information Services. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Internet Information Services running smoothly.

MOF Reliability Workbook for Microsoft Application Virtualization. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) running smoothly.

MOF Reliability Workbook for Network Load Balancing. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Network Load Balancing running smoothly.

New! MOF Reliability Workbook for SQL Server 2008. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep SQL Server® 2008 running smoothly.

MOF Reliability Workbook for System Center Configuration Manager. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep System Center Configuration Manager running smoothly.

MOF Reliability Workbook for System Center Operations Manager 2007 and R2. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep System Center Operations Manager running smoothly.

MOF Reliability Workbook for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep System Center Virtual Machine Manager running smoothly.

MOF Reliability Workbook for User State Virtualization. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep User State Virtualization (USV) running smoothly.

MOF Reliability Workbook for Windows Server 2008 DNS Server. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Windows Server 2008 Domain Name System (DNS) Server running smoothly.

MOF Reliability Workbook for Windows Server 2008 R2. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Windows Server 2008 R2 running smoothly.

Technical Service Reliability Guide and Reliability Workbook for the Dynamic Datacenter. This newest addition to the MOF Technology Library provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep technical services running smoothly so you can deliver the services your organization expects. The workbook, along with the accompanying administrator’s guide, focuses on defining service health considerations for the Dynamic Datacenter. Use this guidance to achieve a reliable and effectively monitored and maintained Dynamic Datacenter.

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11789

Hi everyone,

The Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010, Service Pack 1 has just been released today 22/06/2011

Overview :
Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 since the software was released.  Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1′ for more details. In particular we would like to specifically call out the following fixes which are included in this release:

• 2519359 Unable to Create a ‘Reply With’ Rule on Public Folders Even With Owner and Send As Permissions
• 2394554 Generating DSN fails if original mail uses non-support encoding charset.
• 2490134 Outlook 2007 does not deliver "Delayed Delivery" Messages against an Exchange 2010 Server in Online mode with any additional Transport loaded in the Outlook Profile

Download it from :
Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack1
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26554