Exchange 2010 SP1 Help Updated (Feb2011)

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Michel de Rooij

The Exchange 2010 SP1 help file has been updated (February 22th, 2010). You can download it here.

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Role Calculator 14.4

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Michel de Rooij

Missed this one, but apparantly the Microsoft Exchange Team silently released a small update of the Exchange Mailbox Role Calculator, bringing it to version 14.4.

This version includes the following fixes since 14.2:

Fixed stretched DAG scenario that had one database copy in each datacenter not reporting results due to new copy validation check
Fixed secondary datacenter log disk calculations to correctly calculate the formatted disk space
Fixed Table headers in the Storage Design tab to show disk count / Secondary datacenter
Fixed two-node stretched DAG scenario that resulted in calculator not reporting results due to new copy validation check

You can download the calculator here, consult the changeblog here or read through the usage instructions here.

Outlook 2007 personal archives issue, fix in Feb’11 CU

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Michel de Rooij

The Exchange team put a notice up today on their website on an important update for Outlook 2007 regarding personal archive support on Exchange 2010. Unfortunately, the post doesn’t contain any information regarding the issue itself, only that it may result in inaccessible archives. The fix will be included in the February 2011 Cumulative Update for Office 2007, which is to be released later this February.

This Outlook 2007 personal archive support is becoming some story. After the the initial update enabling this functionality, Outlook 2007 Cumulative Update of December (kb2412171), the update was re-released in January to include 3 fixes (see kb2485531). Now we can expect another fix for an undisclosed issue.

I suggest keeping an eye on the Outlook team blog for updates regarding this issue.