Our blogoversary is coming up - have any questions on Exchange 12?

Thanks all for the questions, I promise to have some answers soon, I got caught up taking care of other things =)

Will there be a way to restrict certain groups or users within AD from receiving e-mail from specific SMTP relay servers? This has been an issue since the server that relays our Internet e-mail looks no different to Exchange than the server that relays our internally generated application e-mail.

I see lots of good questions here, but where are the answers? Weren't they supposed to be posted feb 9th? <br> <br>Thanks for an excellent blog! <br>David

Hello,

I have a couple questions. Will automatic Directory Access detection cross AD Site boundaries so they do not have to manually added in?

As for store size, I know they'll be some archiving built in but has there been discussions to allow customized Attachment Criteria (Types, size, age) to be compressed in the EDB and STM databases to help control store growth? I know they'll be a performance hit but Exchange has fast become I/O and Disk bound (not processor).

thanks,
Larry Heier

- Policy based definition of default mailbox folder permissions, e.g. Calender - default - reviewed
- Enhanced possibilities for the sender to track messages (not mail based!), for read, delivered, forwared to, replied,...
- Enhanced auditing capabilities
- GUI to customize quota messages :-)
- Improved inter-org Free/Busy replication (not MAPI based! preferred SMTP)
- Log shipping
- Smartcard authentication for OWA and Outlook with RPC over http (alternatives to basic authentication)
- Customizable global address list view (change shown columns, size of columns, ...), not sure if this is pure server or a MAPI limitation ...
- MSI based installation
- Extend CDOEXM
- Give CDOEX to bcc field

I just ran into the 32K limit for rules on the server - I have extensive rules set up in my standalone Outlook to admin email coming in from over 8 different accounts and pre-sort it into folders. The 32K limit whacked my number of rules at about 1/4 the number I have defined. Now I can clean up a few, and rename them to be shorter, but that's still not going to ge me down even to 1/2 my original number of rules. What a pain!

PerfMon:Are there improvements to track Client Usage ?. Currently there is no way to find out, how a client uses the Exchange Server (Number of Accesses, Bytes transferred between Outlook/Exchange). With E2003/olk2003 you added a counte for RPCdelay. With POP3/IMAP4/RPCoverhTTP, i can use IISLogs to track down the usage per user.

IMF: Will there be a option to configure the SCL Level to move a messageto JunkMail per Store, per User or per group instead of "global".

ActiveSync: Inbox, calendar and contacts are not enough. What abouts tasks, gal etc. (I know thats more a PocketPC issue).

Store: 16 GBLimit. Get rid of that with E12 or the next E200/2003 Service Pack. Please increase it to a higher value (maybe 32GB, 60 GB or so) Even SmallBusiness needs more that 16GB storage. This limit is nos nearly 10 years unchanged :-)

What additional features are being considered for OWA? A Hotmail-like storage meter would be divine!

I would like to see answers to some of the above questions. =)

Hi,

I´d like to have the possibility easiely to define new views to the GAL. For example the secretary - group only should have a Gal with Display names, Email-Adresses and Telephone numbers, the adminstrators should see more attributes (alias or prvate phone numbers).