MSExchangeTeam blogged about the Rollup Update 4 that appeared for a short time in the Windows Update Site last week.

For a brief period of time on 9/9 (Tuesday), a pre-release version of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB952580) was inadvertently made available to Microsoft Update, the Microsoft Update Catalog, and WSUS servers for download. While we quickly identified and removed the update from Microsoft Update within a short period of time, some servers using these distribution methods might have detected, downloaded and/or installed this version of the update.

Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/09/11/449787.aspx

Some managed code services may not start after installing a Rollup Update in Exchange Server 2007.

If you are experiencing this issues you should look at this kb http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944752.

Glen (gsexdev.blogspot.com) demonstrated in his last blog entry how to create an OWA customized form to use Maps and StreetView, there are also pictures in his blog demonstrating the form.

For those brave souls who attended my MVP theatre talk on Friday here’s the OWA customization I demo’ed. The basics of creating custom forms are documented in the Exchange SDK . But putting this together can be a little tricky so let’s go though some of the basis’s step by step.

Firstly I wanted to create a custom form that would display a map of the contacts address information and also a Street-view of the same address information using Google’s new Streetview features that was recently released for Australia. For this I created some contact items with a Message class of IPM.Contact.Map.

Read more at source: http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/2008/09/owa-customizat...s.html

The Exchange Server documentation was updated.

You can download the Service Pack 1 Help file from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=91471

The Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Shell Help file from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=101537

How to find the Mail icon in the Control Panel in a computer running Windows Vista x64.

Read more at source: http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2008/09/05/w...a.aspx

Robert Gillies updated his script to build an Exchange 2007 lab on top of Windows Server 2008, in the following link you can download it and also get more inforamation about that script: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/09/03/449731.aspx

The Edge Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007 is a tool that takes a user through a set of interview questions regarding the proposed or current edge server deployment. The tool interviews users about their perimeter network settings as well as some questions regarding their internal deployment.

Get it here: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/catego...6.aspx

A hotfix was released to Windows Server 2003 SP2 to fix SNP issues. We can see SNP issue with Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Exchange Server 2007 during a SCR replication when there is a large amount of data to be transferred and in many other situations, in the kb some scenarios are mentioned.

Read more at source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950224

MSExchangeteam has blogged how to troubleshoot VSS backups.

There have been some blogs on VSS backups in the past. Over last few months, we have worked on several cases where troubleshooting VSS was required. Seeing that the documentation around how to troubleshoot this is somewhat lacking, we decided to put together this blog post. This post will give you VSS troubleshooting tips using publicly available tools.

Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/08/25/449684.aspx

Even when an administrator clear the option Display sender’s name on messages all messages still displaying the name of the sender.

If you are experiencing this symptom you can look at this Microsoft KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935412