This is an update to the Beta 2 version of a 2007 Microsoft Office system product. Beta 2 Technical Refresh updates are compatible with the Microsoft Windows Vista Release Candidate 1 pre-release product. You can also test with it the benefits of deploying Exchange 2007 with Outlook 2007.

 Download it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa...ang=en

Updated knowledge base article on troubleshooting DNS related Exchange issues with lots of references to other KB articles, troubleshooting and diagnostic tools and relevant event IDs details.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322856/en-us

The Office 2007 Beta Resource Kit is now on the web where you can find lots of interesting information, with preparation for future deployment.

I found this Outlook security articles there that might especially interest you Exchange admins.

Read about it here:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library...r=true

Exchange 2000/3 has its own performance counters but they seem cryptic when you look at them for the first time. Now. for what is probably not the first time, the Microsoft Exchange team reveals the secrets behind these counters

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/09/11/428871.aspx

As you might have heard the RTM version of Exchange 2007 will be 64-bit only. Why 64-bit? Better use of RAM and improved I/O. This taked us further away from the limitations originally imposed by the original PC architecture.

Read more here:

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/09/08/428860.aspx

This blog post covers common recipient management scenarios in Exchange Server 2007 using Exchange Management Console (”console”), and the one-liners behind the scenes - single-line commands in Exchange Management Shell (”shell” or “EMS based on Windows PowerShell”) executed to achieve the thing. Now the console exposes one-liners for each wizard after successful completion.

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/09/05/428833.aspx

I missed this when it was posted, but still it seems too useful not to let you guys know about it. As you might well know by know PSTs are bad for you in almost any kind of Exchange sized shop. Jeremiah Cook cooked for you a nice script to remove PSTs from user profiles. Read all about it here:

http://jeremiahcook.blogspot.com/

Download the script here:

 http://www.ccs5000.com/scripts/cleanpstkeys.txt

This will probably be much easier in Exchange 2007, but since it will probably be a while before people start deploying it, the Microsoft Exchange Team releases the recipe for building your own mobile-device-BlackBerry-resembling-application, including some sample code. read all about it here:

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/09/01/428818.aspx