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This August 2008, Microsoft has released an update to the Outlook Time Zone Update Tool. This new version (Version 3.0) offers, amongst others, better support for Israel and Brazil with regards to time zone handling and rebasing of calendars. The Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool utilizes the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook for rebasing operations, which is why version 2.0 of the Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool included the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook, in a redistributable format, as part of the package. A new version of the Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool was not released along with the release wave of DST updates in Aug 2008, but instead the redistributable version of the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook V3.0 was made available for download. The OutlookTimeZoneMoveLibRedist.exe is a redistributable installer that installs the assembly file Tzmovelib.dll in C:\Program Files\MsExTmz. Third-party calendar rebasing tools can use the assembly file to programmatically update calendars that are displayed incorrectly because of daylight saving time. With this assembly, developers can use the same APIs that Outlook and Exchange Server use in their calendar rebasing tools. The below steps will allow you to utilize the added support in the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook V3.0, from the Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool V2.0:

1. Install the Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool from here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941018
2. Go to the control panel, and using Add/Remove programs (found in Programs and Features in Windows Vista) and remove the Time Zone Data Update Engine for Microsoft Office Outlook.
3. Install the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook V3.0 - redist package http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ee0af8fd-bbb7-44de-be4d-f33cb1b59563&DisplayLang=en - This download contains the following file: OutlookTimeZoneMoveLibRedist.exe
4. Rebase as appropriate

Links:

• Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941018
• Outlook Time Zone Update Tool V3.0 - redist package Outlook tool: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ee0af8fd-bbb7-44de-be4d-f33cb1b59563&DisplayLang=en
• Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931667/

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The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce updates to the Exchange Server content. To see what content has changed for Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1, take a look at Exchange Server 2007 Documentation Updates. To see what content has changed for Exchange Server Analyzer, take a look at Exchange Server Analyzer Topic Updates. In particular, we would like to highlight the following new or updated topics:

• White Paper: Continuous Replication Deep Dive: Continuous replication is a key feature of Exchange Server 2007. Read about the technical details and inner workings of continuous replication technology in this white paper.
• White Paper: Planning for Large Mailboxes with Exchange 2007: Learn how to deploy large mailboxes in your environment while also achieving high performance, high availability, and rapid recovery-all at a lower cost than with Exchange 2003.

You can see these articles and other Exchange Server documentation content in the Microsoft Exchange Server TechCenter. The following downloads are also available for SP1 content:

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Help
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Shell Help

BTW, all our topics in the Exchange Library have a "Topic Last Modified" date at the top of the topic. And, if you wonder which topics apply to Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1, we now have an "Applies to" tag for Exchange 2007 content. You can now annotate topics in the Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 documentation. Scroll to the Community Content section at the end of any topic in the Exchange Server Library, and click Add Community Comment. You'll be asked to sign in with your Windows Live ID and to register as a participant. Then, share your insights with the Exchange community.

If you've not heard; Apple released iPhone 2.0 today which includes a software update to the existing iPhones in the market (yes, we mentioned it when it was announced as well). We're thrilled to add them to the family of Exchange ActiveSync licensees that enable all sorts of devices to connect to Exchange Server. For those of you that manage Exchange Servers this means you may see some new devices connecting and we wanted to give you a few notes about what to expect. What iPhone looks like from an Administrator's perspective From the server side, you need to look at a user's device from the Exchange Management console: From the user screen you can scroll though any devices the users has connected to their account (iPhone circled here - note that the version number will vary by iPhone firmware version, we took this screenshot with beta firmware): Users using OWA will see their iPhones showing up in the Options > Mobile Device screen as shown in the image below: Note: If you want to look for connections in your IIS server logs you can do a string search for "Apple-iPhone". How do I find out more info on what policies the iPhone supports, how it connects to your server and other administrative questions? Apple has published an Enterprise Deployment Guide for organizations that are deploying iPhones. This is where you should look for Administrator info on the technical side of what Apple has created. How can I see how many iPhones are connecting to my server and which users have them? To see how many users have iPhones and who they are, go though the following steps: First you need to open an Exchange Management Shell window and execute the following command:

export-activesynclog -Filename:<IISlog dir>\*.log -outputpath:<output path>

An example is shown below though we just parsed one of the logs for simplicity. Now open the file Users.csv in Excel. Below you can see the first three columns of this spreadsheet that we're sorted by column C (circled). You can see that by doing this you will be able to see all the iPhones grouped together and their owners will be listed in column A (circled): What are you experiences? So now you know what the iPhone will look like connected to your servers using Exchange ActiveSync (instead of IMAP) and how to find out who is using them in your organization. We're glad to have Apple connecting their devices to Exchange Server and hope you have fun using these tools to stay informed about when iPhones connect to your Exchange Server. We're always looking to hear how people are using our technology and we'd love to hear your experiences; are you seeing iPhones show up in your organization? What experiences are your users having? Let us know. -

EDIT 7/9/2008: We have updated the troubleshooting section. Download information for Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2007 SP1 The update is live at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=63E7F26C-92A8-4264-882D-F96B348C96AB&displaylang=en Related KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=949870 Download information for Update Rollup 7 for Exchange 2007 RTM The update is live at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=086A2A13-A1DE-4B1D-BD12-B148BFD2DAFA&displaylang=en Related KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=953469 The above update Rollups will also be released to Microsoft update. Fixes for security issue detailed in MS08-039 A security issue has been identified in Exchange Server 2007 as documented in http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-039.mspx.

• Customers running Exchange Server 2007 RTM need to apply Update Rollup 7 for Exchange 2007 RTM to address the security issue.
• Customers running Exchange Server 2007 SP1 need to apply Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2007 SP1 to address the security issue.

Rollup installation troubleshooting Seeing that those Rollups contain security fixes, we expect that a lot of people will be applying them. There are two possible issues that we would like you to be aware of:

• Exchange 2007 managed services might time out during certificate revocation checks
• During the installation of the Rollup, you might encounter a message that you have to wait until the disk space calculation is completed. This message will clear by itself and then you will be able to proceed further. We will permanently resolve this in the future.
• When installing a Rollup, we recommend you use the same account that you used to install Exchange Server. If you are using a different account, that account needs to have Local Administrator rights as well as rights to read Active Directory on Exchange object as well as server level (as the update needs to determine which roles are installed on the server). Not having required permissions can lead to OWA not being updated correctly and displaying a blank page after update has completed.

Performance analysis and troubleshooting can be a very complex and daunting area with Exchange Server. Being able to quickly and accurately identify and resolve issues requires a thorough understanding of the most interesting and important performance counters. With the July content refresh we've just released new content detailing these counters and many of the important thresholds to be aware of. The content is broken out by counters that are common across Exchange roles and counters that are specific to each role. A big thanks goes to Mike Lagase, John Rodriguez, and Scot Landry for their help in pulling all of this information together. Check it out here in the Monitoring Without System Center Operations Manager: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=122254

Recently we have published the updated Exchange Developer Roadmap over on Exchangedev blog. This covers Exchange Server beyond Exchange Server 2007. You can read about multiple things there, including:

• APIs that Will Be Removed
• APIs Moving To Extended Support

If you are developing for Exchange Server, please make sure to check it out. - The Exchange Team

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