More Exchange 2010 resources

This link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd185494.aspx provides a lot of information about Exchange Server 2010

You will most likely bang your head against your keyboard a couple of times when playing around and try to do things.
Exchage 2010 forums is a good place to get help and provide help to peers http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/threads

Exchange 14, sorry. Exchange Server 2010

For you that have been waiting on the next version of Exchange Server, you can stop waiting and instead read and download it from http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010.
And yes the name will be Exchange Server 2010.
There is so much new cool and good stuff in there so start reading the help file and follow the link above for more info.

Direct download link is http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1898ed2c-2f88-48ac-824e-d3d20fad77d7

Exchange monitoring tools

Ever wanted to know what users doing to your Exchange server? If you're a serious admin you should want to know.
Most common is to use performance monitor to monitor all kinds of statistics and how much pressure there is on your Exchange server. You can for sure see how many users and how much load they generate on your server, this is all good but you cannot see what individual users are doing to your server which is really nice in case you need to troubleshoot for example performance issues.
Luckily there exists tools out there that monitoring MAPI clients in real time (well almost anyway) and the best thing is that they are free of charge.

Microsoft has one tool called "Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor" or ExMon for short.
It has been around for a couple of years. It can monitor Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 and in the latest version even Exchange 2007.
Read more about the tool on Technet http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb508855.aspx and the download link is http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9a49c22e-e0c7-4b7c-acef-729d48af7bc9

Unfortunate there seems to be something wrong with the download and you will not get the latest version that works with Exchange 2007, but I can only guess that this little glitch will be corrected shortly.

Recently I came across an almost identical tool "ExInsight for Microsoft Exchange".

You can read more about it and download it from http://www.bitrunes.com/

Both tools has there advanteges so there is no number one, they simply have different featue sets.

AOL and OCS 2007 R2 edge problem

Some people have problem to get the federation with AOL going when they use OCS 2007 R2. This problem is now resolved. Check out this article on how to configure your x64 windows to make the federation work.
http://blogs.msdn.com/scottos/archive/2009/04/03/resolved-ocs-2007-r2-pic-fails-against-aol.aspx

Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 is on its way

In a few days Microsoft will release Rollup 7 for Exchange 2007 SP1.

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960384 for more info about this rollup.