We are excited about the Exchange 2010 developer experience and we think you will be too. Over the next two weeks we'll be doing six webcasts filled with information to help our partners and customers understand what Exchange 2010 means for them. David, Chris and I just posted an introductory video on Channel 9 to give you an overview of why we're excited about Exchange 2010 and show off a cool application built on Exchange 2010 and the Exchange Web Services API. Check out the video and then plan to attend the upcoming webcasts, where we will go much deeper into the technical details that you'll want to know as you think about moving your applications to Exchange 2010 and Exchange Web Services.

We are happy to announce that Exchange 2010 is Code Complete! Our senior leadership team has signed off on the final code, and it has been sent to our early adopters for one final look before its public release. This Release to Manufacturing (RTM) milestone means we are on our way to general availability and the launch at Tech·Ed Europe 2009 (http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/) in early November.

This is a part 2 of blog posts on this subject, you can read part 1 here.

Within the first part of this post, I showed you had to remove the Reply-All functionality via GPO. At its core the process is relatively straight forward (obtain Outlook ADM templates, define policies, link and deploy it). However you have to take some things within this article at "face value". Specifically, the values I provided for the Command Bar ID as well as the values for disabling the keyboard shortcuts within the respective policies.

Just recently I was speaking to a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE) who had just returned home from a rather arduous onsite dispatch. While onsite he was tasked with unwinding a phenomenon commonly referred to as a "Reply-All" storm (defined below). This task had been so tedious that he half-jokingly mentioned that he was thinking about submitting a formal Design Change Request to the Exchange/Outlook Product Groups with a proposal to remove Reply-All functionality from within Outlook. Well this got me thinking... "could the removal of Reply-All functionality actually be done with the tools at an Administrator's immediate disposal today"? Eventually curiosity got the best of me and I started performing some basic research on the issue. Throughout the course of this research I found a jumbled set of different articles and blog posts that appeared rather half baked in scope to me. That being said, what did become abundantly clear was that there were a significant number of administrators (as well as standard users) who have expressed interest in this functionality and have actually been looking for it for some time.