I’ve posted several IMF-related blog postings in the past — here , here , and here . In these posts, I’ve focused mainly on the gateway behavior of the IMF. This is because that’s really what the IMF is, of course… just the gateway behavior. But when...

Every now and then, people ask about one (or all) of the system-related mailboxes on Exchange 2003 servers. There are actually three in particular that people frequently notice and confuse: SystemMailbox{guid} , System Attendant Mailbox , and SMTP (servername...

This post is a follow-on post to the SystemMailbox post from last week. Here I’m talking about System Attendant mailbox in Exchange 200x. System Attendant mailbox What is it and what is it used for? Each Exchange 200x server has one (and hopefully...

Since I've posted a number of times about OPATH filters for Exchange 2007 and RecipientFilter parameter for EAP/AL/GAL/DDG objects, it's only fair that I get a lot of email asking me questions about how to use it, how to convert old-style LDAP filters...

Recently I've gotten several questions about the "-ApplyMandatoryProperties" parameter on Set-Mailbox. Here's a quick overview of this parameter - what it does, why it does it, etc. What does ApplyMandatoryProperties parameter do? It applies the...

This post is the third post in a series. Special thanks to Scott Landry for his additions to this post. You may also be interested in the earlier SystemMailbox and System Attendant mailbox posts. SMTP ( servername -{ guid }) mailbox What is it...

Note: This information is now available as a public KB article: KB.867624 Some folks on the newsgroups are having difficulty getting their Exchange 2003 clusters upgraded to Exchange 2003 SP1. One example of an error that's been reported: Not able...

In the Do I Really Need to Upgrade my Filters blog post, Several folks posted a question/comment asking about MemberOf. In Exchange 2003, it was possible to build an EAP/AL/GAL/DDG filter that took into account group membership as a criteria for inclusion...

The other day, someone asked me a question. (get used to that sort of intro; I’m mining a lot of great blog post topics from questions running through my mailbox!) This time, the question was something along the lines of “I’ve got an Exchange 2003...

My name is Evan Dodds and I am a Program Manager in the Exchange Datacenter team. I have been with Microsoft for about 7 years, with the first 4+ in Charlotte, NC and now in Redmond, WA. Previous to my Program Manager assignment, I have been a support...

Prior to Exchange 2003 SP1, if your SMTP protocol virtual server didn't have anywhere to go with a timed-out email, it would drop it in the BadMail directory on your server. This directory could potentially grow and grow without bounds until it filled...

Nicole Allen has a great post over at the Exchange Team blog with step-by-step info on disk sizing for Exchange servers. This is the same sort of information that you can find in the Optimizing Storage for Exchange 2003 whitepaper, but Nicole does a great...

Jared has previously posted twice on topics that skirt around the issue of "scope" in Exchange 2007: first in October as Tips 1 and 2 of the Exchange 2007 Console Tips and Tricks post and then again in January as Tip 1 of the Tips for Managing the Exchange...

Today's post is to address a question we dealt with fairly recently through a customer escalation. The customer was trying to figure out the best way to programmatically get access to the entries in a MultiValuedProperty collection returned as part of...

There are a couple of important things I wanted to point out about the upgrade to E2k3 Sp2 on a cluster: Same process as the upgrade to E2k3 Sp1 Fixes broken virtual directories and other upgrade snafus IMF still not supported for use on cluster...

So you've done Exchange 2003 SP1 “Site Consolidation” and you think you're ready to remove your Exchange 5.5 site. All the Public Folders, Mailboxes, DLs, and Custom Recipients have been moved to the central site. All the foreign connectors are relocated...

Recent newsgroup posting caught my eye: I've done cross sites moves today from 5.5 servers to 2003SP1 servers. The documentation says I need the exprofre.exe tool to update the Outlook profiles. But I don't need it, the profile connect automatically to...

The other day, someone asked me how they could convert the output of an Exchange 2007 property that was being displayed as “Bytes” into KB. They were trying to do all sort of arithmetic (dividing by 1024, etc) to come up with the value and it wasn’t displaying...

I've replied to this question a handful of times in the newsgroups, so perhaps there's a need to post the solution here as well. This is evidently happening to a number of people out there. When you upgrade your Exchange 2003 server to Exchange 2003...

I didn't get a chance to do this demo in my Exchange Automation with PowerShell session at Teched 2007, mostly due to time. However, I had a conversation with someone prior to my talk and I said that I'd cover it at some point. Well, let's cover it here...

I've run into this set of questions about 5 times in the past week alone, so I figure it's worth a blog entry... Exchange setup on a standalone (non-clustered) server creates entries an HTTP protocol entry -- at approximately this location: CN=<theVS#>...

In Exchange 2003 SP1 there's a new, and arguably better way to configure RPC/HTTPS (lots of folks call it RPC/HTTP or RPC-over-HTTP, but let's be honest... it's actually over HTTPS, right?). Back in Exchange 2003 RTM, there was no easy way to configure...

A while back, I wrote a blog post about verifying that you are ready to remove the source site after undergoing the process of SP1 mixed-mode site consolidation. See here for that intro. Since that post, I've run into a few questions about what to do...

Someone asked me the other day about how to get additional UPN suffixes listed in the UPN suffix dropdown in New Mailbox GUI wizard. My initial instinct was the obvious: Add some additional AD domains to your forest and they'll show up. Of course,...

At some point after you've moved all the public folders, mailboxes, distribution lists, and custom recipients from your source site to the target site, you'll be ready to do the validation to ensure you're ready to remove the servers and site. When you...