In this article I will explain how the OAB Generation process discovers the domain controller that it will use for rebuilding an Offline Address List. Understanding this process can help you in troubleshooting. As I have mentioned in other blog posts of mine , the System Attendant (MAD.exe) is the process that is responsible for invoking OABGen.dll (the OAB generation process). This happens one of two ways: 1. Via Schedule To view the schedule for an Offline...

I was asked the following question recently: What are the minimum permissions necessary I need to grant a user in order for that user to be able to access the data in another user’s mailbox? Automatically I referenced following article 821897 that states Send As and Receive As permissions are necessary. What we came to find out was that the Receive As permission was the only permission necessary to access information in the mailbox. After some research I have the answer...

I am a Support Escalation Engineer working at the Las Colinas campus in Texas specializing in the Admin specialty. Currently, I am one of the Knowledge Engineers, working closely with the technical writers and specialty teams for Exchange and Escalation Services to maintain and create content. I have been with Microsoft for 10 years and other then Exchange, I have supported Access, Windows XP & Internet Client Development

This is a third blog post about troubleshooting public folder replication issues. In first post we covered Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes. The second blog post covered Troubleshooting the Replication of Existing Data. This post in this series will cover Troubleshooting Replica Deletion and Common Problems. To get the full picture, please read all referenced material! Troubleshooting Replica Deletion You removed an old server from the replica list...

While this is not directly Exchange product related, I wanted to point you in the general direction of several awesome Office 12 / Outlook 12 resources. While we are busy working on Exchange 12, the Office team is busy working on Office 12, which is aiming to really change how we look at Office applications! As someone that does not turn off Outlook ever , I am very excited about it all taking shape. Here are some places where you can learn more: The official Microsoft...

This is a second blog post about troubleshooting public folder replication issues. In first post we covered Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes. This blog post covers Troubleshooting the Replication of Existing Data and the last post in this series will cover Troubleshooting Replica Deletion and Common Problems. To get the full picture, please read all referenced material! Troubleshooting the Replication of Existing Data When new changes replicate, but old...

Note : this blog post is the first in a Public Folder Troubleshooting series. Please also make sure to check out part 2 , part 3 and part 4 of the series. Introduction The purpose of this blog post series is to serve as a guide to troubleshooting public folder replication problems. It will not tell you exactly how to fix every possible replication problem. However, it will show you how to isolate every possible replication problem so that you focus your troubleshooting...

I was born and raised in Stuttgart, Germany and joined Microsoft in 1991. My first job was localizing Works for Windows Version 2.0 into German, after which I moved on to the Exchange team, working on Exchange Server 4.0 and following versions. Right now, I'm wearing a few hats, from working with localization vendors on localizing the next version of Exchange Server to driving the international releases of Exchange and SQL TechCenters. In my spare time I like to spend time with...

Paul Bonrud is an Escalation Engineer in Exchange group. More details to come :)

Exchange Sustained Engineering (Exchange SE) recently fixed a problem regarding “Send As” permissions and “Full Mailbox Access” permissions. Up until now, “Full Mailbox Access” permissions had been sufficient for one user to be able to send email as another user. While “Full Mailbox Access” sounds like it should be sufficient for sending mail as another user, it was not intended to work that way. From now on, all Exchange 2003 store hotfixes contain a fix that will require the...