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Part 17 - I used to do it this way… Now how do I do it? Administering Exchange 2003 vs. Exchange 2007
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over 5 years ago
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GerodS [MSFT]
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To return to part 1 click here Managing Client Access Always Up to Date \ Direct Push In Exchange 2003, Exchange ActiveSync would be configured to synchronize your mobile device with your Exchange server mailbox at intervals as frequent as every five...
Part 3 - I used to do it this way… Now how do I do it? Administering Exchange 2003 vs. Exchange 2007
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over 6 years ago
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To return to part 1 click here Stop or start Public Folder replication in 2003 vs. 2007 In Part 2, we discussed how to synchronize the hierarchy or Public Folders. But, that does nothing for the content. Sometimes there may be a need to stop the...
How do I change the mailbox size limit messages in Exchange?
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over 9 years ago
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Ok, this gets asked a lot because some companies have the policy of not allow their employees to archive mail to a .pst and the message from the Exchange server says: "You may not be able to send or receive new mail until you reduce your mailbox size...
Part 11 - I used to do it this way… Now how do I do it? Administering Exchange 2003 vs. Exchange 2007
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over 6 years ago
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To return to part 1 click here Administrative Tasks – MBConn.exe and Offline Address Books MBConn.exe In Exchange 2003, Mbconn.exe was used in a disaster recovery scenario to connect mailboxes to the Active Directory directory service accounts. If you...
Running Exchange System Manager on Windows XP
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over 9 years ago
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Recently I got asked (again) about running the Exchange System Manager (ESM) on Windows XP. It works, but what if you use Outlook on the same machine? It is officially unsupported. Or to state it another way, if you have a problem with Outlook or the...
Part 16 - I used to do it this way… Now how do I do it? Administering Exchange 2003 vs. Exchange 2007
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over 5 years ago
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To return to part 1 click here Administrative Tasks: Resource Scheduling Resource Scheduling in Exchange 2003 In Exchange 2003, setting up a resource involved many steps: Create a mailbox using ADU&C Give permissions to the mailbox Setup Auto Accept...
Part 7 - I used to do it this way… Now how do I do it? Administering Exchange 2003 vs. Exchange 2007
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over 6 years ago
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To return to part 1 click here Setting Connector Limits in Exchange 2007 Below are the 5 different types of connectors that we can modify the limits on for Exchange 2007 and the ways to do it using the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). The default settings...
Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate Available <Updated>
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over 5 years ago
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Today we announced that Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate (RC) is available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c6d27da1-ba2c-4570-a491-c0d7b39ede8b&displaylang=en (This link works...) Some things...
Part 13 - I used to do it this way… Now how do I do it? Administering Exchange 2003 vs. Exchange 2007
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over 6 years ago
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To return to part 1 click here Administrative Tasks: Recovery Storage Groups In Exchange 2003, you had the option of mounting a second copy of a database in a Recovery Storage Group to extract data from one or more mailboxes. In Exchange 2007, you do...
Part 20 - I used to do it this way… Now how do I do it? Administering Exchange 2003 vs. Exchange 2007
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over 5 years ago
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To return to part 1 click here Transport Outbound SMTP connections to other messaging servers In Exchange 2003, the routing group represented a communication boundary between Exchange servers that were part of the same organization. All Exchange servers...
Mr. Proactive and Miss T. Proactive
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over 3 years ago
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GerodS [MSFT]
I have been quiet on this blog for a number of reasons. Check out the new site for all PFEs who want to blog at www.MrProactive.com . This is a site that's has 4 main purposes: Tell more about what a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) is what we do...
Part 2 - I used to do it this way… Now how do I do it? Administering Exchange 2003 vs. Exchange 2007
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over 6 years ago
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To return to part 1 click here Synchronizing Public Folder hierarchy replication in 2003 vs. 2007 In Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2), you used the Synchronize Hierarchy command to synchronize the public folder hierarchy on an Exchange 2003 server...
New Hotfix for those pesky 9548 Events...
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over 8 years ago
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One of the more common events we see in organizations that are migrating to Exchange 2003 from 5.5 is the 9548. Event Type: Warning Event Source: MSExchangeIS Event Category: General Event ID: 9548 Date: Date Time: Time Computer: Computer Name Description...
Running Outlook 2003 vs. Outlook 2007 against Exchange 2007
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over 8 years ago
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What functionality would you lose if you ran Outlook 2003 against an Exchange 2007 server instead of running Outlook 2007? http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/featurecomparison.mspx It looks like you would not have the following (listed in my...
Databases might not mount after installing Exchange DST fix 926666
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over 7 years ago
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There has been a decent amount of chatter externally about this, so I was very glad that we finally got this article written: 932599 You can no longer mount any of the Exchange databases after you apply hotfix 926666 to a computer that is running...
OAB changes in Exchange 2003 SP2
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over 8 years ago
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Many people are aware of the changes in Exchange 2003 SP2 with the V4 OAB. What many are not aware of are the changes with the other two versions of the OAB, V3a and V2. Starting with SP2, when a change is done in your environment that would have required...
Getting a Head Start on Using Exchange 2007 SP1 with Windows 2008
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over 7 years ago
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I wanted to test out the installation of Exchange 2007 SP1 on a Windows 2008 server. Since you can get the RC0 version of Windows 2008 as well as the Exchange 2007 SP1 bits from Microsoft, it couldn’t hurt to try them out now. You can get the Release...
Windows Live Writer with Windows 7
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over 5 years ago
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I recently upgraded my main machine to Windows 7[1,2] and I tried opening up Windows Live Writer to update my blog and found that it seemed to be in a constant hung state. I then right clicked on the shortcut for the program and chose the “Troubleshoot...
What do “Latency” and “RPC Calls Succeeded” mean in the ESM?
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over 10 years ago
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I was on a much needed vacation, so I have not been active on here. I went to Seattle of all places... Anyways - Something that you might find interesting. Q : What do the “Latency” and “RPC Calls Succeeded” mean in the Exchange...
Windows Server 2003 SP1 Is Coming. Before You Install It On Exchange Server 2003…
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over 9 years ago
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If you are looking to roll out Windows Server 2003 SP1 on your Exchange servers and you are doing clustering on back-end servers, we have a hotfix that you will need to install. From: 841561 "500 - Internal server error" error message when a user tries...
Part 5 - I used to do it this way… Now how do I do it? Administering Exchange 2003 vs. Exchange 2007
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over 6 years ago
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To return to part 1 click here More Anti-spam tasks Now that we have looked at how to configure Attachment filtering, lets look at how to configure Connection Filtering in Exchange 2007. Using the Exchange Management Console (EMC) against a Edge...
Scanning password protected .zip files
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over 10 years ago
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I found this on the NTBUGTRAQ mailing list from a Michael Maloney. I don't know the validity of this, but it seemed interesting enough to post. I would be interested in hearing whether or not this works. “ With the release of Beagle.H and Beagle...
Exchange Product Version List
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over 9 years ago
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I don't know who started this list first, but it is useful for me. I thought that I would put it out there for everyone to use. I’ve added some versions that weren’t on it originally and made some corrections as well. If you find that this list is wrong...
How do I set up my domain for Sender ID?
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over 9 years ago
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With Exchange 2003 SP2 coming out soon, Sender ID will become more important. How do you set up the DNS record for the domains in your organization? You can easily do this with the SPF Record Wizard. http://www.anti-spamtools.org/SenderIDEmailPolicyTool...
Microspotting
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over 5 years ago
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Every so often I like to head over to http://www.microspotting.com/ to see some of the stories about some of my co-workers. And yes, I want an “I am the empire” t-shirt!
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