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Friday, April 28, 2006 9:19 AM

New Exchange fixes may disrupt Blackberry, Goodlink and other services

CALL TO ACTION A change in Exchange permissioning behavior may impact mobile communications and other add-on applications for Exchange. Shared and resource mailboxes may also be affected. By evaluating in advance whether this change will impact your environment,
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Monday, April 17, 2006 11:09 AM

Knowing your limits

Recently MSIT wanted to make some global changes to the retention time of public folders. In the past we had a global limit of 3 years retention on items in public folders. The plan was to change the default limit to 1 year, and then exempt folders as
Posted by Exchange | 7 Comments
Friday, March 31, 2006 10:45 PM

Surprise your users with an April Fool's Day OWA 2003 Theme

I just posted instructions on how to create this OWA theme on my blog: In addition to the cow look, it also has a moooooooooooo for a new mail sound, and a cowbell for the reminder. Have fun! - KC Lemson
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:55 AM

Fix available to alleviate event ID 9548

No doubt many of you are familiar with the event commonly seen in application logs of Exchange 2000 and 2003 servers, MSExchangeIS event 9548, indicating that the information store came across a disabled user who is missing the msExchMasterAccountSid
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Friday, March 17, 2006 9:09 AM

Exchange 2003 post SP2 DSProxy Referral Update

In November 2005 I posted an article on the DSProxy referral changes that are included in Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2. For the full article, please see http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2005/11/04/413669.aspx . To refresh everyone's mind,
Posted by Exchange | 17 Comments
Monday, March 13, 2006 10:05 AM

How to choose server hardware for Exchange 2003 that can be effectively re-utilized for Exchange 12?

Introduction When selecting hardware for your Exchange servers, there are many things that you must consider. Two of the most critical resources are processor and memory. This blog provides rough guidelines for processor/memory configurations that provide
Posted by Exchange | 29 Comments
Friday, March 10, 2006 8:49 AM

msExchESEParamLogBuffers Storage Group Attribute

The msExchESEParamLogBuffers storage group attribute governs the number of Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) log buffers that are used by the Exchange information store. ESE uses a set of log buffers to hold information in RAM before it writes to the transaction
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Friday, March 03, 2006 10:10 AM

More on Exchange ActiveSync Reporting with Log Parser - COM object available

We recently posted details on how to use Log Parser to parse out Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) information to produce helpful reports that can give you a better idea of the usage load of your EAS deployment. In that blog we relied solely on LogParser using
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 12:29 PM

Exchange 2003 Auto Accept Agent vs. direct booking

In my Exchange support experience, customers often ask me about the differences between using the Auto Accept Agent and Outlook Direct Booking. They want to know which they should use for their specific environment. After much research, I compiled the
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Friday, February 17, 2006 10:09 AM

How to deal with users leaving the Organization

A user leaving the organization is something that all our customers have to find a method of dealing with. There is no official guidance on the best way to deal with this because it varies depending on the circumstances that you are in. But, since folks
Posted by Exchange | 20 Comments
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:51 PM

Exchange 2003 - Active Sync reporting

We have received a lot of feedback recently about your need to better understand the usage of your Exchange 2003 ActiveSync (EAS) deployment. With all of the great features built into EAS, it’s important for you as an IT Professional to know the volume
Posted by Exchange | 9 Comments
Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:47 AM

Minimum permissions necessary to access mailbox data

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
Posted by Exchange | 15 Comments
Monday, January 23, 2006 3:33 PM

Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting – Part 3: Troubleshooting Replica Deletion and Common Problems

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
Posted by Exchange | 7 Comments
Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:53 AM

Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting – Part 2: Troubleshooting the Replication of Existing Data

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
Posted by Exchange | 11 Comments
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:21 PM

Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting – Part 1: Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes

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
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