May 2007

Vista Annoyance: Virtual CD/DVD emulators and ISO images

It seems the whole world has moved to downloadable software images in ISO formats – whether it be puny (by today’s standards) CD images of 650/700 MB or larger chunks of code that requires a DVD – a lot of the software we download today is in the form of ISO images that otherwise requires […]

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Logging SMTP Protocol Activity in Exchange 2013/2010 and Exchange 2007

I wrote about logging SMTP protocol activity in Exchange Server 2003 in what is one of the most popular posts on Exchangepedia. Starting with Exchange Server 2007, Exchange discontinued using the SMTP stack in IIS and developed its own SMTP stack. I like to think of it as smarter or more intelligent Receive Connectors (these […]

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Protect users from spam from your own domain in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007

One of the common complaints from users and many messaging folks is spam received from senders that appear to be from your own domain. SMTP mail is exchanged with anonymous Internet hosts without any authentication. Headers can be and are effortlessly spoofed. Rather than using an unregistered or invalid domain in the From: header, many […]

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