May 2008

While you were out: Scheduling meetings and OOFs

Although it’s been an accepted (and expected) practice to setup OOF auto-responses while you are out of office, I haven’t been a big fan of OOFs in the past. My reasons: 1. I often forget to turn off OOFs once I’m back in the office, or forget to set these up in the first place— […]

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Removing internal host names and IP addresses from message headers

Another frequently asked question about SMTP mail – how can I remove internal host names and IP addresses from outbound Internet mail? More often than not, this results from the belief that somehow if the outside world finds out an organization’s internal IP addresses and host names, it makes the organization vulnerable. Auditors love to […]

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Released: Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 2 has been released. Description of the roll-up can be found in KB 948016. Besides all the fixes from Update Rollup 1 (for SP1), this rollup includes fixes for the following issues: – 940462 The public folder store may take several minutes to mount on an Exchange 2007 server […]

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HOW TO: Remove the Public Folder Store

This is a fairly common question — you’re trying to remove the Public Folder store on an Exchange 2007 server and get an error that some Public Folder replicas still exist. You’re certain you’ve removed all Public Folder replicas from that server. What next? Here’s a little procedure documented in How to Delete Multiple Public […]

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