The SMTP stack provided by IIS’ SMTP svc in Exchange Server 2003/2000 changes significantly when Exchange is installed on a Windows server. Some ESMTP extensions…
In Exchange Server 2003, you can allow anonymous SMTP hosts to relay mail by adding their IP address(es) in SMTP Virtual Server Properties | Access…
When you install Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2010, including the downloads posted on Microsoft’s web site, it is unlicensed. Unlicensed servers function as…
InfoWorld columnist Roger Grimes gripes about backup software in his Security Advisor column [ “Backup Software: Bah Hambug” on Infoworld.com]. Some of the stuff he…
I spent some time (ok, I’ll admit – more than “some time”… ) writing a script to get user mailbox storage limits/quotas [an improvement on…
In Exchange Server 2007: Bulk creation of mailboxes using Exchange Management Shell, I wrote about how to bulk create mailboxes (including user accounts) from a…
Though the practice of pointing MX records to CNAME (alias) records is not that uncommon, it certainly isn’t in keeping with internet standards. When you…
Microsoft has decided to change the hotfix/patching model for Exchange Server 2007. In the past, if you had a particular issue or came across an…
Another frequently asked question – asked frequently enough to make its way here. Does the Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) v1/v2 in Exchange 2003 provide any…
Exchange Server and many other MTAs including most web-based services send the sender’s display name (e.g. “Joe User”) in email messages, in addition to the…