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Configuring Deleted Item Retention

After a user empties the Deleted Items folder, although these items disappear from the view of the mailbox, they are not completely deleted. They are retained till the Deleted Item Retention period expires in what’s fondly referred to as the Dumpster— not to be confused with the Transport Dumpster maintained by Hub Transport servers. Deleted […]

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Unraveled: The Mystery of the Disappearing Exchange Update Rollup 4

Did you really see Exchange 2007 Update Rollup 4 appear and then quickly disappear earlier this week? Scott Roberts explains in ‘The case of disappearing Rollup Update 4‘ on the team blog.

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SCRIPT: Get Storage Group Backup Status

Exchange 2007 Mailbox Databases expose backup-related properties using the Get-MailboxDatabase cmdlet: Get-MailboxDatabase “My Database” -status | select *backup* | fl What you get back:BackupInProgress :SnapshotLastFullBackup :SnapshotLastIncrementalBackup :SnapshotLastDifferentialBackup :SnapshotLastCopyBackup :LastFullBackup :LastIncrementalBackup :LastDifferentialBackup :LastCopyBackup : Here’s a quick shell script that dumps each Storage Group and its backup-related information. I haven’t had the time to build in […]

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Troubleshooting Exchange Performance: Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool

Interested in monitoring and troubleshooting Exchange Server performance? Check out the Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool on CodePlex. PAL creates some great reports that provide a better analysis of Exchange performance data than actually looking at perfmon counters all day. Mike Lagase has more details in his blog post “Performance Troubleshooting using the PAL […]

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HOW TO: Prevent annoying spam from your own domain

One of the more annoying types of spam is the one that seems to be coming from your own domain; or worse— from your own email address! Of course, users from your own domain don’t generally spam each other— unless you’re using one of the free web-based email services. And most of us don’t spam […]

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Quarantine Mailbox: Displaying original SCL, sender and recipients

In Exchange Server 2007, messages delivered to the quarantine mailbox show up as DSNs sent by the postmaster address of the default domain. In HOW TO: Expose original senders and recipients of quarantined messages, we modified the QTNE.cfg form for Microsoft Outlook to reveal original senders and recipients. Although the original sender and recipient fields […]

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Announced: Virtualization support for Exchange Server 2007

Exchange Server 2007 is now supported on Hyper-V and other (read “Non-Microsoft”) hypervisors validated under the Microsoft Server Vitualization Validation Program. Vendors participating in the program: Citrix, Cisco Systems, Novell, Sun Micrososystems, and Virtual Iron Software. The new support policy for Exchange in virtualized environments: Microsoft Support Policies and Recommendations for Exchange Servers in Hardware […]

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Exchange System Manager and Outlook on the same computer?

With the release of Exchange System Manager (ESM) for Windows Vista yesterday (Released: Exchange System Manager for Windows Vista), there’s been concern about the fact that ESM is not supported on the same computer as Microsoft Outlook. However, the coexistence of the two has not been a supported scenario for long. From KB 266418: Microsoft […]

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Released: Exchange System Manager for Windows Vista

If you’ve been waiting to install Exchange System Manager on Windows Vista, the wait is finally over. Exchange System Manager for Windows Vista is now available. Pre-requisites:– The computer should be a member of a domain which has Exchange Server 2003 SP2.– Windows Server adminpak (from Windows Server 2003 SP1 or Windows Server 2003 R2) […]

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Exchange Server Antispam Updates: Do I have the latest update?

Not sure if the Exchange 2007 or 2003 (IMF) updates on your system are the latest and greatest? Doubt if the automatic update process is working? You can use the Microsoft Update Catalog web site to search for these. You can also subscribe to the RSS feeds for each update (search result on the web […]

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