Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and IMF

Before you install Exchange Server 2003 SP2 you need to uninstall Intelligent Message Filter (IMF). When you do this, the settings from the SMTP virtual server where you allowed filtering are also removed. After SP installation if you go to Intelligent Message Filtering settings (Global Settings -> Message Delivery -> Properties -> Intelligent Message Filtering […]

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Sending mail from telnet session

This procedure is commonly used to troubleshoot SMTP hosts. In combination with a nslookup query for MX records for a domain (listed after this) you can successfully figure out if a given domain can receive internet email successfully. 1) Open a telnet session to a SMTP – let’s say foo.mydomain.com – or an IP addresstelnet […]

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List users with automatic email forwarding enabled

Here’s a script written in response to a newsgroup post today on microsoft.public.exchange.admin. Exchange Server allows you to automatically forward inbound mail for one recipient to another recipient. You can forward messages to the alternate recipient, without delivering a copy to the original recipient (effectively redirecting inbound mail for the recipient), or deliver messages to […]

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Move Exchange to a new server

So you’re ready to upgrade your Exchange server. You bought a shiny new box with the latest & greatest CPU, loaded it with as much RAM as you could afford, and bought the fastest, biggest drives. How do you “move” your Exchange over to a new server? Exchange MVP Ed Crowley has this well-documented on […]

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Treo 700 – a wish come true

When I first saw the Treo – then from Handspring, a company started by ex-Palm folks that was later acquired by Palm – I instantly fell in love with it. It had a great color display and a very usable keyboard. The part I didn’t fall in love with was, of course, the Palm OS. […]

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HOW TO: Export all email addresses from a domain

Background: The Active Directory Users & Computers (ADUC) UI lets you list the mail column for each object, which displays the default (SMTP) email address for objects. You can export the list from ADUC to a CSV/txt file. However, any additional email addresses in the proxyAddresses attribute are not exported. There’s no GUI interface (in […]

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How to create a Recipient Policy based on Company names?

One of the more frequently asked questions in an environment where you want to host more than 1 company’s email on a single Exchange server. Both companies have unique dns domains, let’s say CompanyA.com and CompanyB.com. You typically end up locating thw users from the 2 (or more) companies in their own respective OUs. You […]

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Unblock Outlook attachments

Ever found Outlook’s long list of blocked attachments annoying? It’s one thing to protect users from malicious code, but should someone who knows what they’re doing be subjected to the same rules? Now, there are ways of blocking/unblocking certain file types including registry hacks, group policies, et al. By far the most elegant and easy […]

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Frequent reports of NDRs with 5.7.1 errors

Noticed an increase in NDRs with 5.7.1 error from posts in newsgroups and a colleague saw 2 of those within the last week. If you’re using Exchange, you may see Event IDs 1709 and 1710 in your Application Log. Some common causes:1) Allow computers which successfully authenticate to relay checkbox not checked on SMTP virtual […]

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Microsoft completes FrontBridge acquisition

Microsoft has just completed the acquisition of FrontBridge, a hosted email provider. Why FrontBridge?To offer Exchange as a hosted service (directly from Microsoft). It now wants a cut from the hosting pie. I wouldn’t blame them for wanting to grow revenues, but wondering what its partners think about Microsoft competing with them.

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