Administration

Applying Mailbox Manager policies to a sub-folder

When you create a Recipient Policy to apply Mailbox Manager settings [for reference, read KBA 319188 “How to use recipient policies to control mailboxes in Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003“], the policy properties include the default mailbox folders like Inbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items, et al. You can apply the policy to additional folders by […]

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Oliver Rist talks about bumps in the road to Exchange Server 2007

InfoWorld columnist Oliver Rist writes about bumps in the road to Exchange Server 2007 [read it on Infoworld: “Brace for Exchange 2007 bumps“]. I love Rist’s columns and can be considered a regular reader. Issues he outlines:Issues #1 & 2: Exchange Server 2007 won’t run on the next version of Windows server, codenamed “Longhorn server”. […]

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A Late New Year’s Resolution: Do Not Resolve Anonymous Senders

It’s probably a little late to make another New Year’s resolution, but I’ll try to convince you to make one nevertheless. By default, when an internal/authenticated user sends you a message, you see the user’s display name (for example Joe Adams) in Outlook/OWA and other email clients. Messages from unauthenticated senders, including those from Internet […]

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SCRIPT: Show mailbox quotas (including Store & Policy quotas)

I had earlier posted a script that lists users’ mailbox limits/quotas [read previous post “SCRIPT: Show mailbox limits“]. That script only picks up users who have their mailbox limits set individually, bypassing the “normal” users who have their mailbox storage limits set by the Store or a System Policy. A related script that resets the […]

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Forwarding office email to personal email accounts

CNET News.com has a report titled “Firms fret as office e-mail jumps security walls“. Many organizations are concerned about employees forwarding work email to their personal, often web-based email accounts provided by free services like Yahoo! Mail, Google’s Gmail, or Microsoft’s Hotmail/Windows Live Mail. At times employees may do this to simply get to their […]

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Enabled by default: SMTP Tarpit in Exchange Server 2007

From a recent discussion, and something I’ve been wanting to post about for a while: SMTP tarpitting is enabled by default on Receive Connectors in Exchange 2007 (and Exchange 210). What is SMTP tarpitting? It’s the process of introducing a delay in SMTP connections from hosts that are suspected of inappropriate SMTP behavior – for […]

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SMTP Virtual Servers: Some irksome defaults you should change

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 are added to support Exchange, it gets Exchange’s Advanced Queuing Engine (AQE) implemented in phatq.dll, and the Categorizer (phatcat.dll). The mailroot path is moved from IIS’ default (\inetpub\mailroot) to \exchsrvr\mailroot. […]

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Exchange Server 2007: More questions answered

In an earlier post, I tried to answer some questions about Exchange versions (32-bit and 64-bit issues), amongst other things [read previous post: “Exchange Server 2007: Questions before business launch“]. Users have a lot of questions about the differences between Enterprise and Standard editions, the 32-bit version strictly meant for testing/learning (and not supported in […]

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How To Allow Relaying in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007

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 tab | Relay. Hosts that require anonymous relay capability include application servers and devices such as copiers, which scan documents and send them as email attachments. Figure 1: Controlling relay […]

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HOW TO: Add a License Key to Exchange Server 2007

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 120-day trials, according to Exchange Server 2007 documentation. Starting with Exchange Server 2007, Service Packs are slipstreamed — the downloads/media contain all the binaries required to install Exchange + the […]

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