Administration

Track Hotfix/Patch Installation

What’s the best way to track when and which hotfixes/patches were applied? It’s an endless debate amongst IT pros. Some would like to do it through dedicated patch management software. Some store this info in databases, even spreadsheets. Here are a few handy ways to track this info – I’ve used a combination of these […]

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Where did the Badmail go in Exchange 2003 SP1?

In previous versions of Exchange, all mail that cannot be delivered ends up in the Badmail directory. This folder grows infinitely till it runs out of disk space! E2K3 SP1 changes that. By default, SP1 will suck up all Badmail in a virtual blackhole – no bad mail accumulates. Would you rather keep your Badmail? […]

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Exchange 2000/2003 Mailbox Manager and msExchMailboxManagerAgeLimit.

Exchange 2000/2003 Mailbox Manager and msExchMailboxManagerAgeLimit.: “Mailbox manager policies may not process items as some administrators might expect. For example if you set up a mailbox manager policy to delete messages from the inbox after 30 days you may find that some of the messages are not deleted after the 30 day window has passed. […]

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Moving mailboxes and corrupted Calendar

Moving mailboxes from an Exchange 2000 virtual server (EVS) to an Exchange Server 2003 EVS – can’t seem to move 1 particular mailbox. User has a history of corrupted Calendar folder/items – Oultook hangs immediately when choosing the Calendar folder from the folder list. (Lot of 8217s – KB327864: Meetings visible in Outlook may not […]

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Where’s LDIFDE on XP Professional?

The Windows XP Professional docs tell you the LDIFDE utility is avaialble on that OS, but I haven’t been able to find it. Simply copy it from a Windows Server 2003 installation – it’s in %Systemroot%\System32.

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Adding IMAP4 Virtual Server to Cluster takes cluster group offline

You’ve just built a shiny new Windows Server 2003 cluster, installed Exchange Server 2003, created an Exchange Virtual Server (EVS) and tested MAPI, HTTP, Cluster Failover, et al – things look great! User calls, can’t access mail on new EVS using IMAP4. When you create the Exchange Virtual Server by creating the System Attendant resource […]

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