Administration

Quick antispam report or status check?

Having received an annoyingly higher proportion of spam in my Inbox this morning, I wanted to quickly check what the antispam agents are doing. Here’s a quick cmdlet (besides the ones to check whether the antispam agents are enabled, checking the Content Filter SCL thresholds, etc.). Get-AgentLog -StartDate “6/16/2008” | group action | ft name,count […]

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Announced: Plug-in for Exchange backups on Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008’s new Windows Server Backup utility, the replacement for NTBackup, doesn’t do Exchange backups out of the box. I’m in Scott Schnoll’s session where he just announced a new Microsoft plug-in that will do Exchange VSS backups. The tool will be released this summer. More notes from this excellent session soon!

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Perfmon counters show up as numbers?

You’re troubleshooting an important issue and fire up Performance Monitor, only to be greeted by this bizarre visual— all your Perfmon counters show up as numbers! You restart Perfmon a few times, try to choose a different performance object – but it’s still numbers. Figure 1: Performance Monitor counters and objects are displayed as numbers […]

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Released: MAPI Client and CDO 1.2.1 for Exchange 2007

The Exchange Server 2007 base package does not include MAPI client libraries and CDO components that can be used by applications. MAPI and CDO are used to programmatically connect to Exchange Stores. These have been released as a web download. Download ExchangeMapiCdo.MSI from microsoft.com.

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Removing internal host names and IP addresses from message headers

Another frequently asked question about SMTP mail – how can I remove internal host names and IP addresses from outbound Internet mail? More often than not, this results from the belief that somehow if the outside world finds out an organization’s internal IP addresses and host names, it makes the organization vulnerable. Auditors love to […]

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Released: Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 2 has been released. Description of the roll-up can be found in KB 948016. Besides all the fixes from Update Rollup 1 (for SP1), this rollup includes fixes for the following issues: – 940462 The public folder store may take several minutes to mount on an Exchange 2007 server […]

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HOW TO: Remove the Public Folder Store

This is a fairly common question — you’re trying to remove the Public Folder store on an Exchange 2007 server and get an error that some Public Folder replicas still exist. You’re certain you’ve removed all Public Folder replicas from that server. What next? Here’s a little procedure documented in How to Delete Multiple Public […]

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Errata: Edge Subscription and Synchronization white paper

The white paper on Edge Subscription and Synchronization has the following error: Under Recipient Information: Distribution groups are not replicated to ADAM. Distribution Groups are in fact replicated to ADAM using EdgeSync. In Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Distribution Group membership (the member attribute) is also replicated. On Windows Server 2008, ADAM is replaced by Active […]

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Standby Continuous Replication (SCR): Replay and Truncation Lag

Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) is a new High Availability feature in Exchange Server 2007 SP1. It uses Continuous Replication (also used by LCR and CCR) to replicate Storage Groups from a clustered or non-clustered mailbox server, known as a SCR source, to a clustered or non-clustered mailbox server, known as a SCR target. SCR is […]

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Routing outbound mail using a particular IP address

A question that frequently and inevitably pops up when discussing Exchange transport is that of being able to route outbound mail using a particular IP address. The Exchange Server 2003/2000 transport architecture was confusing for many newcomers— the difference between an SMTP Virtual Server and an SMTP Connector being the main cause of this confusion. […]

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