Exchange 2007

Internet Explorer 8 and OWA: Where Are The Images?

Internet Explorer 8 was released last week at MIX09. It’s likely many users may already be running either the RTM version or one of the earlier betas. IE 8 is more secure than previous versions (see Stay Safer Online for a list of IE8’s security features), including some of the default settings. Here’s one of […]

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Released: Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Roll-up 7

Update Roll-up 7 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 has been released. Download it here. As noted in previous posts, Exchange 2007 updates are cumulative and release-specific. This roll-up is for Exchange 2007 SP1, and supersedes all previous update roll-ups for Exchange 2007 SP1. As Ananth notes in the post on the Exchange team blog (read […]

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Are Distribution Groups really being used?

Over the years, you end up creating a large number of Distribution Groups based on user demands. The regular departmental Distribution Groups such as Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and HR. The geographical ones such as AllUS, All-California, All-BayArea, and so on. The ones by employment status such as All-FTE for full-time employees, All-Contractors, and so on. […]

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Applying Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 6

Perhaps I should have picked another day for applying Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 6. I ran into the services not starting issue documented in KB 944752 Exchange Server 2007 managed code services do not start after you install an update rollup for Exchange Server 2007. It was a single server topology – Exchange 2007 […]

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Managed Folders: Why aren’t Calendar items expired?

You’re testing Exchange 2007’s Messaging Records Management (MRM) features to implement your organization’s messaging retention policies. You create a new Managed Folder for Calendar items, and then create a Managed Content Setting for it to expire Calendar items in 1 year. Next, you create a Managed Folder Mailbox Policy and add the Managed Folder to […]

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Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference

Searching previous blog posts, I am amazed that I never posted about the book being published early this last year! Yes, Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference, the book my coauthors (Exchange MVPs Richard Luckett and William Lefkovics) and I burnt a lot of midnight oil writing, was published soon after I joined Microsoft last […]

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EHLO: DSNConversionMode and You

If you haven’t already read Jason Nelson’s take on Delivery Service Notifications (DSNs), head over right away to DSNConversionMode and You: An Administrator’s Guide.

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Returning all recipients from the Forest in recipient cmdlets

If you’re trying to get recipients from the whole AD Forest using the Exchange shell, there are two things to be aware of: 1. Session scope: By default, the scope of your shell session is set to the Domain of the computer you’re running the session on.2. Result size: By default, shell cmdlets return 1000 […]

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Released: Update Rollup 5 for Exchange 2007 SP1

Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 has been released. Download it here. As noted in previous posts, Exchange 2007 updates are cumulative and release-specific. Fixes for the following issues are included (details in KB 953467): 925371 Domino Server does not see attachments in meeting requests from Exchange Server 2007 939037 By default, managed […]

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Start Managed Folder Assistant for a single mailbox

When testing Managed Folder Mailbox Policy settings in Exchange Server 2007, you may need to frequently run the Managed Folder Assistant (MFA)) to process a mailbox on-demand, so you can check the mailbox content and MRM logs. However, every time you run Start-ManagedFolderAssistant, the MFA processes all mailboxes on all Mailbox Databases on the server. […]

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