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Displaying Client IP Address in Exchange System Manager

In Exchange Server 2003, Exchange System Manager’s Logons view for a Mailbox Store (expand Storage Group | Mailbox Store | Logons) displays client logon-related details. The default view displays 1. User name 2. Windows 2000 Account 3. Logon Time 4. Last Access Time 5. Client Version. It does not display the client IP address from […]

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New-Mailbox Parameters

When creating a new mailbox using the New Mailbox wizard in the Exchange console, you are required to enter a number of parameters. The Completion page/dialog box in the wizard shows the shell command used under the hood to create the mailbox. This functionality is quite useful in understanding the commands used by such wizards, […]

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Applying Managed Folder Policy to more than one user

Scenario: You have a Managed Folder Mailbox Policy called Policy-DeletedItems90Days. The policy has Managed Content Settings to permanently delete items in the Deleted Items folder after 90 days. You can easily apply this Managed Folder Mailbox Policy to a single user using the Exchange console, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Applying a Managed […]

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HOW TO: Expose original senders and recipients of quarantined messages

The Content Filter Agent in Exchange Server 2007 allows you to quarantine messages above the SCLQuarantineThreshold. Messages so quarantined are delivered to a quarantine mailbox, specified in the Content Filter configuration. [Read previous post for more info, “Exchange 2007 Content Filter: How to move messages to users’ Junk Mail folder“] Messages arriving in the quarantine […]

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HOW TO: Convert a user mailbox to a resource mailbox

When creating a new mailbox (or a mailbox-enabled user) in Exchange Server 2010/2007, you have the option of creating a user mailbox or a resource mailbox — the latter for conference rooms, or equipment such as projectors, etc. to allow your users to book these resources. If you’ve already created a user mailbox instead, and […]

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Send as alternate email address in Outlook and Exchange

This is one of the more frequently asked questions in different forums and still a major annoyance – how do I send as an alternate address (aka proxy address or alias)? In most organizations, users have multiple email addresses to meet business requirements such as multiple business units, business names and domain names, mergers, acquisitions […]

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Exchange Server 2007: Why aren’t Managed Content Settngs applied?

In Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange 2007, you can apply Managed Folder Mailbox Policies to mailboxes to control message retention. Conceptually, this is somewhat similar to Recipient Policy with Mailbox Manager settings in Exchange Server 2003, which is commonly used by administrators to accomplish tasks like emptying users’ Deleted Items folders after a specified period […]

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DST 2007: Why we needed to rebase appointments

I thought I wouldn’t need to post about DST 2007 issues after it kicked in on Sunday March 11th this year, but apparently that doesn’t seem to be the case. In a previous post (that I’ve referred to a number of times now) titled “DST 2007: Understanding what needs to be done and how to […]

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Add additional email addresses to a mailbox

In Exchange 2010/2007, you can use Email Address Policies to generate email addresses for your recipients (mailbox users, mail users, distribuiton groups, public folders, etc.). In Exchange 2003/2000, this was done by Recipient Policies. Policies are a great way to assign standardized email addresses across your organization – for example: <firstinitial><lastname>@<domain>. Users frequently request additional […]

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DST 2007: Is there an Outlook DST “patch”?

There seems to be some confusion about whether Outlook itself has a DST 2007 patch. As noted in a previous post “DST 2007: Understanding what needs to be done and how to do it“, there’s the Outlook Calendar Update Tool – TzMove.exe (“Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook” in Microsoft-speak). This is […]

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