Administration
Troubleshooting IMF: Important performance counter
Earlier today I saw some strange behavior with Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) v2. Incoming internet mail wasn’t getting scanned by IMF. Outlook did not show…
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SMTP
Administration
Creating an additional SMTP Virtual Server in a EVS
Creating an additional SMTP Virtual Server in a non-clustered environment is pretty straightforward. The same task is a little more complicated in a clustered environment.…
Administration
Exchange Server 2003 SP2, using SenderID? You need this hotfix!
If you’ve just upgraded to Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 and have enabled Sender ID filtering, you need to apply a hotfix to prevent…
Administration
Exporting Sender Filter List
Messages from specific senders can be blocked by implementing sender filtering. Blocked senders are specified in Global Settings Message Delivery properties Sender Filtering tab (see…
Anti-spam
Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and IMF
Before you install Exchange Server 2003 SP2 you need to uninstall Intelligent Message Filter (IMF). When you do this, the settings from the SMTP virtual…
Administration
Sending mail from telnet session
This procedure is commonly used to troubleshoot SMTP hosts. In combination with an nslookup query for MX records for a domain (listed after this) you…
Active Directory
HOW TO: Export all email addresses from a domain
Background: The Active Directory Users & Computers (ADUC) UI lets you list the mail column for each object, which displays the default (SMTP) email address…
Active Directory
How to create a Recipient Policy based on Company names?
One of the more frequently asked questions in an environment where you want to host more than 1 company’s email on a single Exchange server.…
Administration
Frequent reports of NDRs with 5.7.1 errors
Noticed an increase in NDRs with 5.7.1 error from posts in newsgroups and a colleague saw 2 of those within the last week. If you’re…
Anti-spam
Exchange Server 2003 SP2 – Connection Filtering that actually works
I was excited to find out about Connection Filtering (screenshot) in Exchange 2003 – finally I could use RBLs (real-time block lists) without having to…