Author Archives: Morgan Simonsen

Exchange 2007: Exploring Global message size restrictions

Exchange 2003 In Exchange 2003 you set the global message size restrictions are set with Exchange System Manager under Global Settings, Message Delivery: These settings are written to the Message Delivery object in the configuration partition in Active Directory. The object has the distinguished name (DN): CN=Message Delivery,CN=Global Settings,CN=<org name>,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=<domain>,DC=<domain> The attributes written are …

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Nice tricks with the context menu in Windows Vista

For a long time, we have been enjoying a Windows XP Power Tool called “Command prompt here” on our directories’ and drives’ context menus. I recently discovered that Windows Vista has this functionality build in. If you right-click your directory or drive while you press the SHIFT key, you get a few more choices. One …

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Zone Information for downloaded files and NTFS Alternate Data streams

Since Windows XP Service Pack 2 was launched, every time you try to run or open a file that has been downloaded from the Internet, or more correctly, from the Internet Zone in Internet Explorer. You are prompted with the following warning message:   What this message does, basically, is to warn you that you …

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Exploring Exchange 2007 Mail-enabled contacts

In Exchange 2007 a mail-enabled contact represents a recipient outside your own Exchange organization. They can be recipients on your Domino server or external recipients with a partner etc. A mail-enabled contact always has at least two addresses, but can have several. One or more are addresses from you own SMTP domain that let you …

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The Case of the Missing File Transfer Manager

Everyone downloading from MSDN, the MCT Download Center or any other semi-open Microsoft download site, is familiar with the Microsoft File Transfer Manager application. It is a rather nice utility that is installed on your machine the first time you start a download from one of the sites I mentioned. It supports queuing and resume …

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Another SharePoint Services Update

I upgraded the server hosting the blog to WSS 3.0 RTM yesterday. Some small problems since I had been running TR2, but it worked out OK. Now I am just waiting for the Norwegian language pack to become available so that I can migrate the sites that are in norwegian. Also have a few new …

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