Event IDs related to Mailbox moves The Event source for Mailbox moves is Exchange Migration, and the events are logged in the Application log on the server where an administrator started the move. Meaning; where the admin was logged on and used the EMC or EMS to start the mailbox move. It would be nice …
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Configuring language settings for Out of Office messages in Exchange 2007
Exchange provides the ability to configure Out of Office messages. The owner of a mailbox can configure different messages to be sent to users inside the organization and outside. The user is free to enter any text he wants, in any language, but the subject of the Out of Office message i handled by the …
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Exchange Out of Office replies
I guess you are all familiar with the Out of Office Assistant in Exchange server. Whenever you activate it Exchange will send a messages to anyone who sends you mail that you are out of the office. I never really thought much about the internals of OOF Assistant, but a question from a customer prompted …
Outlook Web Access: There was an unknown error accessing the directory
While troubleshooting message delivery between two email systems, I received this error from Outlook Web Access: ————————— Message from webpage ————————— There was an unknown error accessing the directory. If the problem continues, contact technical support for your organization. I was trying to send a message to contact in my Exchange organization representing a user …
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Licensing your Exchange 2007 Edge Server
One of the new roles in Exchange 2007 is the Edge server role. The edge server is an Exchange server that sits in your DMZ and receives and sends SMTP mail to and from the Internet. It also performs a lot of other task like spam checking, anti-virus (if installed) etc. The Edge server is …
Mismatched Email addresses causes recipients to be skipped during Offline Address Book generation
You might experience this error during an Offline Address Book generation cycle: Index : 94460EntryType : WarningEventID : 9327Message : OALGen skipped some entries in the offline address list ‘Global Address List’. To see which entries are affected, event logging for the OAL Generator must be set to at least medium.– Default Offline Address ListCategory …
Using IIS 7 URL Rewrite Module to simplify Exchange 2007/2010 Outlook Web Access URLs on Windows Server 2008/2008 R2
The default URL for Outlook Web Access i Exchange Server 2007 is https://<server FQDN>/owa. This URL is always an issue for end users who find it too long or complex. They either forget to use HTTPS in front of the URL, or to append /owa to the server name, or both. The first mistake results …
Remember the HOSTS file!
After moving a virtual Exchange 2007 machine from Virtual Server to Hyper-V I started getting error messages both in the Event Logs and in the Exchange Management Console and Shell. During the move I had also changed the IP address of the server. Here are the error messages: In the Application Log: EventID: 4001 Source …
Deciphering MAPI permissions
MAPI permissions are strange, what more can I say. Here is a quick translation table: MAPI security principal Windows Security principal Default Everyone Anonymous Anonymous
Troubleshooting Outlook Anywhere (Outlook RPC-over-HTTPS)
This is an unordered list of tools and functionality that is handy when troubleshooting Outlook Anywhere or Outlook RPC-over-HTTPS as it was previously known. Wireshark Excellent network protocol analyzer, use it to see what Outlook and Exchange send over the wire. It is possible to configure Wireshark to decrypt an SSL stream, I will post …
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