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Exchange Mailbox Databases (EDB files) increase in size automatically when required, but they never decrease in size without administrator intervention. Exchange does its best to use up the free space inside the database, the so called white space, but that is not always possible. Because of this you are left with database files that just …
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Exchange 2007 uses the Windows Operating System Automatic Updates Client as a proxy to download it’s anti-spam signatures and reputation lists. The Exchange component responsible for this is the Microsoft Exchange Anti-spam Update service (witht he somewhat confusing description The Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server anti-spam update service.) This service is referred to in …
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I encountered this error in the Application log of an Exchange 2007 server: EntryType : Warning EventID : 9554 Message : Unable to update Mailbox SD in the DS. Mailbox Guid: 1d8768d9-cd02-4746-9c16-d6a212b4e5ea. Error Code 0x8004010f Category : General CategoryNumber : 6 ReplacementStrings : {1d8768d9-cd02-4746-9c16-d6a212b4e5ea, 0x8004010f} Source : MSExchangeIS TimeGenerated : 09.11.2007 12:23:22 TimeWritten : 09.11.2007 …
I recently had a strange experience at one of my customers. Suddenly the performance of OWA when accessed through their ISA 2006 server was horrible. Using OWA to read messages was possible, but creating a new message with an attachment was impossible. The operation would hang with the message Uploading you attachments indefinitely. After a …
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The Exchange Best Practices Analyzer is a great tool to check your Exchange setup. You get a lot of excellent guidance about various aspects of Exchange, presented as items of different severity. In the results list of a scan you can select to hide items that you do not want to be alerted about the …
The Exchange 2007 Autodiscover feature is one of the great imporvements in Exchange 2007. Using Autodiscover, clients can automatically configure their email settings. Outlook 2007 uses Autodiscover through Active Directory, searching for a Service Connection Point (SCP) that identifies all the Client Access servers in the organization. The SCP object, in turns, contains the URL …
A new version of the Transport Suite for Lotus Domino has appeared on the Microsoft download site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=35FC4205-792B-4306-8E4B-0DE9CCE72172&displaylang=en#filelist The vesion number is listed as 08.01.0223, and the file size of the transporter.msi file has also changed. Like last time this was not announced and no information exists about what changes have been made. I am …
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I had an interesting experience today. I was setting up an Exchange Edge server for a customer. After configuring the TCP/IP settings I proceeded to the Exchange Management Console to enter the server’s product key. I had already prepared the server earlier, installing Exchange and all required patches. But when I selected Properties on the …
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Evidently the Transporter team has released an updated version of the Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino. I can find no updated release notes or any information about any changes. Then only evidence of an update is the size of the installer and the version reported by the management console. Old version: New version: The …
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When you try to log on to Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2007 you can successfully enter you username and password, but when you select your language and time zone and press OK you receive this error: The complete text of the message reads: Request Url: https://<fqdn>:443/OWA/lang.owa User host address: 172.16.1.25 Exception Exception type: Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.StoragePermanentException …