Category Archives: Exchange Server

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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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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1. Open Internet Explorer. In the Address bar, type https://published_server_name/Microsoft-Server-Activesync, where published_server_name is the published name of your OWA server (the name your end users will type). 2. Type the user name and information that you want to authenticate. 3. If you receive an Error 501/505 “Not implemented” or “Not supported” error message, Exchange ActiveSync …

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Running Exchange 2003 and SharePoint Services on the same machine can be a challenge, as is well documented: You receive a “Page not found” error message when you use Outlook Web Access (OWA) to browse the Exchange Server 2003 client after you install Windows SharePoint Services I recently tried to accomplish this, but without much …

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Finding out how much free space (white space) an Exchange database has is something I regularly do. I want to show you two ways you can get this information. First of, you can use ESEUTIL /MS <database name> to dump the free space information, but this requires that the database is dismounted. That is not …

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In a multi-domain forest with Exchange 2000/2003 installed there are some special group relationships. Each domain for which DomainPrep has been run, has the following Exchange related groups: Exchange Domain Servers (Global Group) Exchange Enterprise Servers (Domain Local Group) Exchange Enterprise Servers Purpose: Group all Exchange servers in a specific Enterprise (organization/forest) This group has …

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Recently I was trying to import some PST files to an Exchange 2003 server using ExMerge. The PST files had been collected from clients that had previously been running POP3 accounts using various versions of Outlook. The import was part of a migration process where we moved from these POP3 accounts to Exchange 2003. Earlier …

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