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You should consider installing Service Pack 2 as soon as possible Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) was released on the 19th of October 2005. You can download SP1 for Exchange 2003 right here: Download Exchange 2003 SP2 (109mb) Required Patches If you’re running Exchange 2003 with SP1 you should apply the following security-related patches:…

Exchange 2000 Server SP3 Patches SP3 info You can download SP3 for Exchange 2000 right here: Download Exchange 2000 SP3 (165mb) Required Patches If you’re running Exchange 2000 with SP3 on a Windows 2000 box with SP4 you should apply the following security-related patches: April 2005 MS05-021 : Vulnerability in Exchange Server Could Allow Remote…

In knowledge base article 158530 , Microsoft have published a list of all of their releases of Exchange server, starting from Exchange 4.0 back in 1996, and ending in the present with Exchange Server 2007 SP1. Each version of Microsoft Exchange Server has a different build number, and when installing Service Packs on Exchange Server,…

As we all know, Exchange Server 2007 is here to stay, so we might as well get used to it. This week I’ve given a 4 hour demonstration and feature review of Exchange Server 2007, and with it I also reviewed the many changes that are incorporated into Service Pack 1, scheduled to be released…

In some environments the company policy requires that security logs of Domain Controllers are configured to retain information X days into the past. Requiring such a setting means 2 things: You can not configure the Event Log to override events as needed (if the log reaches it’s maximal size) The log file can grow to…

Deciding how many Global Catalog Servers to have on your network, and where to place those servers can be tricky. If there are too few Global Catalog Servers, you could cause severe performance problems or possibly a single point of failure. At the same time though, having too many Global Catalog Servers can also cause…

One of the first tasks that one performs right after finishing the installation of a new operating system is to install all the required additional applications and change the system’s settings to match their own requirements. One of the most frequently used applications I install on my machine is Adobe Acrobat Reader (see http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html for…

I’m probably revealing a little too much about my age, but when I first started working with Windows Server, the current version was Windows NT Server 3.5. One of the interesting things about that version of Windows was that like all of its successors, it had the ability to host network print queues. At the…

Through several registry modifications, you can create an enhanced “right-click” menu for the Recycle Bin. The new options will allow you to delete the temporary files in the following two directories: %UserProfile%AppDataLocalTemp and %SystemRoot%Temp. Additionally, another menu will be created that will allow you to run the disk cleanup utility. Please be aware that this…

Using Cygwin, the free open-source terminal emulator, in coordination with OpenSSL, you can create cross-platform encrypted files. The files created using Cygwin can be exported using mobile media including thumb drives, CDs, external hard drives, etc. Cygwin and OpenSSL are bundled in the download of Cygwin. The following tutorial (although demonstrated using Windows Vista) can…