Exchange Server

In Exchange 2000, what is the Active Directory Cleanup Wizard and what is it good for? MSKB 270652 has the following information: The Active Directory Account Cleanup Wizard is a utility designed to merge duplicate Microsoft Windows NT accounts that are created when multiple directories are migrated or upgraded to Active Directory. The Active Directory…

Can I recover deleted items through Outlook Web Access (OWA) in Exchange 2003? Can I recover hard-deleted items through OWA? Of course you can. Deleted items that are deleted via OWA or the regular Outlook client can be easily recovered, as long as the items that were deleted we not purged from the Exchange store….

In the previous article in this series (Using Exchange Management Shell to Configure Content Filtering, Part 1), I showed you how to use the Set-ContentFilterConfig command to specify bypassed sender domains in Exchange Server 2007. As you may recall though, the biggest problem was that whenever you enter this command, the existing list of bypassed…

How to Upgrade from Exchange Server Standard Edition to the Enterprise Edition? MS KB 170280 has info on this issue: Exchange 2000/2003 Server Standard Edition has quite a few limitations in comparison with the Enterprise Edition. Among them is the 16GB database size limit, lack of Clustering support, lack of ability to act as a…

In the previous article in this series, I showed you how to create a postmaster address that could be used to intercept replies to non-delivery reports.  What you might not realize though, is that not all non-delivery reports are created equally.  In this article, I want to show you how to analyze the contents of…

Many businesses incorporate a disclaimer or footer at the bottom of their outbound messages. These disclaimers often advise as to the limitation or ramifications of using information within the message for purposes other than they were intended, or to assert ownership of creative works contained in them. While there is always a debate as to…

How can I test RPC over HTTP/S on Exchange 2003? RPC over HTTP/S is a cool method for connecting your Outlook 2003 client to the corporate Exchange Server 2003 from the Internet or WAN, without the need to establish a VPN session to the corporate LAN and/or needing to open many ports on your corporate…

How can I temporarily disable Root Certificate checking on my Windows Mobile 2002/2003 Pocket PC? When performing a synchronization between your Windows Mobile 2002 and 2003 based Pocket PC and your Exchange server (as described in How to Synchronize a Pocket PC with Exchange 2003?) you can obtain additional security by using SSL instead of…

Every morning when I open my mailbox, I’ve got hundreds of messages that have come in overnight. A lot of these messages are spam, but some are from friends, family, or business associates. Obviously, I don’t want to open a bunch of spam, especially since some E-mail messages can be malicious. Instead, I have to…

How can I verify that my Exchange server is accepting connections? How can I connect to my Exchange server via Telnet? Sometimes you might want to troubleshoot your Exchange server from outside your corporate LAN (or from within, it makes no difference) in order to see if it accepts incoming connections. An example for this…