Exchange Server

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 provides you with a comprehensive time and information manager. Users can share their calendars with other users by using Exchange Server, but because this action requires you to use a Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003/2007 account, it may not be suited for home users or small offices lacking a local Exchange server….

E-mail is normally fairly resilient, but sometimes things do happen that prevent e-mail messages from being delivered as expected. This is especially true when an Exchange Server is attempting to deliver e-mail messages to external addresses. You just never know when a router somewhere along the way is going to be down, or when the…

Error message 401.3 when setting up RPC over HTTP/S on Exchange 2003, after installing SP1 for Windows Server 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…

How do I restore my Exchange 2000/2003 server? One of the most important tasks for an Exchange administrator is the regular, day-by-day, backing up of all the Exchange databases. This can be easily accomplished by use of the built-in NTBACKUP.EXE software found on your Exchange 2000/2003 server. If the server running Exchange 2000/2003 is still…

In a great blog entry by Michael B. Smith, he has outlined a scripted method of obtaining the Mailbox and Public Folder store sizes on all Exchange servers in your organization. As Michael explains, it is a common request is to find out how much disk space Exchange is using in all of the various…

How can I recover a deleted mailbox in Exchange 2000/2003? In Exchange 2000 and Exchange Server 2003, if you delete a mailbox, it is disconnected for a default period of 30 days (the mailbox retention period), and you can reconnect it at any point during that time. Deleting a mailbox does not mean that it…

Where can I set an administrative e-mail address, so that if an e-mail is sent to a recipient that does not exist or is misspelled, the e-mail message will be forwarded to the Exchange administrator? The easiest way is to go to the properties of your virtual server and go to the ‘Messages’ tab. Add…

During some of the consulting sessions that I hold with my various clients I often stumble upon things that I know (these make me happy), things that I did not know (these make me go back to my books/online resources), and things that I didn’t know even existed. But sometimes I also find things that…

How can I pre-configure the default language for the folder names inside my mailbox? If you use Microsoft Outlook Web Access to log on to a mailbox for the very first time, the following folders are always created in English: Calendar Journal Tasks Notes Contacts Only the standard Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) folders are…

Offline Address Book Integrity (OABInteg) Utility Explained In this article I’ll introduce you to the Offline Address Book Integrity (OABInteg) utility, which can be of great help when troubleshooting Offline Address Book (OAB) generation issues as well as OAB download issues. Note: This article is published with permission from www.msexchange.org Introduction OABInteg is a nifty…