Exchange Server

We all love Outlook Web Access (OWA) in Exchange Server 2003. However when using Internet Explorer 7 (if you still don’t have it read Download IE7) to browse to OWA 2003 we’ve encountered a nasty problem: You compose a new message: You click on Send, and boom: Microsoft has acknowledges this to be a problem…

One of the issues we discovered with Internet Explorer 7 was that it did not have full compatibility with various administrative tools or appliances. Many of these issues might cause you to lose full or partial control over the way some of your appliances work. That‘s why I recommend NOT TO INSTALL IE7 on server…

Microsoft is offering a FREE service called “Windows Live Custom Domains“, in which they will provide e-mail services to your domain. With this service, administrators can create and manage an unlimited number of user accounts, each with a e-mail storage space of 2 GB. The e-mail interface is that of Hotmail, which means that the user does not need to…

Google is now offering a FREE service called “Gmail for your domain“, in which they will provide Gmail service to a domain, any domain, YOUR DOMAIN! When you logon to Gmail you will use a your company’s domain name instead of the Gmail.com domain, and all the e-mail service will be hosted on Google’s servers. As with Gmail, users will be able…

How can I hide Public Folders in Exchange 2000/2003? If you want to create new top-level public folders but wish to limit their visibility to only specific users or groups you can do the following: Create a new top-level public folder (you can do it from Outlook, Windows Explorer or Exchange System Manager). Give the…

Finding delegates in Active Directory When using Exchange 2000/2003 there are very common situations where users define delegates in their mailboxes in order to let others manage their mailboxes. For example – a managers and his or her secretary (send of behalf). The problem occurs when one of the employees that was configured as a…

How do I use EXMERGE with Hebrew fonts? EXMERGE is very useful in many scenarios, one of which is migrating mailboxes from one Exchange server to another. Examples of such operations are featured in the Delete Messages from Mailboxes by using EXMERGE and Brick Level Backup of Mailboxes by using EXMERGE articles. I won’t go…

In Exchange 2000, how can I provide access to Alternate Public Folder Trees via EXIFS? Although Exchange 2000 allows multiple Public Folder roots (Create new PF Tree on Exchange 2000), current Outlook clients don‘t, so you can‘t display these other structures in Outlook. However, you can view them via the Web with the following format:…

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 Preview Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 has been released in the beginning of 2007, and most of us have not gotten used to the many new features (and to the tons of discontinued and deemphasized functionalities – read Exchange 2007 Discontinued Features and Exchange 2007 Deemphasized Functionality for more info). Exchange…

Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB 940006) has been officially released at the end of August 2007. The update is live at THIS LINK, and will also be offered through Microsoft Update. To read more about Update Rollup 4 please see KB 940006. Download the 32-bit version (30.1 mb) Download the 64-bit version…