Exchange Server

Hebrew (and Arabic) messages sent from Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2003 have subject lines made of question marks (????) The following article deals with an issue that Hebrew or Arabic speakers have when sending messages by using Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2003. This issue causes certain machines using OWA to send email messages that have…

Greylisting seems to be the right method to effectively lower the spam levels your mail servers get daily. Read more about it on my Combating Spam with Greylisting article. There are quite a few Greylisting implementations available for a wide variety of SMTP mail servers. So far I was only able to find one freeware…

In Exchange 2000, how can I provide access to Alternate Public Folder Trees via EXIFS? Although Exchange 2003 allows multiple Public Folder roots (Create new PF Tree on Exchange 2003), 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:…

Many features found in earlier versions of Microsoft Exchange Server have been deemphasized in Exchange 2007. “Deemphasizing” means that these features are still supported by Microsoft, but future development is not planned since they are considered to be legacy features, and future versions of Exchange (now code named “Exchange 14”) will no longer support them….

As announced on the MSExchange Team blog, today, Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Beta 2 has been released as a community technology preview (CTP). This is a great milestone for the product and the team and builds on the great work they did in Exchange 2007. They are distributing the release through MSDN and…

E-mail has become a mission critical application within most organizations, so it has become common for upper level management to mandate a specific Service Level Agreement (SLA) for Exchange Server administrators. In case you are not familiar with the concept of an SLA, a SLA mandates the percentage of time that an application is available….

Errors after moving Exchange Stores to a different disk in Exchange 2000/2003? When you install Exchange 2000/2003 on your server the setup program installs and configures Exchange in a default directory under the C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr folder. Although this is the default setup, in order to facilitate better hard disk performance and redundancy it is best…

Standard message-only journaling simply delivers a copy of a message flagged for archival to a designated journal mailbox. Envelope journaling instead delivers archival messages using an envelope message containing a journal report with the original message as an attachment. In order to enable envelope journaling please read Enable Envelope Journaling in Exchange 2000/2003. To enable…

Where can I download Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2? Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) was released on the 19th of October 2005. Exchange Server 2003 SP2 offers new features and improvements to Exchange Server 2003. Some of these new features include support for mobility and message hygiene, improvements to address performance and reliability with public…

With the release of Exchange 2007 in the beginning of 2007, Microsoft has continued on building the mobile usage and capabilities of Exchange Server, features that were first introduced in Exchange 2003 RTM. In this article I will try to describe the changes found in Exchange 2007 when compared to the list of features we…