Exchange Server

The Art and Science of Sizing Exchange 2003 (Part 2) Storage is the most critical component of an Exchange back-end server and it’s usually the cause of performance degradation. If your users are complaining about frequent Outlook messages saying that it’s trying to retrieve data from the Exchange Server, that’s probably a storage bottleneck. A…

Setting mailbox limits in Exchange 2003 Exchange Server 2000/2003 allows the Exchange Administrator to set limits on the mailboxes of users in the Exchange Organization. Setting limits on the mailboxes help control the database size and plan for efficient backup, restore and maintenance tasks (read Calculating Storage Space in Exchange for more info). Mailbox limits…

In Part I of this series, we registered the XML files so that the Security Configuration Wizard could create an apply policies for Exchange 2007 servers. In this part, we’ll create and apply a policy to a server. It’s very important that all applications and utilities be installed on the server before running the SCW…

RPC over HTTP/S is a method for connecting your Outlook 2003/2007 client to the corporate Exchange Server 2003/2007 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 firewall. You can read more about it on my “How can…

In part one of this article series, I showed you how to create a recovery storage group, and how to restore data to it. In this article, I will continue the discussion by showing you how to use your recovery storage group to recover data. Mounting the Recovery Storage Group The first thing that you…

Imagine the following scenario: You perform a full backup of mailbox store on Exchange 2000/2003.   You move a mailbox from the backed-up store to an Exchange 2007 server.   You try to leverage the Recovery Storage Group feature on the Exchange 2000/2003 server to restore the contents of the mailbox in question using ExMerge…

Removing Store System Policies in Exchange 2003 Exchange Server 2000/2003 allows the Exchange Administrator to set store settings by directly editing the store’s properties, or by creating and working with Store System Policies (read Working with Store Policies for more info). When you’re set System Policies and configured them to apply for specific stores (may…

How can I remove the IFS Mapping for Drive M in Exchange 2000 Server? MS KB 305145 has more info: This step-by-step article describes how to remove the Exchange 2000 Installable File System (IFS) mapping from drive M. The IFS provides access to the Exchange 2000 information store through Win32 file system APIs. The Exchange…

Problems in Synchronizing a Pocket PC with Exchange Server 2003 when using SSL and Forms-Based Authentication in OWA As written in my other article (How to Synchronize a Pocket PC with Exchange 2003?), Exchange Server 2003 has many new features tailored for mobile users. One of them is ActiveSync which can be used to establish…

When Microsoft created Exchange Server 2007, one of the biggest changes that they made was the creation of server roles. The concept of roles existed in Exchange server 2003, it was very limited. In Exchange server 2007, there are five different roles which serve five very specific purposes. Because these roles are so different from…