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Conflicting Store Policies

Conflicting 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…

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Configuring Forms-Based Authentication in OWA and Exchange 2003

How can I configure Forms-Based Authentication in Exchange Server 2003 OWA? Exchange Server 2003 has greatly improved the Outlook Web Access (or OWA for short) experience when compared to older Exchange versions. Besides the nice new GUI, spell-checking in different languages, drag-and-drop features, S/MIME support (see Configure Message Security in OWA 2003 for more info)…

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Lightweight Directory Services Setup and Overview

The Light Weight Directory Services, or AD LDS, has been around in one form or another for quite a few years now. In Windows Server 2003, this service was called the Active Directory Application partition, or ADAM. Being that the service’s new name is the Lightweight Directory Service, I hate to describe the service as…

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Configuring Exchange 2007 Send Connectors

A lot of Exchange administrators are surprised to learn that in most cases a new Exchange Server 2007 deployment is not able to send mail to the outside world until the administrator does some additional configuration.  The reason for this is that unless you have installed an Edge transport server, and created an Edge subscription,…

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Configure Outlook 2003 to use RPC over HTTP/S

How can I configure Outlook 2003 to use RPC over HTTP/S? 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…

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Configure Newsgroup Expiration Policy

In Exchange 2000/2003, how can I configure a newsgroup expiration policy? If you’re running a newsgroup feed from a live NNTP server (see Configure Newsgroup Feed From a NNTP Server) you might want to configure an expiration policy to automatically delete items older than X days so not to overwhelm the server. To do so…

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Configure Instant Messaging in Exchange 2000

How to install and configure Instant Messaging on Exchange 2000? Step #1: Installing the IM service If you didn’t do so already, you must first install the IM service on the E2K server. Do so by running the E2K setup. When you get to the “Component Selection” page make sure you see a “V” on…

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Configure Exchange 2000/2003 to Receive E-Mail for other Domains

How do I configure my Exchange 2000/2003 server to accept e-mails for domains other than my own? Exchange 2000/2003 will only accept e-mail traffic for the e-mail domain that is identical to the name of your Active Directory domain. However sometimes we would like to allow our Exchange server to also receive e-mail for domains…

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Configure Active Directory Connector Connection Agreements

How do I configure Active Directory Connector Connection Agreements (CA)? MSKB 296260 has the following information: In most ADC deployments, your configuration falls under one of the following scenarios; before you configure Connection Agreements (CA), determine which scenario applies to your situation: First scenario. The Exchange Server 5.5 mailboxes are associated with accounts in a…

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How can I configure Outlook 2003 to block spam?

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 includes features and functionality designed to help block much of the junk e-mail messages (or spam) that you receive. These features give you more control over the kinds of messages delivered to your Inbox, and from whom you want to receive messages. Although these features are not customizable in any way, they…

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