Exchange Server

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 now has built-in Open Relay Filter (ORFilter) or DNS Blacklist and Realtime Blackhole List (DNSBL, RBL) capabilities, which releases us from the need to rely on 3rd party software for the spam filtering. Update – Exchange Intelligent Message Filter Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) was first released at the end…

Do you know what product can add a paragraph of text to every e-mail that leaves my Exchange server, for example a disclaimer or a legal notice? This is a common question and the answer depends on what version of Exchange you are running. For both Exchange 5.5 and 2000, the easiest way to deploy…

How do I install the Exchange 2000 Active Directory Connector on a Windows 2000 computer? To install the ADC: Log on to the Windows 2000 domain controller as a member of the Domain Administrators, Enterprise Administrators, and Schema Administrators groups. Insert the Exchange 2000 Server CD-ROM in the CD drive. Click Start, click Run, and…

In Exchange 2000/2003, what is the Active Directory Cleanup Wizard and what is it good for? MSKB 270652 has the following information: The Active Directory Account Cleanup Wizard is a utility designed to merge duplicate Microsoft Windows NT accounts that are created when multiple directories are migrated or upgraded to Active Directory. The Active Directory…

Up until about a year or two ago, Exchange Server routinely enjoyed a reputation as being the most complicated product that Microsoft makes. In recent years, Exchange Server hasn’t gotten any easier, it’s just that Microsoft has created other products such as Office Communications Server that are more complicated than Exchange. Given the complexity of…

In this article I will show you in details the Steps that are necessary to create an Exchange Virtual Server for Exchange Server Clustering with Windows Server 2003. This article goes beyond my first article about clustering. In this article I gave you only the basic Steps that were necessary to create an Exchange 2003…

How do I create a new Public Folder Tree in Exchange Server 2003? When you first install Exchange Server 2003, you have a default Public Folders store that is connected to a default Public Folder hierarchy. However, you might want to create your own separate Public Folder Tree for certain uses, such as a store…

Those of you skilled in Exchange 2000/2003 versions surely remember that, out of the box, Exchange 2000/2003 allows you to send e-mail to the external world right after the Exchange installation was finished. You need not configure any additional setting, and as long as the Exchange server had Internet access (and access to a valid…

In Exchange 2000/2003, how can I configure web access to some of the newsgroups that are hosted on the server? If you’re running a newsgroup feed from a live NNTP server (see Configure a Newsgroup Feed From a NNTP Server), or if you’re running your own newsgroup hierarchy, you might want to configure alternate access…

How can I configure Outlook XP/2003/2007 to prompt me for a password? When using an Outlook client to connect to your Exchange mailbox you are getting a lot of information, some of it might be confidential, displayed on your computer screen. This type of information should be protected from viewing by other users. While using…