Exchange Server

How can I configure e-mail and message security in Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2003? After installing the online Certificate Authority (CA) and after obtaining a user Digital Certificate signed by your CA you will now need to configure Outlook Web Access (OWA) to use the new message security features. In Outlook Web Access you will…

How can I configure e-mail and message security in Exchange Server 2003? Exchange Server 2003 can work hand-in-hand with the Windows Server 2003 Certificate Authority (also known as CA) to provide message security by offering support for digital signatures and message encryption. Both forms of security will be discussed in a separate article, but what…

In Exchange 2000/2003, in order to generate a new or different E-Mail address for specific recipients, you had to edit or create Recipient Policies. In Exchange 2007, E-mail Address Policies are the components that generate the primary and secondary e-mail addresses for your recipients (which include users, contacts, and groups) so they can receive and…

In the previous article in this series, I explained that message classifications are not exposed through Outlook by default. In this article I want to show you how you can expose message classifications to Outlook 2007 users. Before I Begin Before I get started, I want to point out that the technique that I am…

How can I use the ESEUTIL utility to detect file header damage in Exchange 2000/2003? MS KB 825088 has more info: Exchange 2000 and 2003 use a checksum procedure to confirm the data integrity of pages that are in the database. The ESEUTIL tool in Exchange 2000/2003 includes a /K switch that you can use…

How can I change the SMTP banner seen when connecting to my Exchange server via Telnet? MS KB articles 281224 and 836564 have more: When you use Telnet to connect to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service of a Windows 2000/2003-based server (regardless of whether it is running Exchange 2000/2003), the following banner is…

In the first article in this series, I outlined three steps that I think are essential to the Exchange 2007 migration process. In this article, I want to continue the discussion by providing you with some more steps in my migration best practices. Step 4: Focus on the Clients Your users aren’t going to get…

How can I manage my Exchange 2003 server from a Windows XP/2000/2003 workstation? This article describes the steps to be taken in order to be able to administer an Exchange 2003 server from a Windows XP Pro computer that is installed with SP1 or SP1a or from a Windows Server 2003 Member Server. Note: For…

How can I add a Root Certificate to my Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC? Windows Mobile 2002 and 2003 based Pocket PCs use Root Certificates to allow access to SSL-enabled applications such as Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer, Microsoft ActiveSync (when it is configured to synchronize directly with Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server), L2TP-based VPN connections and…

You are all familiar with the standard Outlook form for meeting requests where you specify the meeting details and invite attendees and probably have seen it so many times that an idea of changing the way the form looks or adding some information to the form is something you have not even thought about. But…