Exchange Server

How do I configure OWA to use SSL? Outlook Web Access (or OWA for short) is one of Exchange Server‘s best features, allowing you to connect to your corporate mailbox from virtually any spot on earth as long as you have an Internet connection and a decent web browser. You can read more about OWA…

How can I Configure OMA in Exchange 2003? One of the coolest things in Exchange Server 2003 is it’s ability to allow mobile users to connect to it via a stripped down version of Outlook Web Access called (you guessed right) “Outlook Mobile Access”, or OMA for short. Exchange Server 2003 enables any device capable…

In Exchange 2000/2003, how can I configure a newsgroup feed from a live NNTP server? To configure an Exchange 2000 mail server to receive a live newsgroup feed from a live NNTP newsgroup server do the following: Write down the URL for the live NNTP server. These addresses usually (but not always) come in the…

How can I configure Internet Security and Acceleration Server to publish OWA on an Internal Exchange Server? The ISA Server allows for traditional mail server protocols (SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and so on) to be published easily under the Server Publishing Rules node. However, no ISA Server wizard automates publishing an internal mail server that allows…

Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter is a product developed by Microsoft to help companies reduce the amount of unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE), or spam, received by users. You can read more about IMF on the  page. How it works? When an external user sends e-mail messages to an Exchange server with Intelligent Message Filter enabled,…

How can I change the store limits in Exchange 2003 SP2? By default, the size limit of each database on a server running Exchange 2000 and Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition is 16 GB (this limit is also enforced in SBS 2000/2003). Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is supposed to remove this limit…

How do I use EXMERGE to make Brick-Level backups of Exchange 2000/2003 mailboxes? One of the most important tasks for an Exchange administrator is the regular, day-by-day, backing up of all the Exchange databases. This can be easily accomplished by use of the built-in NTBACKUP.EXE software found on your Exchange 2000/2003 server. Note: You can…

Any time that I think about server migrations, I always have to cringe a little bit. I’m not anti-progress or anything, it’s just that my memory always reflects the way that we used to do migration at a company that I worked at in the early 1990s. Although it was a large, enterprise environment there…

How can I manage my Exchange 2000 server from a Windows XP computer? This article describes the steps to be taken in order to be able to administer an Exchange 2000 server from a Windows XP Pro computer that does NOT have SP1 or SP1a installed. Note: For a newer version of this page click…

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