Exchange Server

How do I configure OMA to use SSL? Outlook Mobile Access (or OMA for short) is a new feature found in Exchange Server 2003 that allows you to connect to your mailbox by means of almost any mobile phone or mobile device–based browsers that support HTML, XHTML, or Compact Hypertext Markup Language (cHTML). These include…

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 corporate firewall. The only ports you’ll need to open on your…

How do I configure attachment blocking in Outlook Web Access on Exchange Server 2003 MS KB 555001 by William Lefkovics (MS Exchange MVP) has more info: There are 2 levels of file attachments for Outlook Web Access. Level1 attachments have file extensions that are prohibited from accessing by OWA. Level2 attachments have file extensions that…

How do I configure and test the MX Record for my Internet Domain name? When you want to run your own mail server, and it does not matter what version and make of mail server you’re using – as long as the mail server is using SMTP as the e-mail transfer mechanism – you’ll need…

How can I configure e-mail and message security in Outlook 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 2003 to use the new message security features. These features include: Message encryption Message signing Note: Before being able…

How can I configure Instant Messaging SRV records on Exchange 2000? The problem When you configure IM on your network (See Configure Instant Messaging) you must configure user accounts and IM clients. Those users must log on to the IM service by using their usernames and domain names, but not as a regular e-mail address…

Although I think that Microsoft has done a pretty decent job creating the Exchange 2007 version of OWA, the fact remains that the default OWA configuration may not suit every organization, or even every user within an organization. There are a number of possible reasons why an administrator may need to customize the OWA experience,…

Greylisting is quickly emerging as the new weapon that can be effectively used to fight against spam. Greylisting is somewhat related to whitelisting and blacklisting, but instead of specifying who is on your white or black lists, Greylisting works in a different way. Each time a mailbox receives an e-mail from an unknown contact, that…

By now you’re probably familiar with the idea that Exchange Server 2007 is designed in such a way that every message flows through a central pipeline.  Microsoft designed Exchange Server in this way so that there would be a central portal through which all messages flow, and therefore messages could be analyzed in certain types…

Sometimes you need to assign more then one email address to one object (user or group) from various reasons and make this new email address the default email address (this is email address that the recipient side will see and reply). In Exchange 2000 / 2003 servers all you have to do, is to create…