Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
In a previous article, I described how to install the Spam Filter Agents on an internal Hub Transport Server. If you want to filter spam using a blacklist such as SpamHaus.org, you can configure this blacklist as an IP blacklist provider. The procedure is the same on an Edge Transport as it is on a Hub Transport server: Via the Exchange Management Console First in ... Read more
Normally, the user or their client determines the language settings of a mailbox hosted on an Exchange server. Example: A new mailbox is created on the Exchange Server, initially the "Language" attribute of the mailbox is empty. When a client logs in for the first time, this attribute is now filled in. For example, one of the users logs on to the ... Read more
It often happens that some programs can send status messages or reports by e-mail, but do not offer any kind of authentication. Often you can only specify an SMTP server, but unfortunately no account information. For such cases, you can create a new receive connector that also accepts and forwards mails without prior authentication. However, this option is ... Read more
Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 and Exchange Server 2007 SP3 has been released. An overview of the fixes can be found here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2011/03/08/458566.aspx and the download here: Exchange 2010 Exchange 2007 The installation of the rollup took about 20 minutes on my test system (Dual Core Xeon, 8 GB RAM, 2 x RAID1 15k rpm). ... Read more
The Office team has released a patch so that Personal Archives and Exchange Online Archives can now also be used in Outlook 2007. The update is part of the "Office 2007 cumulative update for February 2011". The whole package can be downloaded here: http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=2475891&kbln=en-us Details about Outlook 2007 and Exchange Archive can be found here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/12/20/457238.aspx
At this point, I would like to point out a few useful little helpers that have already made my life easier on several occasions in my day-to-day business: N2Kview: Nice tool to view and edit the Outlook NK2 file. This allows you to quickly delete old or incorrect entries from Outlook's auto-complete function. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/outlook_nk2_autocomplete.html PFDAVadmin: A great tool for managing the public folders ... Read more
From several conversations with partners who are using Exchange 2010 in conjunction with Outlook 2010, one error kept coming to light: 07:56:27 Transmission to server "EXSRV01.frankysweb.local" 07:56:27 Error synchronizing some deletions. 07:56:27 [0-130] 07:56:27 1 item(s) was deleted in the online folder. This error is also discussed in the Office 2010 forum, the last ... Read more
If you only use IIS7 (Internet Information Service) and the standard website for OWA and want to redirect calls to https://exchange.frankysweb.de directly to https://exchange.frankysweb.de/owa, you can use the IIS role service "HTTP redirection". If not already installed, the "HTTP redirection" role service must first be installed for the IIS role. The easiest way to do this is via the server manager, or via ... Read more
Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 received RTM status today. It will therefore be available for download from February 22, 2011. MSDN customers will already receive the service pack on 16.02.2011. The SP1 brings 2 interesting new features for Server 2008 R2. One is Dynamic Memory and the other is RemoteFX. As soon as I ... Read more
If you want to quickly find out the Exchange version in use, you can compare the build numbers and version numbers with the table here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/exchange-server-and-update-rollups-builds-numbers.aspx This allows you to quickly find out the patch level and the service pack version in use.
