In this section you will find historic articles that can apply to most versions of Exchange, general observations that I have made over the years or I just didn’t know quite where to file them!
Some of them may apply more to a specific version of Exchange more than another so check the content just in case, but where possible (or where I was paying attention) I have placed them in other categories on the site so they may appear twice depending on where you are looking.
Over the years, I have installed Exchange Server probably thousands of times. In big infrastructures, little infrastructures and everything in between. Luckily the vast majority of those installs have gone without a hitch – however, there have been some (and those tend to be the ones that I remember the most) that didn’t go so […]
I have been asked this quite a bit over the years, and indeed in most of my articles where I provide PS based scripts I tend to re-iterate the process for running or scheduling them. So rather than continue to cover the process over and over again, I thought that I would put together a […]
In the previous part of this series I explained what the Microsoft PST Capture tool was, described a little bit about its architecture and components, and then took you through how you can install the tool onto a server within your environment. In this part I would like to explain how you can install the […]
Someone asked me a little while back why I love Exchange so much. This was an interesting question, as even though I have worked with Exchange for many years – I had not really considered why I like it so much as a product until that point in time – or indeed that I really […]
Following on very loosely from my article here which provides a sample of 300 LAB users within a CSV file and a Powershell script to create them within Active Directory, I would like to present to you an article which is based on a more common production scenario – batch creation of Mailboxes. In essence […]
It is possible that many of you will read this article and think “yeah I know all about this” – but, considering the havoc that it caused for one of my customers last week I thought that it might be worth doing a post on the subject – just in case!. You might have to […]
Whilst on the subject of the EXBPA (previous rambling here http://telnetport25.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/red-herrings-with-the-exchange-2007-bpa-and-windows-2008-in-a-ccr-cluster) I thought that I would pass on a couple of (probably well known) tips on why the BPA can fail or generate warnings when being run against a Windows 2008 based Exchange 2007 server using the “Health Check” option. The Two most common errors […]
A little while ago I posted an article on how you can create signatures for Outlook using VBSCRIPT which seemed to function very well until a chap called Josh mailed me and let me know that although it worked great for Outlook 2002, 2003 and 2007 – when using it with Outlook 2000 it failed […]
My company makes heavy use of what we call “generic” mailboxes, where for example the mail items are sent to [email protected] rather than an individual person like [email protected] I have never been the most comfortable with this idea as from my perspective generating mailboxes that are purely used for sending mail in and out are […]
A MX (Mail Exchanger) record in its simplest form is a DNS entry for a domain which when queried by a sending MTA (SMTP Server) tells it where the destination MTA is. A properly configured MX will consist of a correctly defined Alias record as MX records cannot be defined from CNAME or direct IP […]
Ok, most of us are familiar with NDRs and generally we hate the sight of them – however they can be very useful little critters indeed as they can provide vital clues to transport problems within our mail environments, they also can turn into a problem for you and others if not configured correctly. As […]
I get asked the question quite a bit, and, normally my response is go and Google it. The other day, my deputy manager had a problem with one of our Exchage servers (disk space) and he was looking at enabling Circular logging in order to sort out the problem. As a result I thought that […]
A little while ago a third party company that provide professional services to us came to me asking some advice on how they could perform “brick level backups” of mailboxes without any specialist software for a group of specific users in Active Directory (its kind of a two way scratchy back relationship). I had a […]
This article is otherwise know as “where did my information store go?”. It amazes me how many people are out there whom are brave enough to change the default permissions on the Information Stores from within the Exchange System Manager – it is a very dangerous thing to do, and can result in your Exchange […]
My word, does the title for this article make sense? – not sure that it does, but this is what I mean; Your name is Bob, you work for a person called Sid, and Sid has set you up so you can send mail items on his behalf. However the problem is, when you send […]
