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• Hotfix available for Exchange 2007 disclaimer corruption

  If you are running Exchange 2003 and 2007 in the same organization and you have enabled the disclaimer rule and create an e-mail on the Exchange 2003 server with OWA that gets routed by the Exchange 2007 server the e-mail might become corrupted. CAUSE... Posted Jul 12 2007, 03:00 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2003, hotfix

• Common Exchange Server 2007 upgrade mistakes

  There was a great community article posted today on some common mistakes that are made during Exchange 2003 uprades. Please read the entire article here . Posted Feb 26 2007, 04:42 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2003

• Internet Explorer 7 Causes Exchange System Manager to Crash

  It doesn't seem catastrophic but after installing IE7 (which is being pushed out with Windows Update as a critical patch), it could cause ESM to crash when you try to open Exchange help. The reason is that IE7 installs a newer version of psapi.dll. For... Posted Feb 17 2007, 12:58 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2003, Exchange

• Setting Mailbox limits over 2GB in Exchange 2003!

  Are you tired of allowing umlimited mailboxes to Execs that want need 3GB mailboxes? Now you can set warning, no send and no recieve limits that are higher than the 2,097,151 KB. The whole article is here . The gist of it using ADSIEdit or your favorite... Posted Feb 01 2007, 12:14 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2003, mailbox limits

• Exchange 2003 on VMWare ESX

  VMWare released a 24 page guidance document on their best practices for running Exchange 2003 in a virtual machine. If you are justing getting into virtualization this is a must read. If you arlready have a virtualization environment there is some handy... Posted Jan 23 2007, 12:27 AM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2003, VMWare, Virtualization

• A whole lotta fresh Exchange downloads

  A number of fresh Exchange downloads were posted last night. The list starts out with a few new tools for sizing Exchange 2007 servers and then we have a smattering of incremental updates for some Notes interop. Enjoy. Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress... Posted Jan 05 2007, 04:45 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2003, 64bit

• Exchange 2003 recovery process

  I am giving a class for some people this week about recovering from Exchange server and database failures. I decided to come up with a simplified process flow for the presentation and was pretty pleased with the results. I figured I would post the file... Posted Dec 06 2006, 09:57 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2003, Disaster Recovery

• New Exchange 2003 KB articles December 2006

  I ran across a couple of new KB articles that might be of use to you: KB925464: The SMTP service does not come online on the node that is running Exchange Server 2003 after a failover in a cluster environment Cause loadTOCNode(1, 'cause'); This issue... Posted Dec 01 2006, 10:06 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2003

• A beta version of the Daylight Saving 2007 patch for Exchange 2003

  I'm all for running the latest and greatest of most everything, however I am unsure why you would install this as a beta. If you have an overwhelming desire to test this the link is below: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;926666&sd... Posted Nov 16 2006, 11:57 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2003

• Update for Exchange Server 2003 SP2 problems in OWA with IE7 and SMIME (KB 924334)

  Microsoft has released a patch for a problem with Exchange 2003 SP2 and Internet Explorer 7.0 that is exhibited when using the S/MIME control in OWA. To download the patch click here . Overview This update resolves an issue where the Outlook Web Access... Posted Oct 22 2006, 07:47 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2003

• Understanding Exchange 2003 recipient policy LDAP OPATH filters enough to move to Exchange 2007

  Yes, I spent hours coming up with the title of this blog post.... :| Anyway, EvanD blogged a nice intro to how to migrate Exchange 2003 Recipient Policies to Exchange 2007. He also linked to this page on the Exchange wiki that has more details on the... Posted Sep 14 2006, 05:41 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2003

• New Exchange 2003 and 2007 webcasts

  Here are a few new Exchange related webcasts that I came across: Momentum Webcast: Improving Productivity with the 2007 Office System, Exchange Server 2007, and Windows Vista (Level 100) Start Time: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US &... Posted Aug 24 2006, 11:07 AM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2003, webcast

• Are out of office replies (OOFs) a security risk?

  My company allows OOF to the internet for most of our customers as it is often requested. Though there is are small risks to being able to verify an address is correct or knowing if someone is out of the office. These could be mitigated by having the... Posted Aug 22 2006, 11:39 AM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2003, Misc

• Exchange Wiki Started - www.ExchangeNinjas.com

  Just when you thought there was enough Exchange documentation other there.... there is now a Exchange Wiki site. This is open to anyone so hopefully some both the Microsoft and non-Microsoft employees can combine their knowledge for the good of Exchange... Posted Aug 04 2006, 11:22 AM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2003

• New! - Exchange 2003 ExTRA Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant posted

  Version 1.0.7843.0 Overview The Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant programmatically collects configuration data, performance counters and live tracing information from an Exchange server. The tool analyzes each subsystem to determine individual bottlenecks... Posted Aug 02 2006, 05:32 PM by Joel Stidley with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange 2003