email addresses based on phone number

Hoping to be able to automatically generate email addresses based on phone number. 1234567890@this.domain.com The idea is to have an address to which text messages can be easily sent. Many employees can receive but not send on their cell phones. Texting from, say, Outlook would be great. Workarounds welcome. I'm sure this isn't the only way.

Optimize Forefront

Hi! How should Forefront Security for Exchange 2007 be configured so that it takes minimum resources on Exchange Machine. I have already followed the Best Practices Doc for Forefront but need to optimize Forefront for Best server performance. Currently task manager is showing: FSCTransportScanner (4 Tasks) FSCRealtimeScanner (4 Tasks) Exchange 2007 running on Windows 2003 Std. Thanks!

Message Submitted to Advanced Queuing for 8 days

Hi all, we have exchange 2003 SP2 Frontend/Backend Topology One user receives one external message 8 days later: Here is the track log on the frontend server; 6/23/2010 3:15 AM SMTP: Message Submitted to Advanced Queuing 6/23/2010 3:15 AM SMTP: Started Message Submission to Advanced Queue 6/24/2010 3:03 AM SMTP: Message Submitted to Advanced Queuing 6/24/2010 3:03 AM SMTP: Started Message Submission to Advanced Queue 6/28/2010 3:03 AM SMTP: Message Submitted to Advanced Queuing 6/28/2010 3:03 AM SMTP: Started Message Submission to Advanced Queue 6/30/2010 3:04 AM SMTP: Messag

Managing multiple mailboxes

Hello everyone. I'm curious to know if anyone has managed to set this up in their environment(s). Currently, we have a user that manages two mailboxes, his own and a group mailbox. His daily tasks include checking the incoming messages from the group mailbox and responding to them. What he's been finding is if he responds to any emails within the group mailbox, and chooses to send FROM the group mailbox, when the message is sent Outlook drops the message into his personal mailbox, rather than the group mailbox. Normally this would be okay, but since this same mailbox is managed by m

add public folder calendar to multiple user accounts favorite calendar list.

hey all, i need to add a public folder calendar to multiple user accounts "favorites" calendar list (shows as other calendars) in outlook 2007. i know, from outlook, you can right click and add to favorite to add it to an individual user's "other calendars" but i need to do this for a group of people. is there any way in exchange, gpo, or something to do this automatically based on group membership, etc.? thanks in advance. shrpshtr

OWA page not found only for 1 user??????

Hello everyone. We are in an Exchange 2003 SP2 on Windows 2003 SP2, Outlook 2003. I am stumped with this one. I have one user, whom for some reason I cannot figure out, gets an error when she tries to get to email through OWA. She gets a page not found error. "HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found. Internet Information Services (IIS)" She can get to her email through Outlook just fine. And she is the only one having this problem out of a user population of about 1000 folks. I have tried using http://hostname/exchange, but get the same error. I have looked at her user prop

mailbox resources in ESM

One KB article I read mentioned "to view mailbox resources in ESM". Is it the view when you click on mailbox which showing - Last logged on By, Size, Total items and Last logon time? If not, how to get it? Also, in Exchange 5.5 the admin program whill show you the size and # of items for each folder, such as Inbox, Deleted items. Is there a way to view it in Exchange 2003 ESM? Thanks.

EX2010 Edge Transport Outbound Only?

I've already got an AV/anti-spam system for inbound mail. Can I configure an ET server for outbound mail only? What kind of functions/features would an Edge Transport server give me if it's only processing outbound mail? -Mike

New Exchange 2007 server - hardware specs

Hi all, Rookie Exchange Admin here. Looking to purchase new hardware for Exchange backend box - to replace outgoing 2003 Dell 2500 box. Do the following specs look kosher? (for 100 user environment, 130GB mail store, 90 local/10 remote users): Anyone have any suggested changes/improvements - ie: is 512MB standard on a storage controller? It will be either a HP box (my preference) or another Dell. Thank you!! HP HP ProLiant DL380 G6 Performance - Xeon X5550 2.66 GHz Server - rack-mountable - 2U - 2-way - 2 x Xeon X5550 / 2.66 GHz - RAM 12 GB - SAS - hot-swap 2.5"

Installing Exchange 2010 issue

I am going to test Exchange 2010.... I installed Server 2008 R2 on to a machine....installed all updates. Installed DNS Installed IIS During teh Install of Exchange, i get 2 problems and cannont go any further. When it is doing the "Readiness Checks" it fails on the Client Role Prerequisites" #1 Unable to read data from the MetaBase. Ensure the Microsoft Internet Information Services is installed #2 Unable to access the "Default website" on this computer Then 1 error on the Mailbox Role Prerequisites #1 Unable to read data from the MetaBase. Ensure the Microsoft

Get OWA to use owa.domain.com

Hey all, This is driving me crazy. I just want to have OWA use http(s)://owa.domain.com. I have created a DNS record for the address pointing to the IP of my Exchange box and now it just won't connect without an error. Basically, it asks for credentials (no forms based auth enabled yet) and then just errors after a while. Is there a best practice for getting this to work? I haven't done this in a really long time so I'm sure I'm just forgetting something. Seems to me I had to change the default home directory of something on the Exchange box. I can still connect to ht

need your help.

Hi all, If you have two same weight(preference) MX records, will inbound emails load-balance each other? if one fails, will it relay mails to the second one? If you have two smart hosts on the connector, will it automatically load-balance each other? thank you.

Two-Factor Authentication - Exchange 2010

Is there any documentation that you can point me to for configuring Outlook Anywhere and/or Outlook Web App for two-factor authentication? I am only able to read that two-factor authentication is possible, but I cannot find anything on how to configure Exchange for it. I appreciate any direction that you can provide, thanks.

Hide mailboxes where Forwarding Address is set

Hello, I need script to Exchange Server 2007, that hide mailboxes where Forwarding Address is set. Can someone help me? Thanks

F/B replication help.

Hi all, We need to share Public folder and FreeBuy info between two exchange organizations. (one forest A has exchange 2003 and another forest B has exchange 2007) I use the inter-organization replication tool http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee307369(EXCHG.80).aspx The public folder works beautifully. I have two questions regarding Free/Busy replication: 1) Since the F/B replication is only from Publisher to subscriber, do I need to install the inter-organization replication tool in two forests? 2) Just for test, I created the mail-enabled contact of Fore

Returned Mail

Howsit Guys, I am running Kerio Mail server 6.1.1 and are having problems with all outgoing mail: MWEB is my hosting my mail spool and am using a telkom ADSL line to breakthrough to the internet.I recieve the following error message when attempting to send mail. <xxxxx@domain.co.za> (smtp.saix.net: 554 5.7.1 <servername.domain.local>:Helo Command rejected: AOL TOS - SAIX Ref:H434 - Blacklisted for Spam Trojan) Please assist. Ive tried to use smtp.dsl.telkomsa.net,i dont recieve any bounce backs but the mail just doesnt go through! Shot!

Stop Users from creating pst

We have a w2k3 domain and exchange server. Is there a way in exchange 2k3 to prevent users from creating pst on there desktop? Thanks in advance

lost mailbox rights

I have a user on an Exchange 2003 mailbox server that has somehow lost rights to his mailbox. He can only access it when he is made a domain admin, yikes...! Any thought on how to fix this problem...? Thanks, Tom...

External emails sitting in outbox

Good morning, I've got a really strange issue that I can't get to the bottom of. Basically if I send an external email it will sit in the outbox and not go anywhere, however if I then send another external email it's sent no problem, but the first still sits in the outbox. If I delete the email from the outbox and send another one it just sits in the outbox. Any help would be great. Cheers, Dylan.

Deploying Exchange 2010 on 2000 AD

Hello: I currently have a 2000 AD network. I need to deploy Exchange 2010 as soon as I can. With my 2000 AD this is not possible. Due to my need to deploy quickly I was thinking I could do the following: 1. Deploy a 2008 AD 2. Create a trust relationshipe between the 2000 & 2008 domains 3. Deploy Exchange 2010 on the 2008 domain 4. Migrate mailboxes from the Exchange server on the 2000 domain to the new 2010 Exchange server. Is this possible? If so does anyone know of any TechNet docs on it? Thanks Harrison

Spam being sent from Exchange 2007

Exchange 2007 with Outlook 2007. I have a user that had hundred's of emails sent out at 3am from her account. I can track them in my Exchange tracking logs and I see them in the users Spam allowed folder, which automatically adds any users that are sent email to the users white list. I do not see them in the Sent items folder though. I am running McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise on the desktop and ran a full scan with nothing found. I ran Malwarebytes and nothing was found. I checked with process explorer and all processes are verified. What else could I check to see how the email was sent

Exch2007: Server-side mailbox rules still run with account disabled

Hi, It looks like this may be alarming be an alarming flaw in Exchange security at least for my company's processes in regards to term'ed employee mailboxes. If somebody sets up a server-side rule that forwards all their incoming to an external address, that rule stays active even after disabling the mailbox. Is there a way to prevent this globally, or are we going to need to manually go into every single mailbox of people who leave the company and clear rules? Thanks. PVD

OWA 2007 - Password changes

Hi All Would someone be so kind to clarify the password changing issues for OWA2007 for me please? OWA 2007 on backend Exchange 2007 (separate servers). OWA running on W2K3 SP2 R2 IIS6 and using Forms based security. We would like to enable expired and change password at next logon feature through OWA, AND allow extended ASCII (as we've already told the business that symbols are an allowed option). Can you tell that we've recently updated our password complexity rules! This is an extremely useful blog: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/12/09/450238.aspx My qu

Exchange 2010 SAN Certificate

I am doing a migration to Exchange 2010. I need to acquire a SAN Cert, but I'm a little confused as to what info I need in order to process the cert. Let's say I have a single Exchange 2010 Server that I want to do Outlook Anywhere, Webmail, and Mobile support. My server (internal) is dvs00.domain.local. My current public DNS record is exch.domain.com. Is this the proper CSR command?: Set-Content -path "C:\exch_domain_com" -Value (New-ExchangeCertificate -GenerateRequest -KeySize 2048 -SubjectName "c=US, s=Washington, l=Seattle, o=COMPANY, cn=exch.domain.com" -DomainName

outlook over vpn

Hi there, I'm having problems with intermittent connections when using outlook over an SSL VPN - note we are not using RPC over HTTP. My remote users connect in via an SSL VPN and then open outlook like they were in the office. We are using outlook 2007 and exchange 2003. It is a watchguard ssl100 vpn. This works 75% of the time. Using the "connection status" option in outlook shows that the it cannot establish a connection to either the DC or the exchange server. However I can make a remote desktop connection across the VPN to both servers - i.e. the VPN is allowing traffic. I