Removing Exchange 2003 by force

Hi All, I have an old exchange server in the domain. This domain has been fine for about 5 years. The initial domain was done on a Windows 2000 SBS server (not sure which version of exchange this is). Anyway, we have Windows 2008 R2 servers and Windows 2003 R2 servers in the mix now and this server has been removed for quite sometime. However, the exchange data is still in AD. The reason I am asking to remove this is because we wish to install Exchange 2010 in to the domain and it's wanting to install a routing group to this non existing domain server. I don't want to have

Old out of office message being sent

I have a growing problem where my users Out of Office is sending an old message out. They have gone in and edited the message, saved it, then turned on OOO, then bamm. The old message appears and is sent. I know you can try and use the cleanrules swicth as well as try and edit it via OWA. My question is why is this happening? We recenly migrated to XP and used the Outlook migration wizard. Could have casued this? My cusotmer is driving me crazy wanting to know why. Thanks in advance

Automatic reply to external addresses

I have some users wanting to have an automatic reply to all messages sent to a few specific mailboxes. We have always disallowed this in the past because of the potential for mail loops. Can automatic replies to an external address even be allowed in Exchange 2007? If so, are there any safeguards against mail loops? Are there any third-party products that would keep Exchange 2007 from replying to an automatic reply? Thank you.

exchange 2003 on server 2003 DST issue??

we are having a minor issue with a few users with thier calendar being off by an hour? these are all users with new machines, with all updates installed, and also using new blackberrys, also with the newest OS installed. i maintain a windows server update server in our domain, and push out all of the approved updates, so i know that they are installed. any ideas???

OWA Problem

Hi Guys, I'm moving mailboxes from one server to another. All servers are in the same administrative group. However, when my users login to OWA they are then asked to re-authenticate against the server they have been moved to. Any ideas on how to resolve this. both servers are Windows 2003EESp2/Exchange2003sp2

Exch 2010 - huge problem with attachment in digitaly signed email

Hello everyone, I have a really important problem. We are currently testing Exchange 2010 as new mail server. When we receive emails that have been digitally signed and with attachments, the attachment icon is not displayed at all. The signing icon yes, but not the trombone. Worse in Outlook 2003, the only access to the attachment that by "file> Save attachments". Even double clicking on the message, they don't shwo up and are not visible altogether. In Outlook 2007 and 2010, although it did not show in the list, it displays "at least" attachments by reading the mail. The problem is

Installing Public Certificate on Exchange 2007 w/Mailbox,HUB,CAS r

Due to a request by a DR vendor, we need to install a Public certificate on our Exchange 2007 server with the mailbox, HUB and CAS roles. The Public certificate will be exported from the Exchange 2007 server and then imported into their DR appliance. The vendor will not support the internal self signed certificate. Before I proceed, are any of you aware of gotcha's that I need to take into account? Thanks Ron

Database Space Recovery

Guys, I have about 30GB of recoverable space on my database yet still my disk has on 5GB free. What is the best way to reclaim this space. Do i do an offline defrag? Based on what I read this would not do the trick sense since Exchange 2003SP2 handle the database differently. All suggestions welcome. Thanks

mis-matched MAPI32.DLL & CDO.DLL

In gathering information for another issue, I've discovered that the versions of MAPI32.DLL and CDO.DLL are different on my front-end Exchange 2003 +SP2 server, and on my back-end clustered servers. Both files on the front-end are version 6.5.7654.12, SP2. The files on the back-end servers are slightly older versions. Question: why would this be? due to an update that applied only to non- clustered Exchange servers (or applicable only to clustered Exchange servers? Is this an issue? Should I put the newer version files on the back-end clustered servers? Thanks in advance. -R

Exchange 2007 AntiSpam

We have a user who is getting a LOT of SPAM. Many of these contain a specific word or words. I went into Exchange Management Console - Organization Configuration - Hub Transport - Anti-Spam - Content Filtering - Custom Words, and added the word(s) in question to the "blocked" section. This did not stop the messages with those words from being delivered. Is there something that I am missing here? I even tried rebooting the server but still get the SPAM. Thanks.

Problem with Exchange 2003 Permissions

I have a 2003 installation which only has one mailbox database and one public folder database in the first storage group. the issue im having is that i cannot mount the public folders db with the error " The store could not be mounted because the active directory information was not replicated yet you cant either... press cancel or retry" and when I do a retry i got "The Microsoft exchange information store service could not find the specified object." ID no: c1041722 I googled a lot about this issue which is supposed to be a permissions issue but i had already reseted and veri

Delegate Mailbox Deleted - Clean Up Tool

I have two mailboxes, A and B. B is a delegate of A. I delete B. When I go to mailbox A, there are references to an account in the permissions tab. Has anyone every figured out a way to clean up this scenario? Thanks

BlackBerry

Exchange Server 2003 SP2 running on 32-bit Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2, both with the latest patches installed. The server has 4GB of RAM installed. I've never used a Blackberry phone so I'm wondering what I need (hardware/software) to be able to access Exchange mailbox with a Blackberry phone. There will be 1 or 2 Blackberry user(s) to support. At the moment, OWA (over https) is already accessible over the internet. I'm using ISA 2006 to publish OWA. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

server died - please advise on best course of action

Hi there, One of our exchange servers suffered a problem this morning and will not start. We're not sure what the problem is - it just hangs on the login screen. we suspect an underlying hardware fault but haven't had time to look at just yet. To complicate things our exchange guy is on vacation. The users are screaming and we need to get them back up and running ASAP. We're in the process of copying the edb and stm files off the failed server and plan to build up a new server to replace it. We were thinking of building up a server with exactly the same name. We can then

Exchange 2007 AntiSpam / Content Filtering

We have a user who is getting a LOT of SPAM. Many of these contain the word "Viagra". I went into Exchange Management Console - Organization Configuration - Hub Transport - Anti-Spam - Content Filtering - Custom Words, and added Viagra (and other forms of the word) to the "blocked" section. This did not stop the "viagra" messages. Is there something that I am missing here? I even tried rebooting the server but still get the SPAM. Thanks.

Rule for forwarding mail

I applied a rule for forwarding mail and observed that the mail will only be forwarded to another mail within the organization and not outside it. Is there a work around for this. Thanking you in advance. Rajiv K Khandelwal

resource room mailbox

Hello all I am running Exchange 2007 sp2. It seems that some of the resource mailboxes are not sending a declined meeting notification when a user tries to book a meeting when there is a conflict. When the user creates the meeting the resource mailbox doesn't add the meeting to its calendar, but it also doesn't send a declined notification to the user who tried to book the meeting, and this causes confusiuon for the end user. When I look at the resource mailbox using OWA or the shell I can see that it is not set to allow conflicts, so I am not sure why it the resource mailbox

exchange Mail Backup Question

Windows 2003 R2 Windows 2003 Exchange Server I have about 15 exchange users in my organization. I would like to disable user to delete and Move any incoming and outgoing mails at least one full backup (24h). We do not arrow user to create Personal PST. Right now, I can capture incoming mails only using forward and keep copy, but I can not capture send mails. I am looking if I can archive mail as soon as receive and send mails. Archive PST is on server sheard dirve, Once a month owner will look usermails and delete unnessesary (Junk) mails to keep exchange mailbox smaller.

Moving Public Folder Database Files

We have exchange 2003 SP2 on a Windows 2003 Enterprise server. All I want to do is move the Public Folders database files to a new drive on the same server. Is it as simple as dismounting the Public Folder Store, copying the database files and pasting them to the new drive, pointing the Public Store to the database file locations on the new drive, and then mounting the store? The Transaction logs are remaining in their current location - they are not being moved. Would there be anything more to it then that, anything I'm missing?

Different Replication paths for CCR

While configuring CCR, its been mentioned that, I should have same drive letters in both active and passive nodes for log shipping and relay operations. (replication paths). Can i setit up with different drive names for active and passive nodes? ex ( store1. edb should reside in C:\exchange\store1.edb in active node and the replication path for this should be in E:\exchange \store1.edb in passive node?) Regards, Shivaraj

move edge in perimeter network

In my organization the edge 2007 sp1 role was installed in the same subnet of exchange 2007 sp1(HUB CAS...). I know that isn't a good choice so I want to move the server in perimeter network. what is the best choice? (both servers are in production) a) create a new edge in perimeter network b) reconfigure the current edge. I'll appreciate eventually howto.

Outlook express & Exchange support

What is required in Outlook express to talk to exchange 2007 ? Can Outlook hand SSL/TLS connections ? Port 143 (IMAP), 563, or 443 ? Jared technet147@gmail.com

can not figure out why?

Hi all, exchange 2003 sp2/outlook 2003/outlook2007 Most times, when we receive the emails, the from email address shows person name such as Joe Walker [jwalker@xyz.com] . But, sometimes, the from email address shows Joe Walker [mailto:jwalker@xyz.com]. Why does "mailto" show up? Thank you.

Out of Office not working

All of a sudden, numerous users are reporting that they cannot change their out of office messages. Or to put it more accurately, they make a change (for example, turning OOO off), and it looks like it took the change, but the system still keeps sending OOO messages. I had them try to make the change via OWA, and same result... it looks like it took the change, but has no effect. We are running Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007. Have any of you seen this before, and do you know what I can do? Any help is appreciated! Thanks!

Send copy

Does anyone know if it is possible to have Exchange 2007 send a copy of messages to another mailbox? For example, when John Doe sends an e-mail a copy goes to another users mailbox. I would like this to be done "behind the scenes" so the user does not know it. Thanks.

Query Based DL - Exchange 2007

I need help please ... I need to setup a Query based DL which fills the list with users based on their CITY field defined in the AD User properties field. I want the QBDList to populate it using 4 different cities. So any user who beflongs to those 4 cities should show up in this QBDL. Any help is appreciated ...Thank you

prevent folder deletion

Hi, Win2003 Exchange 2007 SP2 Is it possible to prevent a user from deleting certain folders in their exchange account? (and re-arranging folders. ie. moving folders into other folders.) Thanks, ED.

Setting up another account outlook 2007

I have a user on exchange 2003sp2 and outlook 2007. He wants an account where he can send from for an account at another domain which is hosted by a provider as pop3/imap. currently emails to his account at that domain get forwarded to his exchange account. What would be the best method to allow him to send from this account in his outlook 2007. Im thinking just add an account POP3 and declare another folder for that mail to go to. Any better methods?? regards Craig

best practice analyzer find old exchange server

When I ran Best Practice Analyzer it said it couldn't find a server that we have not used for awhile. We had exchange 2003 on it. The does that mean that somewhere in exchange 2007 it is still looking for exchange 2003 on an old server. I did notice in the hub transport send connector there is an exchange 2003 setting. Not sure how I should proceed

Exchange 2010 and Blackberry

We have a client that is running Exchange 2003 with a Blackberry Enterprise Server. We are going to upgrade the client to Exchange 2010. Before proceeding, I was wondering if there were any issues running Exchange 2010 with a Blackberry Enterprise Server. I was also wondering (hoping) that the functions the Blackberry Enterprise Server perform now had been incorporated into this new version of Exchange. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

ex2k7 outlook problem

We upgraded a couple of years ago from exchange 2003. Occasionally and from only a few people we've noticed that when using Outlook 2007 in cached mode in our office they will get a box that pops up that reverts back to the old exchange server address wanting a user name and password. When I go into the settings in Outlook specifically under Connection Outlook anywhere Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP has a check there. When I uncheck the box everything returns to normal and may continue like this for a few days or weeks. This doesn't happen to everyone

Recipient Filtering on one server

Hello All, We are running multiple Exch 2003 SP2 ENT on Win 2003 SP2 ENT in the same Exchange domain. We want to enable the "Filter recipients who are not in the directory" filter. I just wanted to confirm that although this particular setting is global, until it is also enabled on each SMTP server, it does not take affect. Additionally, I wanted to know the general consensus on tarpitting since it appears to be recommended when enabling the filtering. Thanks in advance!!!

Exchange 2003: NDRs not recognized delivery report

We're using Outlook/Exchange 2003 SP2 with a 3rd party product as Internet Mail Gateway. Usually incoming Non-delivery Reports (generated in- our outside) are detected by Outlook as NDRs, i.e. - Sender is displayed as "Systemadministrator" - Message Type is "Report" - Message marked in Outlook with the corresponding message type symbol - "Reply" is not offered as an action - The NDR will not be forwarded if forwarding is configured (Exchange or Outlook Rule Assistant) The problem: some NDRs generated outside of the Exchange organization seem to be RFC-conform,

Meeting requests problems

I have this problem that I have not been able to resolve. Currently we are running Exchange 2003 server SP2 with all the updates. When an Outlook 2007 user send an meeting invitation to more than 20 recipients, I get the following NDR and eventually all messages time out. Sending the meeting invitation through Outlook Web Access is always successful. Reporting-MTA: dns;Emailserver.domain.com Final-Recipient: rfc822;BillyBob@company.com Action: delayed Status: 4.4.7 Will-Retry-Until: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:08:28 -0500 X-Display-Name: BillyBob@company.com Microsoft KB 938650

Exchange 2007 end user with major mailbox problem

Hardware/Software: Windows 2003 Domain/Dedicated box with Exchange Server 2007 (Sp2 update rollup 2). Problem: When end user access OWA, at the bottom left, she does not have links for Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Documents. She only sees Mail. Also, when she clicks the Options link, she can only has links:Regional Settings, Messaging, Out of Office Assistant, General Settings, Deleted items, and About. This means she is missing links: Spelling, Calendar Options, Rules, E-mail Security, Junk E-Mail, Change Password, & Mobile Devices. When opening Outlook 2007, she can creat

exchange 2007 delayed sending

a while ago I posted a message about delayed sending being stuck in the outbox in outlook 2007 outlook can not be closed as then the email is not send now I am trying to do the same but using outlook in online modus instead, the messages are now send immediately this even though the message header in outlook clearly states that the message is not to be delivered before "date and time" (in the future) how can I find out why this feature is not working (as expected) thnx

Hippa compliance with Exchange 2003

We are located in MA and we just got notified by our health insurance company, Tufts, that we need to start sending them encypted emails. One of our sister companies signed up for something called ZixMail that offers a plugin for Outlook (2003) that I guess will encrypt the emails to their clients or something for $100 per year per person that uses it. I know Exchange 2003 can encrypt email, however I don't know if this is something I can just turn on and say "encrypt emails to tufts.com" and I don't know if just setting up this rule means tufts.com can read the emails we sen

Retiring Exchange 2003 Server

I have a singe Exchange 2003 server that I am trying to retire. I have added to my Exchange site a single Exchange 2007 server with all roles to the site. I moved all mailboxes , (no Public folders), Setup my connectors to have mail flowing through 2007, Deleted the Routing group connector for 2003. I have had the Exchange Services disabled on my 2003 box for 2 weeks with no issues. I go to remove Exchange 2003 from Add\Remove and it tells me there are still mailboxes on the system and it cannot continue. The only mailboxes I see in ESM are, SMTP, System Attendant and SystemMailbox, do

Problem with SMTP Authentication

Hi, We have a customer with a Windows 2003 Small Business Server with SP2, and SP2 for Exchange 2003 is also installed. They have one remote user on a laptop that is setup as a POP3 account; he is able to receive email but is unable to send. It will repeatedly prompts for password. We have double checked the username/passwords and tried other accounts, getting the same results with each. Although sometimes it will give the following error message: “Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems,

How to use EXMERGE for mailboxes over 2GB

We are running Exchange 2003 and use Exmerge for daily backups of the mailboxes. How do use Exmerge for the mailboxes that are over 2GB? Thanks

Moving Mailboxes and the Tranaction Logs

We are running MS Exchange 2003 SP2 on Windows 2003 Enterprise edition. I'm working on a project to move all of our mailboxes from their current drive to a new drive on the same server. I have two users with large mailboxes - one is over 11GBs in size and the other is over 5GBs in size. The Transaction Log files are located on a separate drive with a total size of 9.99GBs. During an average day the Trans log files may go as low as 9.00GB of available free space. During the process of moving mailboxes the size of the Trans Log files shrinks quite a bit depending on how many mailbo

Appointment requests appear with 1-hour difference to US-based recipients.

Hello, Our organisation is based in Europe but we have a branch office in New York. When staff in the NY office send appointment requests to NY-based correspondants outside our organisation, the proposed times appear one hour later. When they send appointments internally, or back to us in Europe, the times are fine. Is this because of the DST update or just the wrong timezone setting? We're using a mixture of Outlook 2003 and even Outlook 2002 clients with Exchange 2003. We have allthr major SPs and hotfixes at both client- and server-level. Thanks, - Alan.

Exchange 2010 & Active Sync

Hi All, Running Exchange 2010. I have my phone (iphone 3gs) syncing with exchange 2010 perfectly. However, trying to sync a new plam pro (win mobile 6.1) and getting errors. I think it's the account as doing a test-ActiveSync-Connectivity gives the following: Any ideas? RunspaceId : 962cea80-32ae-4e60-a5f1-67ed96cab519 LocalSite : Default-First-Site-Name SecureAccess : True VirtualDirectoryName : Url : UrlType : Unknown Port : 0 ConnectionType

How can I customize the address book like with details templates please?

Hello, I know that you can modify the details templates for users, i.e., the form displayed when you select the Properties of a recipient, but how can I changes the fields displayed when a user opens the address book by clicking on Tools - Address Book in Outlook? I need to change the field displayed for the office address to use an extensionAttribute. Thanks, - Alan.

Exchange 2007 - Exchange 2003 routing group connector

Hi I installed an Exchange 2007 box all roles in my Exchange 2003 organization. Exchange created a routing group connector to Exchange 2003 so I can send and receive mail. All good. Now I installed 2 additional 2007 Mailbox servers and 2 additional 2007 CAS and HUB servers. I want to move the exchange 2003 connector to the new HUB servers so I can remove the HUB role from my first server. Is there any way I can do this? can I add more than 1 server to the connector? Thanks in advance Isaac __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signatu

Exchange 2003 dumpster

1. each store has its own dumpster? 2. is there a default setting for the size limit? How to change it? 3. how to check current dumpster size for a store? 4. if I set a limit and the dumpster reached the limit? will it delete items from oldest? I do have a system policy for deleted items for 14 days. But I guess the oldest items will be deleted based on the dumpster size limit or retention policy whichever met first, right. 5. could I set dumpster without size limit? I'd like to control it based on item age not its size. 6. if the system policy is set 14 days and the store lim

Annoying windows dialog box!

I have moved all mailboxes from one Exchange 2003 server to another. OWA works fine but users who have rpc over https configured keep getting a windows dialog box popping up asking for credentials to the old exchange server. The old server has yet to be removed from the network and is currently turned off Any ideas?? Thanks

Exchange 2007 event ID 12017 and 12018 (and my certs)

Hi, Just when I thought Exchange was running smoothly, I start getting these errors in event log (12017 and 12018) which I now know are some internal self signed certificates about to lapse. I did some reading and found out more about these certificates by issuing a get-exchangecertificate. As best I can see there are 6 certificates. I dont know if this is mucking around during the original setup, or if there is some other purpose for all these certificates (6 lines called AccessRules). Some of these have services against them, and some dont. Some services are listed und

tools to audit existing Exchange infrastructure

I have a mixed Ex2k3 and Ex2k7. What free tool can I use to audit it and create a Visio like infrastructure chart with much details, such as FE or BE, Connectors, ec? Thanks.

disable logons to Exchange

Hi - I'm trying to disable logons to Exchange. I made a registry entry and this kept Outlook from making a MAPI connection. A number of folks have iPhones and these make http connections. I shut down IIS and this didn't take them away. I didn't restart the Information Store which is my next step but I thought I would ask some experts about the way to do this. Thanks in advance. - Bill