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Articles & Tutorials for 2005 year
- Understanding Mailbox Enabled and Mail Enabled Recipients in Exchange 2003
- Date - Dec 27, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- In this article I will show you the differences between mailbox enabled and mail enabled recipients in Exchange 2003 and how to use them.
- How to Regain Access to an Exchange Server 2003 Organization
- Date - Dec 20, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- Exchange Server 2003 relies on a complex but detailed and strict access control hierarchy. This means that you as an administrator have to check whether any users will have any access to the Exchange Organization itself.
- Demystifying the OWA 2003 FE/BE Logon Process
- Date - Dec 15, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- Effective troubleshooting requires knowledge of the processes taking place. By knowing the process taken when a user attempts to logon, troubleshooting Outlook Web Access (OWA) logon issues becomes a whole lot easier.
- Explaining the Database size limit changes in Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2
- Date - Dec 13, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- In my previous article we had a closer look at the new Sender ID feature included in Exchange 2003 SP2, in this article I’ll show you how to configure and take advantage of the new database size limit increase in Exchange 2003 SP2.
- Understanding the Exchange Information Store
- Date - Dec 08, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- We would like to welcome Rodney Buike to our team of authors as he presents his first article to MSExchange.org readers. The Information Store is the heart and soul of Exchange Server 2000 and 2003. Understanding the fundamentals of the Information Store is important for anyone managing an Exchange server.
- Exchange 2003 – Performance Troubleshooting Analyzer Tool v1.0 (ExPTA)
- Date - Dec 06, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- In this article I will show you how to use the new Exchange Server 2003 Performance Troubleshooting Analyzer Tool (ExPTA).
- The Art and Science of Sizing Exchange 2003 (Part 3)
- Date - Dec 01, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- In the last 2 parts or this article series I covered the process of sizing the hardware for an Exchange Server. Now it’s time to validate the results, using some stressing tools and monitor software. You’ll also be glad to know that there are some tools that really can help and ease the sizing process.
- The Importance of Auditing your Exchange 2003 Server(s)
- Date - Nov 29, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene
- As most of you already know, messaging is one of the most mission-critical services in our organizations nowadays. In this article I’ll explain why auditing the Exchange 2003 Server(s) in your messaging environment is crucial.
- Overview of E12 Features (Part 2)
- Date - Nov 24, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- The release of E12 (possibly Exchange 2007 by the time it’s released) draws near and new details are revealed while others become clearer. Microsoft have made a lot of design blunders with Exchange 2000 and only relatively few of those were fixed with Exchange 2003. However, Microsoft is known for being able to learn from its mistakes and make the right changes in its products.
- Exchange 2003 - Disaster Recovery Analyzer Tool (ExDRA 1.0)
- Date - Nov 17, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- In this article I will show you how to use the new Exchange Server 2003 Disaster Recovery Analyzer Tool (ExDRA).
- Rights Management Service and Exchange 2003 (Part 1)
- Date - Nov 15, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene
- We would like to welcome Santhosh Sivarajan to our team of authors as he presents his first article to MSExchange.org readers. The purpose of this article is to explain the details of Rights Management Service (RMS) technology and how beneficial it is to your organization.
- Exchange 2003 Message Tracking and Logging
- Date - Nov 10, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations
- In this article I will show you how to enable Message Tracking and Logging of Messages in Exchange Server 2003.
- Configuring S/MIME Security with Outlook Web Access 2003
- Date - Nov 03, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene
- Email Security has become increasingly important because of the possibility of man-in-the-middle attacks or the risk of an unknown third person that may sniff your SMTP traffic within the internet or even your intranet. In addition, in some countries there are laws preventing you from sending insecure email. Therefore Microsoft implemented the S/MIME standard in its Exchange Server architecture. The feature to encrypt or sign your emails became a default feature within all messaging and collaboration systems. Within this article we will look at how S/MIME has to be configured and how it works.
- Configuring and enabling Sender ID filtering in Exchange 2003 SP2
- Date - Nov 01, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene
- Now that the wait is over and Exchange 2003 SP2 has been released, I think it’s a good time to take a closer look at some of the new features in the service pack. In this article I’ll explain the purpose and benefits of enabling Sender ID filtering in Exchange 2003 SP2, as well as show you how to configure this feature.
- Offline Address Book - Best Practice
- Date - Oct 27, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- In this article I will give you some tips how to implement Offline Address Books in Exchange Server 2003. This article deals also with some basics about Offline Address Books and the implementation of Offline Address Books in Outlook 2003.
- The Art and Science of Sizing Exchange 2003 (Part 2)
- Date - Oct 25, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- Storage is the most critical component of an Exchange back-end server and it’s usually the cause of performance degradation. If your users are complaining about frequent Outlook messages saying that it’s trying to retrieve data from the Exchange Server, that’s probably a storage bottleneck. Good Exchange planning with proper disk sizing can prevent these kind of problems from happening.
- Using the Exchange Dump Utility (ExchDump)
- Date - Oct 18, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- In this article I will give you some information about the small but very helpful tool ExchDump. With the help of ExchDump you can collect a lot of useful information about your Exchange Servers.
- Automating a Quicker Exchange 2000 or 2003 / DC reboot
- Date - Oct 13, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations
- For those of you running Exchange 2000/2003 on a Domain Controller, this article describes how to make sure that the Exchange services are automatically stopped before Active Directory, substantially improving shutdown/reboot time.
- Using Microsoft Office Outlook Live
- Date - Oct 11, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- Microsoft Office Outlook Live (or MOOL for short) is a subscription based service offered by Microsoft that combines MSN's Hotmail Plus service and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 so that you can have the freedom of having a fully flexible and functional e-mail client, without the responsibility of managing an e-mail server. Microsoft's popular Outlook 2003 client application can be used and with special connector software, you can have a good e-mail solution in minutes. In this article we will cover MOOL, as well as how to install it and discuss the benefits provided.
- The Art and Science of Sizing Exchange 2003 (Part 1)
- Date - Oct 06, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- I’m pretty sure that it’s, at least, arguable that you can call it art. I don’t know either if it’s deep enough to be called a science. One thing I can assure you is that sizing an Exchange server can be a complex task and it requires not only the knowledge, but also a dose of sensibility and some previous experience with the Microsoft Server family of products. Although there are some pretty good documents from Microsoft about this subject, I’ll try to condense them all and include the main guidelines in this three-part article.
- A Look at the Exchange Monitor 2003 Tool
- Date - Sep 29, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- In this article I will show you how, with the help of a little 3rd party tool, you can monitor your Exchange 2003 server as well as the Exchange services running on it. It’s also possible to stop, start and restart services as well as enable and disable them. In addition, you can see the version and build numbers of the Exchange Servers.
- Designing Outlook Forms (Part 2)
- Date - Sep 27, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- In the first part of the article, I concentrated on the very basics of using Outlook Forms by creating a sample Help Desk application. In this article we will learn how to improve the form's GUI and use form automation to improve the accessibility and usability of Outlook Forms.
- Dual or Pass-Through Authentication in an Exchange 2003 Front-End/Back-End Setup
- Date - Sep 20, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- In this article, I will explain the differences between using dual and pass-through authentication in an Exchange 2003 front-end/back-end setup, where forms-based authentication isn’t enabled, and where the required Exchange services aren’t published through an ISA Server located on the perimeter network (aka DMZ, demilitarized zone or screened subnet).
- Free/Busy Folders in Exchange Server 2003 in Depth
- Date - Sep 15, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- With every Exchange Server environment, you as the administrator have to deal with the free/busy functionality and its problems. To understand how this works and what you have to consider in projects and processes, this article will dive a little bit deeper into this topic. We will have a close look at the system folder itself and how to deal with this topic during migrations and normal work troubleshooting topics.
- Offline Address Book Integrity (OABInteg) Utility Explained
- Date - Sep 13, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- In this article I’ll introduce you to the Offline Address Book Integrity (OABInteg) utility, which can be of great help when troubleshooting Offline Address Book (OAB) generation issues as well as OAB download issues.
- Migrating from Notes Domino to Exchange 2003 using the Exchange Notes Connector
- Date - Sep 08, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Migration & Deployment
- In the past, lots of companies used Notes Domino Server as their primary messaging platform but, with the release of Exchange Server 2003, a lot of them are thinking of migrating to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. There are many 3rd party vendors selling migration tools for migrating Notes to Exchange but only few of them really have their own tool. A lot of these tools are add-ons relying on the Exchange Notes Connector. This means you should have a good idea of how it works and how it has to be configured. Within this article you will get a deep drill-down on the step-by-step migration process using the connector.
- Public Folder Replication – Troubleshooting Basics
- Date - Sep 06, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- Public folders are important to Exchange because not only do they contain user data, they also contain important system information required for the smooth operation of your Exchange environment. Replicating these folders between Exchange servers can sometimes be troublesome and so in this article I want to look at the initial steps you can take to troubleshoot your public folder replication issues.
- Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 BETA (build 7623.0) Exposed
- Date - Sep 01, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- In this article I will go through the most interesting fixes, improvements as well as new features included in Exchange 2003 SP2. I will also take a look at some of the features we can expect to come with the Messaging and Security Feature Pack for Windows Mobile 5.0, which in conjunction with Exchange 2003 SP2 enable a faster, richer, and more secure mobile Outlook experience for your mailbox-enabled Windows Mobile 5.0 users.
- SSL Enabling OWA 2003 Using a Free 3rd Party Certificate
- Date - Sep 01, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene
- In this article I’ll explain how it’s possible to secure OWA 2003 with a free 3rd party SSL certificate. Yes that’s right, free, like in “permanently free”, not some kind of 30 day trial period.
- Overview of E12 Features
- Date - Aug 30, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- Some insight into the promised features of the next Exchange version, E12.
- A First Look at Exchange 2003 SP2
- Date - Aug 24, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- In this article I will give you some information about Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and some useful enhancements.
- Planning for Your First Exchange Server
- Date - Aug 18, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- Considerations for installing a single Exchange server for first time Exchange admins.
- Monitoring Exchange and Finding Common Problems
- Date - Aug 11, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations
- In our daily jobs as Systems Engineers and Administrators we come across systems that are in need of our help… and may even be asking for it. Beyond checking your Event Viewer’s, this article looks at some common issues you might find on the server you are running Exchange on. As a Network and Systems Consultant, I see many times that Exchange itself is not the problem, but the fact that Exchange is installed on a sub-par system. Either the server hardware isn’t enterprise class, or the minimum hardware requirements weren’t addressed. In this article, we will take a look at checking the fundamentals of your Exchange System and look at a real world production server suffering from a common problem.
- Implementing iSCSI for Exchange Server 2003
- Date - Aug 09, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- In this article, I will show you how to move your Exchange Server 2003 databases to new disk space on a file server on which storage is published over iSCSI.
- Windows-based SMTP Tar Pitting Explained
- Date - Aug 04, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene
- In this article I’ll explain what SMTP Tar Pitting is all about, as well as show you how to implement this relatively new feature (at least for Windows-based servers) in your messaging environment.
- Designing Outlook Forms (Part 1)
- Date - Aug 02, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- This article will show how to utilize the power of Outlook Forms combined with Exchange Public Folders by using a sample help desk example.
- Configuring ISA to Redirect OWA Users to the Correct Directories and Protocols (Part 2)
- Date - Jul 28, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Mobility & Client Access
- Part 1 of this two-part series on how to redirect OWA users to the right site and protocol discussed the issues involved with creating redirects for users who enter incorrect URLs or incorrect protocols when accessing the OWA Web site. We also went over the initial configuration steps you can use to perform the redirects. In this, part 2 and final part of the series, we’ll go over the configuration steps from beginning to end and explain the rationale behind the steps. By the time you finish the procedure, users will be able to enter incorrect paths and incorrect protocols and still be redirected to the correct OWA Web site. The end result is fewer Help Desk calls.
- Recovering a Failed Exchange 2003 Member Server Using the Disaster Recovery Switch
- Date - Jul 26, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / High Availability & Recovery
- What could be worse than facing a seriously corrupted mailbox store? Yes you guessed right – facing a completely dead Exchange Server. In this article I’ll shine some light on the steps necessary in order to restore an Exchange 2003 Member Server, that has experienced a major hardware failure causing a complete loss of data.
- Restoring Exchange Server 2003 to alternate Hardware
- Date - Jul 19, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / High Availability & Recovery
- There are several steps you will have to do if you have to restore your Exchange Server 2003 System to alternate hardware. This is very often a task if your old Exchange Server box crashed and you did not have a chance to get the same or very similar hardware back. The goal now will be restoring your Exchange Server 2003 System on new hardware that is not the same as the old. Within this article we will get a drill-down on how this works and what steps and tasks need to be done to make things run properly.
- The NoMAS Tool
- Date - Jul 14, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) can provide you with a useful tool called NoMAS. In this article I want to cover what the NoMAS tool is and under what circumstances you might want to use it.
- Configuring ISA to Redirect OWA Users to the Correct Directories and Protocols (Part 1)
- Date - Jul 12, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Mobility & Client Access
- A frequent request I see on the ISAServer.org Web boards and mailing lists is for information on how to help hapless uses who can’t remember to enter the correct path or protocol to reach the Exchange Server’s OWA site. While it might seem like a simple issue to enter the path https://owa.domain.com/exchange into the Web browser Address bar and press ENTER, long experience tells us that this isn’t the case.
- Disclaimer Fun
- Date - Jul 07, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- These days almost every corporate e-mail has a disclaimer. Companies use them because of legal issues, as an advertising means or maybe because they think messages look nicer with a disclaimer. Since Exchange Server 5.5 Microsoft has provided a way of adding basic disclaimers to outgoing messages. Let’s see how things have evolved since then and what we can do to extend the provided capabilities.
- Creating A Certificate For Outlook Web Access 2003 Using SelfSSL
- Date - Jul 05, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene
- Issuing certificates has historically been a fairly complicated process requiring the installation of Certificate Services, but a less well-known utility from the IIS6 Resource Kit Tools known as SelfSSL can make the process a lot easier.
- Key Archiving and Recovery
- Date - Jun 30, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / High Availability & Recovery
- In this article I will show you how to setup a Windows 2003 Enterprise CA for archiving and recovering keys for e-mail encryption.
- Demystifying The Exchange Dial-tone Restore Method (Part 3)
- Date - Jun 28, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / High Availability & Recovery
- We have reached part 3 which is the final one in the Demystifying The Exchange Dial-tone Restore Method article series. In this article I’ll show you how to make sure the Mailbox Store we previously restored to the Recovery Storage Group is in a consistent state, as well as provide you with the necessary steps in order to swap the restored Mailbox Store with the dial-tone database. Finally I’ll show you how to merge the two databases.
- Scripting Exchange Using VBScript and ADSI (Part 3)
- Date - Jun 21, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- The first two parts of my scripting series discussed Exchange users in almost every possible angle. This third part of the series will go over ways for accessing Exchange objects, such as servers, storage groups and databases.
- How to Set Size Limits for Messages
- Date - Jun 16, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- In this article I will show you how to set size limits for messages in Exchange Server 2003.
- Disk Geometry
- Date - Jun 14, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- The storage subsystem is one of the most critical elements on a Microsoft Exchange infra-structure, mainly because of the aggressive random I/O requirements of the Exchange Server 2003 database. The key to a healthy environment is proper configuration of the storage array, considering performance before capacity. One of the measures you can take is to realign the hard disk tracks with the Windows physical disk partitions, increasing performance up to 20 percent.
- Managing Exchange 2003 With MOM 2005 (Part 3)
- Date - Jun 09, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations
- The Exchange Management Pack Configuration Wizard can make configuring the Exchange management pack really easy and here I show you how. When you’ve done that, you should also check out the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA) management pack.
- Demystifying The Exchange Dial-tone Restore Method (Part 2)
- Date - Jun 07, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / High Availability & Recovery
- In Part 1, I talked about what an Exchange dial-tone database is, also showing you how to create one. In this article (Part 2), I’ll delve a bit more into the Outlook 2003 Exchange Recovery Mode, as well as show you how to restore the crashed Mailbox Store to the Recovery Storage Group using NTBackup.
- Optimizing your Exchange Server 2003 Deployment using Exchange Best Practice Analyzer 2.0
- Date - Jun 02, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- Due to the many different theories about the best practice of configuring a Exchange Server 2003 deployment in an organization, Microsoft tried to give each administrator and consultant an easy way to deploy Exchange using Microsoft’s recommendations on best practices. With release 2.0 of the Exchange Best Practice Analyzer, Paul Bowden, the “father” of this tool, has provided a powerful tool for easily configuring and optimizing your Exchange Server environment. In this article you will get a brief description of the features of Exchange Best Practice Analyzer 2.0 and how to use it to optimize your configuration.
- Managing Exchange 2003 With MOM 2005 (Part 2)
- Date - May 31, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations
- In the second part of this three part article, I will take a look at what drives MOM 2005 as far as Exchange management is concerned: the Exchange management pack. Understanding what’s contained within the management pack is key to obtaining a firm grasp of what MOM 2005 can offer the Exchange professional.
- Demystifying The Exchange Dial-tone Restore Method (Part 1)
- Date - May 24, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / High Availability & Recovery
- In this three part series I’ll try to explain what the Exchange dial-tone restore method (aka the Recover now, restore later method) is all about, as well as inform when and why it can be a good idea to use this method in conjunction with the Recovery Storage Group (RSG) feature, when faced with one or more corrupt Mailbox Stores.
- Managing Exchange 2003 With MOM 2005 (Part 1)
- Date - May 19, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations
- We would like to welcome Microsoft MVP Neil Hobson to our team of authors as he presents his first article to MSExchange.org readers: In this three part article I will take a look at the highlights of what MOM 2005 can do for you, the Exchange professional. If you’re responsible for one or more Exchange servers and haven’t investigated MOM 2005 yet, then hopefully this series of articles will make you want to check out the product further.
- Exchange 2003 Backup and Restore with NTBACKUP
- Date - May 17, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / High Availability & Recovery
- In this article I will show you how to Backup and Restore your Exchange Server databases with the help of the built-in NTBACKUP from Windows 2003. I will show you the simplest form of Exchange Backup and Restore. For complete Exchange Server Backup and Recovery follow the links at the end of this article.
- Just say NO to A/A
- Date - May 12, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- In my opinion, e-mail is still the internet killer-app. And according to Forbes.com, Exchange is the number one corporate e-mail server. Should you use Exchange clustering? Well, it depends on your business needs and how much are you willing to lose for the downtime. Should you use Active/Active clustering? NO!
- 10 Tips to Optimize Exchange 2003 Performance (Part 2)
- Date - May 10, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- Performance is not only about tuning but also about preventing problems. Or maybe it all boils down to getting the most bang for the buck. In part 1 of this article I covered the first 5 tips to achieve better performance with Exchange 2003. In this last part I’ll talk about 5 more tips to help you make a better Exchange design and optimize your environment.
- Using the Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor (ExMon) tool
- Date - May 05, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- In this article I will give you an introduction to Microsoft’s latest Exchange 2003 Server Web Release tool – Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor (ExMon) which was announced on You Had Me at EHLO (aka Exchange team blog) the 7 April 2005. ExMon makes it possible for Exchange Administrators to view, evaluate and gather real-time data about the users in an Exchange environment.
- Harnessing the power of Ambiguous Name Resolution (ANR)
- Date - May 03, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- The computer industry loves acronyms. Acronyms save time, instead of having to utter long sentences and waste time; you can speak the latest buzzword in the form of an acronym and in addition to saving time you will also sound cool.... The following article deals with such an acronym - ANR.
- 10 Tips to Optimize Exchange 2003 Performance (Part 1)
- Date - Apr 28, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- We would like to welcome Microsoft MVP Rui J.M. Silva to our team of authors as he presents his first article to MSExchange.org readers. Everybody likes to keep their systems running smoothly and tuned for performance. For simpler scenarios with basic configuration you can probably use Exchange 2003 out-of-the box without ever having performance issues. But if you are responsible for a complex environment, then you have probably already felt the bitter taste of a system bottleneck. If you identify yourself with this description or if you are just a tweak fanatic, then this article is for you.
- How to Automate the Exchange Server 2003 Installation
- Date - Apr 26, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Migration & Deployment
- In this article, I will show you how to automate the Exchange 2003 installation process with the help of an unattended script.
- Protecting Exchange 2003 Using the Windows Firewall
- Date - Apr 19, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene
- How to use the Windows 2003 SP1-introduced port and application filtering options to protect your Exchange server.
- Implementing Exchange 2003 Message Journaling
- Date - Apr 14, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- Exchange 2003 provides a native Journaling feature which allows you to archive all incoming and outgoing e-mails for a specific mailbox store. Beginning with Exchange 2003 SP1 you can download EXEJCFG.EXE from the Exchange 2003 download site. EXEJCFG enhances the current Exchange archiving features to capture recipients on distribution lists, BCC recipients and other message details. In this article I will show you how to implement Exchange 2003 Journaling for e-mails.
- Customizing Mailbox Limit Warnings with the Quota Message Service for Exchange
- Date - Apr 12, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- In this article I will give you an insight into how you, with the use of the Quota Message Service for Exchange, can customize mailbox quota messages (aka mailbox limit warnings.)
- Tape Backup Alternatives
- Date - Apr 07, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations
- Tape backup is an old technology. It is sort of like the car engine. Though the technology has definitely matured, the basic principle and shortcomings have remained the same. In this article I will discuss backing to hard drives and DVD RAM drives for small and branch offices.
- Implementing NNTP using Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
- Date - Apr 05, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Migration & Deployment
- If you decide to use Newsgroups in your Exchange Server 2003 organization, the first step is to choose between Local and/or Public Newsgroup implementations. If you want to implement Local Newsgroups it is quite easy and independent from Internet traffic. Public Newsgroups mean that your Internet traffic might increase a lot so you as an administrator should try to keep public information to a minimum only.
- Scripting Exchange Using VBScript and ADSI (Part 2)
- Date - Mar 29, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations
- The first part of my scripting series discussed ways of accessing and searching for Exchange objects such as users and contacts in Active Directory. This second part of the series will go over creation of a new object, and over the most important attribute of an Exchange recipient, the e-mail address.
- How to Speed up an Exchange 2000 or 2003 / DC reboot
- Date - Mar 24, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations
- Automatic Updates often require a reboot, and if you have a Domain Controller with Exchange installed on it, a reboot can take a very long time indeed. This article discusses why Exchange/DC shutdown takes such a long time, and (more importantly) what you can do about it.
- Understanding Exchange Databases Disk Consumption
- Date - Mar 22, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- Exchange databases need disk space, once they run out of disk space they can not continue to function. My aim in this article is not to describe methods of preventing or solving the disk space problem(even though I will provide a tip or two)- my aim is to describe and explain the way that Exchange databases uses disk space.
- Scripting Exchange Using VBScript and ADSI (Part 1)
- Date - Mar 18, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- In this article I will show you the basics of writing scripts in VBScript language using the ADSI interface provided by Active Directory for storing and retrieving Exchange information.
- Dealing with Outlook Internet Headers
- Date - Mar 15, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- In this article I’ll give you a brief introduction to Outlook Internet Headers. Being an Exchange Admin it’s essential you know what an Internet Header is and just as important know how to read it, especially in troubleshooting situations and when dealing with spoofed e-mail messages.
- Using SMTPDIAG to Diagnose Exchange 2003 Related SMTP and DNS Problems
- Date - Mar 10, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- In this article I will give you some information about how to use SMTPDiag. SMTPDiag is a diagnostic tool that is used to determine if Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Domain Name System (DNS) are configured to reliably deliver mail to an external e-mail address.
- Adding Events to Multiple Mailboxes using Exmerge
- Date - Mar 08, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- Add a holiday or some other company event to all the calendars without sending a meeting request.
- Command Line-based Exchange Management using ExchMbx
- Date - Mar 03, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- If you're a relatively experienced Exchange Admin with several years in the field, at one time or another you've probably missed the capability of managing Exchange related tasks via the command line console (CLI), but fear not those days are over now that we have ExchMBX.
- E-mail Filtering for Exchange: SurfControl E-Mail Filter for Exchange 2000/2003 Review
- Date - Mar 01, 2005
- Section - Articles & Tutorials / Product Reviews
- The purpose of this article is to give you a somewhat superficial review of SurfControl’s E-mail Filter for Exchange 2000/2003. Some of you might ask why it’s superficial; well there’s a simple answer for that, the product is way too comprehensive for an in-depth review, I therefore suggest you download your own trial version and give the product a go in your test lab, as that’s the only way to get a real insight into the product’s capabilities.
- Using the Exchange tools ISINTEG and ESEUTIL to Ensure the Health of your Information Store
- Date - Feb 24, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- In this article I will give you some information on how to use the Exchange tools ISINTEG and ESEUTIL. With the help of ESEUTIL you can defragment your Exchange information store offline, check the integrity of the store and repair the information store in case of emergency. ISINTEG is used to perform some tests on the information stores and to fix some errors.
- Migrating Contacts and Distribution Lists from Outlook to Active Directory
- Date - Feb 22, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- Use script magic to turn your Outlook MAPI based contact information to a lightening fast Active Directory, Exchange enhanced LDAP implementation.
- IMF Managers
- Date - Feb 17, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- An overview of free IMF add-on tools allowing administrator to track which e-mails are blocked, view them, unblock them and more.
- Add mail archiving to Exchange: GFI MailArchiver Review
- Date - Feb 15, 2005
- Section - Articles & Tutorials / Product Reviews
- You remember Steve, right? That’s Steve from Sales, the guy who needed access to an email that he deleted over a year ago. You probably remember the hassles of having to first find and then restore his mailbox. Perhaps you even recall sifting through his messages, trying to find that single, solitary email, and dedicating a whole afternoon to the process. Thankfully, things don’t have to be this way. I’m talking about a product called GFI MailArchiver, a message archiving solution that makes searching through internal and external email as simple as firing up your web browser and searching for the message in question.
- Exchange 2003 Real World Tweaks (Part 2)
- Date - Feb 10, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- In today’s high speed quick paced environments whether it be business or technology, it is essential to pay close attention to detail when attempting be a cut above the rest. Broken out into each subheading, you will find 15 tips that we consider very important points to cover when assessing your current Exchange environment. You will find Tips 8-15 in this article. Let's take a look at each in detail.
- Using ADModify to Change Exchange Specific AD User Attributes in Bulk
- Date - Feb 08, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- In this article I will give you an insight into how you, with the use of ADModify, can modify Exchange attributes on Active Directory (AD) users in bulk. If you’re an Exchange administrator in a relatively large organization you will quickly learn you can’t afford to be without ADModify.
- Exchange 2003 Real World Tweaks (Part 1)
- Date - Feb 03, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- In today's high speed quick paced environments, whether it be business or technology, it is essential to pay close attention to detail when attempting be a cut above the rest. It's those finer, smaller details that can make the difference in life and sometimes, can be what makes you stand out. When counting on your company's email system, it's imperative that you consider working to making it the best running system you can.
- Implementing High Availability for Outlook Web Access using Network Load Balancing
- Date - Feb 01, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / High Availability & Recovery
- Today nearly every company that is running Exchange Server 2003 publishes Outlook Web Access to provide their users with the ability to read and write emails from nearly all around the world. The only thing you need to have is a computer connected to the Internet. This means that it is now more important than ever that you provide high availability and high performance to your users. Windows Server 2003 provides a powerful solution regarding this topic: Network Load Balancing, formerly known as Windows Load Balancing. In this article we will see how to configure Network Load Balancing for Outlook Web Access Services.
- Command Line Administration of your Exchange Full-Text Index with the help of MSSEARCH_ADMIN.VBS
- Date - Jan 25, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration
- In this article, I will show you how to administer the Full-Text index with a new command line tool – called MSSEARCH_ADMIN.VBS. This tool greatly expands the administration capabilities with a lot of missing features in the GUI administration (Exchange System Manager). You can use MSSEARCH_ADMIN.VBS with Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003.
- Overview of the Exchange 2003 Resource Kit Tools
- Date - Jan 18, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools
- In this article I will give you an overview about the Exchange 2003 Resource Kit Utilities – called “All-in-One Exchange 2003 Tools” which you can download for free from the Microsoft Exchange website.
- Exchange log disk is full, Prevention and Remedies
- Date - Jan 13, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- We would like to extend a warm welcome to Microsoft MVP Erik Rozman to our team of authors as he presents his first article to MSExchange.org readers. In the following document I will describe preventive measures that should help you avoid running out of disk space and in addition I will also describe possible remedies if this has (gasp) already happened.
- Outlook Web Access 2003 Forms-based Authentication and the default domain dilemma - Part 2
- Date - Jan 11, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Mobility & Client Access
- In my first article I showed you how you could edit the Logon.asp page in order to login simply by using username instead of username@domain.com (UPN) and domain\username. I’ve got some excellent feedback from different Exchange admins already using similar methods and my idea with this article was to provide you with a few of the improved code snippets I’ve received.
- Software Review: GFI FAXmaker for Exchange/SMTP
- Date - Jan 10, 2005
- Section - Articles & Tutorials / Product Reviews
- Have you ever stopped to think about the fax machine in your office? Fax machines started to become popular in the 1980s. Since that time, fax machines have changed very little. Sure, they are faster than first generation fax machines, and some fax machines now support color, but generally speaking, fax machines are based on 1980's technology. In this article I've reviewed GFI FAXmaker. I installed the latest version onto my own network to see if it could help streamline my business. Here are the results.
- Implementing the X.400 Connector - Is It Worth Using with Exchange Server 2003?
- Date - Jan 06, 2005
- Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture
- Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition still provides a X.400 connector. With Exchange Server 5.5 this was the default protocol and connectivity standard. With the release of Exchange 2000 Server Microsoft implemented SMTP as the default protocol for connectivity. Due to backward compatibility there is still a X.400 based MTA stack available. But it is only a stack and not a protocol implementation. The following article is a drill-down through the basics of X.400 and how to configure the X.400 connector. Afterwards we will then talk about in what cases we still need it.
- Preparing Exchange 5.5 Directory for Migration to Exchange 2003
- Date - Jan 05, 2005
- Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles
- How to make sure your Exchange 5.5 directory database is ready for the upgrade to Active Directory and Exchange 2000/3 based messaging. This article will evaluate the ways of making changes in the Exchange 5.5 directory before installing the Active Directory Connector (ADC) tool that synchronizes Exchange 5.5 with Active Directory to ease matching of users and mailboxes.
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