Implementing network security is like trying to chase a moving target at the best of times. Where most companies today would consider it incomprehensible to not have a properly configured firewall, many of these same companies still overlook the single biggest source of their problems – their email systems.
One of the new features that was implemented in Exchange 2000 SP1 is the Mailbox Manager. With the Mailbox Manager an Exchange Administrator has the ability to control the content of a user’s mailboxes.
One question that seems to come up a lot is “How can I delete a message from all the users mailboxes”, this question gets asked for many reasons, such as someone sent an email to the wrong group of people, you know that a message is in your system that contains an attachments that you do not want your users opening, you can probably think of a few more reasons.
An employee comes to you and reports they are receiving email from an old friend and they don’t want it anymore, or the HR department manager is getting inappropriate emails from an ex-employee, do you know what to do. Now, you could go out and purchase a third-party tool to block the mail, but with Exchange 2000 you have a simple but effective solution available to you, its called “Message Filtering”, and in this document we will walk through how to set it up.
Understanding the underlying processes and construction of Exchange can go a long way towards increasing your happiness factor-which is, after all, the only thing that really matters in life!
So, you've successfully deployed Active Directory and managed to synchronize it with Exchange 5.5 using the ADC. Everything is stable and working okay, so now you decide to install a brand new Exchange 2000 server and move the users to a brave new messaging world. You must be thinking, how do you move the users?
It's bound to happen. Your boss is going to call you at the most inopportune moment ranting and raving about some super important email message that hasn't been delivered. It's times like this when you really want to know how to track messages sent in your organization. Thankfully, Microsoft has provided this ability for us.
There a more than a handful of third-party add-on applications for Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2000. The available products sometimes come as single purpose application and other times come as integrated packages that are designed to meet some, if not all, needs you may have above and beyond a base installation of Exchange Server. These products cover a wide range of areas, from administration to content checking to virus scanning and list servicing. Ikakura list server, by ReddFish Intergalactic is a fairly simple list server add on that will enable your Exchange Server to act a list server. I enjoyed working with Ikakura—after I got it installed and working, which was not as easy as I had hoped for.
There a more than a handful of third-party add-on applications for Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2000. The available products sometimes come as single purpose application and other times come as integrated packages that are designed to meet some, if not all, needs you may have above and beyond a base installation of Exchange Server. These products cover a wide range of areas, from administration to content checking to virus scanning and POP3 retrieval.
Accidentally deleting a user account from the Active Directory database is never a welcome thing. Performing an authoritative restore for just one account is not really a likely event. At least you can rest easy knowing that you can reconnect the new user account with the orphaned mailbox:see, not everything is all bad. Now, back to that hard earned vacation!
If you are responsible for maintaining the mailboxes of many users this can become rather a time-consuming task. Perhaps it would be more convenient for you and for them to allow your users to change their own GAL details. That way they don't need to call you to get it done, and you don't have to scribble it down and remember to do it.
MS Exchange provides a method, known as Directory Replication, of combining the email directories from a number of sites so that they can function as one.
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