Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
It often happens that some programs can send status messages or reports by e-mail, but do not offer any kind of authentication. Often you can only specify an SMTP server, but unfortunately no account information. For such cases, you can create a new receive connector that also accepts and forwards mails without prior authentication. However, this option is ... Read more
Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 and Exchange Server 2007 SP3 has been released. An overview of the fixes can be found here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2011/03/08/458566.aspx and the download here: Exchange 2010 Exchange 2007 The installation of the rollup took about 20 minutes on my test system (Dual Core Xeon, 8 GB RAM, 2 x RAID1 15k rpm). ... Read more
If you only use IIS7 (Internet Information Service) and the standard website for OWA and want to redirect calls to https://exchange.frankysweb.de directly to https://exchange.frankysweb.de/owa, you can use the IIS role service "HTTP redirection". If not already installed, the "HTTP redirection" role service must first be installed for the IIS role. The easiest way to do this is via the server manager, or via ... Read more
If you want to quickly find out the Exchange version in use, you can compare the build numbers and version numbers with the table here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/exchange-server-and-update-rollups-builds-numbers.aspx This allows you to quickly find out the patch level and the service pack version in use.
Here is a list of the maximum database sizes for the various Exchange versions. Starting with Exchange 2003 up to the current version Exchange 2010. Exchange version Maximum database size Exchange 2003 16 GB Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 75 GB (see below) Exchange 2007 250 GB Exchange 2010 2 TB The information refers to a single ... Read more
If you want to change mailbox features via Exchange Management Shell, you can use the CMDlet set-CASMailbox. For example, to disable OWA for all users, the following command is sufficient: Get-Mailbox -database "Name of database" | set-CASMailbox -OWAenabled $false In this way, the features can be quickly configured for all users. Like the parameters of the other features (ActiveSync, ... Read more
On December 14, 2010 new Update RollUps for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 were released, here are the download links: Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 2 Exchange Server 2010 RTM Update RollUp 5 Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 Update Rollup 3 Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Update Rollup 5 The Update RollUp 3 ... Read more
If the installation of an Exchange service pack or the setup of Exchange complains that a restart of the server is still pending. However, if the server has just been restarted, a key is probably stuck in the registry. The problem can then be solved as follows: Exchange checks the following registry keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\UpdateExeVolatile HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations To tell Setup ... Read more
A white paper on Jetstress has been published in the Exchange Team Blog. The document describes how Jetstress can be used to determine and test the performance of mailbox servers. In my opinion, the white paper is well worth reading and contains useful information about the Jetstress tool. Here is the link to the document: http://msexchangeteam.com/files/12/attachments/entry456925.aspx
Microsoft has put the new version of the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer online. The website makes it easy to test the accessibility of the Exchange Server. New configurations or adjustments can be checked quickly. Here is the link: https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/
