Exchange Server General Discussion

Exchange Information store service stops

Fshguo - 21 May 2005 5:58 PM - 3 messages

Hi...the Exchange Information Store service (Exchange 5.5 NT) was stop unexeptively two nights down the road at about the same time 2:05am. Server has to reboot in order to bring the service back. The following logs are from Application Event Log in order, I noticed that ...

Export to PST from OWA?

Spin - 20 May 2005 5:10 PM - 3 messages

When using OWA on 2000 or 2003, can one export mail items to a PST? I know this can be done with RPC HTTPS and using straight-up Outlook over a VPN but my question is can one create a PST exporting directly from OWA? ...

Do I need smart-host in VS as well as connector?

bobk - 20 May 2005 4:26 PM - 3 messages

I have a smart-host configured in my SMTP connector. I noticed today that there's a field in the server's SMTP Virtual Server properties for a smart-host. (Delivery tab - Advanced button) It's blank now. Should I enter the address of the smart-host in there also? If not, ...

POP3 Messages Marked as Read in Outlook

Edward Jones (Eddie) - 20 May 2005 3:17 PM - 7 messages

I have clients that access their email via a mobile device using POP3. When a message is pulled down to the device they are marked as read in outlook. Is there any way to change this setting? ...

Full Text Index guidelines

Mike Talon - 20 May 2005 2:40 PM - 4 messages

Hi Folks: I have a client who is looking at problems related to Full Text Indexing on very large Exchange 2003 databases (well, relatively large, about 800GB). They are considering breaking up this server into smaller servers of about 200GB of data each, but I fear that they will still have issues with the ...

Out Source Email Exchange

Rosenthal - 20 May 2005 1:17 PM - 4 messages

I was wondering what kind of reports should I be asking from our vendor that we out source our 2003 exchange environment from. I have â€¢ Inactivity Reports â€¢ Change Control Reports ...

Email Archiving system

Ram - 20 May 2005 10:56 AM - 2 messages

Hello, My co. is trying to get in an email archiving system + very tight in budget at this stage. I am looking at email archiving & retrival in a non-volatile system. Say all email's are saved as HTML, Catalogued & indexed. Once this is all done, it ...

MAPI Components

HDZ - 20 May 2005 10:52 AM - 2 messages

What the best way of getting the MAPI component of Outlook on a server without installing the client application. I am installing an application server which makes use of the MAPI component. I don't want to install the ...

NDR issue

Rafal W. - 20 May 2005 2:37 AM - 4 messages

our partner company is on exchange server 2003 when one of our user sent e-mail to non-existent user NDR is generated, but message is misleading since is telling user that his message wes not delivered to his address.. ...

OWA ISSUE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL

bob abooey - 20 May 2005 2:24 AM - 2 messages

Hey all, Have a client with W2K server with Exchange 2K3 on it. Issue is cannot log onto OWA locally by IP nor by Netbios Name. (http(s)://servername(IP)/Exchange) I am pretty certain issue is IIS misconfigured. (not seeing everything ...

SBS Exchange resets clients default email

Tony Tuccillo - 19 May 2005 11:12 PM - 2 messages

Hello, We have just deployed an SBS 2003 server and our client uses the built in Exchange for intra-office email only. A few select people have an external email address from an external ISP and they are setup in their individual PC ...

RPC-HTTP Microsoft Exchange offline address book Error

Terry Renolds - 19 May 2005 11:09 PM - 4 messages

I've got RPC-HTTP working for my Outlook 2003 but I get an offline address book sync error when I connect. Any ideas? Thank you ...

Exchange NDR

WoodyAnderson - 19 May 2005 6:58 PM - 4 messages

We have some users that are getting the following NDR on a random basis. We are unable to determine what is causing it. The email messages themselves show no signs of concern (attachments, urls, etc.) Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. ...

Verify Exchange DBs

IMD - 19 May 2005 6:13 PM - 5 messages

I've a set of DB (*.edb, *.stm) files and logfiles (E00*) which I want to make sure is in good condition or not for use with other exchange server. What I mean by that if I use these files (which is complete but not the ...

POP3 connection

graeme.hendry - 19 May 2005 11:47 AM - 6 messages

I am currently having a problem with certain users trying to retrieve their mail from the exchange server by using POP3. When the users login to the network with their username/password everything is fine but when they enter the same details for the POP3 account they get ...

How to properly route Internet bound email?

Fred Yarbrough - 18 May 2005 9:27 PM - 7 messages

Assuming that you had 3 - Exchange 2003 BackEnd mail servers and you wanted to force all "Internet bound" email to semi-load balance through 2 - SPAM filtering SMTP boxes. How would you do this? Could you not set up a SMTP connector and then define the 2 SPAM filtering ...

Delegates Issues

Paul C. Charleston - 18 May 2005 7:48 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I have an Exchange 2003 server with about 30 users. This server is also a Domain controller running Windows 2003 Server. Both are standard editions. Whenever a user tries to access the Delegates tab under Options in Outlook ...

Message Store size not adding up

RW - 18 May 2005 7:22 PM - 12 messages

I have EX2003 Standard and am quickly approaching my 16GB limit (15.4 GB now) and I am hoping to do some things to keep my server from simply shutting down. Last night I took the database offline after setting the ...

Exchange 2003 disconnects Outlook 2003 client over WAN

Eric - 18 May 2005 6:25 PM - 4 messages

Hello, Has anyone had this problem? I have a Windows Server 2003 Standard machine running Exchange Server 2003 Standard (both patched with latest hotfixes) in our data center. For the past two weeks, Outlook 2003 clients connecting over our WAN all disconnect at ...

Disk Transfers Per Second are Pretty High

Jon - 18 May 2005 6:17 PM - 2 messages

I have Exchange 2000 with SP3 and the Post SP3 Rollup running in a Win2K3 AD network. I am running System Monitor and I see that my disk transfers/sec are really very high. The counter frequently hits 100% and ...

Turn off OWA via GPO

wpulsifer - 18 May 2005 6:09 PM - 3 messages

is there a GPO that will restirct access to OWA, rather than to turn it off within the user acct in AD? ...

RPC over HTTPS question..

jim - 18 May 2005 5:45 PM - 8 messages

I've got a lab environment consisting of two Win2k3 DC's (SP1), and one Ex2k3 server (SP1). I'm not using any front-end Exchange servers. Is it possible to configure rpc over https in this scenario? The Exchange server ...

Deleting .log files from the mdbdata folder?

Lar - 18 May 2005 4:50 PM - 8 messages

If my backup software does not automatically delete the .log files from the mdbdata folder in Exchange, is it safe to delete them manually after having backed up all mailboxes? Is it possible that Veritas BackupExec does not delete .log files if the location of the MDBDATA folder is elsewhere than the ...

Exchange Instant Messaging

justftech - 18 May 2005 4:47 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I'm having trouble setting up instant messaging on our network. We're using Exchange 2003 on Windows Small Business Server 2003, and Windows Messenger 5.1. I've ticked the "Sign in to: Exchange Messaging Service" box in Windows ...

Over 16 GB limit question. Help.

Fredly - 18 May 2005 4:30 PM - 11 messages

Help! I need to know if I can let users back on temporarily! Our mailbox store went over 16GB. I followed the steps in [link] In summary: . Temporarily increase the database size limit by 1 GB. ...

Automatic sign-up "List Serv-type" feature plus mass-mailing list which looks professional.

Spin - 18 May 2005 5:10 AM - 2 messages

Gurus, Do any of you know of a web page self-sign up where members of the public can join up to be a part of a mailing list (like a List Serv) and then when my boss wants to email all members of the mailing list the receiver will ...

Cannot restore from backup

john - 18 May 2005 4:39 AM - 2 messages

Hi, I recently backed up my exchange 2003 then i installed a new windows the i cannot restore the present backup. I got backup failed error. please advise Regards, ...

Adding confidentiality notice to all emails sent to external addre

mike - 18 May 2005 2:46 AM - 2 messages

Hi, We're running Exchange Server 5.5 in the office and we want to create a confidentiality notice that is added to every email sent to an external email address. Can anyone point me in the right direction for accomplishing this? ...

SMTP header information

KGB in Aust - 18 May 2005 1:15 AM - 2 messages

I have an Exchange 2003 backend server, which relays outbound email through an Win2003 SMTP virtual server sitting on the perimeter of our network. When email is sent outside of our organisation, information about my backend server (its name and internal ip address) is being sent in the smtp headers. ...

smtp authentication

Susan123456 - 17 May 2005 6:31 PM - 4 messages

New win xp pc, outlook 2003. SBS exchange. No exp of Exchange. When sending mail recieve an smtp authentication error. Several users on network connect to exchange without problems whilst others recive this error. Connecting directly to pop accounts works fine. Can configure outlook pop ...

Exchange/GC Replication?

agent007 - 17 May 2005 5:23 PM - 2 messages

I have a problem here that I am not sure of. I create a user with an Exchange mailbox but during Outlook setup, it doe not resolve the username in the address list. Did some research and it seems like a Global Catalog ...

open relay

adbos - 17 May 2005 9:43 AM - 2 messages

I have Exchange 2000 in my local network. I pick up all of incoming emails from my ISP by POP3 connector. I'm sending emails using DNS from my local network. Some of my users need to have access from home and don't want to ...

Outbound email won't deliver

Troy - 16 May 2005 7:52 PM - 4 messages

We have a hand full of clients (Exch2000 and Exch2003) who all of a sudden are not able to send external emails. Our band-aid fix has been to have these clients relay off our server. I have checked blacklist servers and ...

Service Pack levels

agent007 - 16 May 2005 7:31 PM - 2 messages

What is the quickiest way to determine the service pack level of Exchange 2003? Thanks in advance. ...

Users receiving emails not addressed to them

Jeremy - 16 May 2005 6:28 PM - 2 messages

I have a customers network that I am troubleshooting tons of spam coming in. Users are receiving spam email addressed to esmtp, mailboxes, and mailh***@CustomerConfidential.com. I'm going through active directory users and computers and looking at all the distribution lists "email addresses" ...

exchange 2003 mailbox not creating

agent007 - 16 May 2005 3:21 PM - 2 messages

I've install exchange 2003 in our Active Directory domain but when I go and create a user account, the mailbox does not get created. In the exchange tabs, under the Active Directory's users properties, it seems like everything was supposed to be created. When I go and look for the ...

mdbdata folder too large!

Lar - 16 May 2005 2:44 PM - 4 messages

Our mdbdata folder is 62GB in size. The priv1.edb is 13.9GB and the priv1.stm is 1.2GB. That leaves the .log files from 11/04 to the present approx. 46+GB is size. How can I eliminate some of these to keep it down to ...

Server Side Rules

Allan Browne - 16 May 2005 10:49 AM - 2 messages

Hi, I would like to setup a Server Side Rule that applies to all mailboxes on a given server that reads the subject line of an email and moves it to a specific folder in each mailbox. Is this possible? ...