Exchange Server General Discussion

SMTP Relay - allow for all but annonymous

Adam Simmonds - 3 Oct 2008 11:49 PM - 7 messages

Hello I am trying to set up exchange 2003 to allow relaying messages for either all users or a specified group, but disallow relaying for anonymous connections. This server is used as both out incomming and outgoing server. The idea is to have users able to use the smtp server remotely with auth, ...

Windows 2000 migration to windows 2003 + exchange

Olivier Bayard - 3 Oct 2008 4:29 PM - 2 messages

Hello, I will migrate my windows 2000 domain ti windows 2003. Currently Exchange 2003 is installed on windows 2000 domain. I can see from microsoft support that we need to run specific procedure for exchange 2000 not for exchange 2003. ...

Message Recall Fails - [WP]

WildPacket - 3 Oct 2008 1:27 PM - 4 messages

I have noticed that the recalling of a message is taking too long or not working at all. I have tested it. Any ideas? Thank you ...

connection dropped by remote host

Mack Ziegler - 3 Oct 2008 1:14 PM - 2 messages

Scott, Did you find a resolution to your problem? I am running Exchange 2007 and experiencing the same problem. Message without or small attachment (<500k) succeeds, but larger messages fail. Thx. -Mack ...

Outlook activities that generate WAN traffic

Midwest Muskie - 2 Oct 2008 8:21 PM - 4 messages

Can anyone give me a 101 class in the amount of WAN traffic that is generated when a remote Outlook 2003 user running in Cached mode generates when he 1. Moves a message with a 1 MB attachment to a different folder in his ...

Email Archiving and PST Management

microsoft - 2 Oct 2008 4:50 PM - 3 messages

Hi I am running Exchange 2003 with Service Pack 2. Clients are using Outlook 2003. Could anyone kindly advise a good archiving and pst management software. Regards ...

Free Busy Problems

Stup88 - 2 Oct 2008 4:05 PM - 3 messages

I get the following message in Event Viewer. Error updating public folder with free-busy information on virtual machine server. The error number is 0x80004005. EVENT ID 8207 I have serached the web, found a few things but nothing has seemed to help, ...

Exchange 2007 Storage groups

Jasper Recto - 2 Oct 2008 1:58 PM - 3 messages

We are using Exchange 2007 and I have a question about storage groups. Is there a user or storage limit for the first storage group? When should I start using a second storage group? Should I split my users among 2 storage groups or should put most on the ...

Deleted emails in Exchange

jomess - 2 Oct 2008 1:38 PM - 3 messages

I could like to know how can I permanently delete emails from Outlook as we are using an Exchange. It is our understanding that even if an email is "permanently deleted" using Shift-Delete, a copy is kept both in the .ost ...

Exchange 2007 Additional Servers

Tommy - 2 Oct 2008 11:19 AM - 2 messages

Hi Everyone, I currently have an Exchange 2007 setup in the office running on a single server. The server is coming to capacity due to mis configuration. Can I add Exchange 2007 servers (additional ones) to the activie directory and migrate settings over to the new server? ...

SMTP Communication problem

girts - 2 Oct 2008 10:24 AM - 2 messages

Hello, I have Exchange Server 2003 on Windows Server 2003. Person is sending email to one person and I have received error message in my log e-mail. There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. ...

Offline Defrag - Benefits other than disk space?

Leonard - 1 Oct 2008 7:56 PM - 5 messages

Hi, Assuming I don't care about the disk space used by the Exchange databases, is there any benefit to an offline defrag over the regular online defragmentation? All the documentation I've seen only talks about shrinking the disk ...

Exchange 5.5 - Relocating the PRIV.EDB file

Downtime! - 1 Oct 2008 7:27 PM - 9 messages

Our Exchange server (5.5) was setup several years ago with the databases residing on a 50Gb D drive. The priv.edb file is approaching 46Gb in size, using up almost all the available drive space. My question is, can I relocate ...

SMTP Event Sink - Move to BadMail does not work

Chris Miller - KelCon Technologies - 1 Oct 2008 6:06 AM - 5 messages

I've written a pretty extensive SMTP Event Sink and it works great except that when it's determined an email is bad, it does not move it the BADMAIL folder. It does stop delivery of the email, but when issuing an UPDATE and ...

possible to setup auto reply and auto forward on group mailboxes?

BillNyetheScienceGuy - 30 Sep 2008 11:54 PM - 2 messages

I'm attempting to setup auto forwarding on mailboxes B, C, D to forward to A. However, when I set a server side rule in outlook on mailboxes B,C, and D to auto reply in addishion to the auto forward it doesn't work. If I turn off ...

Exchange 2003 disaster recovery

NF - 30 Sep 2008 8:35 PM - 7 messages

I currently have an exchange 2003 server setup in production. I setup a test machine with the OS on it with the idea of testing out the restore features of my backup system. I would like to install exchange 2003 on this server ...

Separate AD site for Exchange in Datacenter?

AndrewJ|TX - 30 Sep 2008 7:01 PM - 4 messages

We are in the process of moving to a new datacenter and are wondering if we should use the opportunity to segregate Exchange out into it's own AD site so that Exchange can have dedicated GCs. We will have roughly 20,000 E2K7 mailboxes in the new datacenter. ...

Server Rule

John R - 30 Sep 2008 4:19 PM - 4 messages

One of our VP's has asked that we CC him on all emails to members of his team. Is there a way to set up this rule on the server? We are using Exchange 2003. And a mix of Outlook, XP, 2003, and 2007. We would prefer an ...

POP Error message

Nelo - 30 Sep 2008 3:55 PM - 4 messages

This error message keeps popping up on a number of users computers. ! Task 'Microsoft Exchange Server' reported error (0x80004005): 'The operation failed.' Any ideas on how to solve this or what could be the cause? ...

RGC Settings in Exchange 2003

wilma - 30 Sep 2008 5:43 AM - 2 messages

Hello, I've a general question regarding the setup/configuration of routing group connectors. We connect two E2K3 sites using RGCs. If we schedule the RGC on site A to never, Site B is still sending mails to site A. Is this by design and both ...

Anti-Spam Agents and Receive Connectors

NTNEWS - 29 Sep 2008 11:47 PM - 2 messages

Is there a way to disable anti-spam agents on a per receive connector basis? I have 4 receive connectors on a single internal HUB and want one of these receive connectors to not use ANY anti-spam agents however the other 3 MUST ...

Export GAL to .csv

Andy Siegel - 29 Sep 2008 8:17 PM - 3 messages

I'm running Exchange Server Standard 2003 on a Server 2003 Standard R2 machine. Is there a way to export the Global Address List to a .csv file? I have tried to do it in Access 2007 trying to import external data. I get an error ...

Missing Mailbox

moyondizvo - 29 Sep 2008 5:04 PM - 5 messages

I created a new user account in my SBS 2003 SP 2. I have Exchange 2003 installed on the same SBS machine. Going to the exchange mailboxes, all other users appear except for the recently added user. User still didn't ...

emails w/ attachments not coming through

maitakeboy - 29 Sep 2008 1:49 PM - 6 messages

I'm having an issue where, for one client only, emails with attachments don't come through, or produce a bounceback. Emails without attachments come through, and emails from us to them, with or without attachemtns, are successful. I've added the client to the AV whitelist to eliminate that as a ...

Exchange Server Compatibility

Naveen - 29 Sep 2008 6:43 AM - 2 messages

Does RFC 3516 works with Exchange Server 2007? ...

Exchange Server 2007

Naveen - 29 Sep 2008 6:33 AM - 2 messages

Does RFC 3516 work with Exchange Server 2007? ...

exchange server initiated hunderds of connections via TCP 1291

Shehzad shaukat - 28 Sep 2008 12:37 PM - 2 messages

what is this? one i do netstat on my Exchange 2003, i can see a lot of connections to several client over port TCP 1291. Any ideas? ...

Re: Changing Exchange 2007 message size doesn't work

Beoweolf - 28 Sep 2008 12:46 AM - 2 messages

At that size (10Mb +) I suspect that your ISP is diddling with the filtering mail. There has been an increase surreptitious delay at peak times large sized email...which is released later, after hours or once congestion subsides. This is one way ISP's can mask the fact that they are near or at ...