Exchange Newsgroups: Exchange Server General Discussion

Invalid or unknown virtual user

Brian - 23 Sep 2006 4:14 PM - 6 messages

One of my users is having outgoing messages rejected from two recipients (at the same domain, of course) with this explanation: vdeliver: Invalid or unknown virtual user '<UserName>' What, exactly does this mean, and how does it differ from a user unknown ...

open relay

Ankit Shah - 23 Sep 2006 2:16 PM - 4 messages

Some reason i have so many spammers relaying off my exchange server 2003. How do i stop it because now it is at the point where out own mail does not come in or send out. Ankit Shah ...

Can't sync with Versamail

Rebecca - 22 Sep 2006 7:35 PM - 9 messages

I have a couple of users on Treos (650 and 700), and using Versamail with Exchange Activesync. Everything had been working fine since January but suddenly, yesterday, they started getting a syncing error - "There was a problem syncing messages. The sync could not complete. ...

OMA and Exchange 2003

Jer - 22 Sep 2006 5:22 PM - 17 messages

When I try to use OMA, I get: A System error has occurred while processing your request. Please try again. If the problem persists, contact your administrator. When I look at the Event Viewer, I see: Event Type: Error ...

MS Intelligent Filtering and Exchange 2003

Jer - 22 Sep 2006 5:10 PM - 11 messages

5 times, since June 2006, my Exchange 2003 server has stopped sending and receiving email without any errors. The only consistency between these is that there have been updates (specifically the MS Intelligent Filter) that ran in the early AM prior to the failed email functionality. ...

custom template for outlook rule

gene - 22 Sep 2006 4:53 PM - 2 messages

I have a mailbox on my exchange server that gets emails sent to supp***@mycompany.com. 4 Users on the network watch the inbox of my support mailbox from their outlooks by going in to other users folder. Yesterday I ...

incoming email, internal or external, is delayed by more than an hour

ONJ - 22 Sep 2006 4:44 PM - 2 messages

I have a problem that everyone seems to have here and there, but nobody has a fix and of course, Microsoft is no help. They'll sell it to you for a boat load of money, it doesn't work worth a darn, but then want to charge ...

Browser/OS Compatibility for OWA 2003

mpallo - 22 Sep 2006 12:24 PM - 2 messages

Hello, We run a 2003 Exchange Server with OWA. Can someone please point me to an all inclusive document showing which operating systems and browsers w/service packs etc. OWA 2003 supports. Thanks so much, -Mark ...

Microsoft Exchange Setup Wizard Appears in Internet Explorer

Mystery Girl - 22 Sep 2006 5:43 AM - 6 messages

Hi folks Vikki here Outlook Express is my default mail handler and it shows up in my internet explorer options The problem is when I want to send a link or a page from Internet Explorer to a friend I go to Tools Mail and News and click on send a link whats meant to happen ...

License (?) Question

JeffB - 21 Sep 2006 11:15 PM - 14 messages

Is it possible to use Exchange in a non-MS environment? And if so, would we just need Exchange licenses? (no MS Server CALs) ...

Help Forwarding

zylinius1983 - 21 Sep 2006 8:20 PM - 6 messages

Hey Everyone. I have an email from an automated service that comes to a single user account. The email comes in daily, and I need it to be automatically forwarded from this account to 2 others. Is this possible? How would ...

E-mail account

Kim - 21 Sep 2006 5:31 PM - 7 messages

I had to create an e-mail account for our virus software. What are the steps that I need to take to create a recipient policy to delete all e-mail hitting this account? Is there a knowledgebase article available? At this time, the ...

Migrated Account is getting an error message

CK - 21 Sep 2006 5:30 PM - 2 messages

I migrated a network account form one domain to another. The mailbox also changed Exchange servers. The account remained in the same forest however it changed domains. Now when this user send an email to somebody outside of our Exchange environment she receives the following error message: ...

How to capture all emails?

will~ - 21 Sep 2006 4:51 PM - 2 messages

Windows Server 2003 R2, Exchange 2003 Emails from pre-defined SMPT addresses are downloaded onto Exchange Server from a POP3 mailbox correctly. BUT emails that has not been defined to receive by anybody's mailbox get bounced back to the sender. Although this ...

clients in hotels cannot connect to OWA

John - 21 Sep 2006 4:24 PM - 6 messages

Since we moved to Exchange 2003 several months ago, we have seen a number of clients unable to connect to OWA when specifically travelling in hotels or certain client sites. This used to happen infrequently, but the number has risen drastically since ...

Microsoft Active Directory - Exchange Extension ID no: 800004005

JJM - 21 Sep 2006 4:20 PM - 4 messages

Hello all, We have just created a new DC in our forest, the server has been installed with Windows 2003 STD R2. Our Exchange server is a member server located in a different site. When we connect to the new server from exchange server with the Active ...

Exchange blocking email addresses which include an apostrophe

Luke11 - 21 Sep 2006 10:08 AM - 4 messages

My Exchange server appears to be refusing emails from senders who have an apostrophe contained in their email address (ie. bob.o'ne***@hotmail.com). I am running exchange 2003 on Windows 2003 SBS. Apart from this, email is being ...

OWA setup on single server

Lewej - 21 Sep 2006 8:26 AM - 3 messages

Hi Are there any issues getting OWA setup and allowing outside access on a single server? Or should I try and buy a second server if I can get management approval? Are SSL certificates really required in any ones opinion? Our organisation ...

Incorrect Rdns entry

Todd - 21 Sep 2006 5:06 AM - 2 messages

I am currently running sbs 2003. I currently have the outgoing mail set to use dns. We are currently using pop3 accounts for incoming mail. Since pop3 is being used for the incoming, our domain name has a different ip address then our ...

Regaining Access to an EDB

J. Knapp - 20 Sep 2006 10:34 PM - 2 messages

OK, here's the scenario. I made a stupid mistake, and now its time to shovel out. :-) We put a new Exchange 2003 box online and started from scratch, leaving our 5.5 box to be demoted out of the old domain and rejoined to the new domain. ...

Hardware Question

George Spiro - 20 Sep 2006 6:54 PM - 9 messages

Hi, I have been running a Microsoft Exchange cluster for close to 5 years now. It is running on a Storagetek SAN attached (FC) to a Storagetek Library (FC). Well its time to upgrade my systems due that I cannot renew my ...

For Eric Tam, Local Delivery queue

ztru - 20 Sep 2006 6:17 PM - 1 message

For some reason OE is not letting me reply to you. The error code is 2147221240 followed by the message ID info. Thanks, I'll search the KB on this code also. I'm wondering if this might be a corrupted mailbox, or maybe an AD problem. ...

Duplicates messages to external contacts

Springfield - 20 Sep 2006 5:46 PM - 1 message

I have 3 Windows Server 2003 (SP1) machines running Exchange 2003 (SP1). They are located in different cities connected via Frame Relay links. We use Routing Group Connectors between the 3 and have SMTP Connectors for external e-mail. The connectors are working fine: ...

Messages stuck in Local Delivery queue

ztru - 20 Sep 2006 3:28 PM - 3 messages

Exchange Server 2003 standard, SP1. I have one user that sends a mail item to one other particular user and these messages are stuck in the local delivery queue until the retry time expires. I've tested this with a number of different clients and the mail to ...

OWA and Exchange 2003

Brain - 20 Sep 2006 2:53 PM - 4 messages

Hello board, I have following problem. My customer uses outlook web access with exchange 2003 server. If a new mail arrives, in the left plane the "unread messages" are increased, in the left down corner there is a message telling about new ...

Some users cant connect with webmail Exchange 2003

Maarten - 20 Sep 2006 2:17 PM - 3 messages

Hi, there, Hopefully somebody know a solutions. We have 1 front-end 1 back-end exchange 2003 server. We are migrating our users from exchange 2000 to the 2003 server. Everything oke there. But some of our users can't connect to our webmail enviroment. ...

.pst files to disappear after 2007 ???

M Skabialka - 20 Sep 2006 1:26 PM - 4 messages

At a Microsoft seminar yesterday we were told that the next version of Exchange and Outlook after 2007 will probably have no capability to handle ..pst files, because for retention purposes, litigation, etc, all email will have to remain on the Exchange servers, 64 bit massive machines with ...

Best Practices Analyzer Tool discovery

gusgallows - 19 Sep 2006 9:15 PM - 2 messages

Apparently, according to the tool in the subject line, my two node cluster has a different version of Store.exe on each node. On Node A it has 6.5.7638.2 and on Node B it has 6.5.7650.28. Both are at the same ...

Create a anonymous feedback mailbox

Boris - 19 Sep 2006 5:43 AM - 4 messages

Hi, We are running exchange 2003, one of our senior managment staff requested for us to create a mailbox to which staff can send feedback and concerns to. Once they have sent their email to the email address it should be converted ...

Format of Exchange 5.5 Tracking Log File

Mister.Fred.Ma - 18 Sep 2006 11:31 PM - 1 message

Is there a specification for the format of the Exchange 5.5 Tracking Log File? Where can this be gotten? Thanks. ...

backup times are slow

lawfirmit - 18 Sep 2006 7:42 PM - 6 messages

running veritas 10.1d on server 2000 with exchange 2003. we need to backup all emails and email boxes. our backup of a 40gig information store takes 3 days! any suggestions as to what we can do? the backup throughput is about 8 ...

Multiple login boxes when signing in to OWA

James - 18 Sep 2006 5:54 PM - 2 messages

I get multiple login boxes when logging into OWA. I am not using forms based authenication and not using ISA server. Any help would be great. Thanks ...

Outlook Web Access Premium Login page

Jamie - 18 Sep 2006 4:53 PM - 2 messages

I no longer receive the Premium Login Page when trying to access OWA. It has a pop up box instead. How can I get the Premium Page back. Also can you put favorites in your OWA? That would be a great feature. Something that you ...

Journaling multiple Exchange servers

Gary - 18 Sep 2006 1:37 PM - 2 messages

This is the situation I have. One main site (head office) and 5 remote sites all part of the same domain (child domains). If I enable journaling on each Exchange server at each site to journal to a local mailbox I have a problem ...

EXCDO calendering errors after a restore to Exchange 2003

96ghia - 18 Sep 2006 7:12 AM - 1 message

Hi there, I am having some issues after performing a restore. When the CEO tries to create a new calender item, it disappears on sync with the server, and I get the following 3 events in the application log. (anonymised) ...

MSX 5.5 Disaster Recovery

Ken - 17 Sep 2006 7:16 PM - 1 message

I Have a client whose MSX 5.5 Server crashed. They have a backup of the Priv.edb and Pub.edb on tape but not the Dir.edb. They are also lacking documentation with regards to how the MSX server was originally setup. They ...