Exchange Newsgroups: Exchange Server General Discussion

Exchange Information Store not runnning ..

Geoff Cox - 18 Feb 2006 12:45 PM - 3 messages

Hello Just had following error message The MAPI call 'OpenMsgStore' failed with the following error: The Microsoft Exchange Server computer is not available. Either there are network problems or the Microsoft Exchange Server computer is down for maintenance. The MAPI provider failed. ...

block internal email file attachments

mialmansoori - 18 Feb 2006 12:06 PM - 2 messages

I'm running Exchange 2003 SP1 and I'm looking for a way to filter internal organization users email's in order to block certain file formats. I've applied a filter on the Internet connector however my goal is to block internal attchamnets too. Any idea on how to do it?! ...

recording IP Addresses

Sawyer(Home) - 18 Feb 2006 4:53 AM - 2 messages

Is there anyway to record all the IP Addresses that connect to the exchange server ...

Why email in DN format?

Symuser - 18 Feb 2006 4:08 AM - 1 message

When I click on Outlook address book (GAL) I see email address column as a DN name instead of email address format. Obviously, I want to show that as an email address. How do I correct that? TIA, Symuser ...

Why "550 relaying denied" intermittently on inbound email?

MCSE - 18 Feb 2006 12:22 AM - 1 message

Why is Exchange 2003 intermittantly bouncing inbound messages with errors like "550 relaying denied" and "mx1.biz.mail.yahoo.com[67.28.113.13] said: 550 relaying denied for <us***@domain1.com>, <us***@domain2.com>"? Why do some Email from the very same senders come through while others ...

use Tracking Center for today's emails?

Geoff Cox - 17 Feb 2006 6:53 PM - 3 messages

Hello, Using the Tracking Center with Exchange 2000, although I can see emails sent to a particular user yesterday, I cannot find any emails sent to this user today! (I have indeed sent an email to this person today!) This should be possible?! or does this only work on previous days' log ...

Domain Browing view

NetRen - 17 Feb 2006 3:03 PM - 4 messages

Is there a way to change the view when domain browsing? If the machine has a description you see "description(machine name)" in the Name column and the description again in the Comments colmn. I only want to see the machine name in the Name column. ...

Track E-mail Messages from a Client

SJC1906 - 17 Feb 2006 2:16 PM - 2 messages

Does anyone know of a way to track an e-mail message back to a specific client/workstation? ...

Recipient Policies

Mark - 17 Feb 2006 1:42 PM - 1 message

Hi, I am trying to create a few recipient policies that create different primary SMTP email addresses for different sets of users, identified to the policy via the Department field in Active Directory. This works fine if I right click the policy and select "Apply this policy now". ...

Transaction Logs

Dan - 17 Feb 2006 1:42 PM - 4 messages

I know that Exchange 2003 transaction logs aren't cleared until a successful full backup is run by an "exchange aware" backup program. How EXACTLY does this exchange aware app clear the logs? Does it pass exchange a command ...

Email Addresses

peter - 17 Feb 2006 10:06 AM - 6 messages

Hi We have emails coming in to our ordering email address. Once these are recevied to this internal address, we would like them to automatically go to the suppliers. We use exchange 2003 and outlook 2000 clients. ...

Stop users from sending or receing external mail.

Lion - 16 Feb 2006 9:33 PM - 4 messages

I have a group of users in there own OU that I wont to restrict from receiving and sending External Email., but I want them to be able to send and receive internal OK. any ideas on how to do this in Exchange 2003. ...

Exchange 5.5 IMS version question

mikebach - 16 Feb 2006 8:58 PM - 5 messages

Have not migrated off of 5.5. yet. We have 2 exchange servers. when I telnet to each I get different readings for IMS. On server1 I get: 5.5.2653.13, on server2 I get 5.5.2657.72. ...

Exchange 5.5

Khp - 16 Feb 2006 8:04 PM - 1 message

I have exchage 5.5 with Sp4 running since 2001 & I have 7 email domain installed,everything is running well.recently my company register one more internet domain & i have been asked to add in Exchange 5.5 now I have never ...

Exchange 2003 scripts

Lion - 16 Feb 2006 7:10 PM - 4 messages

Does anyone have good site with scripts for Exchange 2003. What I need is the script that will let me select number of user accounts and tell me number of emails in the each mailbox, may be the time email arrived to the ...

Mail Relay

Gabe Matteson - 16 Feb 2006 6:44 PM - 3 messages

454 5.7.3 Client does not have perission to submit mail to this server. I've added the ip address to the relay settings on the smtp server. Clients can submit messages to the frontend server that works, but recieve this ...

cant send email outbound

undr - 16 Feb 2006 12:40 PM - 1 message

i have a win2k3 domain, active dir integ dns (on 2 dns servers) all behind isa 2000 server. dcdiag says everything is great , lol fantastic even. on all 3 dc's. reverse lookups fail everytime when i use the internal dns, if i use ...

Computer name/security is a ROYAL PAIN

vidro - 16 Feb 2006 12:16 PM - 8 messages

Because of certain process I have to have servers retain the same name, this is no problem on day to day stuff but when it come time to upgrade the hardware It becomes an absolute pain the ars. Well 2 days ago it was time for another hard aware upgrade on this server ...

sbs 2003 sp1 & exchange server 2003 sp2

2 Guns - 16 Feb 2006 11:42 AM - 3 messages

Hi all, We have an SBS 2003 server which has the included exchange server patched to SP1. Since the mailbox store has grown to the 16Gb and I'm having to clear mails and doing regular offline defrags, I think it is time to move to ...

Can't send using email in second mail domain

Roy T - 16 Feb 2006 10:30 AM - 3 messages

HI everyone, I got permission error when sending using the email in our second domain. We got 2 email domains in our receipent policy. @domainA.com and @domainB.com. Some users set to domainA.com as their primary domain, but ...

msn and hotmail accounts

ReneeColorado - 15 Feb 2006 10:22 PM - 1 message

Hello, I have an issue with msn and hotmail accounts that I need help with. I have been receiving error messages from our spam software that state our mail to these domains is not getting through due to an SMTP problem. I have ...

error '80040211' when sending mail using .asp script

brett.benson - 15 Feb 2006 10:13 PM - 1 message

This code will only send email to users that have the From Authenticated users only restriction if a domain admin account is used. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Set objErrMail= Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message") With objErrMail .From = "m*@mydomain.com" ...

Exchange 5.5 - emails with attachments very slow to load.

David Streb - 15 Feb 2006 4:12 PM - 2 messages

We are having increasing problems with our Exchange 5.5 mail server causing long (1 minute) delays when Outlook clients are opening emails with attachments. The problem seems more severe if the email was received and previously opened, but remaining in the users in-box. Any tips on how to ...

sharing only a calendar in Outlook using an Exchange Server

Stuckagain - 15 Feb 2006 3:39 PM - 5 messages

We need to be able to share only the calendar in a person's Exchange mailbox, but when we try that, we get the message, "unable to display the folder, person does not have a mailbox on the server." We can only get around this ...

force DSAccess to poll for config changes...

confused - 15 Feb 2006 3:20 PM - 2 messages

Is there any way via commandline or script to force DSAccess to poll for config changes ? We have an issue with journaling where the poll is not fast enough and some messages are not properly journaled when switching the ...

2ND REQUEST : How do I sent a meeting request like the KB asks:

SA Dev - 15 Feb 2006 2:51 PM - 4 messages

Hi, The KB says to: To republish the free and busy information, use one of the following methods: . Send a meeting request: 1. Send a meeting request to all users in the site. 2. All users must accept the meeting request to repopulate the ...

HELP : Mail Delivery Failure!

Mahmoud - 15 Feb 2006 2:45 PM - 3 messages

Dear, I have setup my Outlook 2003 with 3 Accounts: My ISP Mail, My Hotmail and my Internal Exchange Server 2003 E-Mail. I Added the MX record of the Exchange Server in the DNS of Exchange Server and the A record is xist for that Server ...

Forcing Send from POP3 Provider

John ICS - 15 Feb 2006 2:00 PM - 3 messages

Is there a way to force Exchange to send mail SMTP via our POP provider? The POP3 provider is KCL.net, and I want to force the Exchange 2000 server to use them as the SMTP account also (with authentication). ...

Calendar synchronisation

Ultraschall - 15 Feb 2006 1:31 PM - 1 message

Hello *, I am searching for a solution. I would like to synchronize the calendar of a user between two different domains. In the Domain1 has installes an Exchange 2000 server and Domain2 an Exchange 2003 server. The Tool Exchsync i found, is very good to synchronize a public calendar ...

Groupwise 6.0 --> Exchange 2003 migration issue - help appreciated

ColdRain - 15 Feb 2006 12:33 PM - 3 messages

Dear all, I'm currently planning for a Groupwise 6.0 to Exchange 2003 migration. I have an Exchange 2003 SP2 box running as the production box. I have also installed a bridgehead Exchange server that I'll be running the migration on ...

How do I sent a meeting request like the KB asks:

SA Dev - 15 Feb 2006 5:30 AM - 2 messages

Hi, The KB says to: To republish the free and busy information, use one of the following methods: . Send a meeting request: 1. Send a meeting request to all users in the site. 2. All users must accept the meeting request to repopulate the ...

Exchange Storage limit question

Sean Vreeland - 14 Feb 2006 10:20 PM - 3 messages

Okay, I have my storage limit set to 2 Gigs. Now, does this include only the INBOX, or does this include all folders, for example, sent messages? If this included ALL folders, is there a way to set it to ONLY the inbox? ...

Using cutom forms with OWA

crikan@nospam.postalias - 14 Feb 2006 9:48 PM - 2 messages

I have some custom Outlook (created in Outlook2003) forms that are published to a Public Folder. How can I access these forms using OWA? And how can I view (in OWA) a received message using a custom form? ...

changing the FQDN in the SMTP greeting?

Kremlar - 14 Feb 2006 9:00 PM - 5 messages

If I telnet into my server via port 25, the server responds with "220 server.mydomain.local Microsoft ESMTP Mail Service...." I want to correct this so it responds as my correct FQDN, which would be "server.mydomain.com" I swear I must have done this a dozen times in the past on other servers by ...

pfinfo tool

msadexchman - 14 Feb 2006 8:35 PM - 1 message

Hello, I need to quickly provide some output on public folders from an Exch 5.5 server (name, size, last accessed, etc.) I'm pretty sure the only tool I can use in the old pfinfo.exe tool, however, everytime I try and go out to ...

Exchange SP1 & SP2 Requirements

Steven Martin - 14 Feb 2006 7:23 PM - 5 messages

I have been given the task of updating our Exchange servers to the latest Service Packs (SP2) and have a couple questions: 1) Does Service Pack 2 require Service Pack 1 to be installed or is it cumulative? 2) Does Either exchange Service Pack require Windows 2003 to be at Service ...

OWA Question: Signature and Format

razornt - 14 Feb 2006 4:56 PM - 2 messages

What is the layout (rich text or HTML) in OWA? Sometimes a signature will come in double spaced like a rich text file, but other times it looks like html layout/format. What is the normal view/layout? Thanks in advance. ...

How do I download hotfix for M883527?

SA Dev - 14 Feb 2006 3:51 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I've searched for it and can't find it on the MS site. Is there a place to download it? Thanks, Alan ...

Unable to update public free/busy data after migration to new Exchange server...

SA Dev - 14 Feb 2006 3:17 PM - 5 messages

Hi, A couple of people are getting this message in outlook: Unable to update public free/busy data. The contents of this public folder are currently unavailable. Either the MS Exch Server computer servicing this public folder is down or the public folder has not been replicated to ...

Exchange 2000 and Mail Sending

John ICS - 14 Feb 2006 2:56 PM - 3 messages

Greetings all; Sorry for the long post, but I took over a pre-existing server system, and have not worked much with Exchange since about 2000. We are having issues with Spamhaus and Spamcop, apparently related to our email server running behind our Netopia router with an IP of 196.168.69.XX. ...

OWA Problem with multipl-domain hosting Exch2003

Mahmoud - 14 Feb 2006 2:29 PM - 3 messages

Dear, I have setup thee internal domains to exchange data using my single exchange server 2003,I added three MX records for each server of them in my local DNS, When I want to access any mailbox using OWA, it coudn't be opened, ...

How to configure OL2003 with exchange svr 2003 host multiple domains?

Mahmoud - 14 Feb 2006 2:22 PM - 3 messages

Dear, I have setup thee internal domains to exchange data using my single exchange server 2003,I added three MX records for each server of them in my local DNS, When I want to configure my Outlook2003 with Exchange Server Account of ...

Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 inplace upgrade

deanharris@noemail.noemail - 14 Feb 2006 12:30 PM - 10 messages

Hi, I'm currently planning to upgrade to Exchange 2003 from Exchange 5.5. My IS on 5.5 is 150GB. I was planning to carry out an inplace upgrade on the existing server as the hardware is up to spec. I currently have Exchange 5.5 ...

Automating Exchange Server 2003 setup (connectors)

Are Westby - 14 Feb 2006 11:52 AM - 3 messages

All, I need some assistance with automated setup of Exchange Server 2003, Standard Edition. I've managed to automate, by way of scripts, 98% of the installation, but I'm stuck with the creation of connectors (RGCs, SMTP connectors etc). ...

OWA content frame display "Loading" and images are not loaded

ron - 14 Feb 2006 9:57 AM - 2 messages

Hi all, I'm new to exchange server. While trying to access OWA, using IE 6.0, the content frame show "Loading" and all the images are not display. Using Morzilla Firefox 1.5, i'm able to view the emails list in the content ...

Setting up Meeting room

jwallac - 14 Feb 2006 8:41 AM - 2 messages

Hi, How do I set up a meeting room as a resourse in Exchange server. I want the users to be able to check availability and book this from there Outlook client. How do I set up in Exchange server and Outlook client ...

Problem creating mailboxes

Bernard Sircelj - 14 Feb 2006 3:19 AM - 2 messages

Any help you can provide with the following Microsoft Exchange issue is greatly appreciated: We are running Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 1 with Microsoft Exchange 2003 with service pack 2. Our problem is occurring when we add Exchange Attributes and a mailbox to an existing user or to a new user. ...

Microsoft support to RFC 1459 (IRC)

Amihai Bareket - 13 Feb 2006 8:33 PM - 4 messages

Is there any server product from Microsoft that supports RFC 1459 (IRC)? It used to be supported on Exchange platform up to Exchange 2000, but was removed at Exchange 2003. Any other server product? Thanks, Amihai Bareket ...

OWA access

Eoin C. Bairéad - 13 Feb 2006 4:51 PM - 1 message

Hi With othe Exchange 5 OWA, a secretary, with knowledge of the appropriate password, could open the boss's Outlook under OWA, and set the out-of-office reply. by typing http://localhost/exchange/bboss The secretary would have reviewer access to the boss's main folder, editor ...

Give users access to other users folders.

Eoin C. Bairéad - 13 Feb 2006 4:33 PM - 4 messages

Hi we have a situation where a secretary person needs access to the contacts & calendar folders of the managers they look after. If the secretary leaves, and is replaced, then I (the administrator) must open up the email folders of all the relevant managers, remove the old ...

QUestion about having multiple exchange servers in same forest

Hasher - 13 Feb 2006 3:17 PM - 2 messages

If a company have two offices in the east and west (East Office and West Office), and both the offices are part of same domain with all the mailboxes on one exchange 2000 server and they are part of same forest. The exchange ...

Change email domain name

Lewej - 13 Feb 2006 2:29 PM - 3 messages

Hi I have a requirement to change the email domain name for our organisation. (So it was domain1.co.uk and now it is going to be domain2.com) I can dual host both domain names on our Exchange 2003 server, and set the ...

visible notification of arriving mails in a public folder

Hardy Ruoss - 13 Feb 2006 11:22 AM - 2 messages

Hui together, is it possible to generate a visible or audible notification in outlook 2003 if a new mail is arriving a public folder like it happens if a mail is coming in the inbox ? greetings Hardy ...

Exchange 2000 Standard or Enterprise edition???

Vito - 13 Feb 2006 9:50 AM - 2 messages

Hi all how i can see wat for Exchange 2000 version is installed? In the propreties i can only see *Version 6.0 (Build 6249.4: SP3)*. My interess is to see if is a Standard or Enterprise edition. Any idea is appreciated! ...

How do I configure Hidden Destination in Outlook Web Access?

recpharm - 12 Feb 2006 7:30 PM - 1 message

If you check out this Microsoft Web Page: [link] You see a feature available called Hidden Destination. How do I enable it ? It is supposed to be a feature to hide URLs when clicking emails, so ...

Urgent

Mahmoud - 12 Feb 2006 2:42 PM - 5 messages

Dear My Outlook 2003, is configured with two e-mail accounts, how can I configure Outlook to send messege using alternative e-mail account automatically if it failed to send using the default e-mail account? This feature was available in Outllok 2002 ...

Cannot forward my messages to exchange e-mail !!!

Mahmoud - 12 Feb 2006 7:56 AM - 3 messages

Dears, I configured my outlook 2003 with pop3 Internet e-mail and with my Internal Exchange 2003 mailbox, when I have received a message from my Internet Accout, i'd like to forward it to my colegues's Exchange mailboxes, but I ...