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Exchange, Exchange 2003 - Posted by Dave on December 24, 2009

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Configure Out Of Office Auto Reply for Internet Address In Exchange 2003

Configure Out Of Office Auto Reply for Internet Address In Exchange 2003

In Exchange 2003, by default the Out of Office Assistant only works for the internal senders which is on the same local network. When you try to send an email using external email address or internet email address (eg. gmail.com), you will not receiv

Exchange, Exchange 2007, Tips & Tricks, Windows XP - Posted by Dave on September 20, 2009

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How To Export User Mailbox from Exchange 2007

How To Export User Mailbox from Exchange 2007

You may already know that exchange 2007 does not allow you to export mailbox in a x64 bit system. But for exchange 2007 to run, you need to install it on a x64 bit server. This is the big disappointment for system admin. Why would Microsoft provide t

How To Test SMTP Service

How To Test SMTP Service

Recently we are quite busy in migrating our servers and there are a low of things to check and problem solving. One of the problem is that after migration, our server are not sending out email through SMTP service. A best way to test if your SMTP

How To Change Windows Server 2003 Password Policy

How To Change Windows Server 2003 Password Policy

You might want to know how to change the password policy or settings for Windows Server 2003. This is not a good practise but in some environment you might need it. By default Windows Server 2003 have set the below criteria for strong password:

Exchange, Exchange 2007, Network, Tips & Tricks - Posted by Dave on July 15, 2009

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How To Identify Which Program Is Listening on Which Port In Windows

How To Identify Which Program Is Listening on Which Port In Windows

Recently I am testing the GFI MailEssentials software on my test environment Exchange Server 2007. It's an antispam solution with a lot of spam control features. The installation went well without any problem. The program offer a dashboard windows wh

Exchange, Exchange 2007, Tips & Tricks - Posted by Dave on July 1, 2009

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How To Allow Relay Exception In Exchange 2007 Receive Connector

How To Allow Relay Exception In Exchange 2007 Receive Connector

There are situations in which you need to allow emails to relay through your exchange 2007. For example, in my case, our clients have their own system which generate newsletters and send it via emails. They don’t authenticate with our SMTP server,

Exchange, Exchange 2003, My Life - Posted by Dave on June 17, 2009

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Exchange 2003 Send Emails Locally but not Externally

Today there is a problem with both my exchange 2003 servers. But after some checking and email tracking, I found that the email was send to local store only. It supposes to send out to the internet and to my other exchange server. If you canâ€

Exchange, My Life, Network, Tips & Tricks - Posted by Dave on June 4, 2009

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How To Create SMTP Connector in Exchange 2007

How To Create SMTP Connector in Exchange 2007

By default Exchange 2007 does not allow users to send out emails to external domains. You will need to manually create a send connector. Here is a step by step guide to create the SMTP connector in GUI mode (Exchange Management Console). Select "

Exchange, My Life - Posted by Dave on June 2, 2009

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Exchange 2007 - Generate Activation Context failed: Event ID 59

Exchange 2007 – Generate Activation Context failed: Event ID 59

While was checking my exchange server 2007 event logs, I came across a list of full errors log from SideBySide. Eventually it has grow so big that the event logs was full. That's why I was checking on it in the first place.  When click on the event

Exchange, My Life, Tips & Tricks - Posted by Dave on May 24, 2009

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How to bulk create mailboxes in Exchange 2007 PowerShell

How to bulk create mailboxes in Exchange 2007 PowerShell

Recently I have been tasked to migrate an existing exchange server 2003 to exchange server 2007. In the old exchange, there are around 300-400 user mailbox that I need to move it to the new exchange 2007 server. At first I started to do the "manual"