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The "Me too" Disease

Today in Mssmallbiz's yahoogroups, someone posted in that they were having a issues with Store not automagically restarting after a reboot... and Vlad said he'd been working with the Exchange support (he reports all his issues and posts in newsgroups Read More
posted Friday, May 19, 2006 10:46 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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OWA fix on Microsoft Update

You receive an error message when you try to perform any editing tasks, or you must click to enable the compose frame in Outlook Web Access: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=911829 Coming down on Servers tonight on MU is this KB to fix an issue where Read More
posted Friday, April 28, 2006 7:37 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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So you want to "whitelist" an SMTP address from being caught by IMF?

So you loaded up Exchange sp2.. got IMF working ..but you have some emails that no matter what you do.. either get caught by spam if you set the value one way.. or let in too much spam if you set the value so that the business email comes in... so what Read More
posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:20 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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What's your IMF settings?

So what's your IMF settings? Some here are 6, archive, 2.... 5 would be better but gives a few false positives... Some are reject =6, move to junk =4 Some use the IMF archive manager....some use the one from Hello Delta airlines seems to get Read More
posted Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:31 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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Reason number 4,235 not to use PST files ....

E-mail client computers stop responding, and the Store.exe process uses up to 100 percent of the CPU resources on a server that is running Exchange Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=914800 Reason number 4,235 not to use PST files .... Read More
posted Wednesday, March 15, 2006 12:17 PM by bradley | 6 Comments
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Sender ID

"Microsoft and other industry leaders champion Sender ID as an initiative that provides a technical solution to help counter spoofing. Spammers use spoofing as their primary deceptive practice. E-mail domain spoofing involves forging a sender's address Read More
posted Sunday, March 12, 2006 11:06 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Exchange 2003 SP2

Just a reminder that the best resources for installing Exchange 2003 sp2 are on the Vladville.com site under articles... http://www.vladville.com/articles.asp Read More
posted Friday, March 10, 2006 8:36 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Public Folder Plans

So you heard about the plans for Public Folders?  Oh you haven't?  Well heads up folks because while they will be in the next version of Exchange and supported for a long time after that....they are being "deprecated" out and won't be in the Read More
posted Monday, February 20, 2006 12:34 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Read before installing

One of the complaints I had about Exchange 2003 sp2 for us SBSers is that the only way you could read the help file about it was to sacrifice a box and install it.  Well if you only have one box...that's a bit hard to ask for us SBSers...fortunately Read More
posted Thursday, February 16, 2006 12:08 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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The ugly truth about small businesses and POP

There's a group of small businesses that are small and paranoid.  Or paranoid and small.  But the point is they like two things.  Not having a server and they love POP accounts.  It's funny because the official stance of the SBS var/vap Read More
posted Monday, January 30, 2006 6:45 PM by bradley | 4 Comments
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Exchange Best Practices Analyzer updated

2.10.0.1 - Minor enhancements and fixes. Enhanced support for Small Business Server, Exchange Server 2003 SP2, and third-party antivirus products. Download details: Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Update: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4f2f1339-cbcd-4d26-9174-f30c10d7ec4c&displaylang=en Read More
posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:32 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Fixing up a little annoying OEM Exchange error

Mark reminded me that I never followed up on that Exchange error issue I get on a preloaded OEM image. The solution is that it's missing two reg keys... Start by looking under  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\ Read More
posted Thursday, January 05, 2006 9:01 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Loaded up Exchange 2003 sp2? Enable those updates!

You Had Me At EHLO... : Intelligent Message Filter Updates: http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2005/12/14/416070.aspx How to update the Intelligent Message Filter version 2 in Exchange Server 2003 SP2: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;907747 Read More
posted Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:26 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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Trend needed hotfix to send Perf reports out after V3

Wayne in the newsgroup reports that ..... FYI..There is a patch for Trend Micro V3 which corrects issues with SBS2003 Reports and other not being sent to external domains. For more information read the thread Trend Micro V3 Issues 12/04/05   Read More
posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:46 AM by bradley | 4 Comments
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WSUS IMF patch expiration

If you saw that ...and wonder what it was and what happened to it, this is that IMF patch that the SBS podcast gang were talking about that was the bogus patch.  Just mark it off and continue your patching. Speaking of IMF...they will be having Read More
posted Tuesday, December 13, 2005 6:00 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Paranoia for Phones

The Exchange Server ActiveSync Web Administration tool is designed for administrators who want to manage the process of remotely erasing lost, stolen, or otherwise compromised mobile devices. The Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Web Administration Read More
posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 12:47 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Yo, the ExRAP is in the house

Learn how administering the Microsoft Exchange Server Risk Assessment and Health Check Program (ExRAP) helps customers to preemptively look for and resolve common issues and overlooked vulnerabilities in their Microsoft Exchange environment. Besides Read More
posted Tuesday, December 06, 2005 6:49 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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So about that Thunderbird

There goes my mail again....  since my Netscape days at least once or twice a year there goes my Thunderbird and I have to reinstall it and set up a new database. The annoying part of using an alternative place for my junky email account is that Read More
posted Wednesday, November 30, 2005 9:33 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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So you want to remove .zip files without rerunning the CEICW?

As Happyfunboy would say... Easypeasy.... Courtesy of Nathan Liu from Microsoft Customer Support: Alternatively, we can manually allow the attachments which we know are safe go through the SBS Server. Please perform the below steps:   1. Open Read More
posted Friday, November 25, 2005 9:54 AM by bradley | 6 Comments
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Dear postoffice of host.hawk.igs.net

Right now your admin did a stupid thing... they put a “please notify infected parties when I receive virus laden emails from someone that they need to have someone look at their mailserver” setting.  But here's the thing. It's a totally Read More
posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:16 AM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Got a junk mail stuck?

Recently I've seen folks ask about how to get a piece of junk mail with wacko characters stuck in their Outlook/OWA and Shift-Delete isn't working.... You'll probably have to use the MDBVU32 tool to muck out that junk email as talked about on the Exchange Read More
posted Sunday, November 13, 2005 10:55 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Exchange 2003 SP2 IMF and the SP1 IMF

Before you go to install Exchange 2003 SP2 you may want to really and truly make sure that the SP1 version of the IMF is uninstalled.  We're getting reports that folks have accidentally not realized it was installed, went to install SP2 and the IMF Read More
posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:38 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Can't send email because your ISP wants authentication "per" person?

If you are a Verizon customer who recently went to a system where the user name and password for EACH user has to match the outbound authentication... it's time to get serious about your business. There is nothing that Mothership Redmond can do in the Read More
posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:57 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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So you can't send mail to you?

So in the mailbag tonight comes the question of if you have some email accounts that ...well.. match your email account but you need to forward them outside of your firm because the email accounts live outside of your Exchange server and not inside your Read More
posted Monday, November 07, 2005 10:11 PM by bradley | 5 Comments
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No to all -- Seven times

Well I finally did it tonight.  Patched the real baby at the office with Exchange 2003 sp2. I manually shut off the Trend Exchange antivirus I shut off the server antivirus I manually shut down the SMTPservice ...just in case.... And I hit the Read More
posted Friday, November 04, 2005 8:26 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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