The msExchPreviousAccountSid is used to identify when there was a problem with connection agreements being rolled out before the 5.5 directory is properly prepared. It is the SID the ADC wanted to use as the msExchMasterAccountSid but couldn't because Read More

So there was already a great BLOG entry on this by Carol Swales What does it take to install admin only? and you are probably wondering "for cryin’ out loud, really how many entries do you need for installing ESM by itself on a workstation!"  Read More

Very often you may find that you want to prohibit certain users from receiving mail from the internet. In the past, the solution would have been to give the specific users that are prohibited from receiving internet mail with non-resolvable SMTP domain Read More

  My post on backups did not go into VSS backups and Exchange. Here are a few things about using VSS and Exchange, seeing that NTBackup comes with some "generic" shadow copy capabilities - a clarification of that functionality is in order:   Read More

This goes somewhat hand in hand with my previous entry where I talked a little about how the backfill process works. You’ve set up a new public store, or changed the replica list for a specific folder. In either case, there’s a dance the server Read More

  (This is a part 3 of the series. Go here for part one and here for part two) I've spent a far amount of time talking about how access rights work in Exchange 2000, and how they worked in Exchange 5.5. Now I'm going to focus on how we put Read More

Those were posted on their own blogs, and I wanted to mention them as some of this information is really priceless!   While it is possible that many visitors to Exchange Team blog already know about those, there will be those that do not know: Read More

Some of you might wonder - why write about this subject? Well, every day I see customers calling in with Exchange servers that have experienced some sort of disaster... we all know that hard drives eventually die, power failures happen and file-level Read More

Here's a nightmare scenario for an Exchange administrator:   The disk system where your Exchange databases live goes insane and damages the database. No big deal, you think, I'll just restore it from backup and roll forward with the transaction Read More

There’s all kinds of documentation out there about Exchange but sometimes it’s difficult to find what you’re looking for. You know what you want, you even saw/had a hardcopy once so you know it exists. Finding it, however, is the whole Read More

Summary: This document provides developers an overview of how to write event sinks for SMTP and Transport events in managed code using wrappers that obscure some of the details of communicating with the unmanaged server. Introduction Writing event sinks Read More

If you've never used WebNews, now's the time to give it a try. They just upgraded to a new version that adds some great features that will make it easier to find answers to questions. Take a look at microsoft.public.exchange.admin, for example. A few Read More

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The backfill algorithm works by noting which servers have told ‘this’ server what data they contain. Any server in the org, for any particular folder (including the hierarchy itself) only knows what other servers have told it. For example, Read More

One question I see asked a lot is if there is a way to publish Free/Busy information for all users from the server-side.  In Outlook the default is to publish 2 months of Free/Busy information  per user. So is there a way to extend the default Read More

You may have previously evaluated clustering and decided it wasn't for you. If so, this may be the time to take another look. Both Exchange and Windows have made dramatic improvements in clustering for the 2003 releases.   The most obvious improvement Read More

When all the prerequisites are met, installing the Exchange System Management component is quick and painless.  However, due to seemingly continuous changes in the OS, the prerequisites can be different between each version of the OS and each service Read More

How about making some additions to your summer reading plans? We've got new "Preview Chapters" for you on the Exchange Library page. The latest batch includes Configuring Offline Address Books, Making Your Exchange Server 2003 Organization Fault Read More

If you create a Recipient Connection Agreement (RCA) with the ADC tools wizard and then go in to view the settings of that RCA, you may notice that the “Select the objects that you want to replicate” options on the From Windows tab are grayed Read More

When Exchange 2000 was released one of the goals was to allow third-party developers to write custom applications that they could use to automate mailing, CDO for Exchange was build into Exchange 2000, and CDOSYS was distributed with Windows.  These Read More

Exchange Free Busy (FB) data itself is not simple or easy to read. This will describe what the data looks like in the Exchange store, how it’s calculated and processed through the Outlook client.   FB describes when a user is busy over a Read More

Adam points at the website. First meeting tentatively scheduled for next month. I've submitted the request to add the site to our list of user groups, should be live in a few days. Congrats on getting this together! Exchange & SBS user Read More

Tired of switching windows between Exchange System Manager, Event Viewer, Active Directory Users and Computers and whatever else you use to manage your Exchange environment?   Just slap them all in one custom MMC window: Start by opening Read More

Another tool we released last week is the OWA admin tool that Tosh pointed out. It is a set of web pages, so it must be deployed on an IIS server (in the same domain as the Exchange server), but it does not have to be on the Exchange server itself. Using Read More