In this article I will explain how the OAB Generation process discovers the domain controller that it will use for rebuilding an Offline Address List. Understanding this process can help you in troubleshooting.   As I have mentioned in other blog Read More

I was asked the following question recently:  What are the minimum permissions necessary I need to grant a user in order for that user to be able to access the data in another user’s mailbox?   Automatically I referenced following article Read More

This is a third blog post about troubleshooting public folder replication issues. In first post we covered Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes. The second blog post covered Troubleshooting the Replication of Existing Data. This post in this Read More

While this is not directly Exchange product related, I wanted to point you in the general direction of several awesome Office 12 / Outlook 12 resources. While we are busy working on Exchange 12, the Office team is busy working on Office 12, which is Read More

This is a second blog post about troubleshooting public folder replication issues. In first post we covered Troubleshooting the Replication of New Changes. This blog post covers Troubleshooting the Replication of Existing Data and the last post in this Read More

Introduction   The purpose of this blog post series is to serve as a guide to troubleshooting public folder replication problems. It will not tell you exactly how to fix every possible replication problem. However, it will show you how to isolate Read More

Exchange Sustained Engineering (Exchange SE) recently fixed a problem regarding “Send As” permissions and “Full Mailbox Access” permissions. Up until now, “Full Mailbox Access” permissions had been sufficient for one user to be able to send email as another Read More

Summary In order to clean up Routing Engine’s Cache, we no longer have to recommend customers’ to shut down all their Exchange Servers simultaneously in the entire org.  This was required to force concurrent destruction of Org object that lives Read More

Until last week I was under the impression that Exchange always uses local GCs (Global Catalog servers) and only uses out-of-site directory servers (GCs or DCs) if no local ones are available. I found out otherwise from working on the issue described Read More

This blog post is a follow-up post to previous 3 CXP flashes that talked about Windows 2003 kernel memory issues and Exchange 2003:   The first flash provided technical background about the demands Exchange makes on kernel resources.   Read More