Dave Goldman posted a very interesting post on his blog a little while ago, talking about how mailbox quota limit messages can impact Exchange server performance. He goes into different ways to customize the mailbox quota messages, how the process Read More

Someone asked the following, so I thought I would try and address the issue as I think it is one that is commonly misunderstood:   Could you enlighten us on what happens when an Outlook user uses the permissions tab on a folder to grant access Read More

This is my 4th blog post on the subject of Exchange 2003 Auto Accept Agent. If you want to see previous posts, you can see them here: one, two and three.   The listings of Mailboxes that are registered on any given server are currently homed in Read More

I just posted instructions on how to create this OWA theme on my blog: In addition to the cow look, it also has a moooooooooooo for a new mail sound, and a cowbell for the reminder. Have fun! - KC Lemson Read More

With the development of OAB version 4 in Exchange 2003 SP2 and Outlook 2003 SP2 you may want to verify your Outlook clients are using OAB version 4. If your clients are still using OAB version 3 they cannot take advantage of all the new features offered Read More

Lately I've seen a lot of questions regarding the use of homeMDB in policy filters. I want to use this post to explain the reason that ExBPA warns about this, and hopefully clear up the confusion about how to address this.   Linked Value Replication Read More

No doubt many of you are familiar with the event commonly seen in application logs of Exchange 2000 and 2003 servers, MSExchangeIS event 9548, indicating that the information store came across a disabled user who is missing the msExchMasterAccountSid Read More

In November 2005 I posted an article on the DSProxy referral changes that are included in Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2.  For the full article, please see http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2005/11/04/413669.aspx.   To refresh Read More

The msExchESEParamLogBuffers storage group attribute governs the number of Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) log buffers that are used by the Exchange information store. ESE uses a set of log buffers to hold information in RAM before it writes to the transaction Read More

We now have a solution for a problem that was described last month in Exchange Does Not Always Use Local GCs. The gist of the problem is that Exchange makes occasional requests to out-of-site DCs and if a WAN link is flaky or the remote DC is unresponsive, Read More

We recently posted details on how to use Log Parser to parse out Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) information to produce helpful reports that can give you a better idea of the usage load of your EAS deployment.  In that blog we relied solely on LogParser Read More

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY   A few weeks ago, we released three CXP flashes on the subject of Windows 2003 kernel memory issues and Exchange 2003. This is a promised follow-up to those flashes.   We are happy to announce that a new Exchange Read More

We have received a lot of feedback recently about your need to better understand the usage of your Exchange 2003 ActiveSync (EAS) deployment.  With all of the great features built into EAS, it’s important for you as an IT Professional to know the Read More

PFDAVAdmin Content Report - First step to explore the ‘jungle’ of your public folders Did you ever want to know how many items each public folder contains? Or do you want to know when the newest item was created in a public folder? These are common 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