Yesterday I was working with the Migration Wizard and ran into this error. It took me a couple of steps to verify my settings before I was able successfully bypass this error and continue migration. I wrote this guide to help you guys to move on in this Read More

I was asked this question recently - how do you stop all outgoing messages to a particular e-mail address outside the company? You can create a contact in the Active Directory and give it the email address you want to block outbound mail to. Then, on Read More

(This is a part 4 of the series. Please go here for part 1, here for part 2 and here for part 3.) Proxy generation On Exchange 2003, with proxy generation logging turned up you will see an event 3006:   Event Type:      Read More

Someone recently asked why OWA rewrites external links in messages to go through redir.asp. For example, if you receive an HTML message with an embedded link to http://www.microsoft.com, OWA will actually rewrite the link to point to http://exchangeserver/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.microsoft.com. Read More

Executive Summary   The dynamic disk management functionality in Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server and in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is based on technology licensed to Microsoft by VERITAS Software Corporation. VERITAS Volume Manager Read More

(Please go here for Part 1 of this series and here for Part 2) Question 4 when troubleshooting the RUS - Which policies match the user? If you got this far, then you know that the RUS queried for the changes, and the query returned the expected Read More

After completing a migration you may note that replying to emails will cause an NDR.  Although sending an email directly to the person works without an NDR.  This is most likely caused by the X500 DN changing during the migration.  To illustrate Read More

What are badmails? Badmails are mail that the Exchange server cannot deliver or NDR (non-delivery report). A common source of badmails comes from the unsuccessful attempt to deliver an DSN (delivery status notifiction. NDR is a form of DSN).  Read More

A common complaint with the version of ADC Tools released with Exchange 2003 was: When you use the wizard to create your connection agreements you don't have a chance to look at them or change them before they replicate.  What if I want to look Read More

There are actually 2 different types of delayed message delivery... I believe stemming form the quaintness of X400. The following applies to Exchange2000/Exchange2003. They have somewhat different behaviors, but both result in getting the message Read More

(For Part 1 of the series, please go here) Question 2 when troubleshooting the RUS - How to determine if a RUS Rebuild was run? One way to check for a Rebuild is to use the repadmin tool from the Windows 2000 Support Tools. Use ADSI Edit or LDP to get Read More

Duplicate detection of delivered messages is done by the Exchange store. The store does duplicate detection based on two properties on the message - the Internet Message Id and the client submit time. We would have liked to do duplicate detection based Read More

JC Hillerman wrote a comment in on my bio: I heard that Exchange was purchased by Microsoft, but it seems clear that you were working on new development. Maybe it was just the MTA that was purchased? I also heard that Exchange was initally written Read More

Here’s an interesting historical question - when we say Out of Office, why does it sometimes get shortened to ‘OOF’? Shouldn’t it be ‘OOO’? Inside Microsoft, ‘OOF’ means not just the message which says Read More

Microsoft.com provides many resources to enable IT Pros to work more efficiently, but we think we can do even more! Here’s your chance to provide us with feedback, ask questions, offer suggestions and chat with the Microsoft.com IT Pro Web Publishing Read More

Every so often people ask us - "How often do you recommend we run the offline defrag?" Meaning - how often do we run it to have the server run OK?   The short answer would be - we do NOT recommend this to be run as any type of "regular" maintenance Read More

(This is a first part of the series on troubleshooting RUS issues with the use of Diagnostics Logging. Stay tuned for more... :) Many RUS problems can be identified through careful examination of the application event log. It is useful to use event logging Read More

I have been asked this question several times. The short answer is that Archive Sink allows capturing emails that go through a specific SMTP virtual server.  Journaling will capture every email that is sent and/or received by users that are Read More

This might have gone unnoticed, but Exchange 2003 Online Help was updated for SP1 too. This update includes additional topics that were not included on the product CD. The Exchange 2003 Help is designed to assist you in day-to-day administration of Read More

Microsoft and the Exchange team are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the June 2004 editions of the Software Development Kits for Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003. The following are now available: - Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SDK Read More

One of the best utilities ever created for Exchange is EXMerge. You can get the latest version of this tool here, where it is listed as the Mailbox Merge Wizard: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/2003.asp What EXMerge does may sound Read More