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So I just stumbled upon this blog ... very interesting and one for adding to your favourites for when you need it.

So Anderson posted this, and my initial thought was huh?  The KB didn't really explain either, so it was time for a test.  So the KB will allow you to remove the circled text below: And it's a nice simple PowerShell Command: Set-TransportConfig WritingBrandingInDSNEnabled $false But you do need to have Exchange 2007 SP1 with RU3

small service outage lastnight / this morning .. .My server Blue Screened, rebooted and was waiting at the good olde Windows Shutdown Event Tracker screen. So cleared that and then my blog vm has the same so sorted that two.  Found this blog, so the damm screen doesn't come back any more :-| How to: Disable the Shutdown Event Tracker in ...

I found this up on BlankMan's Blog and it's damm cool. ... One of the frustrating realities about OST files is that they become progressively slower as they become older. One of the factors influencing this is fragmentation.  As the Exchange Team blog says: ''We usually recommend no more than about 2500 - 5000 messages in any ...

So we had this issue today on an Exchange 2000 SP3 Public Folder Server When we tried to mount a database it logged this in the Application Eventlog Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: ESEEvent Category: Logging/Recovery Event ID: 454Description:Information Store (2892) Database recovery/restore failed with unexpected error ...

I know you already know about this, but this is for my reference, so I remember to look here in the morning. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687789(TechNet.10).aspx Find here Microsoft IT's early adopter experiences, best experiences, and lessons learned from our own deployments of Messaging solutions within our global enterprise. ...

Check this out, Sembee just posted an awesome blog Source: http://www.sembee.co.uk/archive/2008/05/12/77.aspx ...A new tool from the Microsoft Exchange team, currently in prototype/development may well be something to help you. https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ can currently test Autodiscover, Outlook Anywhere (which should work for ...

Talking to Joe today and he applied Forefront RU2 to an Exchange 2007 SCC Cluster.What he didn't expect what that Forefront stopped updating with the following error: Event Source:   GetEngineFilesEvent Category: Engine Error Event ID:       6012Description:Microsoft Forefront Server Security encountered an ...

Sarad showed me this and I have been using it ever since. When we upgraded to Exchange 2007 to Service Pack 1, I RDPed to the server to perform the upgrade.  I knew it would take an age on an SCC mailbox cluster, and I didn't want to wait around in the office for it to finish. So I left and went home.  Once at home I RDPed to the ...

This is another John showed me.  You know much of a pain in the butt it is to keep opening and closing log files while you wait for stuff to be written to them. Not any more.  SMS Trace from the Systems Management Server 2003 Toolkit 2 allows you to open a log file and it will ''auto update'' when the log is appended to! You can get ...

Need this article the other day. Two Blackberry servers, one in another country.  bbsrptest worked for both, but when we went install Blackberry, bbsrptest failed :-| Now the firewall guys swear they didn't make any change (yeah right) but we need to get Blackberry working ASAP, while they sorted out why bbsrptest wasn't working! John found ...

This is an interesting one I found.  We set Message Tracking on out Hub Role servers so it would purge the logs after 30 days .. nice and simple.  MessageTrackingLogEnabled               : ...

Okay, just wanted to share some of this with you, and also to ''file'' it away for my future reference. So, I want to get away from having a fixed landline at home, and use the mobile phone network.  So phase one would be to use a one of these  Dock-N-Talk™ The world's first truly universal cell phone docking station and ...

Here we go again.  So nice new DL585 G2.  Slapped Exchange 2003 on SP2 and few other fixes and then started noticing there: Event Type:    ErrorEvent Source:    Application PopupEvent Category:    NoneEvent ID:    333Description:An I/O operation initiated by the Registry ...

This stumped me for a while.  Attempted an upgrade of VMWare Exchange 2007 Hub Transport Role.  It failed (See http://blogs.flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2007/12/19/update-exchange-2007-service-pack-1.aspx) Basically setup fails with: Process execution failed with exit code 3 .. and the setup log says: [22/01/2008 15:44:08] [2] ...

Just run a get-help on an Exchange 2007 RTM vs Service Pack 1.  Here are the new cmdlets New Cmdlet Description Disable-ContinuousReplicationHostName Use the Disable-ContinuousReplicationHostName cmdlet to disable a Network Name and IP Address resource that was created using the Enable-ContinuousReplicationHostName cmdlet. ...

Bl00dy hell .. why oh why .. I need to get AD sign off now before I can even install Service Pack1! Ran a CSVDE to dump the Schema and then filtered in Excel.  I came up with ...

So someone has been messing with out GAL and a few users are this error: Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists:<some user>There is a problem with the recipient's e-mail system. More than one user has this e-mail address. The recipient's system administrator will have to fix this. Microsoft Exchange will not try ...

My buddy Lars told me about this last night and I have never heard of it before, so its time to share with you all. Check out: http://www.searchurl.net/ Basically, you can create some keys under: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl You can then do quick searches in Internet Explorer or even windows explorer. So you ...

I have seen a few issue related to this so I thought it would explain some stuff! In ''Exchange VSAPI'' there are really 3 ways a message item can be scanned in the Information Store. Proactive ScanThis scan occurs as an item is written to the store. (Can be enabled or disable via an Exchange registry key value) On AccessThis scan occurs if ...

Here is another one of Brett’s docs! In a CMD prompt type ROUTE PRINT, you will see something like the following for a machine that two NIC’s, The bits in red don’t change – they are static from machine to machine (the GW and Interface will change) but the Network and Subnet Mask’s won’t. The reason there are two 0.0.0.0 and 224.0.0.0 is ...

My buddy Brett came across this and I thought I would share it! Here are some useful pointers on the ICMP errors – this helps decipher whether the problem lies in: DNS \ Name resolution Network issue   The key (common ones) are in bold Also remember, a Request Timed Out could mean two things: A packet could get to the ...

It took some digging to find this.  Basically I have an SBS box at home and I wanted to “fix” my domain name on the FBA form.  Well I found plenty of other articles about customising OWA.  Check this blog out https://blogs.msdn.com/tmeston/archive/2005/06/08/426824.aspx, But I stumbled accross the one I wanted, in really smartly ...

Okay so I have been playing a bit and I have found a magic little feature that Windows 2003 SP1 adds to IIS.  Now if you have had to troubleshoot IIS at all, then you might know that it’s not too nice.  So with Windows 2003 SP1, they have added some “retail” debug logging. This debugging uses a tool called logman, it is really quite ...

At last they bring it in-line with OWA! Source: http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2005/08/05/408728.aspx This post will go into the steps that happen during the OMA 2003 logon process. As I work in Support Services, I get to explain this a lot so I wanted to share it.