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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

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 ...

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               : ...

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 ...

Just googling for an issue I heard about (aparently Exchange 2007 RTM might have some performance issues when you go over 500 users .. can't be true but have the check it out) Anyway found this on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Exchange_Server Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So I was asked some build number of Outlook and didn’t have a clue, then i found this website .. and it has the lot! Check it out! http://www.cdolive.com/build.htm Here is a snippet Exchange Build Numbers Product Version Exchange Build Exchange Admin Build Comments Exchange 2000 N/A 6.0.4417.5 Initial release in ...

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.