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A personal blog of an IT techie - This is a convenient place for me to jot things down before I forget.

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October 2006 - Posts

CS2.1 Review Comments does not display correctly in IE7
I have to review comments before I allow them to be posted on the site because, as all blog owners know, you get a lot of spam comments. IE7 doesn't want to let me review them in lower resolutions. I get a cut off review line with no horizontal scroll Read More...
Vista and Outlook 2007 - Turn off the reading pane
I really don't get on with the Outlook 2007 reading pane because it uses up to my screen real estate on my laptop. I knew that you can turn it off with the "/nopreview" switch at the command line but you can't edit the special icon to Read More...
Exchange Server 2007 Beta2 Maximum Mail Stores
I was trying to work out the limits of the current beta of Exchange 2007 in terms of storage groups and mailbox stores and through experimentation I discovered that they are: Maximum Storage Groups: 50 Maximum Mail Stores per Storage Group: 5 I guess Read More...
Grant full mailbox permissions in Exchange 2007 Beta2
Final step upon upgrading the test server to Exchange 2007 Beta2 was to give me full access to all the mailboxes. It's another Power Shell task and I managed to find the syntax at the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog . Add-MailboxPermission mailbox -AccessRights Read More...
Exchange 2007 Beta2 - Allow hub connector to receive unauthenticated SMTP mail
You need to set the permissions to allow Anonymous users to submit mail. This is not in the GUI so you must use the Power Shell. 1. Set the permission: set-receiveconnector 'Default CHEF' -PermissionGroups:"ExchangeUsers,ExchangeServers,ExchangeLegacyServers,AnonymousUsers" Read More...
How to set recipent email addresses in Exchange 2007 Beta2
To set recipient email address policy, do the following: 1. In the Exchange Management Console, navigate to 'Organization Configuration' > 'Hub Transport' > 'Email Address Policies'. Here you will see the default policy and Read More...
Creating an Internet send connector in Exchange 2007 Beta 2
Before you can send mail to the internet with a single server you have to make a connector for your mail transport hub role. The remote domain should already be configured to '*' for the Internet but create a send connector like so: 1. Open up Read More...
Updating a single Exchange 2003 server to Exchange 2007 Beta 2
I've done this on my test server and there are a couple of problems you have to deal with: The databases are not compatible. Exchange 2003 uses STM and EDB files with 5MB logs whereas Exchange 2007 uses just an EDB file with 1MB logs. There may also Read More...