The Foley House

This (KB949870), was applied by Windows Update last night, and I woke up to no incoming email. On investigation, I found that there was no smtp (25) port open, and that the Microsoft Exchange Transport hadn't started after the reboot. I attempted to manually start the service, but no joy as it timed out after 30 seconds. I reviewed the event ...

After rebooting my Exchange server because of DNS issue, the DPM protection stopped. Further investigation found this in the event log:The DPMRA service terminated with service-specific error 10048 (0x2740). Google found this:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947682 Essentialy you use 'netstat -oan' to find the PID of the process using port 5718 ...

There are a number of reports avaiable in Exchange Management Shell. You must first change into the scripts directory (cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Scripts) and then try the ...

There is a handy little script that you can run from the Exchange Management Shell:InstallAntispamAgents.ps1 To update manually:Get-AntspamUpdates To update automatically:Enable-AntispamUpdates -UpdateMode Automatic

Found the answer here:http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2007/07/new-distribution-groups-do-not-receive_31.html Use the following command in Exchange management shell:Set-DistributionGroup ''Group Name'' -RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled $false

Found the answer here:http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2007/03/how-to-assign-sendas-right-using.html Run the following in Exchange Management shell:Add-AdPermission ''Distribution Group Name'' -user ''Mailbox Name'' -AccessRights extendedright -ExtendedRights ''send as''

After all the hassle of getting Exchange 2007 setup yesterday, I found that I had no way to backup my Exchange 2007 server running on Server 2008. For whatever reason, Microsoft do not supply NTBackup and there is no in-built way of backing up Exchange 2007 when run on Server 2008. Now, I could opt for a third party backup program or use ...

What a day! I've learnt a hard lesson today. Never unbind IPv6 from Server 2008 if its running Exchange 2007. I had some problems adding some Vista laptops to a Server 2008 domain today. I couldn't determine if it was SP1 RC1, UAC being turned off or IPv6. The computers would not join the domain using the GUI. I had to manually extract the ...