The Foley House

I'm moving all my locally hosted content to cloud based servers. So far I have moved my email to Google Apps For Your Domain and I have created a new blog (no content yet) to replace this one. The Gmail move went pretty well as all I had to do was update MX, SPF and some CNAME records. The only non-working part was the start page as ...

In Exchange 2003, it was very easy to build a dynamic distribution group with the GUI. Exchange 2007 is much more limited unless you use Powershell. I needed to create a dynamic distribution group targeting a particular server, as long as the user mailboxes didn't have a forwarding address. The reason for wanting to avoid the mailboxes with ...

1. Use powershell from an Exchange 2007 box to generate a certificate request (all on one line and replace italics with your details): New-ExchangeCertificate-GenerateRequest:$true-Path C:\NewCert.req-DomainName fqdn1.domain.tld,fqdn1,fqdn2.domain.tld,fqdn2-PrivateKeyExportable:$true-FriendlyName ...

I had a corrupted mailbox, so created a temporary store to move the mailbox into. I then wanted to run an isinteg on this store before returning the mailbox back to the original store. The first part went ok, but when I went to run isinteg I received the following error in the logfile:Error: FULLCHKMGR::EcReadRowCountGlobalFlag failed with error ...

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''