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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 ...

I'm upgrading my Exchange 2003 organisation to Exchange 2007 this weekend, as a reinforced learning experience for when I begin to deploy Exchange 2007 for a major customer. I had a couple of problems: A setup error occured: ''[ERROR] Access to the path 'D:\Setup\ServerRoles\Common\64' is denied'' When I re-ran setup, it installed, but ...

A massive increase in Spam, particularly PDF attached stock scams, has happened here recently. I decided to look for something different and found this free Greylisting product for Exchange 2000\2003.

Firstly, download and install this Exchange Event Sink as described here:http://www.ivasoft.biz/showscl.shtml Secondly, create a custom formula field to display the SCL as described here:http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=739718&SiteID=17 The use of Right([Comments],5,2) allows an SCL of -1 through 9 to display ...

Oh, what fun and games I had. First I backed up all the mail: Outlook export to PST ExMerge (Hey - It worked on Exchange 2007!) NT Backup of store Then I removed Exchange 2007 and reininstalled Exchange 2003 - Except it didn't quite go that smooth, The installation errored saying that it could not install the information store and to check ...

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: 50Maximum Mail Stores per Storage Group: 5I guess that's a grand total of 250 mailbox stores then.  That's a massive improvement over ...

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 FullAccess -user user This gives user full access permisions to ...

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" Replace CHEF with your Exchange server ...

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 you can select 'Edit' on the left hand side of the MMC console. 2. We are ...

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 the Exchange Management console and select Organization Configuration > Hub Transport ...