Archive for the ‘Exchange 2007’ Category
Listing Exchange ActiveSync Users and Device Details
As an IT administrator you must have come across a requirement from information security teams that they want to review the number of users who use emails on their mobile phones. Some companies require this data so that they can allow access only for selected users. Although listing users is not a big deal when [...]
December 14, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 
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Changing From Display Name of Full Mailbox Notifications
I am sure almost everyone of us have seen this at least once in the lifetime One of our old days techies had this requirement of changing the From display name that is used by agents sending notifications about your mailbox size when it reaches the quota. Although you cannot edit the sender email address [...]
November 29, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 2 Comments
You cannot edit a transport rule if one or more of the recipient addresses are disabled or removed in an Exchange Server 2007 server
Been through such thing before? Well, it was a brain teaser for me for a while. One of my team mates contacted saying they are unable to edit a transport rule configured to BCC emails marked to a particular mailbox. The situation was like this. Customer has a transport rule which adds 4 recipients as [...]
June 24, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2007, Transport Comments Closed
MX Records: Are they really needed?
Sound a weird question? Yes, it shocked me too. One of my customers run Symantech BrightMail Gateway for their inbound email handling. This appliance has multiple accepted domain names configured. We were amazed to see some domain names not having an associated MX records yet they were receiving emails from internet. I though of digging [...]
May 18, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Transport 5 Comments
Mail flow stops with 430 4.2.0 STOREDRV; mailbox logon failure
This is one of the most annoying error that you may probably face with your HT servers and they stop sending emails to MBX servers. There are multiple things that you need to go through to fix this problem. This post is just provide some common troubleshooting steps that can be performed if you face [...]
May 6, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 3 Comments
How to add Employee Numbers in ADUC and Exchange GAL
Some companies need to use AD to store their Employee Numbers or Employee IDs but due to limitations in ADUC MMC most of the people don’t tend to do this. I am not very sure how frequently some company needs this but one of my friend needed it for sure. I did this in my [...]
May 6, 2010
Tags: employee numbers, Outlook GAL Posted in: Active Directory, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Outlook 20 Comments
The client operation failed. Error is [0x80004005-0x0004b9-0x000501]
Our server engineering team was investigating an issue on a bounce back a user got and the whole team spent a lot of time researching on below message. From: System Administrator Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:53 PM Cc: Recipient Name Subject: Undeliverable: Trainings Your message did not reach some or all of the intended [...]
April 22, 2010
Posted in: Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Transport Comments Closed
Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2
Exchange Team announced the release of RU 3 for Exchange Server 2007 SP2 on Friday, March 19, 2010. Update Rollup is available for download Here This Update Rollup addresses the recent issues mentioned below: 976108 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976108/ ) "451 4.4.0 DNS Query Failed" status message in an Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport server 976460 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976460/ ) [...]
March 20, 2010
Posted in: Exchange 2007, News Comments Closed
Week Numbers 1 week ahead in Outlook
Today when I came in office I saw an email from my boss. He was asked by one the bussiness heads that why the week numbers in outlook would show one week ahead? Here is a little background about the week numbers: Week number according to the ISO-8601 standard, weeks starting on Monday. The first [...]
March 5, 2010
Posted in: Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Outlook Comments Closed
Exchange Server 2007 SP2 RU2 available for download
Rollup Update 2 for Exchange Server SP2 is available for download on Microsoft Download Center now. This rollup update has 53 fixes for recently identified bugs in the application. The complete list of fixes is available at Description of Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Read more about the Rollup [...]
January 30, 2010
Posted in: Exchange 2007, News 2 Comments