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Retrieving Your Exchange Server 2003 License Key

Recently I found the need to retrieve the key from an existing Exchange Server for a reinstall – the software is legally licensed but the key was somehow lost. A trawl through my registry revealed that...

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Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007 remove categories from emails, tasks, calendar...

It seems that the nice people at Microsoft were looking out for us, lest the evil people in the world see how we categorise our email, and decided to strip away any category information from sent and...

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Outlook Web Access over SSL using Forms Based Authentication AND Integrated...

Outlook Web access is a fantastic tool for our company, providing on-the-go access to people's mailboxes – which is of course secured by SSL and uses Forms Based Authentication. Internally, we have an...

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Create a 100Mb file for testing transfer speeds

We have a Bonded ADSL solution for our servers to provide the necessary upstream transfer speeds for the applications we host. We have bonded ADSL because our exchange still doesn't support SDSL, and...

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Exchange 2003 Email Size Delivery Restrictions…how confusing can it be?

I thought this would be fairly common knowledge by now, Exchange 2003 being quite mature in it's 5th year, but it's not something I've had a problem with before and therefore I'm going to write about...

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Fixing “Outlook(R) Mobile Access is supported only on Microsoft(R) Exchange...

So I was testing the configuration on my Exchange 2003 server in preparation for the roll out of some Windows Mobile devices when I recieved the following error: Outlook(R) Mobile Access is supported...

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Exchange 2010 “New Local Move Request” and “New Remote Move Request” missing...

I’m currently testing an Exchange 2010 server for the organisation prior to a migration project, specifically testing moving mailboxes backwards and forwards. Something that confused me slightly for a...

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Exchange ActiveSync fails on iPhone after upgrade to iOS4

I’ve spent a fair bit of time today trying to sort out my iPhone sync to my Exchange Server, failing miserably. It used to work, pre-upgrade to iOS4, but for some reason fails to sync. Symptoms were:...

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Useful commands for troubleshooting Exchange 2010 routing with Exchange...

I’ve just fixed an issue with Routing for my mixed Exchange 2003/2007/2010 environment. The environment is a single AD domain with 4 sites, Site1, Site2, Site3 and Site4. In Site1, Site2 and Site3...

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Testing access to your Exchange services with Microsoft Exchange Remote...

The Microsoft Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer is perhaps the best tool I’ve used in a long time for troubleshooting Exchange external access – it just works! On the forums and websites I read, it...

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Passed Microsoft Exams 70-662 and 70-663 – Now officially MCITP: Enterprise...

On Monday I took the two Exchange 2010 exams, “70-662 TS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring” and “70-663 PRO: Deploying Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010” and I am...

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Unable to access Outlook Web Access (OWA) after installing Update Rollup 1,...

If you’re having trouble accessing OWA after updating Exchange 2010 with any of the Rollup packages, try this: – Uninstall the update package from the Programs and Features control panel – Download...

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Installing Exchange 2010 Edge Server with Forefront Protection for Exchange...

I am mid-migration, in a co-existence setup with Exchange 2010, 2007 and 2003. So far the roles installed for Exchange 2010 are CAS, Hub and Mailbox on a single server. Into this mix I need to...

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Installing Exchange 2010 SP1

Exchange SP1 has now been released, so I thought I’d document the upgrade process for my small Exchange 2010 organisation, consisting of one CAS/Transport/Mailbox server, and an Edge Transport server....

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Creating/Enabling Exchange 2010 Personal Archives

With the release of Exchange 2010 SP1, administrators can now use separate Mailbox Databases to store the Personal Archives of users – this is particularly useful if you have some larger, slower (and...

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Reporting all ActiveSync devices and their Users in Exchange 2010

Recently I needed to report on the ActiveSync devices that were attached to our Exchange 2010 organisation, and which users they were accessing, and then export them to a CSV file. This is the script:...

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Exchange 2010 – CreateTestUser : Mailbox could not be created. Verify that OU...

While using the New-TestCasConnectivityUser.ps1 script to create a test user for Exchange 2010’s connectivity testing, I ran into an issue: CreateTestUser : Mailbox could not be created. Verify that...

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Online Archiving with Exchange 2010? Can’t see your Online Archive in Outlook?

Having recently managed several Exchange 2010 migration projects, one of the best new features which really sells it to systems administrators is the Online Archive. “No more managing PST files? When...

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Overriding the OpsMgr Exchange 2007 Test MAPI Connectivity Monitor for...

The Test MAPI Connectivity monitor for the Exchange 2007 management pack will automatically generate a critical error for any Recovery Storage Groups you have on monitored Exchange Mailbox Roles. As...

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