Exchange Server

Were can I download the Microsoft Exchange Server Outlook Web Access Web Administration? The Outlook Web Access (OWA) administration tool provides web-based UI for all administrator tunable OWA settings. It provides a list of all servers in the domain and allows administration of OWA settings on all Front-end and Back-end servers. The tool ensures that…

OWA 2003 comes with a built-in spell checker that can help you spell check your outgoing mail in various languages: English French German Italian Korean Spanish Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2003 adds even more language support, including the long-awaited Hebrew spell checking. I’m not sure why you’d want to, but there is a…

How can I tell if I am running Exchange Enterprise server or Standard server? Exchange 2000/2003 Standard edition differs from the Enterprise edition in quite a few aspects. Among them is the 16GB database size limit, lack of Clustering support, lack of ability to act as a Front-End server (this limit was in fact removed…

Recovery Storage Group (RSG) has been operational since Exchange 2003 SP1 and gives us the ability to restore a single mailbox or a single item from a backup, using the simplest backup software like Ntbackup, without using expensive backup tools like brick level agents and while the production Database is up and running. There are…

Can I enable users to store / upload files in their mailboxes through Outlook Web Access (OWA) in Exchange 2003? This cool tip was first published by Sami Khoury on the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog. Yes, although when users learn this trick they will soon start to upload ALL their crap to their mailboxes, and…

How to use forms-based authentication in Exchange 2003 without the need to use SSL? Forms-based authentication (or FBA for short) is a mechanism in Exchange 2003 Outlook Web Access that allows the user to have a more customizable experience of the OWA logon page and usage. By default, FBA requires that Secure Sockets Layer (SSL…

One of the things that I’ve always found interesting about Exchange Server 2007 is that the Exchange Management Console was built on top of the Exchange Management Shell.  As such, anything that you can do through the console can also be done from a command line.  For the most part, I have always preferred to…

Work with the TechNet Exchange Virtual Labs Great new resource from Microsoft: The TechNet Virtual Labs! Ever wanted to test Microsoft’s newest software in a sandbox environment? Wouldn’t it be great to be able to test new servers immediately, without formatting hard drives or dedicating one or more computers to the project? Now you can,…

Work with the TechNet Exchange 2007 Virtual Labs Great resource from Microsoft: The TechNet Virtual Labs, and now, featuring Exchange Server 2007! Ever wanted to test Microsoft’s newest software in a sandbox environment? Wouldn’t it be great to be able to test new servers immediately, without formatting hard drives or dedicating one or more computers…

Microsoft KB 842851 has more info: Tar pitting is the practice of deliberately inserting a delay into certain SMTP communications that are associated with spam or with other unwanted traffic. The tar pit feature works by slowing all responses that contain SMTP protocol 5.x.x error codes. By slowing an SMTP conversation, you can reduce the…