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Using Powershell to Import multiple PST files into Exchange 2007

July 15, 2009

Most Exchange migrations that I am involved in are clients upgrading from an older version of Exchange but I’ve recently been engaged in implementing  Microsoft Exchange 2007 at a client that previously used a linux mail system. This particular situation posed the additional challenge of all the mail being stored locally on the end users’ [...]

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Configuring the SMTP banner in Exchange 2003/2007

September 30, 2008

To configure your banner in Microsoft Exchange 2003

Open command prompt and cd (change directory) to “C:\inetpubadminscripts”
Type the following line, and then press ENTER:

cscript adsutil.vbs set smtpsvc/vsi number/connectresponse “Your Text”

In this line, vsinumber is the number of the SMTP virtual server, and Your Text is the text that you want to appear instead of [...]

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UPDATED: How to Install 3rd Party Trusted Certificates to Exchange 2007

September 11, 2008

Microsoft made a smart move when they enabled a self signed SSL certificate for Exchange 2007 by default. This change gave their customers an easy way to encrypt their OWA sessions, however, self-signed certs have some significant drawbacks. The most obvious problem is that your browser will give you a certificate warning when connecting to [...]

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Exchange OWA Vulnerability

July 9, 2008

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-039
XSS Vulnerabilities Affect Exchange Servers Running OWA
8 July, 2008
Summary:
This vulnerability affects: Exchange Servers running Outlook Web Access (OWA)
How an attacker exploits it: By enticing one of your users into opening a specially crafted email within an OWA session
Impact: The attacker gains access to the victim’s OWA email account
What to do: Deploy the [...]

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Vista breaks when using Exchange 2003 OWA

December 20, 2007

Ok, you installed Vista on a user’s PC and then they try access their mail via Outlook Web Access (OWA). Umm… stuff is broken.
If you are running Exchange 2003 here is the hotfix. Yes hotfix, a scary word in MS lingo. It is an ActiveX update for the server. I’ve installed it several times without [...]

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Mailflow & Troubleshooting Exchange 2003

October 2, 2006

This is an excellent piece from Marc Grote at MSExchange.org on the inner workings of Microsoft Exchange 2003. This is a two part series that I highly recommend. Part 1 details the path of an email message as it travels through the Exchange server and Part 2 explains Message Queues, Message Tracking, & Diagnostic Logging [...]

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Exchange 2003 Security Tab Hack

February 28, 2006

This is a documented registry hack for Windows 2003 Exchange. By default Exchange 2003’s System Manager does not display the Security Tab, so you cannot modify the permissions. The default position is that when you check any of the Exchange Organization objects, there is no Security Tab.
The solution – Security TabShowSecurityPage Registry setting DWORD
To [...]

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