Category: Exchange

It’s harder than you’d think to produce a list of all the e-mail addresses that are on your Exchange server. I found a Visual Basic script that will produce such a list. A sample entry for a single user looks like this:
cn: David Schragmail: david@schrag.netProxy Addressessmtp:David@schrag.localsmtp:dschrag@schrag.netSMTP:david@schrag.netsmtp:dave@schrag.net

(I really should have replaced the @ symbol with some [...]

David, usually when I have Outlook open my mail comes in automatically, but now I have to hit Send/Receive every time. How do I fix this?
I get asked this question at least once a month, so I figured it was worth writing up here.
If Outlook loses its connection to the Exchange server for a while, [...]

Note: Before following any of the instructions below, think carefully about their consequences.
A client asked me this question today:
In Outlook, is there a way to change the subject line when using the outof office assistant? For instance, we have a former employee’s emailaccount that says she is no longer with our company but the [...]

This is not a very interesting issue for the “masses.” I’m posting this in the hope that someone else will find it later and be spared some time troubleshooting.
Here was the scenario:

Server: SBS 2003 Standard SP1, Exchange 2003 SP2
Don and Jorge have WM5 phones
Don had absolutely no problem synchronizing his phone with Exchange.
Jorge cannot sync [...]

How many times has this happened to you? Somebody wants all the mail addressed to a generic address like info@theirdomain.com to be forwarded to a particular user account. So you go into the user account properties in Active Directory and try to add an SMTP address on the E-mail Addresses tab. But oops! You get [...]

Lots of folks keep asking me about the iPhone. I still advise against it for anyone using Microsoft Exchange for e-mail, at least until there are proven solutions that make it just as good as Windows Mobile and Blackberry for full wireless synchronization of e-mail, calendar, and contacts. Here’s another review that covers all the [...]

I got the following e-mail this morning from a client:
David:
Please advise what I should be doing as a result of getting this warning which I have been receiving for about three weeks now…
—–Original Message—–
From: System Administrator
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:00 AM
To: [name withheld]
Subject: Your mailbox is over its size limit
Importance: High
Your mailbox has exceeded [...]

I am amazed that in all these years I have never had to learn how to do this before. Fortunately, Daniel Petri shows us the way:
Enable Password Changing through OWA in Exchange 2003
The only deviations I had to make from those instructions were:
1. In the “Create a new REG-DWORD value ….” In SBS03, that value exists [...]

Suppose Joe leaves the company and is replaced by Jane. Joe had a company-owned Pocket PC that Jane will now use. What do you do?
You wouldn’t think this would be so much of a challenge, but the steps are actually hidden pretty well. The answer was posted at Experts Exchange. Scroll all the way to [...]

Problem: Remote user reports he is unable to connect to shared network drive over PPTP VPN.
Troubleshooting:

Tried connecting to VPN from my computer. Could not connect. Conclusion: remote user is neither stupid nor crazy.
Tried to telnet to server over port 1723. Could not connect.
Checked firewall logs for dropped connections on port 1723. None there.
Disabled VPN access [...]