Year: 2006

Announcing… Exchange Hosted Services

We are happy to announce a new per user licensing model, branding and roadmap for Exchange Hosted Services (EHS) – formerly FrontBridge Technologies.   Exchange Hosted Services provides a fully managed hosted service solution for email archiving, filtering, continuity and compliance. Services include:   –      Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering –      Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive –     …

Thinking of installing Exchange 12 CTP build into your production environment?

Seeing that the Exchange 12 CTP build has been available for some time now, we have learned that some of our customers that are not on Exchange 12 TAP program have been installing Exchange 12 into their production environment.   Unfortunately, those experiments came to us as problems that affected production Exchange servers. While we…

Determining the OAB version being used by Outlook 2003 SP2

With the development of OAB version 4 in Exchange 2003 SP2 and Outlook 2003 SP2 you may want to verify your Outlook clients are using OAB version 4. If your clients are still using OAB version 3 they cannot take advantage of all the new features offered by OAB version 4.   There are several…

The Recipient Update Service and Linked Value Replication

Lately I’ve seen a lot of questions regarding the use of homeMDB in policy filters. I want to use this post to explain the reason that ExBPA warns about this, and hopefully clear up the confusion about how to address this.   Linked Value Replication is a feature that was added to Active Directory in…

Resolving MMC 3.0 errors when installing Exchange 12 CTP release

As mentioned before – we now have CTP build of Exchange 12 those of you that have MSDN and TechNet subscriptions can install it.   One issue that seems to come up frequently for those of you that have tried installing this build is the following error at Setup:   “Exchange Server ’12’ requires Microsoft…

Fix available to alleviate event ID 9548

No doubt many of you are familiar with the event commonly seen in application logs of Exchange 2000 and 2003 servers, MSExchangeIS event 9548, indicating that the information store came across a disabled user who is missing the msExchMasterAccountSid attribute while processing some various task.  There are many KB articles associated with this event, such…

Troubleshooting Exchange 2003 Auto Accept Agent using scripts

This is a 3rd blog post on the subject of Auto Accept Agent. You can go here to see the 1st one and here to see the 2nd one. In this blog post, I wanted to cover how to troubleshoot Auto Accept Agent issues by using the support scripts that come with the installation.  …

Exchange 2003 post SP2 DSProxy Referral Update

In November 2005 I posted an article on the DSProxy referral changes that are included in Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2.  For the full article, please see http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2005/11/04/413669.aspx.   To refresh everyone’s mind, prior to Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2, a DSProxy Referral would provide the Outlook client with a global catalog server from…

Troubleshooting Exchange 2003 Auto Accept Agent installation issues

This post is a 2nd in the series talking about Auto Accept Agent (see the 1st post here). As mentioned in my previous post, I wanted to go over troubleshooting the most common issues with Auto Accept Agent. In this post, we will cover issues with installation of the Auto Accept Agent.   In order…