Want to go to Microsoft Tech·Ed 2005 next week, but can’t because it is sold out? I’ve got some good news for you, and it’s not about saving a bunch of money on your car insurance. Due to overwhelming customer demand, we’re excited to announce we’ve managed to create the availability of a very limited…
Year: 2005
‘Requesting data from the Exchange server…’ or ‘Outlook is trying to retrieve data…’ client messages
Based on the questions that we got on another post, it seemed appropriate to address the “Requesting data from the Exchange server…” or “Outlook is trying to retrieve data…” client popup messages in a separate post. While we have touched upon this subject in several posts in the past, it would be good to bring…
Capturing user dumps using Performance alert
Recently I worked on a case where we needed to capture user dumps (memory dumps) of store.exe. Normally I would suggest using ADPLus.vbs to capture this information, but in this case there would not have been time to have ADPlus work correctly. The behavior we were trying to troubleshoot was the old “Requesting data from…
So, I have to guarantee you that I can recover the contacts in this OU…
In this post, I wanted to exploit our script capabilities to ease an administrative burden. Manually changing addresses for 100 users is burdensome. Attempting the same for 40,000 users is impractical. The practical side of ldifde; let the tool do the work. Ldifde can help you if you need to: – delete the contacts from…
New Public Folder Administration coming in Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2
Here are some of the changes that we are making to Public Folders in Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). Each week, we examine the top Support Services (used to be called PSS) calls and how much it’s costing the company to service these calls. While public folder administration does not by itself compose a high percentage…
Call to Exchange Admins for Tech Ed 2005
Help guide Exchange for the future and get free software!! Want to participate in an important session at Tech Ed 2005 and gain valuable insight into Exchange and help guide future releases? We plan on holding 4 focus group sessions with Exchange IT Administrators at Tech Ed 2005 on June 7th (Tue) and June 9th…
Understanding Exoledb’s default folders
EXOLEDB creates a number of system folders under the NON_IPM_SUBTREE during the Accept Clients phase of MDB initialization. Some of the folders remain for historic reasons, but most have real purposes and impact on the server should they be deleted. None of these folders should ever be replicated. The folders that are created are: \NON_IPM_SUBTREE\schema-root\\NON_IPM_SUBTREE\schema-root\Default\NON_IPM_SUBTREE\schema-root\Microsoft\\NON_IPM_SUBTREE\schema-root\Microsoft\exchangeV1\NON_IPM_SUBTREE\schema-root\Microsoft\exchangeV1\exchweb\NON_IPM_SUBTREE\schema-root\Microsoft\exchangeV1\exchweb\controls\NON_IPM_SUBTREE\schema-root\Microsoft\exchangeV1\exchweb\img\NON_IPM_SUBTREE\schema-root\Microsoft\exchangeV1\exchweb\views\NON_IPM_SUBTREE\StoreEvents\\NON_IPM_SUBTREE\StoreEvents\GlobalEvents\NON_IPM_SUBTREE\StoreEvents\Internal\NON_IPM_SUBTREE\OWAScratchPad In…
Public folders and more public folders
Public folders are the monthly theme for May on Microsoft Exchange Server TechCenter. Some good reading there! Best Practices for Public Folders Components of Public Folders in Exchange Server If you can’t get enough of public folder stuff, you might also want to mark May 23 in your calendar as I’ll be delivering a Exchange…
More information about Windows 2003 SP1 SCW and Exchange server.
False Exchange server files (Not Found) issue in Windows 2003 SP1 SCW (Security Configuration Wizard) There is a scenario in which you could get a false [Not Found] warning message for the Exchange services within SCW. For example, you have an Exchange Server with binaries in a non-default path and you’ve already manually configured the policy…
What’s so special about Exchange ‘special mailboxes’?
Evan Dodds posted a great series on Exchange special mailboxes on his blog. There were 3 parts in that series: Exchange Special Mailboxes Part 1 – System Mailbox Exchange Special Mailboxes Part 2 – System Attendant mailbox Exchange Special Mailboxes Part 3 – SMTP mailbox Evan updated those posts few times with additional information to…