When installing Exchange Server 2007 roles there is different default behaviour between the GUI and the command line that you should be aware of. As long as you are aware of this behaviour when planning command line or unattended installations you won’t get caught out.
Outlook Web Access on Exchange Server 2007 may stop working after an Update Rollup is applied. Users who connect to OWA may receive a browser script error or a blank page with a URL of: https://mail.yourdomain.com/owa/auth/logon.aspx?url=https://mail.yourdomain.com/owa/&reason=0 This problem can be caused by either of these conditions: Cause #1 The Update Rollup was applied while […]
Microsoft, please make this go away. Your website is slow enough already when I’m managing a remote server without you trying to make it even richer.
You may encounter an issue with servers running both the DNS and IAS services that have installed update MS08-037 (Vulnerabilities in DNS could allow spoofing – 953230). The IAS services will fail to start and any authentication that relies on IAS (such as VPNs) will fail. When connecting to the IAS server with the IAS […]
Users may report that their Exchange mailbox displays in an incorrect foreign language in Outlook and Outlook Web Access. This issue may occur when the Languages attribute of the mailbox is incorrectly set. You can view the language of a mailbox using the Get-Mailbox cmdlet. [PS] C:\>Get-Mailbox -Identity "John Smith" | fl name, languages Name […]
I’m sure Netlimiter is a fine application for throttling your Bittorrent client so you can steal music and movies while still leaving enough bandwidth to watch Youtube clips and IM your friends about what music and movies you’re stealing and which Youtube clips you’re LOLing at. But it does not belong on Exchange servers. Or […]
Apple’s recent announcement that the iTunes Music Store is going DRM-free has enjoyed mixed reactions from the public. Most people are happy that all iTunes music purchased will be DRM-free from the end of Q1 2009, with about 80% being DRM-free now. Many people (myself included) bought iTunes music prior to (or despite) the availability […]
From the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog: Despite our attempts at documenting various break/fix scenarios, it can often be frustrating when trying to locate the information you need to resolve an issue as quickly as you would like. I decided to share this information in an attempt to help you resolve the majority of issues that […]
“The CA system is broken, but it works because broken systems tend to be better for society, which needs fluidity in the face of complicated social constructs,” Schneier said. “Systems that are broken but work are very common in the real world: Front door locks are surprisingly pickable. Think of faxed signatures, for example. It’s […]
I’ve been working on a post about the current economic client and how best to handle it as an IT professional. I’ve scrapped and re-drafted so many times and it just hasn’t come together in any coherent and useful manner. Today I stumbled across this post on Mashable from a couple of weeks ago and […]
Over at AllSpammedUp.com I’ve written an article on the Exchange 2007 Connection Filter agent, and I walk through the steps to configure it to use SpamHaus as an IP Block list provider. A correctly configured Connection Filter agent saves the Exchange administrator a lot of time by avoiding the need to manually maintain a large […]
Over at AllSpammedUp.com I’ve written an article about protecting Exchange Server 2007 from Directory Harvesting Attacks. In many Exchange Server 2007 environments incoming email is received directly by an internet-facing Hub Transport server. By default the transport server will use recipient lookups to notify the connecting host whether an email address is valid or not. […]
