Issues With Load Balancing SMTP Traffic
Load balancing SMTP traffic makes sense, but some load balanced configurations may actually diminish SMTP high availability, or even undermine security.
April 30, 2013
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Generate SMTP Error Statistics using Log Parser and Exchange Server 2010 Protocol Logs
How to generate a report of the number of SMTP errors occurring on an Exchange server using Log Parser and the Exchange protocol logs.
May 10, 2012
How to Send SMTP Email Using PowerShell (Part 3)
Learn how to add HTML message body content to emails sent via PowerShell scripts.
October 25, 2011
How to Send SMTP Email Using PowerShell (Part 2)
Learn simple techniques for adding message body content to emails sent via PowerShell scripts.
October 9, 2011
How to Send SMTP Email Using PowerShell (Part 1)
This article demonstrates a few simple techniques for sending email messages via SMTP using both PowerShell 1.0 and 2.0.
September 29, 2011
Email Fundamentals: How to Send Email via Telnet
How to use Telnet and the Windows command line to sent an SMTP email message.
August 10, 2011
Resolving Anonymous Mail to the GAL with Exchange Server 2010
You may encounter an issue where the emails that end users receive show the SMTP address of the sender instead of the more friendly display name configured on the user mailbox that has that SMTP address.
April 13, 2011
Microsoft Certified Master Video: Exchange 2010 Header Firewall
Microsoft has released this video from MCM instructor Brian Reid about the header firewall, part of the Exchange Transport architecture that is covered in the Microsoft Certified Master program in depth.
January 13, 2011
Check Your Legacy Exchange Servers for SMTP Usage Before Removing Them
How to use SMTP logging and Logparser to discover IP addresses that are sending SMTP traffic through an Exchange server.
April 16, 2010
Configuring the Exchange Server 2007 Hub Transport Server
How to configure the Hub Transport Server connectors to send and receive internet email.
August 26, 2009
Install telnet on Windows Server 2008
If you’re needing to do some SMTP testing using a Windows Server 2008 host you’re probably going to need a Telnet client. The Telnet client is not installed by default on Windows Server 2008, so you can use this ServerManagerCmd.exe one-liner to quickly install it: C:\>servermanagercmd -i telnet-client ......... Start Installation... [Installation] Succeeded: [Telnet Client]. […]
July 26, 2008
Exchange Server 2007 Event ID 15002 and "4.3.1 Insufficient system resources" Errors
An Exchange Server 2007 server may stop processing mail and begin logging errors when the disk volume used for the Exchange Transport queue database becomes low on free disk space. For even more detail on this topic please read A Guide to Back Pressure in Microsoft Exchange Server. There are two key indicators of the […]
July 24, 2007