I was just looking through old notes for a pair of Exchange servers that I spec’d for a project a while ago at a previous job. They were for a fairly large organization with large mail quotas, so each mailbox server had 96GB RAM. The disk layout was: 147GB RAID1 for the OS, applications, and pagefile 1.2TB RAID 10 for the mail databases 900GB RAID 10 for the logs This seemed good in theory until [...]

I am trying to wrap my hear around how I am going to get around this latest hurdle. What needs to happen: PHP script sends email to our Exchange Server …. Sounds simple right? Well the issue is that the LAMP server that has the PHP script on it is located in our office building, while our web server is hosted at a dedicated hosting company IP 65.xxx.xxx.xxx. When we send the email to our [...]

I want to create a retention policy in Exchange 2010 (SP2), apply it to all existing mailboxes (and this is easy), and then have it automatically applied to all new mailboxes. Is this possible? How? Asked by Massimo You can write a script and run it daily (get a list of all mailboxes without a retention policy) or use a cmdlet extension agent to detect when mailbox is created and automatically assign a rentention policy [...]

Exchange 2010 sp2. I have a “C” level exec that wants to get his email on his android tablet. Easy enough. However, he doesn’t want any Activesync policy applied to his device for remote wipe, etc. not even the default policy, and doesn’t want to use OWA. I thought I knew Exchange pretty well, but can’t find a Powershell command or anything that will allow a device to connect without enforcing at least some kind [...]

This is another question in a short series regarding a challenging Exchange project my co-workers have been asked to implement. (I’m helping even though I’m primarily a Unix guy because I volunteered to learn powershell and implement as much of the project in code as I could.) Background: We have been asked to create many distribution groups, say about 500+. These groups will contain two types of members. (Apologies if I get these terms wrong.) [...]

So Public Folders – I’ve always come into an Exchange infrastructure whereby permissions are already configured and I’ve merely needed to add the odd user here and there on a public folder via Powershell to give them access. My question is – what is the default permission that would allow all users in Exchange access to a public folder, is there a group? i.e. A top level Public Folder with lots of folders beneath it [...]

Having some trouble sending mail to AOL.com. Currently the queue is just sitting there in a retry state. I can’t telnet to the MX records for AOL either. Reverse DNS looks fine as well. I’m getting these errors when using the connection tester. Respond = 554 mtain-me01.r1000.mx.aol.com ESMTP not accepting connections,421 4.7.0 mtain-me01.r1000.mx.aol.com Error: too many errors If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated. Asked by Bo Shubinsky You’re not alone in [...]

One of our clients has been having problems where whenever an external email has multiple recipients on their domain, each recipients receives it a matching number of times (see below). This only occurs for emails originating from outside the company. To: 1 user; 1 email received To: 3 users; 3 emails received per user. To: 1 user (+1 gmail address); 1 email received per user. To: 2 users (+1 gmail address); 2 emails per user [...]

Is there a way to see or count the amount of emails that a specific Microsoft Exchange mailbox receives? I need to know on average how many emails one specific exchange mailbox receives per month. I can start counting from now, but I was wondering if there is an easy way to get these statistics. Thanks Asked by ICTdesk.net If you have Message Tracking enabled then you can track the messages a mailbox (user) recieves [...]

Our users have mutliple SMTP addresses in Exchange. We set one as their default reply-to. From Outlook (for e.g., I’m using 2010 64 bit in Windows 7), in the e-mail compose window, there’s a dropdown with all the user’s SMTP addresses: However, when I chose one that is not my default reply-to address, I get an error like the following: Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups: Recipient’s name You can’t send a message [...]