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Dynamic Distribution Lists not working as expected (0 recipients during mail routing)

Today, I encountered an interesting problem which appeared to be strange behaviour in Exchange 2007 at first, but fianlly ended up being a small configuration mistake. It just was not that easy to troubleshoot(but in the end, it all Read more

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Exchange 2007 – Multi Account Domain to Single Resource Forest replication with IIFP and custom Rules Extension

Introduction

The title of this post may be a bit misleading – synchronizing multiple account domains to a single domain or forest is not limited to Exchange. There may be other reasons (e.g. Identity Management solution) that require you Read more

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Free tool – Attachment filtering with Exchange 2007/2010 (custom transport agent)

Keywords : microsoft exchange 2007 attachment size filtering quarantine block reject small zip files attached When messaging admins need to implement some sort of attachment filtering, they mostly think about antivirus products, or using transport rules in Exchange 2007. Read more

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Windows 2008 PKI / Certificate Authority (AD CS) basics

Keywords : Windows 2008 PKI Certificate Authority certutil certreq template root CA Enterprise CA convert pfx to pem generate custom certificate request subject alternate name san attribute Today’s blog post targets the deployment of a Windows 2008 server based Read more

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Free Tool – Exchange 2007 Outbound SMTP gateway redundancy

(a.k.a. PVE Exch2007 Rerouter manual)

Keywords : Exchange 2007 outbound SMTP relay redundancy SendConnector outgoing mail high availability

Microsoft Exchange 2007 allows you to consolidate your messaging infrastructure and host more users on one server. Combined with the introduction Read more

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Outlook and OWA Tips & Tricks

1. Manage Attachment behaviour

1.1. Outlook 2007

Although you probably have deployed an antivirus solution in your messaging infrastructure, by default, Outlook blocks access to certain attachments, even if they have been scanned or not. After all, Outlook doesn’t Read more

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Free tool – PVE SMTP Open Relay Tester

I have decided to make some of my old (and new) tools and scripts available to the community. 

The first (6 years old but still useful) tool is my SMTP Open Relay Tester.  This small standalone Windows console application Read more

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Free tool – Free POP3 Collector

Keywords : Free generic POP3 collector for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Exchange 2003 Exchange 2007 Lotus Domino Server download email from POP3 and forward to SMTP server

Over the last 12 years, I have created multiple email addresses hosted with Read more

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Outlook 2007 unable to download Offline Address Book – error 0X8004010F and 0X80190194

I used to run Exchange 2003 in my test lab. After adding a new 2007 Server (HUB, CAS and Mail) in my AD and moving the mailboxes to the 2007 server, I started seeing problems in my Outlook 2007 Read more

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Exchange 2007 Administration : Policies and limits

Exchange 2007 offers a set of features that allow for centralized management of policies and limitations. These policies and limitations should help to setup and control mail flow, mailbox sizes, compliance (retention) and so. You’ll need an Enterprise CAL Read more

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