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Crypto in the box, stone age edition

Introduction

First of all, Happy New Year to everyone! I hope 2016 will be a fantastic and healthy year, filled with fun, joy, energy, and lots of pleasant surprises.

I remember when all of my data would fit on Read more

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Delegating Exchange 2007 Distribution List Management to End Users

One of the challenges that result from operating a messaging environment is making sure the company’s internal Distribution Lists stay up to date.  In most corporate environments, this is a task that is typically assigned to IT staff, however Read more

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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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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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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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Free tool – Extracting email addresses from Outlook mail folders

I recently received the request to extract all email addresses from an Outlook pst file, not from the contacts, but from all emails within the Outlook folder structure. I opened the Outlook file (3,5Gb) and found a huge folder Read more

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