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Hi,

I'm trying to change the incoming and outgoing message size limits but it seems like there are a zillion places where I have to do this?

Isn't there a way to just say: ok, for the whole server, simply allow messages of x MB to come in...

I am moving mailboxes from exchange 2003 to exchange 2010.  I am getting an error that states:

Error:  Mailbox size 2.894 GB exceed target quota 2.3 GB

Is there a way that I can change the quota to have no limit?  Thanks

Hi all!

We've got a single server setup of Microsoft Exhange 2010 SP1 + Update Rollup 2
There is also a legacy Exchange 2003 server with one user left on it. The Exchange 2003 server is genereting the OAB.

Suddenly for some reason,...

I am in the process of setting up a Microsoft TMG Enterprise server on a new Dell PowerEdge R610

I have installed Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, Exchange 2010 Edge Transport Service, ForeFront 2010 for Exchange and finally TMG 2010 as per...

Hi folks,

I hope someone can help me troubleshoot this. I have been having a constant HTTP 500 problem getting users to have DirectPush technology on our exchange server 2003.

Here are some hardware background information:

Front-End...

I have a standalone Windows 2008 R2 box with Exchange 2010 Standard on it.  It's a new install, about a month old.  From the beginning, I've been getting about a hundred errors a day in the system event log.  They look exactly like this.  

Log...

Just installed Exchange server 2007 a few weeks ago.  can send and receive email just fine.  But emails to one company, no matter whom at the company we are sending to, come back with  #550 4.4.7 QUEUE.Expired; message expired ## .  I've seen...

Hi,

We have exchanger server 2003 and have been requested to export a couple of mailboxes as PST files.

If this is possible, could someone give me a step by step guide onhow to do this?

Many thanks,

Craig

Hello Experts:

I am running Exchange 2007:  I have a problem with sending email to a customer with the messages getting stuck in the que:  The error message says: 451 4.4.0 Primary Target IP address responded 421 4.2.1 unable to connect.  ...

Good Morning,

I have setup my own Exchange 2010 server on  Server 2008 x64 machine. I have setup owa with a SSL certificate from Go Daddy so if I open my browser and go to:

https://www.mydomain.com.au/owa

it works fine, the cert works...

Need some direction. Recently installed a Exchange 2010 in a test environment.  Everything is working great. Everything but one majpr thing; clients that are configure for POP/SMTP can not send email. For example, I have people that do not use...

Hi,

I have some Windows 7 Pro client pc's, which are running in an environment with Microsoft Small Business Server 2008, Exchange Server 2007 and Outlook 2010 client. However the users get prompted for username and password every single time...

When trying to start the Exchange Management Console I get a Initialization failed.
The following error occurred while attempting to connect to the specified exchange server 'removed for security':
      
The attempt to connect to (removed for...

We have Windows XP SP2 installed with Outlook 2007 client connecting to an Exchange 2003 backend and whenever the user opens a new mail message or tries to create a new sub-folder in the Outlook 2007 client he get's a message "Your server...

In my customer's AD setup, they have numerous dedicated "resource" users setup, with their own mailboxes/calendars. The point of this being, is so people can invite these resources to meetings, and then when they view these resource's calendars,...

Hi,
I have a client that has unexpectably got rid of all their blackberries and purchased iPhones. they have asked me to connect these iphones to their Exchange server. After hours of research and following procedues, i get the following error...

This was a pretty easy thing to do in SBS 2003. How do you update the self-signed certificate in SBS 2008.

Exchange 2010 are running in coexistence with Exchange 2003. We got 3 Exchange 2010 servers, Mailbox server, Hub transport server and CAS server.

All servers are on HyperV, the mailbox server is using pass through disks. There is only 4 test...

Recently upgraded to Exchange 2010 and clients are not getting updates to the Offline Address Book. I have specified the Default Offline Address Book in the Organization -> Mailbox -> Database Management location and have verified that clients...

I am looking for a calculator or method to calculate the IOPS for a given drive, i.e. 300GB - 15K - 4GB Fibre Channel Drive or a 146GB - 10K - 4GB Fibre Channel Drive.

I would like to deploy Exchange 2007 and the database LUN requires 3000...

I have just installed Exchange 2010 and moved some mailboxes. If you go to the the https:\\exchange2010\owa for those mailboxes it works. If someone goes there and their mailbox is on an exchange 2007 they don't get redirected to that server, and...

Hi,

I've been having quite a bit of trouble with autodiscover. Environment is W2k8 R2 ent, Exchange 2010 migrated from SBS Exchange 2003. Some of my symptoms are:

I have to enter the server information manually in Outlook when a new user is...

Hi -
A curious issue has arisen, and I cannot find anything on the subject. We have a few users that just started receiving a popup in Outlook Professional 2010 SP1 that says "Windows Security  Microsoft Outlook   Connecting to...

Hi All

I have Exchange 2010 running on Windows 2008 R2.
The issue Im having is that the transaction logs are filling up fast.
With 2003 I use to use NTBackup and this worked beautifully to backup exchange and after the backup it would...

We have an Exchange 2010 installed over Windows 2008 server. It has 15 mailbox running. In the first installation the server had 4 GB of RAM memory and now it has 8 GB. We need limit the usage of the RAM memory because when the server has 4 GB it...

Hello Experts,
Trying to get some questions knocked out for my Exchange installation. I have been getting some excellent help and I'll hopefully be closing many questions shortly.
Question: What outside internet ports need to be opened for...

new to exchange 2010, so please bear with me.

I exported all my public folders out of 2003 to a pst and am trying to put them into 2010, but cant since i dont have permissions.  It was easy to change this in 2003, but in 2010 its all done...

Does anyone know if Microsoft is going to release service pack 3 for Exchange 2003?
Thanks,

We are using Exchange Server 2007. Some of our clients have tried to send emails from their webmail and they got this reply: #5.7.1 smtp; 550 5.7.1 Message rejected as spam by Content Filtering. These emails contain basically nothing special and...

Have a user that when you try to open outlook you receive the error :

Unable to open the Outlook Window.  The set of folders could not be opened. The server is not available

The user has a couple of PST files. Ran SCANPST and the files were...

Microsoft Windows 2003
Exchange 2003 SP1

A power cut killed the server and on booting up the Exchange mailbox store and public folders store wont load with the error ID c1041724.  I've dealt with this in the past but I'm stuck on replaying...

Hi I hope someone can assist me with this its much appreciated as always.  My users including myself are getting mail delivery delays and at this point I am not confident emails are arriving.  The mail server has been functioning flawlessly for...

We've got a Client Access/Hub Transport Server running Exchange 2010 SP1 in our organization since March 2011. Since the last week, we have been experiencing huge delay in email send/receive over Outlook as well as OWA and activesync. Most sent...

One of our customers has an Exchange 2003 server running on Windows 2000 SP4 (server).  They had a major failure yesterday (active directory restore, exchange database repair).  I have sent several test messages through their server to various...

I need help with Exchange AutoDiscover...

The primary issue is that when I open Out of Office assistant I get: "Your out of office settings cannot be displayed,because the server is unavailabe, try again later."...

When I test my...

I am getting this error when trying to setup auto replies in outlook 2010 - we are running exchange 2010 on the back end:

your automatic reply settings cannot be displayed because the server is currently unavailable

can someone provide a...

I am having trouble with mailtips not showing up for users that are connecting from outside of the organization via Outlook Anywhere. I get the dreaded MailTips could not be retrieved. I did quite a bit of looking around and confirmed the...

We've just setup SBS 2011 and already stuffed up Exchange 2011 when install our internal CRM which used IIS and other shared services.

Exchange is mostly working but OWA, company web and a few other little things have been broken. Now Im...

I have a few mail users that keeping getting this message when the send message to a few users in different domains.  They did not get this message when we were on Exchange 2003 but they are getting them on 2007.  The 2007 lives on a different...

We are having some very strange errors coming from Exchange. While some of the emails being bounced are external, the vast majority are internal only  this rules out the usual reverse DNS issues, et al. We are using Exchange 2003 SP2 with all...

The EMC connection fails with Unexpected error [0x145AAC30] executing command 'Get-LinkedRoleGroupForLogonUser' after SP2 is applied

This is hosted on a HP E5700 appliance and both nodes have been updated.  All services start and I can connect...

About a couple weeks ago we were forced to change our IP address by our ISP.  I changed it, the MX record, double checked the FQDN and changed all information in the router (sonicwall).  Now we get this message from a few different domains

Non...

i have manage to run sucessfully eseutil /d on all my data bases after my server has crashed yestarday night. but i was not abalible to mount 2 data bases ,what i have done its :

on each data base :

backup
eseutil /p
delete log files...

Problem with receiving email.  Getting this error when sending:
There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator.
  <mail.xxx.com #5.5.0 smtp;553 mailbox aholbrook@xxx.com is...

Ok guys, you have seen by now that migrating Exchange 2010 has been a VERY painful process. ALot of you on here have helped me, so thank you for that.

my issue is that all of a sudden, ECM will not connect.
The error that I get is shown in...

I have two exchange servers, each hub transport / mailbox / client access.  One is 2007 one is 2010.   This is a new setup.

The 2010 receives all inbound mail but fails to deliver (and collects in queue) all mail going to the 2007 server.   I...

Hi

After fixing DNS issues i am still having issues recieving and sending mail via my exchange 2007 server. ive had a 2003 server working perfectly. I have turned off all firewalls and AV software. When i try to telnet into my server i get 421...

I installed MS Exchange 2010 on Server 2008 R2 (both are MS Open License versions).  Now I get a dialog box that pops up every time I open Exchange Management Console that reads.

The following servers in your organization running Exchange...

I have a distribution group setup in Exchange 2007 having any email that hits it go to 3 users that I added on the members tab and it works fine.  Now the users want to send emails out on behalf of the distribution group can that we accomplished...

Hi all. I am having this issues with Exchange 2010. I purchased a 5 domain SSL from GoDaddy and imported it into Exchange. I configured Outlook Anywhere in Exchange as well.

Here is my error from testexchangeconnectivity.com. This is for a...

A secretary is helping her Boss to check emails at Boss's computer.
However, Boss do not want some private emails able to open by the secretary.
Is it possible to have password protect for single email in outlook?
It would be great if do not...

Hi,
I recently upgraded our SBS 2008 Server to SP2 and, soon afterwards, we've been having issues with Outlook repeatedly prompting for the Autodiscover credentials even after valid ones have been entered. After a while, it stopped and...

i have a exchange 2010 server and the store.exe just grows to use all the memory available and slows down the server dramatically how can i prevent this.

As you're probably aware - Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange GUI is a finnicky product at the best of times.
I just can't get it to go and even though the given user in Exchange for Auth has FULL account access it seems to complain of...

hello, i have a sinlge exchange server 2003 sp2, the database size of priv1.1 edb is 65 gb.
we had to run a repair, at the first try the process "deleting unicode fixup table abused" at the end of the repair-process aborted with the error...

Hi guys,

We are running Exchange 2010. Everything is working except Active Sync. I can't get it to work. Below I have posted the results from testexchangeconnectivity.com
Our Exchange ActiveSync configuration is all default.

I also get...

Dear Experts,

i have TMG and one exchange server and all roles are installed on it, my configs:

local domain: domain.local
public domain: domain.public
MX Record in publlic dns: mail.domain.public
two scopes in internal DNS:
           ...

I have Installed BE 2010 and Exchange 2010 on a Windows 2008 server R2.  It is also a domain controller.  I know this is not ideal but it will be the only server eventually.  The job immediately fails.  Here is the error:

Log Name:     ...

Exchange 2007
How can I delete a mailbox, without deleting the user account associate with it.
This is screwy.

I have a 2010 server and trying to get it set up.

I see through some of the posts that the receive connector needs to be adjusted in order to receive email from an email address outside of the organization.  I have modified the default...

Hi.
My client is running SBS 2011/Exchange 2010.  He is running on a Mac with Outlook 2011

The mac is able to RECEIVE email just fine from the exchange server.
However, the Mac CANNOT SEND any email.  Just sending a short 1 word email, with...

sucks!

When I first saw this being used I was quite interested about what it could do but since actually using it Im still interested on what it can actually do... because it doesnt seem like it can do much at all!

All I want to do is be...

Hi,

I have a problem with commonication between two Exchange servers 2003.

exAsrv-FWsiteA----VPN------FWsiteB----exBsrv

Where:
exAsrv - Exchange 2003
exBsrv - Exchange 2003
FWsiteA - Cisco ASA5505 ver 7.2(2)
FWsiteB - Cisco ASA5505...

I have setup a new Exchange 2010 server and need a little help configuring the whitelist.  I have configured the AntiSpam on the EX2010 box and enabled spamcop.net and spamhaus.org as block list providers on the content filtering.  I have a few...

We have client that is running MS Exchange 2007. There are other users that can e-mail to usernamehere@mabeg.net. However when one user e-mails to this address he receives the following error:

Diagnostic information for administrators:
...

Hello,  I'm pretty sure this can't be done with an Outlook rule but wondering if anyone knows of another way or utility that can do this.

A customer of mine wants to auto forward messages to eight different mailboxes (internal) from a shared...

We had an employee hard delete e-mails right before he was fired.  We don't know how to recover the items he deleted on the day he was fired.    Our exchange default is 14 days to hold deleted e-mail but we don't know how to recover them.

User reports when trying to send a message, they get the error "Could not complete the operation. One or more parameter values are not valid."

She said when she removed some recipients, the message sent, but that could have been a coincidence....

We have been experiencing a lot of Deferred messages in our Out queue on our Barracuda SPAM Firewall 200.  I have had to call support twice recently and all they are really doing is clearing out the messages.  Is there a way I can do this myself?...

Recently, one of our users suffered identity theft and their email account was taken over by spammers.  We didn't find out about the problem until after our domain got blacklisted. I want to keep this from happening again.

Is there any way to...

I have a Windows 2003 server that is running Certificate services. I recently renewed the certificate. The CertSvc will not stay started. I can start the service without an error but when I refresh the page the service is stopped again. I receive...

When I attempt to run EseUtil.exe on a Public Store, I get the following error. Callback DLL not found: Unable to find the callback library jcb.dll (or one of its dependencies). Copy in the file and hit OK to retry, or hit Cancel to abort.
...

Hi all,

We have enabled IMAP on our Exchange 2010 server and opened 143 on the firewall. However no one can logon via IMAP.

Via telnet we get the IMAP header but when we try authenticating we get;

1 login domain\username password
1 NO...

After migrating from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011 we are experiencing slowness on our server after using it for several hours.  A restart clears the problem for a while, but then it comes back.

From the task manager, I notice multiple instances of...

I seem to be getting a lot of bounces like this, to legitament email addresses, but haven't a clue what I'm to do.

Exchange 2010 SP1 RU2 on Windows Server 2008R2


#< #5.4.4 smtp;550 5.4.4 ROUTING.NoConnectorForAddressType; unable to route...

I want to edit the host file of all my users computers .Following is my requirement

1, Want to edit the host file , in which i want to change the IP address but the host name will remain same.
2, Need to deploy using group policy to all my...

I'm new to Exchange 2007 and I'm wondering if there is a way to increase an individual mailbox size?

We are near the completion of the migration of MS Exchange 2003 to 2010. Suddenly these errors are happening:

The Microsoft Exchange Replication service couldn't find a valid configuration for database '84d85a8e-736d-48d4-866b-81f3649c4b41'...

We have a Server 2003 terminal server that is using Outlook 2010 to connect to Exchange 2010.  We are using an SSL wildcard certificate.  I recently upgraded Exchange from 2003 to 2010 when I noticed some Outlook users on the terminal server were...

I have two users in my organization who need to be able to send secure email.  The other members of my organization don't send sensitive information so they won't need to send secure email.  What would be the easiest solution so these two users...

Hi Experts,

I would like to get a list of most common interview questions in Exchange Server 2010.

Could you please send me a list of most common interview questions in Exchange Server 2010 and their answers?

Thank you in advance

I have a new Ex2010 server running on a Server 2008R2 box.  This email server was put in place last week and was a migration from EX2003.  Email is sending out fine to everyone but one domain.  Yesterday I haad users complaining that email had...

I am trying to setup Exchange in SCC cluster mode.  During the Exchange install I discovered that I actually need to setup a Windows Cluster first in order to get the Exchange into a cluster mode.  When I try and setup a Windows cluster, it all...

I've finished setting up Exchange 2007 and everthing works great with one exception.  I'm having a problem with Outlook 2007 clients specifically on computers that are not members of the domain.  It conistently prompts to enter the password...

Hi. I'm getting an undelivarable error when trying to send e-mail to a specific domain:

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: test2
Sent: 9/27/2010 10:04 AM

The following recipient(s) could not...

I can't make Outlook Anywhere to work. Below is the systems i've been working on:

Certicate (UCC):
mail.office.com - Common Name
autodiscover.office.com
srv-mail.office.com - Host

TMG 2010 SP1:
1. OWA and ActiveSync works.
2. Outlook...

We have a number of users who are now running Microsoft Office 2011.  When we setup Outlook 2011 to connect to Exchange 2007 SP2, the account shows connected.  The progress shows that it is downloading the messages but no messages appear.  The...

Hi,

We are experiencing a problem on every machine using Outlook 2010 in our organisation when trying to send an email after clicking a mailto link.

If a user clicks on a link, [mailto:email@address.com] for example, then a new email opens...

Hi Can someone give me the contents of an autodiscover.xml file?

This is what is in my autodiscover.xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Autodiscover>
<!-- This is a placeholder file -->
</Autodiscover>

And it seem to me...

I have got one of my customers' servers here as it has gone crazy. It is running SBS 2003. It is generating an enormous amount of SPAM messages and from reading through many questions here is sounds exactly like a dictionary attack. All except...

Hi,

I am getting the following on Small Business Server 2003, SP1 with Exchange patched at SP2, and for whichever user this error happens, that particular user will not b able to use outlook.
Event Type:      Error
Event Source:     ...

How do I grant a user or group to all mailboxes in a database.  From what I read in the following technet (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996343(EXCHG.80).aspx) which says that if you grant Receive As permission at the storage group...

I have a user running Outlook 2007 who is unable to book one specific resource for meetings.  All other resources book fine.  The error message he gets is "Unable to open free/busy information.  Cannot directly book a resource for this meeting." ...

We are getting some mail bounced back because of an incorrect helo response, reverse dns isnt matching the smtp banner.  We have changed the FQDN on our send and receive connectors even though we have read many places that changing it here does...

Event Source: MSExchangeIS Mailbox
Type: Warning
Category: General
Event ID: 1025

An error occurred on database "First Storage Group\Mailbox Store".
 Function name or description of problem: SLINK::EcUpdate
Error: 0x8004010f

The above...

When I make a change in Exchange Server 2003 (changing a user's email address, etc.) the change will take a good long time before it is reflected at the desktop. Namely, when a user is sending an email using the Outlook client and selects a name...

How do I create a Public Calendar for Exchange 2003?
Do I do it on the Exchange Server or from an Outlook client?
Thanks!
Cliff

Running Server 2003 with Exchange 2007.  Exchange server is member server so it does not have AD User/computers available. I need to find an alias email address and to which email account it is attached to.