I recently installed Exchange 2007 into an organization with multiple Exchange 2003 servers. The new Exchange 2007 server is a member server, not a DC, and was setup with the master Exchange 2003 server as it’s local Bridgehead.
Here is the problem I encountered following setup:
I could successfully send email from a mailbox on the Exchange […]
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On the surface, Windows Vista’s TCP Auto-Tuning feature sounds like a great idea. For those of you who are not familiar with what it does, the Microsoft Windows Core Networking group describes it in detail.
At any given time, the amount that TCP can send is governed by three factors: the congestion window, the receive window […]
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I’ve used shutdown.exe for years to remotely shutdown PCs but I can honestly say that I don’t recall ever using the /i switch which will “Display the graphical user interface (GUI).” of shutdown.exe. I forsee this switch being very handy.
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When managing a Microsoft Exchange 2003 server it is quite easy to determine the mailbox sizes of your various users, just use the ESM (Exchange System Manager). Unfortunately, moving to Exchange 2007 makes this simple task a bit more cumbersome. You must now use the PowerShell to determine mailbox sizes and other statistics. The cmdlet that […]
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This question was posed today by a client.
What do you do when you want a user with an internal-only e-mail mailbox needs to have access to a BlackBerry?
Well the short answer is, you give him a BlackBerry:). Though the activation of the handheld can’t be done over-the-air using the BES enterprise activation process, the device […]
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Another odd IE 7 issues seems to be plaguing many of my client workstations. For some reason, upon launching IE7 the user is greeted with the following error:
“An HTTP error occurred while getting:
http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx
Details: “connect timed out”. ”
It turns out that the error is the result of a default behavior which can be changed manually. […]
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WordPress has removed any official instructions from their website regarding installation procedures on Windows based hardware. Though one can easily find documentation on the web detailing a typical 32 bit Windows server installation, finding installation instructions for x64 version of Windows server is pretty tough.
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Recently, more of our clients have requested that we setup Exchange Direct Push Synchronization with Windows Mobile based devices like the Samsung Blackjack. In the past I have typically advised against the use of these devices for anything but personal use because of management and administration concerns. However, the release of device mamagement tools from Microsoft […]
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