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Oct09

Disabling email delivery for an Exchange account, without deleting the mailbox

Had an interesting scenario/question today. A customer asked how to disable a users account and incoming email/mailbox. Normally, if the account was going to be destroyed we would disconnect the mailbox and let it die. However, our scenario is dif ...[Read More]
Published: Oct-09-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

Sep02

How to Email Enable a SharePoint Calendar and Manually add an Exchange Contact Alias

This post includes a quick video for how to Email Enable a SharePoint Calendar and manually add an Exchange Contact Alias. Ok, the video is a little sloppy, but what do you expect for quick, fast and free? :) Basically another one of those posts w ...[Read More]
Published: Sep-02-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

Jul28

Trouble sending emails to foreign domains? Three things to check…

If you are having difficulties *sending* email to a foreign domain (email address) *from* Exchange, here's some suggestions for things to check/address.   1. Ensure you have a valid PTR record (reverse IP, defined with your ISP, not with your D ...[Read More]
Published: Jul-28-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

Jul20

Outlook POP3 ‘duplicate messages’ and issues sending and receiving to a 3rd party POP3 server (messages stuck in the outbox)

Here's an interesting one, with a simple fix. A customer called today and they use Outlook 2003 with a 3rd party/hosted POP3 Server (and frankly, this problem and resolution could apply across all of Outlook, POP3 Servers and under the heading 'co ...[Read More]
Published: Jul-20-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

Jul16

Exchange 2003 and 2007 Testing Tools

Don't mind me, just bookmarking some key tools I use here for Exchange 2003 and 2007 Outlook Anywhere and ActiveSync Testing.   Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer - https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com Telnet to Port 25/SMTP T ...[Read More]
Published: Jul-16-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

Jun19

Exchange 2007 Difficulties delivering email to some domains – Error 451 4.4.0 DNS query failed

Here is an interesting one but quite repeatable…  I've run into this situation now in two totally different Exchange 2007 environments (the source). While we are able to successfully deliver messages to most customer domains, in these two instance ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-19-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

Jun08

Keep Your Inbox Trim

At the end of the day, you really shouldn't have anything in your Outlook Inbox and here is why:   Stress: Emails in your inbox mean something is left undone. Every email should have one of the following five actions, thus meaning it shouldn't ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-08-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

May30

Exchange Database Repair Steps for Exchange 2003, 2007, etc.

While there are many resources on the subject out there, I find I'm always looking/trying to remember the right syntax for restoring (as often a client blows up their Exchange Servers or do not have proper backups in place and need me to bring the ...[Read More]
Published: May-30-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

May30

How to implement SSL Certs (for OWA, etc.) in Exchange 2007

These instructions were prepared for QuoVadis (great place to get your SSL and Unified UCC SAN Certs from – www.quovadis.bm  Document Deliverables Microsoft Exchange 2007 requires SSL certificates to be configured/installed in a particular manne ...[Read More]
Published: May-30-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

May13

Email MX record tip when using a Store and Forward Service

One thing I've done to our own mail to help curb some of the crap spam we are getting, is that I've updated our MX record. I've done this because we use DYNDNS for a 'secondary/store and forward MX' delivery agent. I.e. if our mail server was unav ...[Read More]
Published: May-13-09 | by Sean Wallbridge | itgroove, Victoria, BC

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