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Lee Derbyshire BSc (Hons), MVP MCSE is a full-time IT Professional living in the UK. You can visit his home page at www.leederbyshire.com

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Windows 2003 Server Emergency Management Services: Date - Oct 12, 2006; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; This article discusses Windows 2003 Server Emergency Management Services.
Implementing Captcha Validation with OWA 2003 and Forms-Based Authentication: Date - Apr 27, 2006; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; In this article, I will give an example of how Captcha could be added to Outlook Web Access 2003 by modifying the FBA logon.asp file.
Creating and Using Moderated Public Folders in MS Exchange Server: Date - Jan 31, 2006; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration; Public Folders are one of the most useful features of Exchange Server. However, it’s possible that there are situations in which a folder’s visibility makes it desirable to have some extra layer of control, one final check, if you like, before something actually appears in full public view. This is where Moderated Folders come in. In this article, I will describe how you create and use a moderated folder in Exchange Server.
Automating a Quicker Exchange 2000 or 2003 / DC reboot: Date - Oct 13, 2005; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; For those of you running Exchange 2000/2003 on a Domain Controller, this article describes how to make sure that the Exchange services are automatically stopped before Active Directory, substantially improving shutdown/reboot time.
Creating A Certificate For Outlook Web Access 2003 Using SelfSSL: Date - Jul 05, 2005; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Issuing certificates has historically been a fairly complicated process requiring the installation of Certificate Services, but a less well-known utility from the IIS6 Resource Kit Tools known as SelfSSL can make the process a lot easier.
How to Speed up an Exchange 2000 or 2003 / DC reboot: Date - Mar 24, 2005; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; Automatic Updates often require a reboot, and if you have a Domain Controller with Exchange installed on it, a reboot can take a very long time indeed. This article discusses why Exchange/DC shutdown takes such a long time, and (more importantly) what you can do about it.
Customizing the OWA 2003 Forms-Based Authentication Logon Page: Date - Dec 02, 2004; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration; In this article, we shall look at how you can make some visual changes to the MS Exchange 2003 Forms-based Authentication (FBA) logon screen.
Access Your Exchange 2000 / 2003 Mailbox With WebDAV: Date - Sep 14, 2004; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture; There are several Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that you can use to access an Exchange 2000 or 2003 Mailbox. WebDAV is not the easiest to learn, but can often be the most convenient. This article is an introduction to the topic.
Microsoft Outlook Web Access 2003 Web-based Administration: Date - Jun 15, 2004; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration; The Microsoft Outlook Web Access 2003 Web-based Administration tool provides a long-awaited way of easily (and safely) making UI changes that previously required direct manipulation of the registry.
Exchange 2003 Outlook Web Access Themes: Date - Feb 28, 2004; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; Ever since its first appearance, many Exchange Admins have attempted to customize the Outlook Web Access user interface. In Exchange 2003, the concept of 'themes' makes things a little easier. This article explains some of the theory.
Customizing OWA 2000 Using Segmentation: Date - Nov 11, 2003; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; With Exchange 2000 SP2 Microsoft added a feature, known as segmentation, that allows you to quite easily make some rather major changes to the appearance and functionality of OWA.
Exchange 2000 Postmaster@IP And Abuse@IP Mailboxes: Date - Jul 07, 2003; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; If you ever need to add Postmaster@IP And Abuse@IP addresses to your Exchange 2000 server, you will not be able to do so with ADUC. This article describes a way in which it can be done with ADSI Edit.
Product Review: eXclaimer for MS Exchange 2000: Date - May 16, 2003; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Product Reviews; The need for email disclaimer messages is now fairly well established, yet there is still no built-in facility for configuring them in Exchange 2000. For this review, I have chosen to look at eXclaimer, a product that receives regular mention in the Exchange Usenet newsgroups.
Put Your Exchange 2000 Mailbox On The Web With ADO: Date - Apr 20, 2003; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Tools; This article explains one way of displaying your E2K mailbox on the Web. It's not a replacement for OWA by any means, but at least you can say you Did It Yourself.
Connecting Outlook Web Access 5.5 To Exchange 2000: Date - Mar 25, 2003; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; Why on earth would anyone want to try to connect MS Exchange 5.5 Outlook Web Access (OWA for short) to an Exchange 2000 server? Well, quite a few people have tried and failed, so here's an experiment describing one possible solution.
Put your mailbox on the Web with CDO v1.21: Date - Mar 08, 2003; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; MS Exchange already comes with a nice Webmail facility called Outlook Web Access, so why would you want to make your own? Well, some people like to do these things just for the fun of it, and you may also learn something useful and interesting in the process.
PowerControls v1.1 Exchange Restoration And Admin: Date - Jan 12, 2003; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Product Reviews; Those of you who already use Ontrack PowerControls v1.0 will know what a powerful utility it is, but just how useful has this power been to you? With the release of v1.1, Ontrack has added a feature that greatly increases both it’s power and it’s usefulness in one go.
A Logon Screen For MS Exchange 2000 Outlook Web Access: Date - Sep 29, 2002; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; In Exchange 2000, Outlook Web Access takes you straight into the Inbox without asking for a mailbox name. Not everyone misses the logon screen, but many people do, and a surprising number of people are asking how they can get it, or something similar, back again.
Enhanced Deleted Item Recovery In MS Exchange 5.5: Date - Sep 17, 2002; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; As an Exchange Admin, your users will often ask you if there is any way to recover a message that has been inadvertently deleted from their mailbox. Fortunately, Exchange 5.5 has a feature that allows you to do just this, although the standard configuration can be improved by a small amount of tweaking.
MS Exchange, SMTP, POP3 and Telnet: Date - Aug 11, 2002; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; The visual complexity of modern email clients such as Outlook Express hides the simplicity of the underlying protocols that they use. If you know a few simple protocol commands it’s possible to send and receive emails via an Exchange Server with no GUI client whatsoever, if you have access to a telnet client.
Ontrack PowerControls v1.0 Restoration and Administration: Date - Jul 27, 2002; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Product Reviews; Ontrack Data International has been specializing in data recovery since 1987. By releasing PowerControls, Ontrack have decided to extend their expertise to the Exchange community and the result is a product that could well be a lifesaver for many Exchange Administrators.
Connecting POP And IMAP Clients To MS Exchange Server: Date - Jul 07, 2002; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; The traditional method of connecting an email user to their MS Exchange Server mailbox is to use MS Outlook. However, as more and more mobile users wish to access their mailboxes remotely, Exchange Administrators are often required to configure the connections of a wider variety of email clients, on a mixture of platforms.
Customizing The Outlook Web Access 5.5 Logon Page: Date - Jul 01, 2002; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; As more and more people are discovering the usefulness of Outlook Web Access, or OWA for short, it is rapidly becoming one of the most popular add-ons for MS Exchange. It has to be said, however, that aesthetically, many people find it less than completely satisfactory. The yellow logon page in particular is a prime target for a visual overhaul.
Installing Outlook Web Access 5.5 In Windows 2000 Server: Date - Jun 10, 2002; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; When MS Exchange 5.5 was first introduced, having a permanent connection to the Internet was much less common than it is now. Consequently, Outlook Web Access (or OWA for short) was less likely to be part of the standard Exchange installation. Now that more and more Exchange Admins are discovering just how useful OWA can be, many are adding its functionality to their installations.
User Access To The Exchange 5.5 GAL With GALMOD32.EXE: Date - May 16, 2002; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; If you are responsible for maintaining the mailboxes of many users this can become rather a time-consuming task. Perhaps it would be more convenient for you and for them to allow your users to change their own GAL details. That way they don't need to call you to get it done, and you don't have to scribble it down and remember to do it.
Intersite Directory Replication via the Internet in MS Exchange 5.5: Date - May 16, 2002; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; MS Exchange provides a method, known as Directory Replication, of combining the email directories from a number of sites so that they can function as one.
Automating MS Exchange Server 5.5 Backup With NTBackup.: Date - Apr 19, 2002; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; While most Exchange admins are agreed on the necessity of performing regular backups, not all agree on which is the best way to do it. In fact, many Exchange newcomers are surprised at how strongly some admins feel regarding the superiority of one method compared to another.
Preventing Third Party Relaying In MS Exchange Server 5.5: Date - Mar 18, 2002; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; Unsolicited Commercial Email, or spam (as it has become more commonly known) seems to be with us to stay, in much the same way as the junk mail that lands on our doormat each morning. Most of the time we happily delete the daily tide of junk email that arrives in our inbox without giving much thought as to where it might have come from, or how it made its way to us. The fact is that each message must have started its brief life on a server somewhere, and unfortunately spammers rarely go to the trouble of providing their own server hardware, preferring instead to use other people's. Quite possibly yours.
Adding Email Disclaimer Text With The IMS Extension In MS Exchange 5.5: Date - Mar 07, 2002; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; The casual nature of email belies the fact that an electronic message is still, in a business context, a legally binding document, and newspaper stories about the legal issues raised by email are becoming increasingly common. While most people can happily dismiss these stories as 'a sign of the times', to the Exchange Administrator they can be a potential source of dismay.