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Management & Administration Articles

Using Public Folders to Maximize Exchange Standard Edition Use: Date - Mar 03, 2004; Author - Amit Zinman; Most small businesses rarely use their public folder. At most they share their company contact list there. It is ironic that these businesses can benefit most from using public folders.
Configuring DNS for Exchange 2000: Date - Jan 06, 2004; Author - Amit Zinman; Exchange 2000, internally, unlike traditional SMTP mail servers, does not rely on DNS MX records for mail delivery within the organization. Instead, it maintains a dynamic routing table used to transport mail around the Exchange organization. However, Exchange 2000 does depend on DNS for resolving host names, finding global catalog servers and finding other mail servers on the Internet. Also, without MX records on Internet DNSs, you wouldn't get mail from the Internet into your corporate environment.
SMTP Virtual Server Uncovered: Date - Aug 22, 2003; Author - Amit Zinman; Mastering the inner workings of Exchange 2000's SMTP service can be very useful when configuring servers to deal with mail problems such SPAM attacks and virus outbreaks. This article will provide some insight into better SMTP queue management to improve your ability to cope when your queues get swamped with spam and virus outbreaks.
Changing the Display Order in the Exchange 2000 Address List: Date - May 30, 2003; Author - Mark Fugatt; In this article we will look at how we can modify the DisplayName field in Active Directory to use the LastName, FirstName format, this will then ensure that the Address Lists used by your users will be sorted by LastName.
Using a Public Folder as a Mailbox: Date - Jan 21, 2003; Author - Mark Fugatt; In this article we will look at how to use a Public Folder in Exchange 2000 to collect mail that can then be accessed by multiple users, this could be used for a Sales Department or Customer Service mailbox for example.
Creating Resource Mailboxes in Exchange 2000: Date - Jan 17, 2003; Author - Mark Fugatt; This article describes the steps you need to take to create a Resource Mailbox in Exchange 2000, it also explains what your users need to do in order to utilize the Resource Mailbox correctly.
Using Public Folders to Hold Company Contacts: Date - Jan 05, 2003; Author - Mark Fugatt; This article describes how you can setup a Public Folder in Exchange 2000 to hold company contacts, it also explains how to set the permissions on the folder and how to allow users to access the folder like an address book.
Moving the Exchange Databases in Exchange 2000: Date - Oct 25, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; This article explains how you can move the Exchange 2000 Databases and/or the Exchange 2000 Transaction Log files to a different location.
Using Exchange 2000 as a low end contact management solution: Date - Sep 16, 2002; Author - Amit Zinman; Many companies, not wanting to invest a lot of money in an expensive contact management solution use Outlook public folders for this purpose.
How to get access to all mailboxes in Exchange 2000 Server: Date - Sep 09, 2002; Author - Steve Bryant; With Exchange 5.5, this was simple because we had a service account. We simply logged in with the service account or used the credentials to gain access. This was most helpful when we were restoring a mailbox or otherwise capturing data in a lab or temporary restore server.
Hosting Your Own SMTP Mail Using Exchange 2000: Date - Aug 13, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; In this article I am going to explain how you can configure Exchange 2000 to host your own SMTP Internet mail.
The problem with co-existence is the mail routing: Date - Aug 05, 2002; Author - Steve Bryant; Those of you who have rebooted their connector servers or experienced a performance hit with message conversions already know what I’m talking about. Those considering a migration to Exchange from cc:mail or Lotus Notes in particular should pay close attention.
Allowing Users to Access Multiple Mailboxes or Creating a Group Mailbox: Date - Jul 24, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Many organizations require their users to have access to multiple mailboxes or have access to a common mailbox, this article will explain how to configure Exchange 2000 to achieve this.
Exchange 2000 Server Service Pack 3 Has Arrived!: Date - Jul 22, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; It's been over seven months since the release of Exchange 2000 SP2 and in that time Exchange Admins have clamored for fixes to fix the fixes in SP2. It's no secret that SP2 was not a favorite install of many Exchange Admins, while many others installed it and have had no problems. Fortunately, I am among the group that has had no problems with SP2, but then again each situation is different depending on which of the many ways you have deployed and configured Exchange 2000 Server. Let's take a quick look at what's going in SP3.
Hosting Multiple SMTP Domains on Exchange 2000: Date - Jul 10, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; This article explains the steps required to host more than one SMTP domain within your Exchange organization.
Message Archiving with Exchange 2000: Date - Jun 30, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; It has now become very common for business owners to request the ability to see what messages their employees are sending and receiving, with Message Archiving this is possible.
Neat Exchange 2000 Server Tricks: Yes, you really can have it your way!: Date - Jun 10, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Exchange 2000 Server is one of those products that require a lot of love and attention when it comes to getting it up and running, but once it's there it pretty much takes care of itself. There are, however, a few things that you can tweak in Exchange to change the way it operates—on a small scale at least...
Using the Mailbox Manager in Exchange 2000: Date - May 30, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; One of the new features that was implemented in Exchange 2000 SP1 is the Mailbox Manager. With the Mailbox Manager an Exchange Administrator has the ability to control the content of a user’s mailboxes.
The Exchange Message Tracking Center or How to Save Your A$$ in a Pinch: Date - May 16, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; It's bound to happen. Your boss is going to call you at the most inopportune moment ranting and raving about some super important email message that hasn't been delivered. It's times like this when you really want to know how to track messages sent in your organization. Thankfully, Microsoft has provided this ability for us.
Forwarding Mail to an External Recipient, Part II: Date - Apr 25, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; In Mark Fugatt’s article “Forwarding Mail to an External Recipient,” he covered how to take mail destined for an internal mailbox and forward it to an outside email address such as a Hotmail or AOL account.
Creating a list of Users and their e-mail addresses in Exchange 2000 (2): Date - Mar 27, 2002; Author - Amit Zinman; In my previous article I presented a script that iterated through all the OUs to export mail enabled users' mail addresses to a CSV file. Active Directory allows you, instead of going through each and evey the OUs, to perform directory wide searches by constructing an LDAP query. LDAP is a pretty complex and powerful query language. The more precise you want to get in your query, the more it gets difficult to control a query.
Controlling Users Mailboxes in Exchange 2000: Date - Mar 27, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; One of the big problems that Exchange Administrators have is controlling the size of user’s mailboxes. Well never fear help is at hand; with a few simple steps you can have a lot more control.
Forwarding Mail to an External Recipient: Date - Mar 27, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; It is very common for some of your users to express an interest in having their mail delivered to a mailbox that is external to your organization. For example, the user is going to be working away from the office and would like their mail to be delivered to their Hotmail account. Another request might be to have their mail delivered to a different person altogether.
Administering Exchange 2000: Date - Mar 18, 2002; Author - Zoran Radic; Part of the planning process for deploying Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server in your organization is determining how to administer it. With the introduction of Active Directory, you can separate the administration of servers from the administration of recipients. Understanding this separation is important in deciding how to administer Exchange. In addition, understanding the new administration models is necessary to administer servers and recipients effectively.
Creating a list of Users and their e-mail addresses in Exchange 2000: Date - Mar 01, 2002; Author - Amit Zinman; In Exchange 5.5 you had a GUI interface that let you easily import and export users in the Exchange Administrator utility. Active Directory essentially lets you do the same thing with two utilities: Ldifde and CSVDE. However, both utilities are not that easy to use. Basically you have to unappealing options: either you export the entire directory and start filtering through the many fields available there (and there are a lot!) or you deal with command line switches.
Troubleshooting and repairing mailboxes and databases: Date - Feb 22, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Most of the time your Exchange 2000 Server implementation probably runs fine with no problems at all. Unfortunately, problems can and do occur with any complicated system, and Exchange is no different. In the case of Exchange, however, you also have to take in account the email client software and it’s particulars. Since it’s safe to assume that most of your internal clients will be using Outlook as their email client, we can broaden our view of the Exchange implementation to include the Outlook client and its processes as well.