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How does the Antivirus API Scan Attachments? 

This article is intended to help Exchange Server administrators understand the architecture of the new antivirus application programming interface (API) that is introduced in Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 3 (SP3), and possible effects that any third-party software that uses the antivirus API may have. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q263949&ID=kb;en-us;Q263949

Is it possible to connect exchange servers through a VPN connection? 

Yes, it is possible.

What components of Exchange can I move off the exchange server machine?Start with the IMS. Set up a workstation-class machine as an Exchange server, create an IMS, follow the relevant steps to move the SMTP service to another server, then remove the one from your mailbox server. It's a good place to start, and it's a good thing to do because the IMS has been known to stop mailbox servers from time to time. 

Start with the IMS. Set up a workstation-class machine as an Exchange server, create an IMS, follow the relevant steps to move the SMTP service to another server, then remove the one from your mailbox server. It's a good place to start, and it's a good thing to do because the IMS has been known to stop mailbox servers from time to time.

How do I move a single Exchange server to a machine with the same name? 

Check the following document available in the Microsoft Knowledge Base about the recommended way this should be done: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q155/2/16.asp

Is there a way to encrypt information being passed between two sites using the Exchange site connector? 

The RPC connection between Site Connectors (as opposed to x.400 or SMTP connectors) is already encrypted via RPC API calls. However, it's not industrial-strength encryption; more security through obscurity. If this is not sufficient, setup a VPN. VPN in this case is recommended at firewall level so the servers have nothing to do with the actual VPN itself.

The X400 Connector for Exchange 5.5 is discontinued. Is there anyway how we connect multiple exchange servers over the Internet without this connector? 

Either you can utilise the IMS aka the internet mail connector. You would need to configure a directory replication connector at each end for directory replication in this case. Otherwise the other option is to upgrade to the Exchange 5.5 Enterprise edition

I check against all the files on my exchange server 5.5 regularly. The only file that changes everday is the Mapisvc.inf in c:\winnt\systems32 

Mapisvc.inf is the file that holds the various services that you can install and how they are configured. In Outlook, when you click Tools>Services>Add, that list of available services comes from the mapisvc.inf file. You can manually edit it if you want, to remove services you don't want the users to install (MS Mail, etc for examplQe)

How do I convert an .ost file into a .pst file for recovery? 

There are several third party products that can help with this. One of them is detailed at the following link: http://www.officerecovery.com/exchange/index.htm

I have a Windows 2000 server running exchange 5.5 sp3 and deleted some files I shouldn't (log files) and the information store won't start 

Download the Exchange 5.5 Disaster Recovery white paper at the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/BackupRestore.htm

Is it possible to configure Exchange to put in a 'reply-to' address for a Distribution List? So if someone hits 'reply' to a DL post, that reply goes to the list and not to the sender? 

You can add send-as permissions to the DL for the originating user, and that will allow the named people to send as (therefore have the Return Address) the DL.