Accepted Domains, Safe Senders List and You
You may have noticed a change in the behavior of the Safe Senders list within Outlook starting in Exchange 2010. Users can no longer add accepted domains to Outlook’s Safe Senders list.Figure 1: Adding...
View ArticleExchange Server and SP1 for Microsoft Office Filter Pack 2010
Starting with Exchange 2007, installation of the current version of Office Filter Packs is a prerequisite. For Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 RTM, the pre-req was 2007 Office System Converter:...
View ArticleDoes your Transport think it's Squeaky Lobster Day in your CountryOrRegion?
Today is the magical day when parents tell their tucked-in children the story of the Squeaky Lobster. So here's a Squeaky Lobster-ish post to celebrate the day.In Exchange 2007, we introduced transport...
View ArticleAccepted Domains, Shared SMTP Address Spaces and Recipient Filtering
Accepting inbound mail for a DNS domain and relaying it to responsible mail hosts outside your Exchange organization was a simple process in Exchange 2003, albeit one that required some explanation,...
View ArticleUpdated Process Tracking Log (PTL) tool for use with Exchange 2007 and...
Exchange Message Tracking Logs hold a wealth of information about email messages during transport. Utilities that can parse message tracking logs and analyze them for administrators have historically...
View ArticleESE Access to Exchange: Spamcops!
It’s not easy being a spam cop. But the folks on the Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) team love it!Their passion for being investigators and transport experts has translated into...
View ArticleExchange Online Protection: A Premium Protection and Policy Service for Email
This summer, Microsoft introduced the new Office, including the new version of Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Online, which provides businesses with robust communication and collaboration...
View ArticleRecipient Rate Limit Increase to 10K for Office 365 and Exchange Online
Update 2/26/2013: In response to your feedback, we have also raised the limit for Office 365 for Education plans (A2, A3, A4) to 10,000 recipients per day.In response to feedback from our customers, we...
View ArticleHow to write an Exchange 2013 transport agent
Update 2/5/2013: We have also uploaded a sample that will work on Exchange 2010 servers, you can find it here.What is a Transport Agent?Transport agents allow Microsoft, developers in your organization...
View ArticleMysterious mail loop on Edge Transport server: Check your size limits!
I'm a support enginer in CSS. I was working with a customer who reported a mail loop error for a specific domain like contoso.com. This error was only observed in large emails. Yeah that’s really...
View ArticleRestricting email to the Internet on a per user AND per domain basis
You requested it... and we delivered it in Exchange 2010!One of the most requested items in exchange 2007 was something like this......we have 5-12 external domains that we need to allow some users to...
View ArticleMaking sense of Exchange Logs using ExLogAnalyzer
Early 2008 we have posted a blog entry with a VB script that generates some pre-canned reports that are based on message tracking logs. The script has proven to be useful in understanding Microsoft's...
View ArticleTransport Rules: Exception to the Rule
When constructing Transport Rules, it is pretty straight forward to define a set of conditions and then specify the action to take when those conditions are met. It is easy to overlook an optional...
View ArticlePlaying Shell Dojo with Transport Rules
To enforce messaging policies, organizations frequently need to inspect messages based on different properties such as sender, recipients, subject, headers and attachments, and take the necessary...
View ArticlePublic Folder Replication Fails Due To Empty Legacy Administrative Group
EDIT 10/18/2010: Removed the reference to upcoming fix (no fix current planned).Some customers are finding that when they try to replicate their public folder content to Exchange 2010, it will not...
View ArticlePatching the Multi-Role Server DAG
One of the things about Exchange 2010 that many of my customers find very attractive (and I have to agree with them) is the idea of the multi-role or “all-in-one” DAG server. This means having all...
View ArticleEMC and certificates with failed revocation checks in Exchange 2010
Starting with Exchange Server 2007, we added protection for Exchange data paths to Client Access Servers using SSL. SMTP communication between transport servers is also protected using TLS. To ensure...
View ArticleReleased: Software Update 1 for ForeFront Threat Management Gateway (TMG)...
The ForeFront product team has just released Software Update 1 for Microsoft Forefront TMG SP1 that fixes the issue with ForeFront TMG 2010, ForeFront Protection for Exchange and Exchange 2010 SP1 on...
View ArticleRemoving specific messages from your Exchange Server
Ever so often, an Exchange administrator faces a situation where messages that fit specific criteria need to be removed from a large number of mailboxes or from Exchange transport queues. The need may...
View ArticleExRCA: Now supporting 10 additional languages
Last year, we announced the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer and usage continues to grow as people become aware of this web site. Today, we are releasing a new version which will help us reach an...
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