While the Edge server role is a great idea for Exchange 2007, it seems to lack some basic functionality. I had one client that wished to have the Outlook client safe sender lists aggregated automatically every day…so I cooked this up. Seems to work fine!
Schedule this to run every 24 hours to update user’s safe [...]
I have seen several broken instances of autodiscover and other Exchange 2007 web services.
Generally fixing these involves…
Verifying internal and external DNS matches (for a single server setup)
autodiscover.domain.com -> cname to mail.domain.com
mail.domain.com -> points to actual exchange server
Make sure this matches on the outside to make things smooth -> external dns should point to those public [...]
This is a fantastic tool that can be installed on an Exchange server that runs content filtering (edge, or hub transport (if you have the anti-spam stuff installed)).
http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/2007/10/exchange-2007-content-agent-log-message.html
I have put the tool here for safekeeping…
cagenttracker
Exchange 2007 can be a bear to configure with SSL properly. I have spent a few afternoons fixing issues caused by certificate issues!
Here’s a brief walk-through I have used in the past to get a UCC applied and working for all functions.
Remove the old exchange cert (if applicable)
You won’t need to do this for a [...]
Recently worked on a email server project where the client had several groups and users with email addresses containing # and other special characters….
This prompted me to review allowable characters in email addresses…
I found this article which sums it up nicely.
http://www.remote.org/jochen/mail/info/chars.html
In short…just use a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, _, +, and .
Notes from a recent project for a client…
To make exchange 2007 & ISA 2006 work together…
listener – 1 listener to support http & https (cuz we want the http->https redirect to work, we must expose port 80)
imported the proper certificate…
redirecto ALL http traffic to https
no authentication metod (means you must set each firewall rule to [...]
I was working on migrating an exchange organization from old to new hardware.
And…
Public folders were are again difficult to work with…because replication is a funny animal.
Long story short – I used the following exchange cmdlets -
This will get the replicas moved automatically -
moveallreplicas.ps1 -server [old server] -newserver [new server]
Then wait for a long time!
Then run [...]