Category: 2010
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Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Spam Filtering to Outlook’s Junk E-Mail Folder
Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) is a cloud hosted email anti-spam and antivirus filtering system. Amongst the options to filter away your spam, one of the options to to allow the email to be flagged and sent on into your on-premises email system, and then managing it there. If you have Exchange 2007 or…
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Exchange 2013 Transport Agents
Earlier today I posted http://blog.c7solutions.com/2012/10/creating-simple-exchange-server.html on how to create a transport agent in Exchange, and though the steps cover some of the detail for Exchange Server 2013 they do not cover some of the detail, so I’ve added that to this post below: Use .NET Framework 4.0 for Exchange 2013 though it is possible to…
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Creating a Simple Exchange Server Transport Agent
This blog post follows a session that I delivered at the MEC 2012 conference in Orlando. If you attended the conference the slides are available on http://mymec.mecisback.com for the rest of 2012. Part of the transport agents session was writing a new transport agent, and the example agent was to do add a form of…
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Installing and Configuring AD RMS and Exchange Server
Earlier this week at the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC 2012) I led a session titled Configuring Rights Management Server for Office 365 and Exchange On-Premises [E14.314]. This blog shows three videos covering installation, configuration and integration of RMS with Exchange 2010 and Office 365. For Exchange 2013, the steps are mostly identical. Installing AD RMS…
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Create Shadow Redundancy Cross Forest in Exchange 2010
Send connector cross forest shadow redundancy New-SendConnector ToTailspin -AddressSpaces SMTP:tailspin.com -SmartHosts mail.tailspin.com -ProtocolLoggingLevel verbose -DNSRoutingEnabled $False -SmartHostAuthMechanism ExternalAuthoritativeGet-SendConnector ToTailspin | Add-ADPermission -user “MS Exchange\Externally Secured Servers” -ExtendedRights ms-Exch-SMTP-Send-XShadow Receive connector cross forest shadow redundancy New-ReceiveConnector FromFabrikam -RemoteIPRanges 192.168.100.1 -Bindings 0.0.0.0:25 -ProtocolLoggingLevel verbose -Banner “220 Tailspin XShadow SMTP Server” -AuthMechanism ExternalAuthoritative Get-ReceiveConnector FromFabrikam | Add-ADPermission…
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How To Speed Up Exchange Server Transport Logging
In Exchange 2010 SP1 and later any writing to the transport log files for activity logging (not the transaction logging on the mail.que database) is cached in RAM and written to disk every five minutes. In a lab environment you might be impacted by this as you might have sent an email and want to…
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Configuring Exchange Server 2013 Unified Messaging With 3CX and Not AsteriskNOW
This article is an addendum to my blog series on configuring Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2013 with AsteriskNOW. AsteriskNOW is a easy to install version of Asterisk 1.8 in that it includes the underlying OS and the FreePBX software. The problem with Asterisk 1.8 is that it does not work well with the…
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Building An Exchange Unified Messaging Lab (Part 8)
In the extended series of blog posts we are looking at creating a unified messaging lab for Exchange Server. So far we have looked at installing a software PBX (AsteriskNOW) and configuring Exchange Server (both 2010 and 2013) to accept calls from our PBX. We have also looked and configuring our PBX to send and…
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Building An Exchange Unified Messaging Lab (Part 7)
In this series of blog posts I am looking at creating a Unified Messaging lab for Exchange Server 2010 (and 2013). Earlier posts have looked at the installation of the PBX (AsteriskNOW) and the configuration of the Exchange Server. This post will look at the configuration of the user’s settings. For each user there are…
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Building An Exchange Unified Messaging Lab (Part 6)
Earlier parts in this blog have talked about VoIP, configured AsteriskNOW software PBX and configured inbound and outbound calls via the PBX. Now it is time to configure voicemail to be provided by Exchange Server 2013 and for the telephone users to be able to call Exchange an listen to their voicemail. In addition to…
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Building An Exchange Unified Messaging Lab (Part 5)
Earlier parts in this blog have talked about VoIP, configured AsteriskNOW software PBX and configured inbound and outbound calls via the PBX. Now it is time to configure voicemail to be provided by Exchange Server and for the telephone users to be able to call Exchange an listen to their voicemail. In addition to listening…
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Building An Exchange Unified Messaging Lab (Part 4)
This blog post series is the steps to build a working unified messaging lab for Exchange Server. I thought I would write it all down as I found a lack of end to end documentation for the process and what I thought would be a days work turned into many as I worked at finding…
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Building An Exchange Unified Messaging Lab (Part 2)
This series of blog posts started with Part 1 where we discussed the requirements of the lab and what you would need from any PBX that you might have to hand. Part 2 (and the next few parts) will look at installing AsteriskNOW to provide a software PBX to support the Exchange Server unified messaging…
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Building An Exchange Unified Messaging Lab (Part 3)
This blog is part of a series on creating a unified messaging lab for Microsoft Exchange Server. Configuring Unified Messaging was not as easy as I thought it would be and there was a lack of information that brought all the settings into one place, and a lot of incorrect information! The series started with…
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Merge Exchange 2010 Personal Archive Back to Primary Mailbox
A feature of Exchange 2010 SP1 was to store “older” emails in a different database and to have that database on a cheaper storage subsystem. Given that Exchage primary mailboxes work very well on slower storage anyway you could well be in the position of needing to move archived content, that is content moved to…
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Building an Exchange Unified Messaging Lab
This is a project I have been meaning to do for some time, and when I got around to doing it found it to be harder than I expected it to be. So this blog series covers the steps needed to build a Unified Messaging lab utilising Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft Lync Server along…
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Highly Available Geo Redundancy with Outbound Send Connectors in Exchange 2003 and Later
This is something I’ve been meaning to write down for a while. I wrote an answer for this question to LinkedIn about a week ago and I’ve just emailed a MCM Exchange consultant with this – so here we go… If you configure a Send Connector (Exchange 2007 and 2010) or Exchange 2003 SMTP Connector…
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Starting Exchange When You Have Active Directory Issues
I had a call the other day from a company who had Exchange issues. One investigation it turned out they had a very suspect Active Directory and no-one would admit to what they had actually done to get it in such a state! One server (DC1) would not talk to the other DC’s (Kerberos issues…
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Restricting Message Sizes in Exchange Server to Low Bandwidth Sites
Exchange Server has a series of different settings for controlling the maximum message size into and around an Exchange organization, but what about when parts of your organization have a considerably lower bandwidth than other parts, for example offices with servers in rural or hard to reach locations and require satellite WAN links or ships…
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Fix Federation Trust Issues After Exchange Server Recovery
I had a need to recover an Exchange Server following a blue screen after patching that I could not undo. I had the databases intact, and of course Active Directory was installed on a different server so I installed a new server and ran setup /m:recoverserver (after installing all the updates and hotfixes that is).…
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Hosting Exchange 2010 and Issues With Duplicate Contacts
When you are creating a hosted Exchange system using the Exchange 2010 On Premises product (not the /hosting version of the product) it is likely that if two or more of your customers create a mail contact in the global address list (GAL) for the same external email recipient they will see some issues with…