Category: exchange
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Secret NSA Listening Ports in Exchange Server 2013? Of Course Not…
But what do those extra ports in Exchange Server 2013 that are listening actually do. If you bring up a command prompt on an Exchange Server 2013 machine and run netstat –ano | find “:25”. You will get back a list of IP addresses that are listening on any port starting 25. The last number…
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The Exchange Server Header Firewall
The below Header Firewall video was recorded as “pre-reading” for the Exchange 2010 MCM program. The website that originally hosted this video is no longer available, so I am reposting the video that I recorded here:
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Most Valued Professional Award
Dear Brian Reid, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2013 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Exchange Server technical communities during the past year. Also in this email: About…
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Ensuring Email Delivery Security with Exchange 2013
To force Exchange 2013 to guarantee the secure delivery of a message can be done a few different ways. In this version of the product and in previous versions it was possible to create a send connector for a given domain and enable Mutual TLS on the connector. Then all messages to the domain(s) that…
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Moving Exchange Online Protection Junk Mail to the Junk Email Folder
If you use Exchange Online Protection (EOP) to filter your email in the cloud and to remove spam and malware before onward delivery to you, and if you use Exchange 2007 or later on-premises, then you need to configure Exchange to move detected spam to the Junk Email folder in Outlook. By default EOP detects…
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Removing Edge Subscription When Exchange 2013 Installed
Exchange 2013 does not have an Edge role (at the time of writing – Aug 2013). It is possible to use Exchange 2010 SP3 and install the Edge role should you need one. There is a problem though when it comes to removing the Edge Subscription between an organization that contains Exchange 2013 servers and…
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Journal Alternative Mailbox and No Inbox Rules
In the event of your journal mailbox going offline, any journal reports destined for these mailboxes will queue. After two days (though this time is the expiry time for messages in your Exchange organization, so may be different) the message will expire and an NDR sent to the sender of the journal report. The problem…
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Queues Building to inboundproxy.com Domain
In Exchange 2013 there are a series of probes that monitor the health of the different components of the servers. One of these probes monitors the health of each Frontend Transport server and its ability to proxy messages to each of the 2013 mailbox databases in the Exchange organization. The monitoring happens by sending emails…
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Removing Old Exchange 2013/2016 Log Files
Update: 18th Sept 2014. An updated version of this script has been written by Thomas Stensitzki and can be downloaded from http://www.sf-tools.net/Messaging/tabid/55/EntryId/213/Updated-script-to-purge-Exchange-and-IIS-log-files.aspx. This updated version works on systems that have not used the default installation paths and it reads them automatically from the server. The below still works for users with default installation paths. Exchange 2013…
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IPv6 Routed LAN with Windows
This blog is written to note down the steps needed to configure IPv6 on the whole of your LAN using Windows Server 2008 R2 as the router, but without installing RRAS. It also uses Hurricane Electric’s IPv6 tunnel broker service to provide the IPv6 connectivity via an IPv4 tunnel as my internet provider (Virgin Media…
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Domain Secure and Edge Servers
I was asked a question recently on the Microsoft Certified Master course for Exchange 2010 and was told that the answer was not clearly written up on the internet. So I thought I would write this blog post. The question was based on the idea that Domain Secure worked from a Hub Transport server in…
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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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Enabling Exchange 2013 to Filter OneNote and Publisher Files
Exchange Server 2013 includes the Search Foundation product to index and search most of the file types that needed IFilters installed for in previous versions including PDF files, so the Adobe IFilter is no longer needed. That said, it does not filter OneNote and Microsoft Publisher files. To filter these files so that you can…
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Missing the Message Tracking Log Explorer in Exchange 2013? Not anymore…
Exchange 2013 has removed a number of user interfaces that existed in Exchange 2010, one of them being the Message Tracking toolbox utility: In Exchange 2013 you can search for an individual messages in the Exchange Control Panel (https://servername/ecp) by selecting mail flow > delivery reports. But this tool requires you to specify the source…
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Placing Exchange 2013 Into Maintenance Mode
Updated 5 Feb 2013 to include Redirect-Message cmdlet Exchange 2013 has a feature called Managed Availability. This feature detects issues with a server and in the event of an issue attempts to fix the component at issue. Fixes range from simple restarts of the component (for example restarting the service) to doing what is called…
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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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Creating GeoDNS with Amazon Route 53 DNS
UPDATE: 13 Aug 2014 – Amazon Route 53 now does native GeoDNS within the product – see Amazon Route 53 GeoDNS Routing Policy A new feature to Exchange 2013 is supported use of a single namespace for your global email infrastructure. For example mail.contoso.com rather than different ones for each region such as uk-mail.contoso.com; usa-mail.contoso.com…
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Recovering Exchange Items When Entourage Corruption Deleted Them From The Server
I have a client who has an Exchange 2003 server and uses Entourage for the Mac. Last week all his sent items disappeared. It seems the problem is that Entourage’s local database corrupted and sync’ed back to the server that all these items where now deleted! To recover them I used PFDAVAdmin from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=22427 and…
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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…