Brian Reid – Microsoft 365 Subject Matter Expert

Category: exchange

  • Career Factor: The reality show

    Starting January 18th, check out Microsoft’s Career Factor, a real-time, online, interactive reality show.  It will tell the stories of nine real individuals around the world, each working to improve their IT careers.  During the next five months, each will be working toward a career goal with the help of Microsoft, its partners, and the…

  • Random Chinese Characters in Exchange 2010 SP1 Emails

    I have been sent a few emails from a client that start like this: 格tml> 格ead> 猼tyle㰾!– .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Tahoma } –>⼼style> ⼼head> 㰊body class=’hmmessage’> The HTML characters repeat throughout the message, but not on every message, though those sent from Hotmail are typically affected (but it…

  • MCM Exchange 2010 Video Previews

    Updated 6th October 2013: With the removal of the MCM classes from Microsoft Learning’s provision of training and certification, I have posted this video content on my own blog at http://c7solutions.com/2013/10/the-exchange-server-header-firewall-mcm/ — Fame at last! Well not really, but here (http://blogs.technet.com/b/themasterblog/archive/2010/12/28/mcm-exchange-video-preview.aspx) is a video introducing the MCM Exchange class posted on the MCM Blog. The…

  • GoDaddy SSL Certificate Approval with TXT Records

    I had a bit of an issue with Go Daddy yesterday in that they took 5 days to approve a Subject Alternative Name change to a certificate, and as the usual route of adding a file to a website was unavailable to me I decided to prove ownership of the domain by the addition of…

  • Unknown Error, Outlook 2003 and Exchange 2010

    It’s a well documented issue with Outlook 2003 connecting to Exchange 2010 that means Outlook 2003 is not as responsive in Online mode as it was with legacy versions of Exchange Server (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2009942). What is less well documented is an odd error message that can appear because of this interaction. Imagine the following scenario. User…

  • iPhone 4 and Exchange 2003/2010 ActiveSync Slow Performance

    This is a well known problem now, and has been since the first releases of the iPhone 4 in July 2010. Later updates to iOS (4.1 and later) do not exhibit this problem, but if you are upgrading an Exchange 2003 organization to Exchange 2010 there comes a point where you switch over the endpoints…

  • VirtualBox

    We are presenting at Exchange Connection 2010 later this year, and I need to set up some demo machines. I need my demo to run Exchange 2010, which is a 64bit application and I do not have guaranteed internet access so I cannot run my demo’s via my lab machines in the UK. But I…

  • Restrictive Throttling Policies in Exchange 2010

    Exchange Server 2010 has the ability to limit user and administrative actions. But in testing this feature in a lab I set the default policy (which by default affects everyone, including the Administrator account) to a policy that stopped me undoing the policy again! I ran Set-ThrottlingPolicy def* -PowerShellMaxConcurrency 1 -PowerShellMaxCmdletsTimePeriod 1000 -PowerShellMaxCmdlets 1 which…

  • Message Tracking Logs ‘And/Or’ Error

    The following message appears in the Exchange Server 2003 message tracking logs: The object ‘and/or’ in the message tracking logs can’t be found in the directory.  The object may have been deleted.  The tracking history may be incorrect. This is an error that can be ignored as it does not mean that the email message…

  • Enabling ActiveSync on a Sony P1i with a GoDaddy Certificate

    GoDaddy issued certificates are not trusted by the Sony P1i phone and so if you are using a GoDaddy issued digital certificate for ActiveSync on one of these phones you will be prompted to accept the certificate at each sync. As this kills the purpose of push email sync you will want to stop the…

  • SBS and WEBS 2008 Backup Fails to Backup Exchange Server

    The following errors are reported in the Event Log Windows Logs/Application when you run the built-in backup that is part of Small Business Server 2008 (SBS) or Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (WEBS): Event ID 565 – Consistency check for component StorageGroup-GUID\’Microsoft Exchange Server\Microsoft Information Store\SERVER’ failed. Application ‘Exchange’ will not be avaliable in the…

  • SMTP Server for Orange Mobiles Running Windows Mobile 6

    For a while now I have been unable to send my personal email from my mobile phone (running WM6 on the Orange network in the UK). I could download email via IMAP from my server (not hosted by Orange), but never send. So after doing a bit of research I discoved that the SMTP server…

  • Exchange Server 2007 Rollup Update 5

    The latest version of the Exchange 2007 update is Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 – this can be downloaded from here (64 bit and 32 bit versions now available). Microsoft plan to do these releases rather than issue hotfixes as the method of engineering Exchange has changed since the previous versions, and KB937194…

  • Exchange 2007 Clustering on Windows 2008

    I have just spent an hour or three installing two Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition boxes to create an Exchange 2007 SCC cluster using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 to create the environment. But I did not get that far, as Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering shared storage requires SAS (Serial SCSI) or iSCSI and not…

  • ERROR_REPLICA_SYNC_FAILED_THE TARGET PRINCIPAL NAME IS INCORRECT

    This rather imposing message is found if you try to force replication between to Active Directory Domain Controllers when one of the controllers machine account password is out of sync with the password as stored on the other domain controller. I have seen this a number of times on Virtual PC or Virtual Server Active…

  • Update Rollup # For Exchange Server 2007

    Blog updated 22nd February 2008 As Microsoft plan to release Update Rollups for Exchange Server 2007 every six to eight weeks (see KB937194), I will use this blog entry to list the current latest update: The latest version of the Exchange 2007 update is Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 – this can be…

  • Creating Subject Alternative Name Certificates with Microsoft Certificate Server

    A new feature in digital certificates is the Subject Alternative Name property. This allows you to have a certificate for more than one URI (i.e. www.c7solutions.com and www.c7solutions.co.uk) in the same certificate. It also means that in web servers such as IIS you can bind this certificate to the site and use up only one…

  • Exchange Management Shell

    I need a place to store useful Powershell commands for the administration of Exchange Server 2007, so I thought I would add them here: Upgrading Exchange Organisation Place Replicas of Public Folders on New Exchange Server get-publicfolder -recurse Set-PublicFolder -Replicas:”server\public folder database”,”server\public folder store (server)” Enable ActiveSync Policy for Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphones and Pocket…

  • P1 and P2 Headers in SMTP

    P1 = the value on the MAIL FROM command of the SMTP connection (the message envelope) as defined in RFC 821. P2 = the email address in the message body as defined in RFC 822. These include the FROM, REPLY TO and SENDER fields For example, the following SMTP command sequence describes where P1 and…

  • Unable to Delete Active Directory Object

    Whilst doing some tests on an Active Directory to do with permissions I removed all the permissions apart from SYSTEM. This proved what I wanted to prove, but I then could not delete the object or reset its permissions etc. to tidy up my test environment. A search on the web for the problem returned…

  • Connecting a Windows SmartPhone to Exchange Server Protected with a Private Certification Authority Digital Certificate

    Having recently obtained my first Windows Mobile powered SmartPhone, I needed to connect to my Exchange Server over the internet using ActiveSync. For those of you unfamiliar with Windows Mobile SmartPhones, they let you connect, using the phones internet connection (typically over a GPRS network), to your Exchange 2003 Servers to download your email at…