Okay Microsoft, you are doing a good job of evangelizing Windows 7 and more importantly, this time around you are getting a lot of help from the consumers of the operating system.  People love the operating system and they are willing to spread the news for you – or maybe for themselves since everyone likes to bear good news.  You should be proud of that but you should also remember that everyone is going to find out about your new OS pretty much whether you advertise or not.&nbs... [More]

I wanted to put together a list of common alerts from ExBPA, and ExTRA in one location. I have provided my customer with tons of health checks and though the information in the tools are great sometimes I find that more information is needed for additional knowledge of the problem and more importantly how to resolve the issue and any side effects with making changes. I will continue to add to this list but here is a good starting point.   ExBPA Critical: MaxPageSize   The maximum... [More]

We want to wish everyone happy holidays and a great new year!  We hope that this season finds you and your families well.  You may have noticed that we have taken a small break from blogging during the holiday.  This season we decided to give this time back to our family.  We will be back posting again early in the new year.  We'll also be adding a few new pages and a little different view.  See you all again soon!

One of the worst things about Exchange is dealing with public folders. Has many of you know sometimes you will come into a situation where you need to delete a Public Folder from ADSIEdit. I have been working with Exchange for a long time and have had the opportunity to work in some large and very complex environments and situations but, to this day nothing gets my heart racing like messing around with Public Folders in ADSIEdit. I have put together a lab to show you some of the steps needed to ... [More]

When opening the properties of a mail-enabled Public Folder you get the error message, The mail proxy for this folder cannot be found. This may be due to replication delays. The mail enabled pages will not be shown. ID no: c1038a21. There are a couple reasons behind why this issues is being generated. I put together some common troubleshooting steps that might help resolve this issue for you.   Here are some of the more common troubleshooting steps: 1. Make sure the MESO contai... [More]

When preparing Exchange 2007 in an Exchange 2003 or older environment certain commands must to ran to get the environment ready for Exchange 2007.   In larger environments where the AD group and Exchange groups are segmented beware that having an administrator outside the Exchange team run Setup /p will add their account to the Exchange Org admin and an Exchange full administrator. You can safely remove the account used to run setup /p just beware the account will be added to these gro... [More]

When using a self-signed cert along with ActiveSync there are some steps needed to install the certificate on the windows mobile phone. It is important to understand these steps otherwise the phone will not be able to access email from your Exchange servers.   1.        Setup Phone a.       From the welcome screen click Next b.      Enter the correct Time Zone, Date, and Time c.   &... [More]