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April 30, 2011  9:40 PM

Recovering Exchange 2003



Posted by: Raj Perumal
Exchange 2003, Recovery Storage Group, restore Exchange, RSG

Hi folks, so you have a failed Exchange 2003 server and you need to do a recovery. With all the Exchange 2010 installs out there now, sometimes it's easy to forget how you use to do things. Well never fear it's pretty straightforward. As long as you are backing up your Exchange server with a...

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July 31, 2010  11:16 PM

Save money using Exchange hosting



Posted by: Raj Perumal
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Exchange hosting

Hi folks! These days there is a huge need for the collaboration abilities of Exchange. However most small businesses can't afford the costs of managing and maintaining it. What do you do in these cases? You can host your email at an Exchange hosting provider. Believe it or not, a lot of people...

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June 30, 2009  3:31 PM

Microsoft Direct Push Technology



Posted by: Raj Perumal
BlackBerry, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, iPhone, Microsoft Direct Push Technology, mobile device, Palm Pre, push e-mail, smartphone, Windows Mobile

Hi folks, so I wanted to talk a little bit about push technology as it relates to mobile devices. This is something that RIM has had for a long time with it's BlackBerry devices. This was one of the major things that set RIM apart from the competition. For example, push technology is when you...

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October 10, 2008  12:37 AM

SSL and Migrating Public Folders in Exchange 2003



Posted by: Raj Perumal
0 folders found in pfmigrate.wsf, Exchange, Exchange 2003, Exchange System Manager, HTTPS, IIS, outlook web access, Public Folders, RPC, RPC over HTTP/S, SSL, SSL error, SSL error viewing public folders

The other day I ran into an interesting problem with public folders. Someone was trying to run the pfmigrate.wsf utility (the same utility I mentioned in my blog) and they couldn't get the script to recognize the public folders. The tool said that there were 0 public folders to migrate. When...

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October 6, 2008  3:45 AM

Migrating public folders to a newly installed Exchange Server



Posted by: Raj Perumal
Exchange 2003, Exchange Server 2003, pfmigrate.wsf, public folder migration

When migrating your mailboxes to a new server you can't forget the ever important public folders. Public folders aren't just for shared folders that you create on your own but they also include the required system public folders which allow Exchange to operate. When migrating to a new server you...

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September 27, 2008  3:12 PM

Problems moving disabled Exchange 2003 mailboxes to a new server…



Posted by: Raj Perumal
Article ID 278966, Associate External Account, Associated External account, disabled accounts, Disabled mailboxes, Exchange 2003, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278966, Mailbox Rights, Microsoft support, move mailbox wizard, msExchMasterAccountSID, Q278966, SELF, SID, Windows 2003

Here's an interesting problem that will come up for you from time to time when doing Exchange server migrations. If you go to move mailboxes using the mailbox migration wizard built into Exchange, you'll find that the wizard will fail on moving any mailboxes that have had their Active Directory...

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September 8, 2008  3:44 PM

Assigning the proper permissions for besadmin on BlackBerry Enterprise Server



Posted by: Raj Perumal
Assigning permissions for the BlackBerry Enterprise Ser, BES, BES administrator, BES permissions information store, BES service account, besadmin, Blackberry Enterprise Server, BlackBerry Enterprise Server service account, Doc ID KB02276, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, information store, permissions, receive as, send as, service account

Sometimes the problems administrators run into with BES are simply due to improper permissions. The besadmin account (the BlackBerry administrator account) requires certain permissions to do it's job correctly. More often than not we find out that someone has been mucking around with the...

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