Exchange administration Questions


Is there an exchange daily sent message limit?
You can adjust maximum message size (including attachmet size) per message. Is there an exchange daily sent message limit per user? Can a max limit be put for a user to send messages but with a total sent message size of maximum 10 mb limit per day? Is it possible via existing exchange settings or [...]

Answer Question   |  October 26, 2011  1:08 PM
Exchange administration, Microsoft Exchange
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6,893 pts.

Ticketing System for Exchange 2010 support
Can any one suggest me a good email ticketing support system can works with exchange ?

Answer Question   |  March 14, 2012  6:37 AM
Exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange administration, Windows Server 2003
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5 pts.

Can’t check administrator mailbox in Exchange 2007
I have MS Exchange 2007 on Windows 2k3 x64 bit server. After I’ve done with installation and configuration, I can’t POP3 the administrator account even though I checked or unchecked the SSL options on the advanced tab of Outlook Express as well as the Log on using Secured Password authenciation. Other admin or user accounts are [...]

Answer Question   |  October 15, 2011  8:08 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 administration, Exchange administration, POP3 accounts
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15 pts.

Setting up an internal Exchange server
Can we run an internal Exchange server that has no access to email outside of the network? How would we set this up?

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  1:48 PM
Exchange administration, Exchange infrastructure (xi), Exchange security
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755 pts.

Exchange Mailboxes that are not using the default size
My company has recently set the size of Mailboxes into a default size which is 1GB per user. We had to reset the mailbox size manually for some users. Anyways my manager asked me to get him a list of all the users who are not using the default mailbox size, I don’t want a [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  4:02 AM
Exchange 2007, Exchange administration, Exchange Management, Microsoft Exchange Rules
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5 pts.

Difference between Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010
Hello, I am planning to undergo a training course in MS Exchange 2010 however, not getting any good trainer for the same. Can you please tell me how different is Exchange 2010 from 2007, thanks.

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  3:57 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Exchange administration, Exchange Training
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5 pts.

Exchange 2003 error messages
Exchange 2003 is generating a 5.1.0 error when sending email to a known good address. The email is a reply to the sender who sent an email to me. How can I fix this and is it an indication of bigger issues?

Answer Question   |  June 15, 2011  2:39 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 error messages, Exchange administration, Exchange error messages
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1,110 pts.

Emails showing up in root of mailbox in OWA (Exchange 2003) — why?
We’re running Exchange 2003 on Windows Server 2003 with Sunbelt VIPRE for email security.  I had a user complain of a strange issue that he is experiencing when using OWA in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. When he clicks on his name at the root of his mailbox’s folder structure (or in FireFox when he [...]

Answer Question   |  July 1, 2011  12:46 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange administration, Internet Explorer Batch Scripts, OWA
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4,990 pts.

Creating new domain user in Windows Server 2003 and 2008
What process do I use for creating a new domain user, Exchange account and shared drives? Can I use a script for this? How do I automate this on my Windows Server 2003 or 2008 network?

Answer Question   |  June 13, 2011  6:08 PM
Automation, Domain Users, Exchange administration, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008
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755 pts.

Real Sender in Exchange 2010
When someone gives another user the necessary permissions to send an email on behalf of him/her, for instance a manager giving his/her secretary the permissions to do so. It’s not possible to find out the identity of the real sender. We tried this scenario, but in the exchange logs we couldn’t find any trace to [...]

Answer Question   |  September 4, 2011  7:11 AM
Exchange 2010, Exchange 2010 Administration, Exchange administration, Windows Server 2008
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95 pts.

Best practices for backing up Exchange server to a tape drive
What is the best practice when it comes to backing up an Exchange server, message stores and all, to a tape drive? Is NTbackup sufficient or should we look at backup exec or brightstore?

Answer Question   |  May 19, 2011  6:36 PM
Backup, Backup Exec, BrightStor, Exchange administration, Exchange Backup, NTBackup
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755 pts.

Upgrading Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010
Hi. i have Exchange server 2003 enterprise edition SP2 on my Domain Forest. Exchange mode is : Native mode. Domain functional level is Windows 2003 server mode. Operation system is Wondows 2008 server. I want upgrade Exchange server 2003 to Exchange server 2010 and get error [strong]Setup /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions[/strong] Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Unattended [...]

Answer Question   |  May 10, 2011  7:03 AM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2010, Exchange administration, Exchange upgrades
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1,220 pts.

Cached Exchange Mode?
When Outlook is configured with Cached Exchange Mode, is it viewing emails from the server? and when there’s a disconnection, it reads from the .ost file? Or does it view emails from the .ost file and only communicates to the server to sync? Thanks.

Answer Question   |  October 6, 2011  2:30 AM
Cache Mode, Exchange 2010, Exchange administration, Outlook 2007
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35 pts.

Exchange 2003 Public Folder New Mail Items Got Read Status.
Hello, A couple of users complain that thet new mail come with the status read (opend). I checked the setting within outlook and exchange manger, reade pane and maintain per user read … A stupid action could be exporting and recreate the public folder, even this could be the solution, its not good for honour [...]

Answer Question   |  March 14, 2011  11:01 AM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 administration, Exchange administration, Exchange Folders, Exchange Public Folders
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5 pts.

Need to shutdown Exchange server
we need to shut down our Exchange server for some maintainence work for about 3 hours,can any one tell me what the step that has to be taken care that after starting Exchange again, it work smothly.and is there any thing that has to do to Mailbox server.

Answer Question   |  March 9, 2011  6:38 AM
Exchange 2010, Exchange 2010 Administration, Exchange administration, Shutdown procedure
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360 pts.

Switch the email address in Exchange
Hi  I am not sure if this is called “multiple sender address”. Say I have 2 email addresses – abc@a.com and abc@b.com. In Exchange 2003 when you set abc@a.com as the default email address, you would not able to switch to abc@b.com to the sender address.  Has these been change in Exchange 2010?

Answer Question   |  February 24, 2011  3:54 PM
Exchange 2010, Exchange administration, Exchange user settings
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5 pts.

Adding more than one email in one Exchange 2007 account
I have just finished setting up Exchange 2007 yesterday and someone was wanting to know away to add another email address into their exchange account. For example. An account is setup for user@domain.com (main exhange server domain) And he wants to add domain2.com into the same account. (So like how it’s setup in Outlook)

Answer Question   |  February 9, 2011  11:15 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange administration, Exchange email group account, Windows Server 2007, Windows server administration
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30 pts.

Exchange Administrator
h, we have two CAS-HUB server running with exchange 2010, the problem i facing is that CAS-HUB1 is responding very slow and whereas CASHUB2 is working fine, can any one tell me what is the cause for the slowness on CASHUB1.

Answer Question   |  January 26, 2011  12:08 PM
CAS-HUB server down, Exchange, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2010 Administration, Exchange administration
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360 pts.

NetApp Snapmanager for Exchange Backup Troubles
We use netApp snapmanager for Exchange 5.0 for exchange database backup. We observe, everyday some Storage groups are missing from the Backup, though the status says “Backups of storage groups completed succesfully”. I have checked with some fellow admins on the same, they all say, it is a common problem with the SME, Has anyone [...]

Answer Question   |  August 25, 2011  12:32 PM
Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange administration, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange database, NetApp
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10 pts.

Exchange Task permission
Hi, New here. Can someone let me know how to create a Task in Exchange and Limit the permission to the end-user so they can’t delete, modify or change it? I want them to simply update it as completed when done so, it will be recurring every weekday. Thanks for the help! (Outlook 2003)

Answer Question   |  January 11, 2011  6:45 PM
Exchange, Exchange administration, Exchange Tasks, Outlook 2003, Permissions and settings, Windows Server 2003
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5 pts.