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Yesterday I began to really dive into a new user script (which uses Exchange Management Shell) to bring it up to date and include more fields and features. As the script complexity grew, Notepad was no longer cutting the mustard.
I thought I’d be using Notepad++ or TextPad, both fine in their own right, but instead [...]
Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ failed
A few months ago I had an Exchange Server 2007 install stop cold, caughing up this error:
Error:
Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server.
Apparently if you disable IPv6 on a Windows Server 2008 the error will occur. Not to be picky, but how many networks are actually using IPv6 and why is it installed by [...]
Exchange 2007 SP2
Yes! Exchange 2007 SP2 is finally available. I can’t wait to install it…a few weeks from now. Although I’m looking forward to some new features (Windows Backup plug-in), I will wait to see if there are any problems with the service pack first.
But for those of you who are adventurous or have test systems to [...]
Upgrading the Default Email Address Policy
One of the tasks to perform before removing the last Exchange 2003 server in a 2007 migration is upgrading the Default e-mail address Policy.
The method for upgrading the policy is to fire up the Exchange Command Shell and run the following command:
Set-EmailAddressPolicy “Default Policy” -IncludedRecipients AllRecipients
You may recieve the following error: Set-EmailAddressPolicy:The recipient policy “Default [...]
ActiveSync, Now Without Attachments
After migrating users from Exchange 2003 onto our 2007 cluster, we found that attachment viewing stopped working in ActiveSync.
The fix is to delete the ActiveSync profile on the phone (and maybe on the server, I did this via Outlook Web Access just to be sure) and then create a new one. There is a security policy on [...]
Assigning Certificates in Exchange 2007
I’ve wasted too much time in the past looking this information up and still have to dig around for the right command. I don’t imagine I’m the only one, so here’s what I’ve gathered together…
When manipulating the certificates at the command line (this article assumes you’re running all your commands within an Exchange Management Shell), it’s [...]
Availability Error
This error kept creeping up on our front-end Exchange 2007 server:
Event ID: 4011
Process 6168[w3wp.exe:/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/EWS-1-128806932311406509]: Configuration for forest corp1.contoso.com was not found in Active Directory. Run the Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace command in the Exchange Management Shell for an Exchange Server 2003 Active Directory forest.Luckily the answer was on theTechNet site, I just ran this using the EMS…
Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace -ForestName Contoso.com -AccessMethod PublicFolder
Soon [...]
Hub Transport Warning during Exchange 2007 Install
This is sort of a bogus warning, but it comes up when installing Exchange 2007 integrated with Service Pack 1.
“Setup cannot detect an SMTP or Send connector with an address space of ‘*’.”
A quick search came up with a Microsoft KB article stating you need to add an SMTP Send Connector after setup. This task always [...]
Exchange 2007 PurportedSearch Error
This “PurportedSearch” error was a hard one to track down. I was installing the Mailbox role, for the Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 migration, and during the perquisites stage it would error out because there was an invalid character present in a custom Recipient Policy, as listed below:
Mailbox Role Prerequisites
Failed
Error:
An unexpected ‘(‘ character is found [...]
OWA 2007 E-mail Display Issue when a Plus Sign is in the Subject
This was a particularly odd issue, e-mails wouldn’t display in the web browser when a plus sign was present in the subject line. This manifested on a Windows Server 2008 system with Exchange 2007.
The answer was actually on a TechNet blog dedicated to Entourage, thanks to Amir for the answer. It makes sense that it would [...]