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 [...]
Exchange 2007 Logging, Part Deux
I covered setting the logging level for IMAP with the Exchange Management Shell a few weeks ago, but I keep coming up with more items to track. The expected syntax is below.
Set-EventLogLevel “MSExchange ActiveSync\Requests” -Level High
To find the available processes for logging (you put them between the quotes if spaces are present) enter Get-EventLogLevel in the Exchange Shell [...]
Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer
This has been covered a number of places before, but this is really cool and bares repeating. This free testing site, with it’s amble result data, can be invaluable when rolling out Exchange services. Whether it’s ActiveSync, Inbound SMTP, RPC/HTTPS, plus more, this Microsoft troubleshooting website is great. (And the SMTP test works with more than [...]
Turn Up IMAP Logging in Exchange 2007
This one took me a little while to find, but there are two ways to modify IMAP logging in Exchange 2007. (BTW, I’m trying to get cross-site connectivity with IMAP to work.)
Open Regedit, go to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchange IMAP\Diagnostics and change the General value to something useful for you: 0 (Lowest), 1 (Low), 3 (Medium), 5 (High), and 7 [...]
Microsoft IFilter Pack
Thanks to Paul Thurrott for posting this about the MS IFilter pack made available last week.
These Office 2007 search filters can be added to SharePoint, Exchange and SQL so that the new Office files based on XML can be indexed by the search service.
These filters are already apart of Windows Desktop Search 4.0 in Vista, XP [...]
Evaluate Exchange 2007 on 32-bit
Since hands-on experience is the best teacher, I highly recommend using Exchange 2007 quite a bit before putting it into production. This release, which I’m sure you’ve already read, is quite different than the Exchange 2000/2003 that came before. It’s a similar jump that was Exchange 5.5 to 2000 in functionality and UI.
Get the free [...]
Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008
I’ve just begun a project involving an Exchange 2007 deployment on Windows 2008, one FE (Hub and CAS roles) with a clustered BE (Mailbox role only), the Edge role will be Sendmail.
This is an intra-organization migration replacing a single Exchange 2003 server. Part of this is getting the prerequisites out of the way. TechNet has a couple [...]
Free Exchange Presentations
One of my favorite tech authors, Jim McBee, just posted his slide decks from the past Connections conferences. I’ve just reviewed a couple of of them and there’s definitely gold in there; like what to setup for monitoring and logging in Exchange 2003 and lessons from Exchange 2007 migrations.
This is an excellent free resource for [...]