“Delivery has failed” error When Scheduling a Resource

There are plenty of answers to the error message: “Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists:   Jane Doe Your message wasn’t delivered because of security policies…” In our case, Jane Doe was no longer an employee and her account was disabled. The sender of the message was requesting a meeting with someone who had [...]

Exchange 2003 RPC over HTTPS – Easy

If you remember way back in September of 2003, (I don’t, had to look up the date), a new version of Exchange Server was released with a new and really cool feature, RPC over HTTPS. This allowed for use of Outlook outside the company’s network without the need for VPN. What a huge boon for [...]

Script Samples

There are times when I spent an inordinate amount of time looking for just the right syntax for a command or even the correct command to get the job done. Here are four I put to use in the last few months… Change Printer Spooler Service Recovery options to Restart sc failure spooler reset= 60 actions= [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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