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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Exchange System Manager 2003 for Vista

I want to thank Nathan Winters for this gem, there’s now a Excange 2003 System Manager for Vista you can download from Microsoft.
I fault the 3rd party hardware and software manufacturers with the many compatibility issues that have plagued Vista, when they had a FIVE YEAR window for development (HP Photo printer anyone?), but to have [...]

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 [...]

Oh no!!! It’s 8-bit MIME

Recently a customer was experiencing mail delivery failures:
Action: failed
Status: 5.6.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;554 5.6.1 Body type not supported by Remote Host
 Turns out that the Windows SMTP service (what Exchange 2000/2003 uses to transfer mail)  advertises 8-bit MIME, which isn’t compatible with some mail servers (they were using Postfix). In any case it was causing a lot of [...]