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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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