Exchange – NDR – Undeliverable – Backscatter
Nov17

Exchange – NDR – Undeliverable – Backscatter

KB ID 0000047  Problem If you look on your Exchange “Queue Viewer” you may see A LOT of “Undeliverable” Massages that are NDR’s (Non Delivery reports) that your server is sending, this happens because the server receives a message for something like this-address-is-not-real@your-domain.com and it sends an NDR Back. Solution You can simply turn off NDR’s In the Exchange Management Console >...

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Exchange 2010 / 2007 Alternate-port SMTP
Nov17

Exchange 2010 / 2007 Alternate-port SMTP

KB ID 0000089 Problem I’ve used the no-ip service for years, and untill recently the Exchange box I ran gave me no problems, well it still does not, but now my wife has her Email on it as well, and because of reverse DNS Lookups, she cannot Email her friends at Hotmail etc. Instructions at the site (at the time of writing) are for Exchange 2003, which as you aware is a different beast altogether, so to make it work…....

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Exchange 2007 / 2010 OWA Blocks attachments
Nov17

Exchange 2007 / 2010 OWA Blocks attachments

Note this is for Outlook Web Access, for Outlook CLICK HERE KB ID 0000088  Problem There are certain reasons that OWA blocks particular file extensions, this is a good thing and I DO NOT RECOMMEND you change those settings, however there are situations where you need to, if you have to do this, I strongly suggest you change things back to how they are set up by default when you are finished. The error message you will see when OWA has...

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Exchange – Message Tracking
Nov17

Exchange – Message Tracking

KB ID 0000170 Problem Unlike 2000 and 2003 message tracking in Exchange 2007 is enabled by default. (for a 30 day period only – which would seem a sensible figure). Note: To disable message tracking, issue the following poweshell command “Set-TransportServer SERVERNAME –MessageTrackingLogEnabled $false” Solution To use, Note: The logs are in Program FilesMicrosoftExchange ServerTransportRolesLogsMessageTracking. To...

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452 4.3.1 Insufficient system resources(Event ID 15006 and 15002)
Nov17

452 4.3.1 Insufficient system resources(Event ID 15006 and 15002)

KB ID 0000165  Problem When attempting to send mail to an Exchange EMail Server, you see the above error message. Usually the Exchange can send mail out and exhibits no other problems. You may also see one of the following error messages in the servers event log. This is caused by an Exchange “Feature” Called “Back Pressure”, and the usual culprit is, there is less than 4Gb (Lowered to 500Mb with SP1) on the...

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Event ID 12014

KB ID 0000174  Problem Event ID 12014 Microsoft Exchange could not find a certificate that contains the domain name {name.domain.com} in the personal store on the local computer. Therefore, it is unable to support the STARTTLS SMTP verb for the connector SendConnector with a FQDN parameter of {name.domain.com}. If the connector’s FQDN is not specified, the computer’s FQDN is used. Verify the connector configuration and the...

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Your Out of Office Settings cannot be displayed
Nov17

Your Out of Office Settings cannot be displayed

KB ID 0000197 Dtd 04/03/10 Problem Seen on Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 talking to Exchange 2007 (Note this fixes Outlook 2007 but NOT 2010.) When opening the “Out Of Office Assistant.” Your Out of Office Settings cannot be displayed, because the Server is currently unavailable. Try Again Later Other Symtoms 1. You see hash marks in the Scheduling Assistant. 2. You see “Object reference not set to an instance of an...

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Exchange – Export Distribution Groups AND Members to a file
Nov17

Exchange – Export Distribution Groups AND Members to a file

KB ID 0000209  Problem Yes you can use the Powershell commands, Get-DistributionGroupMember –identity “group name” | ft name, primarysmtpaddress But you have to do that for every group and I’ve tried Piping the Get-DistributionGroup in there but it does not seem to want to work 🙁 Solution 1. Download this script and extract it to the root of the Exchange servers C: drive. 2. On the Exchange server > Click > Start > All...

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Exchange – Uninstall Error – Public Folder Database
Nov17

Exchange – Uninstall Error – Public Folder Database

KB ID 0000227 Problem While trying to uninstall Exchange 2007 you see the following error. “Uninstall cannot continue: Database ‘Public Folder Database’: The public folder database “server namestorage groupdatabase” contains folder replicas. Before deleting the public folder database remove the folders or remove the replicas to another public folder database.” WARNINIG: The following procedure...

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Exchange – Uninstall Error – Source Transport Server
Nov17

Exchange – Uninstall Error – Source Transport Server

KB ID 0000228 Problem While trying to uninstall Exchange 2007 you see the following error. “Error: This computer is configured as a source transport server for 1 connector(s) i the organization, These must be moved or deleted before Setup can continue.” If you have other Exchange Hub Transport servers then you need to add one of those to the send connector. In my case I’m removing the only Exchange box. Solution 1....

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