RE: P2v - from a physical Dell server to a VMware virtual server

[Michael B. Smith]

A SAN, per se, doesn't enter into the equation.

You have I/O requirements, CPU requirements, and memory requirements. How you 
meet those - Exchange doesn't care.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Leedy, Andy [mailto:ale...@butlerschein.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 3:09 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: P2v - from a physical Dell server to a VMware virtual server

"Every virtualized Exchange horror story i've heard of has been the result of 
poorly planned storage or virtural resources (over committment)."

I've always been afraid to virtualize Exchange due to the high I/O, CPU, and 
memory requirements.

Is a SAN recommend?

-Andy


From: Alex Fontana [mailto:afontana...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 3:01 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: P2v - from a physical Dell server to a VMware virtual server

Not really assuming you take the proper precautions; dismounting databases, 
stopping services, having a good backup standing by.  You also need to remember 
to remove any old OEM software left behind that is used to monitor hardware, 
drivers, etc.  Those use up resources that you probably won't want to be 
wasting.

The usual advice is to spin up a new VM, install Exchange and migrate mailboxes 
using the native methods.

Of course, as Steven mentioned - make sure your resources are adequate, 
especially the storage you plan to host this on.  Every virtualized Exchange 
horror story i've heard of has been the result of poorly planned storage or 
virtural resources (over committment).

-alex
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Shih, Henry 
mailto:hms...@ci.livermore.ca.us>> wrote:

We plan to perform a p2v on our Exchange 2003 server because the hardware 
warranty will be expired soon. Is there any issue of performing p2v on Exchange 
server?

Thanks.

Henry Shih
City of Livermore
www.ci.livermore.ca.us



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SCR Failover questions

[Paul Gordon]

Peeps, I have an upcoming task to perform a DR test for a client whereby we 
intend to test the failover process of the SCC mailbox cluster to a standby 
server that is an SCR target for all the storage groups on that production 
server. 

I’m perfectly happy with the configuration & monitoring of the SCR copies, and 
also with the actual failover, using database portability to bring the standby 
copies of the databases online, and move-mailbox (configurationonly) all the 
users to the new location.. that’s all fine & Dandy…

The bit I’m not sure about is how best to continue in the simulated failover 
mode of operation, whilst allowing for seamless failback onto the prod hardware 
at the end of the test, which is expected to be about 24-hours. The plan is to 
fail over to DR hardware on a Saturday, fail back to prod on Sunday, and have 
everything running sweet as a nut again for all the users on Monday morning. 

Because this is intended to be a fairly realistic, thorough & representative 
test, the mail service will be running “live” for that 24 hour period on the 
standby hardware, and this includes receiving all inbound mail for the 
production domain name during that period. – This means the Exchange databases 
on the standby hardware will have new content that won’t exist on the “live” 
server… - and since these are actually in different locations over a WAN link, 
it’s not a simple matter to simply take a copy of the most current EDB file 
from the standby server to mount back on the live server…

So, what I was wondering is: - at the point I failover the databases onto the 
standby server, both will be in the same state (In respect of the sync status), 
so what would be really useful would be to enable SCR back in the OTHER 
direction, so that the production server then becomes the SCR target and thus 
keeps ITS copy of the databases up to date with all new content that comes in 
to the standby server. I’m quite happy about doing that too, but I’m not 
certain whether I can just enable SCR to the currently existing EDB file on the 
production server without having to reseed it again from scratch… - thus far, 
I’ve only ever setup SCR from “clean”, where seeding has always been required…

So, - if I have two servers, each with an identical copy of a database, can I 
enable SCR between them using the existing EDB file as the initial seed, and 
thus NOT have to resync the whole database over the WAN again? – ideally, I’d 
just like to have it ship the logs back to the “live” server for the 24 hour 
test period, so that at the end I can just perform the same process in reverse 
to restore everything back to the normal running state…

I’ve been trying to research this for the last week, but every article I’ve 
found only goes as far as I’ve already gone, - i.e. setting up & starting SCR, 
and performing a failover, at which point all articles I've found consider the 
process complete…

TIA

Paul Gordon

RE: SCR Failover questions

[Campbell, Rob]

I believe you'll need to blow away the DBs on the production servers, set them 
back up as SCR targets and re-seed everything.

If this is intended to be a thorough test, representative of a real disaster 
recovery scenario the assumption would be that the primary site is destroyed 
and everything in it will need to be replaced, and that would be representative 
of the process that will be required to fail back to the primary site afterward.

-Original Message-
From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gor...@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 8:17 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: SCR Failover questions

Peeps, I have an upcoming task to perform a DR test for a client whereby we 
intend to test the failover process of the SCC mailbox cluster to a standby 
server that is an SCR target for all the storage groups on that production 
server. 

I’m perfectly happy with the configuration & monitoring of the SCR copies, and 
also with the actual failover, using database portability to bring the standby 
copies of the databases online, and move-mailbox (configurationonly) all the 
users to the new location.. that’s all fine & Dandy…

The bit I’m not sure about is how best to continue in the simulated failover 
mode of operation, whilst allowing for seamless failback onto the prod hardware 
at the end of the test, which is expected to be about 24-hours. The plan is to 
fail over to DR hardware on a Saturday, fail back to prod on Sunday, and have 
everything running sweet as a nut again for all the users on Monday morning. 

Because this is intended to be a fairly realistic, thorough & representative 
test, the mail service will be running “live” for that 24 hour period on the 
standby hardware, and this includes receiving all inbound mail for the 
production domain name during that period. – This means the Exchange databases 
on the standby hardware will have new content that won’t exist on the “live” 
server… - and since these are actually in different locations over a WAN link, 
it’s not a simple matter to simply take a copy of the most current EDB file 
from the standby server to mount back on the live server…

So, what I was wondering is: - at the point I failover the databases onto the 
standby server, both will be in the same state (In respect of the sync status), 
so what would be really useful would be to enable SCR back in the OTHER 
direction, so that the production server then becomes the SCR target and thus 
keeps ITS copy of the databases up to date with all new content that comes in 
to the standby server. I’m quite happy about doing that too, but I’m not 
certain whether I can just enable SCR to the currently existing EDB file on the 
production server without having to reseed it again from scratch… - thus far, 
I’ve only ever setup SCR from “clean”, where seeding has always been required…

So, - if I have two servers, each with an identical copy of a database, can I 
enable SCR between them using the existing EDB file as the initial seed, and 
thus NOT have to resync the whole database over the WAN again? – ideally, I’d 
just like to have it ship the logs back to the “live” server for the 24 hour 
test period, so that at the end I can just perform the same process in reverse 
to restore everything back to the normal running state…

I’ve been trying to research this for the last week, but every article I’ve 
found only goes as far as I’ve already gone, - i.e. setting up & starting SCR, 
and performing a failover, at which point all articles I've found consider the 
process complete…

TIA

Paul Gordon


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RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

[Paul Steele]

When installing the UC cert, should the original Microsoft cert be
deleted? I still think this issue is somehow related to a certificate
problem...

 

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] 
Sent: May-12-10 2:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

I also tried 

 

Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol:TCP
-GetDefaultsFromAutoDiscover:$true

 

and it worked as well...

 

 

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] 
Sent: May-12-10 2:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

I tried these two commands, to verify RPC and HTTP connectivity:

 

Test-OutlookConnectivity -RpcProxyTestType:Internal -RpcTestType:Server

Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol:Http
-GetDefaultsFromAutoDiscover:$true

 

Both completed without errors. I tried an Outlook session configured
using Outlook Anywhere and Outlook just keeps prompting for username and
password. For some reason Outlook doesn't like the credentials even
though they are valid. I'm very puzzled...

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: May-12-10 12:47 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

In Exchange Management Shell, on the Exchange Server, run the
Test-OutlookConnectivity cmdlet. Read the help first, so you know what
to expect.

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:01 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

I ran the tests at textexchangeconnectivity.com and they all pass except
for the first one, Exchange ActiveSync. If I tell it to ignore the
certificate validity check, then it also work. The detailed error is:

 

"Host name acadiau.ca does not match any name found on the server
certificate e=r...@acadiau.ca, CN=www.acadiau.ca, OU=Technology
Services, O=Acadia University, L=Wolfville, S=Nova Scotia, C=CA"

 

It would imply that it expected to find acadiau.ca or www.acadiau.ca in
the cert, but I'm not sure why it's using those entries. My UC cert has
three entries and they appear to work properly for the other tests, and
in OWA. We never had a cert on Exchange 2003, but the UC cert I got from
Digicert seem to install properly. I don't reference www.acadiau.ca
anywhere as far as I know.

 

The problem I'm encountering is that Outlook (any version) won't connect
to the server. As I started troubleshooting, I've also discovered that
POP3 and MAPI connections fail as well. The only way I can connect to
the server is using OWA or through my iPod Touch. I'm pretty sure this
whole problem occurred when I installed the UC cert, although I'm not
100% sure. I had been using OWA for my testing so I didn't notice when
Outlook broke. I suspect it's going to be another one of those
situations where I need to check some box some place. It's just not
obvious what needs to be done.

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: May-12-10 9:24 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

Are you attempting to connect directly (i.e., MAPI) or while using
AutoDiscover/OutlookAnywhere?

 

What does testexchangeconnectivity.com say?

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:20 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

I've tried Outlook 2007 and 2010 under XP, Vista, and Windows 7

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: May-11-10 8:31 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

What version of Outlook?

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7:21 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

We've encountered yet one more problem on our new Exchange 2010 server.
When the server install was first completed, one of the first things I
did was create a test account and connected to it using Outlook. It
worked as expected. OWA also worked fine, as did access to the account
from an iPod Touch. When Outlook tries to verify the user account, it
says it can't connect to the Exchange server. One thing I've done since
the install was completed was install a UC certificate and it works as
expected with OWA. Being paranoid I removed the UC cert and assigned
services back to the default Exchange cert, but that didn't help. At
this point I'm not even sure if it's a certificate problem. 

 

I tried setting up Windows Mail using both POP3 and IMAP protocols, and
both of those protocols failed as well. The error message indicates that
the server is rejecting the use

RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

[Michael B. Smith]

Doesn't matter whether you delete it or not. "Most" people run with the default 
cert for SMTP and a SAN cert for everything else. If you run a 
Get-ExchangeCertificate, you need a "W", and a "S" on valid certificates. The 
others ("I", "P") are secondary to the first two.

I'm kinda at a loss. You might try those same tests from a workstation that has 
the management tools installed, instead of from the Exchange Server itself.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 9:29 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

When installing the UC cert, should the original Microsoft cert be deleted? I 
still think this issue is somehow related to a certificate problem...

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: May-12-10 2:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

I also tried

Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol:TCP -GetDefaultsFromAutoDiscover:$true

and it worked as well...


From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: May-12-10 2:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

I tried these two commands, to verify RPC and HTTP connectivity:

Test-OutlookConnectivity -RpcProxyTestType:Internal -RpcTestType:Server
Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol:Http -GetDefaultsFromAutoDiscover:$true

Both completed without errors. I tried an Outlook session configured using 
Outlook Anywhere and Outlook just keeps prompting for username and password. 
For some reason Outlook doesn't like the credentials even though they are 
valid. I'm very puzzled...

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: May-12-10 12:47 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

In Exchange Management Shell, on the Exchange Server, run the 
Test-OutlookConnectivity cmdlet. Read the help first, so you know what to 
expect.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:01 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

I ran the tests at textexchangeconnectivity.com and they all pass except for 
the first one, Exchange ActiveSync. If I tell it to ignore the certificate 
validity check, then it also work. The detailed error is:

"Host name acadiau.ca does not match any name found on the server certificate 
e=r...@acadiau.ca, CN=www.acadiau.ca, OU=Technology 
Services, O=Acadia University, L=Wolfville, S=Nova Scotia, C=CA"

It would imply that it expected to find acadiau.ca or 
www.acadiau.ca in the cert, but I'm not sure why it's 
using those entries. My UC cert has three entries and they appear to work 
properly for the other tests, and in OWA. We never had a cert on Exchange 2003, 
but the UC cert I got from Digicert seem to install properly. I don't reference 
www.acadiau.ca anywhere as far as I know.

The problem I'm encountering is that Outlook (any version) won't connect to the 
server. As I started troubleshooting, I've also discovered that POP3 and MAPI 
connections fail as well. The only way I can connect to the server is using OWA 
or through my iPod Touch. I'm pretty sure this whole problem occurred when I 
installed the UC cert, although I'm not 100% sure. I had been using OWA for my 
testing so I didn't notice when Outlook broke. I suspect it's going to be 
another one of those situations where I need to check some box some place. It's 
just not obvious what needs to be done.

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: May-12-10 9:24 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

Are you attempting to connect directly (i.e., MAPI) or while using 
AutoDiscover/OutlookAnywhere?

What does testexchangeconnectivity.com say?

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:20 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

I've tried Outlook 2007 and 2010 under XP, Vista, and Windows 7

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: May-11-10 8:31 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

What version of Outlook?

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7:21 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

We've encountered yet one more problem on our new Exchange 2010 server. When 
the server install was first completed, one of the first things I did was 
create a test account and connected to it using O

RE: P2v - from a physical Dell server to a VMware virtual server

[Martin Blackstone]

The OEM software part will bite you in the a**. If your Windows version is
OEM, don't P2V it.

We P2V'd our "original" Exchange 2003 server. It worked fine. We also use a
SAN so we were not disk bound by the ESX host.

Since we are a SAN shop all our ESX hosts are pizza boxes with 2 disks in a
RAID config. All datastores and block storage is hosted on the SAN.

But if you don't have a SAN, you need to make sure your ESX host can handle
the disk IO of Exchange. If you have a good disk config, it very well may.
Mine never would.

 

Since that time, I've migrated to a "fresh" 2003 server and are now
migrating to 2010. All on the same SAN since we are not disk bound by the
ESX host.

 

How are your ESX hosts configured?

 

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 4:25 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: P2v - from a physical Dell server to a VMware virtual server

 

A SAN, per se, doesn't enter into the equation.

 

You have I/O requirements, CPU requirements, and memory requirements. How
you meet those - Exchange doesn't care.

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Leedy, Andy [mailto:ale...@butlerschein.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 3:09 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: P2v - from a physical Dell server to a VMware virtual server

 

"Every virtualized Exchange horror story i've heard of has been the result
of poorly planned storage or virtural resources (over committment)."

 

I've always been afraid to virtualize Exchange due to the high I/O, CPU, and
memory requirements. 

 

Is a SAN recommend?

 

-Andy

 

 

From: Alex Fontana [mailto:afontana...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 3:01 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: P2v - from a physical Dell server to a VMware virtual server

 

Not really assuming you take the proper precautions; dismounting databases,
stopping services, having a good backup standing by.  You also need to
remember to remove any old OEM software left behind that is used to monitor
hardware, drivers, etc.  Those use up resources that you probably won't want
to be wasting.

 

The usual advice is to spin up a new VM, install Exchange and migrate
mailboxes using the native methods.

 

Of course, as Steven mentioned - make sure your resources are adequate,
especially the storage you plan to host this on.  Every virtualized Exchange
horror story i've heard of has been the result of poorly planned storage or
virtural resources (over committment).

 

-alex

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Shih, Henry 
wrote:

We plan to perform a p2v on our Exchange 2003 server because the hardware
warranty will be expired soon. Is there any issue of performing p2v on
Exchange server?

Thanks.

Henry Shih
City of Livermore
  www.ci.livermore.ca.us

 



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RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

[Paul Steele]

I tried the management tools from a notebook and the
test-exchangeconnectivity checks are successful. The
Get-ExchangeCertificate on the server shows IP.WS on the SAN Cert, so I
guess that's correct as well. 

 

When I try setting up Windows Mail in POP3 mode, I get the error:

 

Account: 'exchange2.acadiau.ca', Server: 'exchange2.acadiau.ca',
Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR Command is not valid in this
state.', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error
Number: 0x800CCC91

 

With an IMAP connection, I get the error "The server has rejected your
login. Please verify that the username and password are correct."

 

I tried setting the event logging for POP3 and IMAP to highest, but I'm
not getting any authentication errors listed. What event service
controls logging for authentication requests? I didn't see anything
obvious in the list of possible event categories. Maybe it will have a
better explanation of why the server is rejecting the logins.

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: May-13-10 10:34 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

Doesn't matter whether you delete it or not. "Most" people run with the
default cert for SMTP and a SAN cert for everything else. If you run a
Get-ExchangeCertificate, you need a "W", and a "S" on valid
certificates. The others ("I", "P") are secondary to the first two.

 

I'm kinda at a loss. You might try those same tests from a workstation
that has the management tools installed, instead of from the Exchange
Server itself.

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 9:29 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

When installing the UC cert, should the original Microsoft cert be
deleted? I still think this issue is somehow related to a certificate
problem...

 

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] 
Sent: May-12-10 2:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

I also tried 

 

Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol:TCP
-GetDefaultsFromAutoDiscover:$true

 

and it worked as well...

 

 

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] 
Sent: May-12-10 2:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

I tried these two commands, to verify RPC and HTTP connectivity:

 

Test-OutlookConnectivity -RpcProxyTestType:Internal -RpcTestType:Server

Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol:Http
-GetDefaultsFromAutoDiscover:$true

 

Both completed without errors. I tried an Outlook session configured
using Outlook Anywhere and Outlook just keeps prompting for username and
password. For some reason Outlook doesn't like the credentials even
though they are valid. I'm very puzzled...

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: May-12-10 12:47 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

In Exchange Management Shell, on the Exchange Server, run the
Test-OutlookConnectivity cmdlet. Read the help first, so you know what
to expect.

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:01 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

I ran the tests at textexchangeconnectivity.com and they all pass except
for the first one, Exchange ActiveSync. If I tell it to ignore the
certificate validity check, then it also work. The detailed error is:

 

"Host name acadiau.ca does not match any name found on the server
certificate e=r...@acadiau.ca, CN=www.acadiau.ca, OU=Technology
Services, O=Acadia University, L=Wolfville, S=Nova Scotia, C=CA"

 

It would imply that it expected to find acadiau.ca or www.acadiau.ca in
the cert, but I'm not sure why it's using those entries. My UC cert has
three entries and they appear to work properly for the other tests, and
in OWA. We never had a cert on Exchange 2003, but the UC cert I got from
Digicert seem to install properly. I don't reference www.acadiau.ca
anywhere as far as I know.

 

The problem I'm encountering is that Outlook (any version) won't connect
to the server. As I started troubleshooting, I've also discovered that
POP3 and MAPI connections fail as well. The only way I can connect to
the server is using OWA or through my iPod Touch. I'm pretty sure this
whole problem occurred when I installed the UC cert, although I'm not
100% sure. I had been using OWA for my testing so I didn't notice when
Outlook broke. I suspect it's going to be another one of those
situations where I need to check some box some place. It's just not
obvious what needs to be done.

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: May-12-10 9:24 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subjec

RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

[Michael B. Smith]

Are you enabling ssl/tls on those connections? Or did you turn it off at the 
server?

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 10:41 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

I tried the management tools from a notebook and the test-exchangeconnectivity 
checks are successful. The Get-ExchangeCertificate on the server shows IP.WS on 
the SAN Cert, so I guess that's correct as well.

When I try setting up Windows Mail in POP3 mode, I get the error:

Account: 'exchange2.acadiau.ca', Server: 'exchange2.acadiau.ca', Protocol: 
POP3, Server Response: '-ERR Command is not valid in this state.', Port: 110, 
Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC91

With an IMAP connection, I get the error "The server has rejected your login. 
Please verify that the username and password are correct."

I tried setting the event logging for POP3 and IMAP to highest, but I'm not 
getting any authentication errors listed. What event service controls logging 
for authentication requests? I didn't see anything obvious in the list of 
possible event categories. Maybe it will have a better explanation of why the 
server is rejecting the logins.

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: May-13-10 10:34 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

Doesn't matter whether you delete it or not. "Most" people run with the default 
cert for SMTP and a SAN cert for everything else. If you run a 
Get-ExchangeCertificate, you need a "W", and a "S" on valid certificates. The 
others ("I", "P") are secondary to the first two.

I'm kinda at a loss. You might try those same tests from a workstation that has 
the management tools installed, instead of from the Exchange Server itself.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 9:29 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

When installing the UC cert, should the original Microsoft cert be deleted? I 
still think this issue is somehow related to a certificate problem...

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: May-12-10 2:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

I also tried

Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol:TCP -GetDefaultsFromAutoDiscover:$true

and it worked as well...


From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: May-12-10 2:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

I tried these two commands, to verify RPC and HTTP connectivity:

Test-OutlookConnectivity -RpcProxyTestType:Internal -RpcTestType:Server
Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol:Http -GetDefaultsFromAutoDiscover:$true

Both completed without errors. I tried an Outlook session configured using 
Outlook Anywhere and Outlook just keeps prompting for username and password. 
For some reason Outlook doesn't like the credentials even though they are 
valid. I'm very puzzled...

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: May-12-10 12:47 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

In Exchange Management Shell, on the Exchange Server, run the 
Test-OutlookConnectivity cmdlet. Read the help first, so you know what to 
expect.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:01 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

I ran the tests at textexchangeconnectivity.com and they all pass except for 
the first one, Exchange ActiveSync. If I tell it to ignore the certificate 
validity check, then it also work. The detailed error is:

"Host name acadiau.ca does not match any name found on the server certificate 
e=r...@acadiau.ca, CN=www.acadiau.ca, OU=Technology 
Services, O=Acadia University, L=Wolfville, S=Nova Scotia, C=CA"

It would imply that it expected to find acadiau.ca or 
www.acadiau.ca in the cert, but I'm not sure why it's 
using those entries. My UC cert has three entries and they appear to work 
properly for the other tests, and in OWA. We never had a cert on Exchange 2003, 
but the UC cert I got from Digicert seem to install properly. I don't reference 
www.acadiau.ca anywhere as far as I know.

The problem I'm encountering is that Outlook (any version) won't connect to the 
server. As I started troubleshooting, I've also discovered that POP3 and MAPI 
connections fail as well. The only way I can connect to the server is using OWA 
or through my iPod Touch. I'm pretty sure this whole problem occurred when I 
installed the UC cert, although I'm not 100% s

Microsoft office 2007 ost limit.

[David Baca]

I was wondering if anyone could tell me if they have ever increased this ost 
file limit and what is the maximum limit is for a 2007 ost file (i know 20 GB 
is the default limit but I want to find out what the recommended maximum is 
without corruption of the ost file.)  


  

Exchange 2003 Public Folder content resends

[Rick Fischer]

Is there a way to resend changes for a specific period of time without going 
into each individual folder and selecting Tasks? If there a way to send changes 
from a top folder level and have it go down the entire folder structure?

Thanks

Re: Microsoft office 2007 ost limit.

[Orland, Kathleen]

Have you read this? 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832925 

Kathleen Orland


  - Original Message - 
  From: David Baca 
  To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
  Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 12:53 PM
  Subject: Microsoft office 2007 ost limit.


  I was wondering if anyone could tell me if they have ever increased this ost 
file limit and what is the maximum limit is for a 2007 ost file (i know 20 GB 
is the default limit but I want to find out what the recommended maximum is 
without corruption of the ost file.)  

Last Conference Room Reservation?

[sms adm]

How can I programmably get the latest reservation date for all my conference
rooms?

Thx in advance

RE: Last Conference Room Reservation?

[Michael B. Smith]

Using exchange web services (2007 and 2010). Webdav (using 2003).

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: sms adm [mailto:sms...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 1:33 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Last Conference Room Reservation?

How can I programmably get the latest reservation date for all my conference 
rooms?

Thx in advance

Re: Last Conference Room Reservation?

[sms adm]

We have Exchange 2003.
How would I use Webdav to do this?

Thx

Brian

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote:

> Using exchange web services (2007 and 2010). Webdav (using 2003).
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Michael B. Smith
>
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
>
>
>
> *From:* sms adm [mailto:sms...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 13, 2010 1:33 PM
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Last Conference Room Reservation?
>
>
>
> How can I programmably get the latest reservation date for all my
> conference rooms?
>
> Thx in advance
>
>


-- 
smsadm

RE: Last Conference Room Reservation?

[Michael B. Smith]

You asked for a programmatic way to do it - which made me presume you were a 
programmer! :-P

Google/bing "exchange 2003 webdav request". You'll get plenty of pointers.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: sms adm [mailto:sms...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 3:02 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Last Conference Room Reservation?

We have Exchange 2003.
How would I use Webdav to do this?

Thx

Brian
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Michael B. Smith 
mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
Using exchange web services (2007 and 2010). Webdav (using 2003).

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: sms adm [mailto:sms...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 1:33 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Last Conference Room Reservation?

How can I programmably get the latest reservation date for all my conference 
rooms?

Thx in advance



--
smsadm

Re: Last Conference Room Reservation?

[sms adm]

I'm far from being a programmer :)
I just don't want to open hundreds of conference rooms to check manually.
I'll google and see what I can find.

Thx

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote:

> You asked for a programmatic way to do it – which made me presume you were
> a programmer! :-P
>
>
>
> Google/bing “exchange 2003 webdav request”. You’ll get plenty of pointers.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Michael B. Smith
>
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
>
>
>
> *From:* sms adm [mailto:sms...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 13, 2010 3:02 PM
>
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: Last Conference Room Reservation?
>
>
>
> We have Exchange 2003.
> How would I use Webdav to do this?
>
> Thx
>
> Brian
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Michael B. Smith 
> wrote:
>
> Using exchange web services (2007 and 2010). Webdav (using 2003).
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Michael B. Smith
>
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
>
>
>
> *From:* sms adm [mailto:sms...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 13, 2010 1:33 PM
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Last Conference Room Reservation?
>
>
>
> How can I programmably get the latest reservation date for all my
> conference rooms?
>
> Thx in advance
>
>
>
>
> --
> smsadm
>



-- 
smsadm

Auto accept agent on Exchange 2003 failing

[Damien Solodow]

Environment is Exchange 2003 SP2 Enterprise on Windows 2003 SP2
Enterprise. 

 

I've been running the auto-accept agent for a number of months without
issue, but the last day or two it's started throwing errors. 

I've reinstalled it, and reregistered a couple of the mailboxes to no
avail. I also tried registering a new mailbox and it behaved the same as
the existing ones.

 

Here's the error in the agent log:

AutoAccept:2010-05-13T14:59:00:Thread 178:

Exception occurred while processing item
"file://./backofficestorage/harrison.edu/MBX/6036thconfrmsmall/Inbox/Can
celed%3A Test.EML". This item will not be processed.

 

The exception information is:

System.OutOfMemoryException: Not enough storage is available to complete
this operation.

   at Private.Interop.Cdoex.ICalendarPart.GetAssociatedItem(String
CalendarLocation, String UserName, String Password)

   at
Microsoft.Exchange.Agents.AutoAccept.EventSink.GetAssociatedItem(Calenda
rMessage calMsg, String calendarLocation)

   at Microsoft.Exchange.Agents.AutoAccept.EventSink.BindToCalMsg(String
msgURL, String calendarLocation, IAppointment& inStoreAppt, String&
calMethod, DateTime& deliveryTime)

   at
Microsoft.Exchange.Agents.AutoAccept.EventSink.ProcessOnSaveEvent(String
itemUrl, DateTime& deliveryTime)

   at
Microsoft.Exchange.Agents.AutoAccept.EventSink.OnSave(IExStoreEventInfo
pEventInfo, String bstrURLItem, Int32 lFlags)

 

I'm not seeing anything unusual in the event logs on the Exchange server
and nothing new has been installed for at least several days before this
problem manifested.

Ideas?

 

DAMIEN SOLODOW

Systems Engineer

317.217.6881 (office)

317.217.6851 (fax)

HARRISON COLLEGE

603 East Washington Street

Suite 600

Indianapolis, IN 46204-2646

www.harrison.edu  

 

Re: Last Conference Room Reservation?

[sms adm]

A lot of .Net out there.
I can handle vbscript, but there isn't much out there.
I'll narrow my search



On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:35 PM, sms adm  wrote:

> I'm far from being a programmer :)
> I just don't want to open hundreds of conference rooms to check manually.
> I'll google and see what I can find.
>
> Thx
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Michael B. Smith 
> wrote:
>
>> You asked for a programmatic way to do it – which made me presume you were
>> a programmer! :-P
>>
>>
>>
>> Google/bing “exchange 2003 webdav request”. You’ll get plenty of pointers.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael B. Smith
>>
>> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>>
>> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* sms adm [mailto:sms...@gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 13, 2010 3:02 PM
>>
>> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
>> *Subject:* Re: Last Conference Room Reservation?
>>
>>
>>
>> We have Exchange 2003.
>> How would I use Webdav to do this?
>>
>> Thx
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Michael B. Smith 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Using exchange web services (2007 and 2010). Webdav (using 2003).
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael B. Smith
>>
>> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>>
>> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* sms adm [mailto:sms...@gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, May 13, 2010 1:33 PM
>> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
>> *Subject:* Last Conference Room Reservation?
>>
>>
>>
>> How can I programmably get the latest reservation date for all my
>> conference rooms?
>>
>> Thx in advance
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> smsadm
>>
>
>
>
> --
> smsadm
>



-- 
smsadm

Changing Reply-To address

[Bill Humphries]

Hi all,

I have a client that has been purchased by other company.  We are still 
maintaining separate email systems between the companies and parent 
company has email addresses at parent company forwarding to users 
accounts at our company.  Now some VPs here are VPs of the parent 
company also and want their reply to address to show @parentcompany.com 
instead of at company.com


We have a single Exchange 2003 box and users are all using Outlook 
2007.  Any way to change the default reply to address for just a few of 
my users?


Thanks for any help.

Bill

RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

[Paul Steele]

That was a stupid mistake on my part. The POP3/IMAP errors were red
herrings and have nothing to do with the Outlook connectivity issues.
It's definitely baffling though. What event logging categories might be
helpful in determining what's going on? I took a look at them and
nothing really jumped out. I want to see if the attempt to connect is
actually making it all the way to the Exchange server.

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: May-13-10 11:43 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

Are you enabling ssl/tls on those connections? Or did you turn it off at
the server?

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 10:41 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

I tried the management tools from a notebook and the
test-exchangeconnectivity checks are successful. The
Get-ExchangeCertificate on the server shows IP.WS on the SAN Cert, so I
guess that's correct as well. 

 

When I try setting up Windows Mail in POP3 mode, I get the error:

 

Account: 'exchange2.acadiau.ca', Server: 'exchange2.acadiau.ca',
Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR Command is not valid in this
state.', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error
Number: 0x800CCC91

 

With an IMAP connection, I get the error "The server has rejected your
login. Please verify that the username and password are correct."

 

I tried setting the event logging for POP3 and IMAP to highest, but I'm
not getting any authentication errors listed. What event service
controls logging for authentication requests? I didn't see anything
obvious in the list of possible event categories. Maybe it will have a
better explanation of why the server is rejecting the logins.

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: May-13-10 10:34 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

Doesn't matter whether you delete it or not. "Most" people run with the
default cert for SMTP and a SAN cert for everything else. If you run a
Get-ExchangeCertificate, you need a "W", and a "S" on valid
certificates. The others ("I", "P") are secondary to the first two.

 

I'm kinda at a loss. You might try those same tests from a workstation
that has the management tools installed, instead of from the Exchange
Server itself.

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 9:29 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

When installing the UC cert, should the original Microsoft cert be
deleted? I still think this issue is somehow related to a certificate
problem...

 

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] 
Sent: May-12-10 2:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

I also tried 

 

Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol:TCP
-GetDefaultsFromAutoDiscover:$true

 

and it worked as well...

 

 

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] 
Sent: May-12-10 2:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

I tried these two commands, to verify RPC and HTTP connectivity:

 

Test-OutlookConnectivity -RpcProxyTestType:Internal -RpcTestType:Server

Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol:Http
-GetDefaultsFromAutoDiscover:$true

 

Both completed without errors. I tried an Outlook session configured
using Outlook Anywhere and Outlook just keeps prompting for username and
password. For some reason Outlook doesn't like the credentials even
though they are valid. I'm very puzzled...

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: May-12-10 12:47 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

In Exchange Management Shell, on the Exchange Server, run the
Test-OutlookConnectivity cmdlet. Read the help first, so you know what
to expect.

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:01 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

 

I ran the tests at textexchangeconnectivity.com and they all pass except
for the first one, Exchange ActiveSync. If I tell it to ignore the
certificate validity check, then it also work. The detailed error is:

 

"Host name acadiau.ca does not match any name found on the server
certificate e=r...@acadiau.ca, CN=www.acadiau.ca, OU=Technology
Services, O=Acadia University, L=Wolfville, S=Nova Scotia, C=CA"

 

It would imply that it expected to find acadiau.ca or www.acadiau.ca in
the cert, but I'm not sure why it's using those entries. My UC cert has
three entries and they appear t

Nice tool

[Jason Gurtz]

I just discovered a nice service.

Send an email to check-a...@verifier.port25.com and you will get back a
very detailed report of various things that relate to your email
deliverability.

~JasonG

Zenith BDR & DAS

[ExchList]

I have a few clients that are now running out of space on their Exchange
servers that are being
backed up by a Zenith BDR.

I'd like to know if anyone has installed a Direct Attached Storage unit
(such as a Dell Power Vault MD1000) and have had issues with the BDR
agent backing it up. I know the documentation from Zenith mentions "no
external USB or eSATA" but I'm not getting a comfortable answer from
Zenith guys regarding this issue.

I hope I can clarify this soon!

Thanks in advance.

Joseph Danielsen

Network Blade LLC



 

 

<>

RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

[Michael B. Smith]

If testexchangeconnectivity and test-outlookconnectivity  work then you ARE 
making it all the way to the exchange server.

Then only other thing I can think of is using rpc-ping. That's not for the 
weak.. :-P

Check out the articles about it on support.microsoft.com.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 4:49 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

That was a stupid mistake on my part. The POP3/IMAP errors were red herrings 
and have nothing to do with the Outlook connectivity issues. It's definitely 
baffling though. What event logging categories might be helpful in determining 
what's going on? I took a look at them and nothing really jumped out. I want to 
see if the attempt to connect is actually making it all the way to the Exchange 
server.

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: May-13-10 11:43 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

Are you enabling ssl/tls on those connections? Or did you turn it off at the 
server?

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 10:41 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

I tried the management tools from a notebook and the test-exchangeconnectivity 
checks are successful. The Get-ExchangeCertificate on the server shows IP.WS on 
the SAN Cert, so I guess that's correct as well.

When I try setting up Windows Mail in POP3 mode, I get the error:

Account: 'exchange2.acadiau.ca', Server: 'exchange2.acadiau.ca', Protocol: 
POP3, Server Response: '-ERR Command is not valid in this state.', Port: 110, 
Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC91

With an IMAP connection, I get the error "The server has rejected your login. 
Please verify that the username and password are correct."

I tried setting the event logging for POP3 and IMAP to highest, but I'm not 
getting any authentication errors listed. What event service controls logging 
for authentication requests? I didn't see anything obvious in the list of 
possible event categories. Maybe it will have a better explanation of why the 
server is rejecting the logins.

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: May-13-10 10:34 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

Doesn't matter whether you delete it or not. "Most" people run with the default 
cert for SMTP and a SAN cert for everything else. If you run a 
Get-ExchangeCertificate, you need a "W", and a "S" on valid certificates. The 
others ("I", "P") are secondary to the first two.

I'm kinda at a loss. You might try those same tests from a workstation that has 
the management tools installed, instead of from the Exchange Server itself.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 9:29 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

When installing the UC cert, should the original Microsoft cert be deleted? I 
still think this issue is somehow related to a certificate problem...

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: May-12-10 2:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

I also tried

Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol:TCP -GetDefaultsFromAutoDiscover:$true

and it worked as well...


From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: May-12-10 2:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

I tried these two commands, to verify RPC and HTTP connectivity:

Test-OutlookConnectivity -RpcProxyTestType:Internal -RpcTestType:Server
Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol:Http -GetDefaultsFromAutoDiscover:$true

Both completed without errors. I tried an Outlook session configured using 
Outlook Anywhere and Outlook just keeps prompting for username and password. 
For some reason Outlook doesn't like the credentials even though they are 
valid. I'm very puzzled...

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: May-12-10 12:47 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

In Exchange Management Shell, on the Exchange Server, run the 
Test-OutlookConnectivity cmdlet. Read the help first, so you know what to 
expect.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 11:01 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook won't connect to Exch2010

I ran the tests at textexchangeconnectivity.com and they all pass except for 
the first one, Exchange ActiveSync. If I tell it to ignore the certificate

Re: Microsoft office 2007 ost limit.

[David Baca]

It tells me how to set the max but it doesn't say what the maximum allowed is 
before it becomes unstable.  Some would argue that 20 GB is the max. but I 
wanted to see if anyone has pushed the envelope. 






From: "Orland, Kathleen" 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 10:07:14 AM
Subject: Re: Microsoft office 2007 ost limit.

  
Have you read this? 
 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832925 

Kathleen Orland
 
 
- Original Message - 
>From: David 
>  Baca 
>To: MS-Exchange Admin 
>  Issues 
>Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 12:53 
>  PM
>Subject: Microsoft office 2007 ost 
>  limit.
>
>
>I was wondering if anyone could tell me if they have ever increased this 
>  ost file limit and what is the maximum limit is for a 2007 ost file (i know 
> 20 
>  GB is the default limit but I want to find out what the recommended maximum 
> is 
>  without corruption of the ost file.)  
>
>


  

RE: Microsoft office 2007 ost limit.

[Orland, Kathleen]

Currently it is limited by the size of your mailbox on the Exchange server
and available free space on your harddisk. 

 

From: David Baca [mailto:dbaca.gr...@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 7:36 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Microsoft office 2007 ost limit.

 

It tells me how to set the max but it doesn't say what the maximum allowed
is before it becomes unstable.  Some would argue that 20 GB is the max. but
I wanted to see if anyone has pushed the envelope. 

 

 

  _  

From: "Orland, Kathleen" 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 10:07:14 AM
Subject: Re: Microsoft office 2007 ost limit.




Have you read this? 

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832925 


Kathleen Orland

 

 

- Original Message - 

From: David Baca   

To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
  

Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 12:53 PM

Subject: Microsoft office 2007 ost limit.

 

I was wondering if anyone could tell me if they have ever increased this ost
file limit and what is the maximum limit is for a 2007 ost file (i know 20
GB is the default limit but I want to find out what the recommended maximum
is without corruption of the ost file.)  

 

 

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RE: Microsoft office 2007 ost limit.

[Orland, Kathleen]

Just to clarify, Unicode PST/OST files are limited to 20 GB unless the size
limit is changed with a registry value. This can be done through a GPO. 

 

From: David Baca [mailto:dbaca.gr...@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 7:36 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Microsoft office 2007 ost limit.

 

It tells me how to set the max but it doesn't say what the maximum allowed
is before it becomes unstable.  Some would argue that 20 GB is the max. but
I wanted to see if anyone has pushed the envelope. 

 

 

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From: "Orland, Kathleen" 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 10:07:14 AM
Subject: Re: Microsoft office 2007 ost limit.




Have you read this? 

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832925 


Kathleen Orland

 

 

- Original Message - 

From: David Baca   

To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
  

Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 12:53 PM

Subject: Microsoft office 2007 ost limit.

 

I was wondering if anyone could tell me if they have ever increased this ost
file limit and what is the maximum limit is for a 2007 ost file (i know 20
GB is the default limit but I want to find out what the recommended maximum
is without corruption of the ost file.)  

 

 

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Re: Changing Reply-To address

[Eric Woodford]

If you add the parent smtp address to their mailbox and set as a priamry,
then whatever they send out will come back to that Reply address.

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Bill Humphries wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a client that has been purchased by other company.  We are still
> maintaining separate email systems between the companies and parent company
> has email addresses at parent company forwarding to users accounts at our
> company.  Now some VPs here are VPs of the parent company also and want
> their reply to address to show @parentcompany.com instead of at
> company.com
>
> We have a single Exchange 2003 box and users are all using Outlook 2007.
>  Any way to change the default reply to address for just a few of my users?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Bill
>
>