Tag Archives: Exchange

Controlling Microsoft Exchange store.exe Memory Usage

Posted by dave on February 2, 2013 No comments

As we all know, Exchange will grab all the memory that it can. Anyway, my PRTG monitor was continually reporting the Exchange box had around only 5% memory and so it was time to do something about it. The fix …

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Exporting Mailboxes to PST’s using Powershell in Exchange 2010

Posted by dave on October 5, 2012 No comments

As part of a user leaving, I decided on protocol to backup their mailbox to a PST before deleting their mailbox from Exchange, just incase. This can be achieved very easily with a bit of powershell.

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Changing another users Out Of Office message in Exchange 2010

Posted by dave on October 5, 2012 No comments

So a user goes on holiday and either sets the wrong OOO or doesn’t set one at all. Previously I would have reset the users password, logged in as them and then set it correctly. Not a brilliant solution, but …

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Unable to find BESx users in Active Directory

Posted by dave on April 4, 2012 No comments

Today I was adding a new user to our BESx server. However, when I went to create a new user I was told that: “The BlackBerry Administration Service cannot find the records you were looking for. Verify the search criteria …

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Cheap Exchange UC Certificates

Posted by dave on January 12, 2012 No comments

My Unified Comms certificate for Exchange was up for renewal, Digicert emailed and called me to renew it, although I must say the guy that rang (from the States I think) did sound like he had just woken up, maybe …

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Turning off NDRs (Non Delivery Reports) in Exchange 2007

Posted by dave on July 27, 2011 No comments

To turn of NDR’s in Exchange 2007, open up the Exchange Management Console, then go to: Organisation Configuration Hub Transport Remote Domains Default tab Message Format Uncheck ‘Allow non-delivery reports’

Installing ASSP Email Spam Filter on a Windows Server

Posted by dave on July 27, 2011 3 comments

In an attempt to combat spam, I have in the past tried various solutions, the most effective were the IP Block Lists within Exchange. However, since zen.spamhaus.org stopped working (anyone know why?), this hasn’t been quite so reliable. Another option …

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Preventing Out Of Office Messages being sent Externally

Posted by dave on July 25, 2011 No comments

Out of Office messages can be quite useful and most people tend to use them when they are on holiday etc. There are a few downsides though. Spammers can use them to verify correct email addresses and can also fire …

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Anti-Spam Solution with PFSense Country IP Block Plugin

Posted by dave on February 9, 2011 No comments

I currently us a few different tools combined to help combat spam. I have Exchange 2007 monitoring mails and also I also use block list providers within Exchange. Today I came across the Country Block plugin for PFSense which will …

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