Tag Archives: Exchange

The exchange server address list service failed to respond

Posted by dave on December 3, 2010 No comments

I had an issue when moving and email alias on a user’s account over to a public folder. When I attempted to remove the email address from the user, It kept returning the error “The exchange server address list service …

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Importing and Enabling Certificates in Exchange 2007

Posted by dave on November 18, 2010 No comments

I recently renewed the Unified Communications Certificate on our Exchange 2007 server, well, a couple of months back. Anyway, today we started having a few issues with mails not sending via secure SMTP, and today was roughly when the previous …

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Problems with BESx – openmsgstore() failed

Posted by dave on October 12, 2010 No comments

A lot of people have blogged about problems with BESx and I had similar MAPI problems to everyone else. I tried literally everything yet I was still getting errors. PIN Messages would go through to the BlackBerry’s just fine, but …

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Defragging Exchange Server 2007

Posted by dave on October 4, 2010 No comments

This weekend I decided to defrag my Exchange box. I hadn’t done it for a while and knew it was overdue. It’s pretty straight forward, dismount the database in the Exchange Management Console, under Server Configuration – Mailbox – satabase …

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“File access is denied” when attaching a PST to Outlook

Posted by dave on September 29, 2010 No comments

When users leave the company, I tend to save their PST to a DVD to free up space on the Exchange server. The other day one of them needed an attachment from their mailbox, so the easiest way was to …

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Recovering deleted public folder items using PFDAVAdmin

Posted by dave on June 9, 2010 No comments

One of the users today deleted an item from one of the many public folders. Now, as it doesn’t have a recycle bin she was a little confused as to where it had gone, and to be honest, so was …

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 P2V Conversion

Posted by dave on March 13, 2010 No comments

Right, so it’s under way. I got into the office this morning (yes, Saturday), disabled the network adaptor for the external mail connector, I also stopped the information store service and stopped OWA. Basically, I didn’t want anyone making any …

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