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2011-06-21 Initial Post

BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.2.28

If you select to delete or disable a BES user and select one of the respective options below, what this does is deletes the special, hidden, BES folder tree named “BlackBerryHandheldInfo” from the root of the user’s Exchange Server mailbox. (more...)

2011-06-21 Initial Post

Exchange Server 2003 SP2
Exchange Server 2010 SP1

I don’t recall specifically reading about this anywhere, but I thought about this last week when we had a request to allow an application server to relay e-mail messages to an external domain. It made sense and I tested it out and it work as expected. Here's what happened:

If you have an application server that needs to send e-mail outside your organization, you can either allow that application server to relay, or you can create a contact entry for the external e-mail address. If the application server only needs to send to a few external addresses, creating contacts for each would be preferred over allowing the application server to relay. (more...)

2011-06-16

Exchange Server 2010 SP1

I contacted MS support the other week to verify if a paging/page file is still necessary in Exchange 2010, given the fact that Exchange 2010 is 64-bit and can utilize well over 4 GB RAM/memory. This was the response:

This question is frequently asked, and my answer is yes, we do need the paging file, and the size of the paging file should be the size of the physical RAM + 10MB.

The article Exchange 2010 System Requirements at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996719.aspx was referenced. The Hardware section states this: The page file size minimum and maximum must be set to physical RAM plus 10  MB.

2011-05-26 Initial Post

Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise SP1 RU3

The other day we needed to give all users reviewer permission to our conference room mailboxes and allow the users to access the rooms’ calendars via a direct OWA URL on a SharePoint site. I used the example in the article “Using Outlook Web App Web Parts” at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232199.aspx. Under the Enter Outlook Web App Web Parts manually section of that article, the URL example it gives is https://email.fourthcoffee.com/owa/tsmith@fourthcoffee.com/?cmd=contents&f=calendar&view=weekly. (more...)