Archive for the ‘Exchange Server’ Category

Outlook Forms – Cannot Edit After Upgrade to MS Office 2003 / Outlook 2003

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

2010-06-15 Initial Post

I ran into an issue recently where a user had dozens of Outlook custom forms in her Personal Forms Library (these are stored in the root of her Exchange mailbox per http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290802) and could no longer fully edit them and had no option to publish them. (more…)

Group / Distribution List Management –> Managed By Tab, Advanced Permissions, DACLS

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

2010-04-15 Updated
2008-04-15 Initial Post

Tested on Windows Server 2003 SP2 AD / Exchange Server 2003 SP2

When a user or group is made the manager of a group via the Managed By tab of the group’s properties AND the checkbox for “Manager can update membership list” is selected, the user/group is given permission to add and remove members. If that checkbox is not selected, nothing else really happens other than the user/group’s name showing up as the group manager. If the user/group that is the manager is also mail enabled, viewing the managed group’s properties from Outlook would show the manager’s name as Owner. (more…)

Using Mailbox Merge Wizard (ExMerge.exe) In Batch Mode With PsExec

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

2010-04-05 Updated
2010-03-30 Initial Post

The other week I was searching for information on how to run ExMerge with PsExec and couldn't find anything. I'm sure other admins have done that before but never posted info online about how they did it. I tested this out and using ExMerge with PsExec does work. I ended up not going through with this in production for non-technical reasons, but I know it works. Read the ExMerge and PsExec documentation for more info if you have any questions. (more…)

ExMon (Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor), Usage Notes

Friday, March 26th, 2010

2010-07-09: Updated

2010-03-26: Initial Post

Exchange Server 2003 SP2 / Windows Server 2003 SP2 (to include two-node active/passive cluster)

Someone at work had to use this tool the other day and I shadowed him. I've known of this tool for some time, but never had to use it. I did some research on it and made some notes below. (more…)

Exchange Database –> EDB and STM Files

Friday, March 19th, 2010

2008-12-22 Initial Post

Exchange Server 2003

From knowledge gained in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Advanced Administration by J. McBee, May 2006.

Each information store (either mailbox of public) actually consists of two stores:

•    The EDB file stores messages sent by MAPI clients (full Outlook client).
•    The STM file contains messages sent by Internet clients (Outlook Express, OWA, IMAP) and is stored in native format (usually MIME). (more…)