Thursday, September 25, 2008

Queues filling up & NDR attack

In Exchange Server 2003 or in Exchange 2000 Server, the Exchange Server queues are filled with many non-delivery reports from the postmaster account because of a reverse non-delivery report attack

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909005

FAST GROWING DATABASES & TRANSACTION LOGS ON EXCHANGE 2000 & 2003.

http://exchangeserverinfo.com/2007/06/23/fast-growing-databases--transaction-logs-on-exchange-2000--2003.aspx

Exchange 2007 How to Prepare Active Directory and Domains

Setup /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125224(EXCHG.80).aspx

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Making changes in an existing SOX.

The procedure differs depending on whether or not you own the SO. Here’s both scenarios:

If you own the SOX

Simply open it in Clarify and edit it. If the changes require more time than say 5 minutes or so, let me know and I’ll provide you with a case where you can log your labor.

If someone else owns the SOX

1. Ping the author – the alias that appears where the ***Resolution*** field begins and ask that person if they will update the SOX per your recommendations.

2. If you don’t get anywhere with #1, then send email to the msgKE alias and one of the Knowledge Engineers will assist.

E2k3\Cannot run offline defragmentation for jcb.dll problem

1: Copy the JCB.dll file into your system:
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A: Go to C:\program files\exchsrvr\bin and rename the original jcb.dll to jcb.old
B: Copy the JCB.dll file from your Exchange 2003 SP2 CD or other place to this Exchange server.
C: Restart the system normally and test the results.(I have also attached this file into this email, you can rename it to jcb.dll and use it as well.)

If the problem still persists, then let us go to next steps.

2: Add the /3gb switch on the Exchange Server:
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A: Click Start, right click My Computer and choose properties.
B: Choose Advanced tab and click Settings in Setup and Recovery.
C: Then in its interface, click Edit to modify the boot.ini file.D: In the boot.ini file, add the /3gb and /USERVA=3030 switch.Here is the example:

For the detail information, we can refer to these articles:Use of the /3GB switch in Exchange Server 2003 on a Windows Server 2003-based system

Exchange memory use and the /3GB
switch

A description of the 4 GB RAM Tuning feature and the Physical Address Extension switch

After these steps, let us manually restart the Exchange server and then test the results.

You receive an error message when you try to run a Server Management wizard in Windows Small Business Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940318

Exchange Server and Windows Server 2008

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/08/16/446709.aspx

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Monday, September 8, 2008

How to use Legacydn.exe to correct Exchange organization names or Administrative Group names in Exchange Server 2003 or in Exchange 2000 Server

Check out the folloing link, it gives the basic direction on how you can modify the legacyExchangeDN value.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324606/en-us

Please note:

Microsoft only supports using the Legacydn.exe tool only in a lab environment. The tool works only in an environment that uses a single domain controller.

Issues caused by a back-up or by a scan of the Exchange 2000 M drive

This may be a test question, so get familiar with the following link:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298924/en-us

XADM: How to Use NTBackup from a Non-Exchange 2000 Computer

Just in case you wanted to backup Exchange for a non-Exchange server, check the link below:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/275876

You just need to copy a DLL, and change a registry key.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Using ADModify to Change Exchange Specific AD User Attributes in Bulk

He guys check out this tool, it is really pretty cool. As per the discussion we were having the other day it has the option to do a bulk change of the homemdb.

You can download the tool from the following link: http://www.codeplex.com/admodify

Also check the post on msexchange.org it gives you a good idea of what can really be done with the tool.

http://www.msexchange.org/articles/ADModify-Change-Exchange-Specific-AD-User-Attributes.htmlulk