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Make sure you visit my Exchange Screenshots page!!!

Developer links for Exchange 2000/2003 are at the bottom of this page.

Exchange Server 2010 - specific References

Free eBook, "Exchange 2010 - A Practical Approach"

by Jaap Wesselius, a Red Gate resource.

Exchange 2010 Deployment Assistant

A Microsoft resource that walks the user through several Exchange 2010 implementation scenarious and produces a list of implementation steps, which can help with generating project plans.

Exchange Server 2007 - specific References

Windows PowerShell 1.0 String Quoting and Escape Sequences

When do you use single quotes, and when do you use double quote marks in the Exchange Management Shell?

See "Digitally Signing PowerShell Scripts" elsewhere on this site

 

Features of Exchange 2007 and Reasons to Upgrade

A Microsoft product guide, or "slick"...PDF version.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2008

Exchange 2007 SP1 required on Windows Server 2008.
   

Microsoft Office Visio Stencil Containing Shapes for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

A zipped archive which includes a template Visio document and stencil of a large amount of Exchange 07 objects.

Exchange General References

www.microsoft.com/exchange

The Exchange product homepage

Exchange FAQ

Exchange website

ExchangeAdmin website

Exchange website from Windows & .Net Magazine

ExchangeCode website

Freely downloadable code

www.MSExchange.org

 

ExchangeInbox.com

Reference website. Interesting collection of names, and, their contact address is in Malta!

www.MSExchangeTeam.com

The Exchange Team blog..."You had me at EHLO". Cheaky.

Microsoft's Exchange document
Reference Library

Many valuable documents related to Exchange design, deployment and more.

Typical (but non-intuitive) Exchange 2000 Admin Tasks

 

Various ways to assign mailbox permissions

 

Exchange and Disaster Recovery

 

Exchange Third Party Products

 

Metastorm e-Work

Workflow and Business Process Managment software; a possible workflow add-on for Exchange. See also Microsoft InfoPath.

e-Squillace.com Exchange Migration Reference

 

Exchangepedia Blog

by Bharat Suneja, and Exchange MCT and MVP!

Diagram of a Windows Failover Cluster

Notice, this is a composite Visio diagram, originally intended for SQL Server but still applicable.

Exchange Server File-System Design Ideas

Notice, this is a composite Visio diagram, originally intended for SQL Server but still applicable. Go to the File system design page.

Removing Internal Host Names and IP Addresses from Message Headers

By Bharat Suneja on Exchangepedia Blog

Virtualizing Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2003 with Hyper-V

Windows IT Pro InstantDoc #101294.

Hosted Anti-Spam Solutions

Windows IT Pro InstantDoc #101497.

How to Telnet to a Mail Server

From GarnetChaney.com.

   

Exchange & SMTP

Are you a mail relay site?

This site (Abuse.net) enables you to check if you're a mail relay site.

Configuring SMTP in Exchange 2000

A .pdf document created by Microsoft with case studies and "How-Tos".

SMTP Address Space Migration Knowledgebase documents

Q315591, Authoritative and Non-Authoritative Domains in Exchange 2000

Q319759, How to Configure Exchange to Forward Messages to a Foreign Messaging System That Shares the Same SMTP Domain Name Space

Q321721, Sharing SMTP Address Spaces in Exchange 2000

Setting up SMTP Domains for Inbound and Relay E-Mail in Exch2000 and 2003

Q260973

Setting up mail delivery from a public SMTP domain when the AD domain uses an internal/private DNS domain name.

If the appropriate steps are not taken outbound mail will work but inbound mail will produce NDRs.

Q289553

Exchange Migration w/ the ExMerge utility

A Microsoft Q article (Q327304). 

See also Q292509 to make sure the correct non-default Exchange 2000 permissions are set.

Where does one find the ExMerge 2003 utility?

Found under www.microsoft.com/downloads, choose Exchange from the listbox.

Exchg 2000 Conferencing Server multimedia presentation 

Shows how it works.

A free Exchange documentation and diagramming tool from Microsoft

ExMap.exe is the downloadable file, requires Visio

Three Q Articles on removing Exchange 2000 Server. The best way is to re-run setup, but if that doesn't work...
(This suggested addition was from Jennifer McNanna, a 5/2003 student in Troy)

Q260378 How to Manually Remove an Exchange 2000 Installation
Q278918 How To Manually Remove a Single Exchange-based Server from Active Directory
Q273478 How to Completely Remove Exchange 2000 from Active Directory

An article with info about multimedia technologies like H.323 and T.120 and firewall configuration.

 

Should Exchange 2000 Server be installed on Active Directory Domain controllers? This may spark a "holy war"...

It depends...

Yes, see p. 699 of this book (Chapter 20,815372 Maintenance & Troubleshooting).

No, see Q815372

How do I show the Security TAB in Exchange System Manager when I get properties on an object?

In Regedit...
HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\EXAdmin

Create a new DWord value called "ShowSecurityPage" with a value of "1" for enabled.

What Exchange facts should I document?

 

Two external services that scan e-mail before it arrives at your environment:

FrontBridge

AppRiver

Here's a website that seems to contain a master list of RBLs (real-time block lists).

www.rbls.org

Implementing a free of charge REALTIME BLOCK LIST (RBL) from SpamHaus

               

What version/edition of Exchange 2000 do you have?
Q296587

Apparently this Q article is inactive.

Determining which version of Exchange 2000 is installed. Use the Microsoft Support Website and enter the "Q" article number into the search box. You can also look for event 1217 in the Application Event Log (when the Information Store starts) where it reports that the Information Store has "unlimited storage capabilities", indicating that it is Enterprise Edition (Thanks, to student Gary Stoynoff).

Outlook References

Have you wanted to create an Outlook view with only Distribution Lists? Here's how:

(Thanks to Mark Fugatt from Microsoft).

1. Create a new view in Contacts
2. Set the filter for the new view to be:

Message Class contains "Distlist" via the Advanced TAB.

The Message Class attribute is available in the "All Contacts Fields" section.

Don't you hate it when Outlook tries to auto-complete an addressee that is longer used or valid?

See the article: "How to reset the nickname and the automatic completion caches in Outlook", aka Q287623.

Configuring Outlook Profile Settings

From MSDN, Using the Custom Installation Wizard in Office 2000, etc. See also the respective Office Resource Kit.

Outlook 2003/2002 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup or click here to download

An "add-in" from Microsoft that adds a "Backup..." command to the File Menu in Outlook

Exchange & Outlook DEVELOPER references

(Don't forget to look at my Exchange development/Public Folder screenshots page)

ISBN 0735612730

Building Applications with Microsoft Outlook Version 2002

ISBN 0735614644

Microsoft Programming Outlook and Exchange 2003 Third Edition

ISBN 1555582869

Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart for Administrators, Developers, and Power Users

"Skinning Exchange 2003 OWA" (Outlook Web Access))

This is a Windows IT Pro article from January 2004 by Paul Robichaux, InstantDoc 41108. A subscriber only article!

Slipstick website by Sue Mosher

Great resource of Outlook & Exchange Knowledge, especially for developers

Outlook Code website