Now that Apple will support Microsoft push/pull technology, we have made the decision to try the iPhone.  Problem is that since the new iPhone 2.0 software won’t be out until June, I had to get IMAP working on our Exchange server to keep us going. 
Problem:  At times, I get the error “There is no replica […]

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Problem:
Had a network that reinstalled it’s Exchange server.  Actually, their whole domain.  Their active directory went corrupt and they didn’t have a backup of the active directory so a reinstall happened.  Anyway, Exchange was reinstalled and they could recieve email but not send.  All the SMTP virtual server settings looked good but nothing.  They would recieve the […]

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Had some users that had to be able to access the Exchange Server on their phone. Their phone doesn’t support push/pull and they insisted on POP and SMTP.  I warned them on the security issues regarding opening their server up to be an SMTP relay but they still wanted to proceed. 
Problem: 
I enabled POP3 and was […]

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Just when I think I customized my last OWA page, I get another request.  Usually it’s to add a logo or take away the “Domain” part of the logon form.  Anyway, it’s something that I don’t do often but enough for me to write this.  This is more of a reference for me so I can […]

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Problem:  Installed Server 2003 SP2 on my exchange server and all went well.  I, however, had issues accessessing files and my mailbox.  I could access all the other servers fine but not this one.  To top it off, the other users in the office weren’t having any issues so I knew it was a problem […]

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Getting a “Page cannot be displayed” with OWA after changing IP address on Exchange server:
Today, we moved an exchange server to a differnt subnet.  Changed it’s IP address and all seemed well. 

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Situation: Just installed a new exchange 2003 server on the network. I didn’t really want to backup my original exchange server and then restore it on the new box. The plan was to keep both in Active Directory and the move the mailboxes over a period of time to provide a seemless migration to the […]

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Domain Admins Can Login to OWA but Regular Users Cannot
I ran into an interesting problem this week regarding exchange and OWA.  I had an old domain controller that I needed to retire and an exchange server I installed about 6 months prior was going to take

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I just recently configured a couple exchange servers so my clients can utilize the Microsoft Exchange Direct Push/Pull feature offered with SP2. It was pretty easy to setup but there were some bumps in the road along the way.

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I get the question of why my doesn’t my outlook contacts show up when sending email quite a bit so I thought I would share the solution to all that are interested. 

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