Entries Categorized as 'Exchange and Outlook'

iPhone 2.0: Success At Last

Date July 11, 2008

After four hours of messing with my temporarily bricked iPhone, the 2.0 software was finally activated.  After all this wait, it was a bit of a let down to turn on my iPhone and really not much has changed.  You now have  the App Store icon and the new scientific calculator but that’s about it.  [...]

OWA and Firefox

Date June 12, 2008

Problem:  Ever since we moved to Outlook Web Access (OWA), I have had some complaints from users saying that it basically sucks in Firefox.    Since FireFox doesn’t support the ActiveX components of OWA, you have to login in basic mode which pretty much takes away all the cool features of OWA.  The only thing that [...]

There is no replica for that mailbox on this server with IMAP

Date March 20, 2008

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 [...]

Exchange: There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient’s email server….

Date February 12, 2008

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 [...]

Can POP mail on my Exchange 2003 server but can’t send mail VIA SMTP

Date February 7, 2008

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 [...]