Essential Exchange

Originally published September 30, 2004 (Note November 13, 2007: this will work with Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003, but not with Exchange 2007.) Getting back to scripting, I've finally scrubbed and sanitized and cleaned up one of my core provisioning scripts. While finding small example scripts...

Originally posted on June 23, 2004 (Note on November 13, 2007: I updated the links to point to this blog.) Two weeks ago, I wrote in http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/trouble-configuring-rpc-https.aspx about some issues that can arise when configuring RPC/HTTPS. I ran across...

Originally published June 17, 2004 Just got off the telephone with PSS. We recently configured RPC/HTTPS and started moving clients over to using it on our new Exchange 2003 servers (it's really helped business to not require a VPN). How RPC/HTTPS scales for service providers is a topic for another...

Originally published June 15, 2004 (Note November 13, 2007: the process described in this article does not work with Exchange 2007.) It's pretty obvious that you don't want one company to be able to modify another company's Public Folders. It's also pretty obvious that you want a company...

Originally published June 11, 2004 (Note November 13, 2007: ports 6001 and 6004 do not have to be open.) I've recently went through hell with a couple of clients getting RPC/HTTPS working on some laptops. It's been a truly difficult proposition from time to time. The basic prerequisites for RPC...

Originally posted June 11, 2004. (Note November 13, 2007: the links in this article are no longer valid.) When everything goes smoothly, this is how to do it for BRNets. (If you aren't with BRNets, your instructions would be similar, but not identical.) These instructions apply to Windows XP with...

Originally published June 8, 2004 (Note November 13, 2007: Microsoft no longer supports self-hosting on any current version of Exchange. Many of these references are no longer available. I apologize, but I cannot send them to you.) The question often arises -- where can you learn about Exchange hosting...

Originally published May 26, 2004 As I refer to various things about hosted Exchange, there are some baseline configurations that are important: 1) I've done installs for three ASPs over the last five years. This framework used to be part of a number of Microsoft whitepapers about Exchange and Office...