Essential Exchange

In this article I discussed a bug with .NET 2.0 that could cause that Exchange Server 2007 to consume too much memory. Now, there is a somewhat related patch that often impacts Exchange and SQL servers. KB 938486 contains a patch against Windows Server 2003 sp1 or sp2 that corrects a situation where...

A new blog on technet appeared a few days ago, from the Hot Fix and KB content team. The intent is to publish weekly all of the KB articles and hotfixes that were released. If it happens, and is updated regularly, it will be a great resource! The blog is to include hotfixes and KBs for Windows Server...

Do you know what a flat domain is? Do you know what a single-level domain is? You may not even be aware that Active Directory supported single-level domains. If you do - then you've probably run into problems with it in the past. Now there are more problems. A flat or single-level domain is one that...

Microsoft is practically flooding us with service packs right now (similarly to the flooding that is going on in Washington state and Oregon this week!). As I earlier noted, Exchange 2007 service pack 1 is now released, and available here . For information about what is new in Exchange 2007 service pack...

In this article , I discussed one of the type of anti-virus available for Exchange Servers: information store antivirus. These two posts are follow-ons to an article I wrote for EMO. That article is discussed here . Today, I'm going to talk about file-level antivirus on Exchange Servers. If you have...

Exchange 2003, you say? Who is still using that? Most people are. I've done the research a couple of times now, so I wanted to write it down in one place. Of course, I decided to share it with you as well. Exchange 2003 with service pack 2 has some interesting challenges when sending e-mail to another...

Originally published February 12, 2007 Recently, the question was posed on a mailing list: What does it mean 'Propagate inheritable permissions to all subfolders and files' when you change file permissions with GPO? Key to answering this question is understanding the Windows NT Security Descriptor...

Originally published March 23, 2006 I went into a new customer recently and found that they had about a gazillion standalone servers, all of which had the same administrator password, and they used the Administrator account to run some services. While there often seem to be good reasons for doing this...

Originally published November 16, 2005 While attempting to figure out the "right" way to take Apache SSL keys and convert them for use in IIS, I learned more than I ever wanted to know about SSL certificates. Here is the benefit of that process for you as well as some great debugging tools...

Originally published September 13, 2005 (Note November 13, 2007: My second most popular blog post ever. Also due for some cleanup and re-write.) This has come up a number of times, and I actually thought I'd blogged about it in the past -- but I guess not. If you have users that only use POP and...