Once upon a time, on my first day of work, the Exchange cluster died. A two-node Exchange server for some 2000 mailboxes just keeled over and died.
SMTP failure, multi-skilled or by Towers
The UPS monitoring server goes through the firewall to reach the SMTP relay server. After hardening, the test emails are not going out. The server engineer was pulling his hair out because everything looks fine at his end. There is…
Nokia Mail for Exchange requires secure connection.
My Nokia E71’s Nokia Mail for Exchange (2.9) suddenly kept insisted on a secure connection. This is even when I have set it in the profile. Recreating the profile gave the same result. I re-installed the Mail for Exchange application…
Outlook prompts for password after inactivity.
Outlook 2007 on Windows 7 prompts for password after long period of inactivity.
Exchange 2007 services cannot start.
This is an oldie. Surprised I did not post this when I first encountered Exchange services not starting in 2008. May be I was too engrossed in this. Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has decided Exchange 2007 services will be…
Converting your Exchange Server to Google Apps
Google migration tool for Exchange Server.
Lotus Notes Internet mail with HTML formatting
Lotus Notes Internet mail, with rich text formatting eg, bold, colors, hyperlinks etc.
Exchange Store Migration to SAN
Customer got a spanking new iSCSI SAN and wants to move the 300GB store and stm file to the SAN. So how does that take?
Forklift upgrade
What happens if you need to upgrade the creaking old server hardware that Exchange is sitting on? Especially if you want to keep the same name to prevent users from going bonkers and yourself from updating all the docs. Read…
Exchange 2007 on a VM
I need some face time with Exchange 2007. My previous two attempts to run it off the company’s data centre servers almost always got hijacked.