Exchange Server 2003

Topic Last Modified: 2007-11-08

Welcome to the Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Technical Documentation Library, your source for guidelines and information from the Microsoft Exchange Server team, including technical reference material, case studies, security guides, developer resources, and performance tuning recommendations. Updated versions of documents are periodically added to this library, ensuring that you have the most up-to-date Exchange Server 2003 documentation.

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SHU-MEI COLE
Exchange 2003 Mailbox Limit

To set a single mailbox limit use Active Directory Users and Computers -> select user -> Properties -> Exchange General Tab -> select the Storage Limits button and adjust the properties.




Thomas Lee
Replacement for Exchange Server Mailbox Manager
I formerly used this tool which was available for Exchange 5.5 on that as well as 2000, and an older installation of 2003, but now, on a new project, I can't get it to connect. The error syys it can't find an Exchange installation, and I've tried it on a variely of in and out of subnet environments. Any ideas or alternatives?

Thomas Lee
Exchange 2003

Hi everyone

I'm using exchange 2003, I having trouble accessing the e-mails via the OWA, and e-mails from other servers are not getting through, but it is send them out.

please help


[tfl - 06 10 09] Hi - and thanks for your post.You should post questions like this to the Technet Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/technet or the MS Newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/. You are much more likely get a quick response using the forums than through the Community Content. For specific help about:
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SQL Server : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.sqlserver%2C&
Windows : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows%2C&
Windows Server : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows.server%2C&
Virtual Server : http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.virtualserver/topics?lnk
Full Public : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public%2C&

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kdbsattler
Reply to e-mails using a script

Hello -

I have e-mails from users leaving our company redirected to a account we created.
This account then replies to the original sender stating, "Use is no longer with company ... blah, blah, blah"
In the body of the e-mail is the user who left old e-mail's information so should the e-mail be sent in a broadcast from the higher ups or in a company wide e-mail the sender knows to remove that user from their distribution list.

My question and showing of limited knowledge in this arena is how do I trigger this VBA module once it recieved by the account from the user who left the company?

Example: User A leaves

User B sends a msg to User A

User C (is set up for all replies to be redirected to by users who have left the
company).

User C would then send to User B a msg that User A no longer is with the company.

The body of the msg is set in a script, as a OOF msg does not have the ability to capture the User A e-mail address once it is sent or redirected to User C for properly to replying to User B.

Any assistance on this is needed as soon as possible and as quickly as possible.

Also, if you could respond to vandyck.anthony@dol.gov another e-mail address at which I can receive e-mails at it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

- Anthony

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Thomas Lee
issue when user login for 1st time
when we create user in AD for 1st time, once they login and launch outlook it ask them to put the excahnge details. is there a tool or way of avoiding this, as once they login launch outlook it directly put exchange details

Thanks for your help

rahhali

[tfl - 13 01 09] You should post questions like this to the Technet Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/technet or the MS Newsgroups at   http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/. You are much more likely get a quick response using the forums than through the Community Content.
For specific help about:
Exchange       : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.exchange%2C&
SQL Server     : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.sqlserver%2C&
Windows        : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows%2C&
Windows Server : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows.server%2C&
Virtual Server : http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.virtualserver/topics?lnk
Full Public    : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public%2C&

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Thomas Lee
Outlook Calendar and contacts

Hi i am working as a It admin. Now i need an urgent solution. Im using Exchange 2003. i have around 50 outlook users. i need a centralised calendar for all. and also a centralised contacts. If a user adds something to his calendar or contacts it should be automatically updated to the centralised calendar and contacts, is there any way to do this....

[tfl - 13 01 09] You should post questions like this to the Technet Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/technet or the MS Newsgroups at   http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/. You are much more likely get a quick response using the forums than through the Community Content.
For specific help about:
Exchange       : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.exchange%2C&
SQL Server     : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.sqlserver%2C&
Windows        : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows%2C&
Windows Server : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows.server%2C&
Virtual Server : http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.virtualserver/topics?lnk
Full Public    : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public%2C&

sdebusschere
SBS 2003 automatically dismount Store!

Hi, sbs 2003 automatically dismounts Mailbox Store!!!
All exchange services are running
I am a newbie when it comes to exchange!
Does anyone can help me please?

you might have to do a off line defrag if so use following link to show how to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995748(EXCHG.65).aspx
or
you have reached max data base size of 16gb to increase data base size use following to show you how to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998066.aspx (please make sure you take note of error comment at bottom of page) please make sure you have installed exchange server 2003 SP2 you can get at following link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=535BEF85-3096-45F8-AA43-60F1F58B3C40&displaylang=en

cheers malcolm

[tfl - 05 01 09] You should post questions like this to the Technet Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/technet or the MS Newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/. You are much more likely get a quick response using the forums than through the Community Content.
For specific help about:
Exchange : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.exchange%2C&
SQL Server : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.sqlserver%2C&
Windows : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows%2C&
Windows Server : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows.server%2C&
Virtual Server : http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.virtualserver/topics?lnk
Full Public : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public%2C&



jtbrown1111
Active Users Not updating in Exchange
We're running a 2003 SBS, when we update information or add a user to the active directory of users it usually doesn't show up until the next day. We're only running one server with 65 or so users ..... Any thoughts as to why this doesn't happen almost instantly ?

Thanks a million ...
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KevinHT
Blackberry device not connecting to Exchange Server
Hi all,

We are running Exchange Server 2003 and have recently purchased 4 blackberry phones, we are unable to configure them to receive emails via our Exchange Server. I know that there are options to purchase software from Blackberry, but our mobile phone provider seems to think that this is uneccessary as they have the same type of Exchange Server that we have and they can configure their phones without any issues.

I was advised to check with our broadband provider (BT) by Blackberry to esnure that mail relay permissions were setup, I have done this and they were already set up. I have also heard that Exchange has its own DirectPush for emails, would this be the solution?

Any help would be appreciated.
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Abhishek1627
MS Exchange OWA problem
Hi,

Actually I have installed MS exchange server 2003 in a Server on Windows 2003 server. All are working fine. My server ip address is 192.168.0.1 and FQDN name is kolkata.mukherjee.com. When I want to use out look web access from http I am typing http://192.168.0.1/exchange or http://kolkata.mukherjee.com/exchange but I don,t want to use this procedeor. I want to use only http://mail.mukherjee.com instead of http://192.168.0.1/exchange. How is it prossible. Please help me regarding this issue. How can I configure this option from Exchange server. Another my AD server and Exchange server is same.

Thomas Lee
Mail undeliverable message

I have a user who passed away. I don't want to delete his mail, but want anyone who sends him mail to get an undeliverable message. How do I do this? 

[tfl - 13 04 09] You should post questions like this to the Technet Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/technet or the MS Newsgroups at 
  http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/. You are much more likely get a quick response using the forums than through the Community Content.
For specific help about:
Exchange       :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.exchange%2C&
SQL Server     :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.sqlserver%2C&
Windows        :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows%2C&
Windows Server :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows.server%2C&
Virtual Server :  http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.virtualserver/topics?lnk
Full Public    :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public%2C&

Thomas Lee
Tracking internal emails to a specific workstation.

I want to know if it is posible to track an email sent internally back to a specific workstation ip address. For example a user has outlook 2007 setup on their pc but logged into the OWA client from another computer in the district. I would like to find out what pc that email was sent from. Thanks,Brian 

[tfl - 21 04 09] You should post questions like this to the Technet Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/technet or the MS Newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/. You are much more likely get a quick response using the forums than through the Community Content.
For specific help about:
Exchange       :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.exchange%2C&
SQL Server     :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.sqlserver%2C&
Windows        :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows%2C&
Windows Server :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows.server%2C&
Virtual Server :  http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.virtualserver/topics?lnk
Full Public    :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public%2C&

Thomas Lee
Mail to a Specific domain is coming back as undelivered
  
[tfl - 14 06 09] Hi - and thanks for your post.You should post questions like this to the Technet Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/technet or the MS Newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/.  You are much more likely get a quick response using the forums than through the Community Content. For specific help about:
Exchange       :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.exchange%2C&
SQL Server     :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.sqlserver%2C&
Windows        :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows%2C&
Windows Server :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows.server%2C&
Virtual Server :  http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.virtualserver/topics?lnk
Full Public    :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public%2C&

Thomas Lee
OWA Access problem

I have one exchange Mail server ip address of this server is (192.168.0.1). And Server name is server.howrah.com .When I am using my webmail from IE then type http://192.168.0.1/exchange but i dont want to use this type address. I want that I will open the ie and type the url only http://mail.howrah.com. Please help me how it is possiable???? 

[tfl - 14 06 09] Hi - and thanks for your post.You should post questions like this to the Technet Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/technet or the MS Newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/.  You are much more likely get a quick response using the forums than through the Community Content. For specific help about:
Exchange       :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.exchange%2C&
SQL Server     :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.sqlserver%2C&
Windows        :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows%2C&
Windows Server :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows.server%2C&
Virtual Server :  http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.virtualserver/topics?lnk
Full Public    :  http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public%2C&

Thomas Lee
Problem with email alias

when i try to sync up my alias in outlook address book it's giving me the error like outlook can't find, though i am able to access my mails. If someone search my email alias in outlook GAL they will not get my corporate address book details. Please help me to get it resolved......Thanks in advance


[tfl - 06 10 09] Hi - and thanks for your post.You should post questions like this to the Technet Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/technet or the MS Newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/. You are much more likely get a quick response using the forums than through the Community Content. For specific help about:
Exchange : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.exchange%2C&
SQL Server : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.sqlserver%2C&
Windows : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows%2C&
Windows Server : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows.server%2C&
Virtual Server : http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.virtualserver/topics?lnk
Full Public : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public%2C&


Thomas Lee
Mailbox recovery issues
Hi all

I have a interesting issue that has me a bit stumped at the moment and was wondering if anyone can help.
We currently have an active user on our exchange 2003 server with a active mailbox which is working fine, now i have been asked to recover his mailbox from about a month ago, which is all possible with the RSG and i have dumped the database onto a server from tapes fine, the issue is that hr do not want this user to know nor do they want to merge the mailboxes together, in essence attaching it to a new account and accessing and I was wondering if this is possible as all the security info is still active and how will this affect the user account and the best way around it ?

Thanks for any help on this issue.

[tfl - 06 10 09] Hi - and thanks for your post.You should post questions like this to the Technet Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/technet or the MS Newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/. You are much more likely get a quick response using the forums than through the Community Content. For specific help about:
Exchange : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.exchange%2C&
SQL Server : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.sqlserver%2C&
Windows : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows%2C&
Windows Server : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.windows.server%2C&
Virtual Server : http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.virtualserver/topics?lnk
Full Public : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public%2C&


Thomas Lee
Calendar events
Hi,
I have an issue where a calendar event may have been deleted. What I need to find out is if there is a way to
a) be able to tell when a calendar event was created and
b) find a way to retrieve a possible deleted event.
Thank you
[tfl - 27 11 09] Hi - and thanks for your post. You should post questions like this to the MSDN Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn or the MSDN Newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/. You are much more likely get a quicker response using the forums than through the Community Content. For specific help about:
Visual Studio  : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.vstudio%2C&
SQL Server     : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.sqlserver%2C&
.NET Framework : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.dotnet.framework
PowerShell     : http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.powershell/topics?pli=1
All Public     : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public%2C&


Thomas Lee
OWA and New Server
I have exchange 2003 sp2. I have 4 servers and a OWA server in DMZ. I just added a 5th server and anyone that is on the 5th server can not access email using OWA. When you type in username and password you get back the message You could not be logged on to Outlook Web Access. Make sure your domain\user name and password are correct, and then try again. The owa server is not connecting to the new server.

[tfl - 27 11 09] Hi - and thanks for your post. You should post questions like this to the MSDN Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn or the MSDN Newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/. You are much more likely get a quicker response using the forums than through the Community Content. For specific help about:
Visual Studio  : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.vstudio%2C&
SQL Server     : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.sqlserver%2C&
.NET Framework : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.dotnet.framework
PowerShell     : http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.powershell/topics?pli=1
All Public     : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public%2C&


Thomas Lee
Winmail.dat between outlook users in same organization
We have a strange problem. Attachments convert into Winmail.dat between two outlook users in same organization using Exchange 2003 Service Pack2.

This is also happening when an email is sent to a distribution list. Some members get the attachment without any issue while rest get Winmail.dat as attachment. Sender is sending using HTML format and recipients being internal and oulook clients can receive Rich text Format.
[tfl - 27 11 09] Hi - and thanks for your post. You should post questions like this to the MSDN Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn or the MSDN Newsgroups at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/. You are much more likely get a quicker response using the forums than through the Community Content. For specific help about:
Visual Studio  : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.vstudio%2C&
SQL Server     : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.sqlserver%2C&
.NET Framework : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public.dotnet.framework
PowerShell     : http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.powershell/topics?pli=1
All Public     : http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?sel=usenet%3Dmicrosoft.public%2C&


Preston Landry
Port Question
Running Exchange Server 2003, I cannot receive email from an outside account that requires authentication and uses SMTP port 587. An account sending from port 25 works fine. What do I do?
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Michael Suresh
Exchange server showing unexpected prompts for user name and password
The exchange server asks for username and password even though this has not been changed. Restarting the Information store solves the problem but it reoccurs in a day or two. We are Using SBE 2003 server. If we restart the server the information store service will not restart and we have to start the services manually everytime eventhough its set for automatic start.

Also recives the error: "Accept clients on external interface MAPIRPC failed with error 0x4b1

Server: SBS2003
Antivirus: Symantec End Point protection


Thanks for any help on this issue.

Michael
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