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New Online Testing Tool from the Microsoft Exchange team

So you have setup your Exchange 2007 server and now wonder whether it works correctly. The DNS changes are in place, the SSL certificate works, but how do you test it? Or your server isn't working correct and you want to test it from an external host...

Why you shouldn't use logos in Signatures

This is another post in my serious of articles on why you shouldn't use certain features in Exchange, even though they are there. As with the other articles, the article does NOT tell you how to enable the feature in question. The other articles in this...

One morning you find that there is spam in the queues, your server has been blacklisted etc...

One of the worst experiences for an Exchange administrator is to come in one morning and find that either email is being blocked, the queues are long or the users are getting NDRs saying that the server is blacklisted. This seems to result in confusion...

Why You Shouldn't Enable the POP3 Server

This is another post in my series of articles on why you shouldn't use certain features in Exchange, even though they are there. As with the other articles, the article does NOT tell you how to enable the feature in question. The other articles in this...

Out of Office Messages and Email Discussion Lists

As you would probably expect, I am a member of a number of email discussion lists based around Microsoft Exchange. These include the lists at Sunbelt Software, msexchange.org (via freelists), Swinc.com and some others. However what always surprises me...

Community Event Follow Up

On the 21st June 2007 a UK based Exchange User group called MMMUG ( http://www.mmmug.co.uk/ ) held a community event hosted by Microsoft. This was also attended by some of the other UK user groups. I attended and assisted with a the breakout sessions...

Problems with Email Delivery to Hotmail/MSN?

There have been increasing number of posts on forums about problems with email delivery to Hotmail/MSN domains in the last few weeks. As the numbers seemed to be higher than usual, I made some enquiries and received a response which I will summarise here...

Self Generated versus Commercial SSL Certificates

A constant theme on many of the Internet forums is the use of self generated SSL certificates versus purchased SSL certificates, particularly when deploying RPC over HTTPS or Outlook Web Access. Many people will advocate that using a self generated certificate...