Questions tagged [exchange]

Questions about any version of Microsoft Exchange Server or Exchange Online, Microsoft's email and unified communications server product. Because of tight integration with other systems, related questions may overlap with Active Directory, Office 365, and Skype for Business (aka Lync Server or Office Communications Server). Questions about Microsoft Outlook may be a gray area, with Super User as an alternative site to ask on.

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Exchange server replacement that runs on Linux

I've worked as a sysadmin for some years and what I keep coming back to is that users like Microsoft Outlook and want to use its Exchange features. I have tried my fair share of commercial ...
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Is there any open source Exchange server? [closed]

Is there any open source Exchange server that is work fine like Microsoft Exchange for Linux or Windows?
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Does Exchange support disposable e-mail addresses?

Sometimes it is useful to have e-mail address like [email protected], where randomnumber identifies the conversation between a robot such as a mailing list server and a user. Is this ...
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How to add an email forwarding in Exchange 2003

In our company, some people want that all their emails are forwarded to an external email address (like gmail, for example). How is it possible to set this up in Exchange 2003 ?
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Migrate from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016

I’ve inherited a setup where Exchange 2010 is installed on Windows Server 2008 R2, I want to upgrade to Exchange 2016 and Windows Server 2016. I’ve read Microsoft does not support upgrading OS when ...
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MailboxExportRequest ContentFilter is "Received -ne $null" when querying by date

I am trying to export a mailbox to a PST. All email that was received before yesterday is what I am trying to export. $y = ((get-date).addDays(-1)).ToShortDateString() $exportRequest = New-...
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Is there a way to use the Autodiscover feature without Exchange?

The autodiscover method used by Exchange looks great. However I do not have Exchange. It looks like when setting up a mail account the device/mail client looks for a autodiscover.xml file. Is there ...
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Outlook security alert - The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site

SBS 2008 running Exchange 2007 and IIS6.0 CompanyA has two other companies that operate under the same roof. To accommodate email, we have 3 Exchange accounts per user to manage this. All users use ...
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Exchange 2010 some users mailboxes have a green arrow

when we look at our Exchange Server and all the mailboxes we notice that some users have green arrows pointing right over their icon. This does appear to only be on older users on our system so I just ...
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Can Exchange 2010 high availability be achieved with only 2 servers?

In Exchange 2010, you can define Database Availability Groups and have your mailbox database(s) automatically replicated between multiple servers, and you can have mailbox server which are members of ...
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Email from IOS with attachments larger than 7.5Mb gets stuck in outbox and constantly tries to resend. Costs us hundreds in data fees

We have an on premise Exchange 2013 server. When sending email with large attachments from ActiveSync accounts on IOS devices, the email gets stuck in the outbox and won't send. It keeps trying to ...
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User to send as anyone in Exchange?

I have a .NET program -- a Windows Service -- that connects to Exchange to send email. The goal is to allow it to send email appearing to be from any number email addresses within the domains my ...
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Experiences in Upgrading from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010

I'm currently running Exchange 2003 SP2 Cluster on a Server 2003 AD Forest (in native 2003 mode), and we beginning to plan the upgrade to Server 2008 AD and Exchange 2010. We have two main sites, one ...
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Connecting to Exchange PowerShell from a Linux machine

We currently have a Python script that automates user creation tasks on our servers. This script provisions users in OpenLDAP and ActiveDirectory by using python-ldap. Now, I want to modify some ...
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Reset Search Index in Exchange 2013

I have corrupted indexes in my Exchange 2013 server and I have having trouble figuring out how to reset them. I found information on how to do it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...
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Recommendations for a POP3 Connector for Exchange 2007 [closed]

I am upgrading to Exchange Server 2007, and realise that Microsoft does not ship a POP3 connector with 2007. There appears to be several commercial offerings (MAPILab, POPcon, Exchange Connector) Do ...
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Microsoft Exchange 2013 is not receiving internet email

We are having issues with our exchange 2013 server. The server is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. The issue we're having is that our Exchange server isn't receiving internet emails. It can ...
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Automated extraction of email attachment on Exchange Server

An Exchange email account was created through which I will receive daily emails with three different Excel attachments. Each Excel attachment has to be saved in one of three different folders. Can ...
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Exchange out of office, sending an OoO reply for every email

We are running Exchange 2007 with a mix of Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. Is it possible to set the Out of Office Assistant so that when OoO is enabled, it sends a reply to every single email the user ...
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What is the best method for mirroring two email accounts on disparate platforms?

We have enterprise users that want to try out an online mail provider (such as GMail or MS Exchange Online) for a trial period, but would also like their local mail (Lotus Notes) to remain synched ...
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Can you reply to every email with a "this mailbox is no longer in service" mail?

I was wondering if it is possible, in Exchange server 2010, to disable a mailbox account, lets call it mailuser and if anyone sends a E-mail for [email protected] then it will send a mail back with ...
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How to share a SMTP domain between MDaemon and Exchange?

I need to setup coexistence between MDaemon (13.0.5) and a Microsoft Exchange system (Office 365); the two systems should share the same SMTP domain, and each one should forward to the other any ...
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Test Restore of Exchange DBs with the MS-Exchange plugin of NetBackup 6

At my company The MS-Exchange plug-in is used to Backup our Exchange 2003 Information Store (Storage Group), and its Logs and Stores in the Information Store (Please do try to correct my terminology). ...
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Only allowing authenticated user on host to relay emails to external address in Exchange Server 2013

I have an application running on a host which is configured to send emails using an exchange account (this account connects to Exchange server 2013). However, only emails destined for other internal ...
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Email bounce back 550 5.1.1 recipient rejected

A client recently switched to Exchange Server / Outlook for their email. Since then emails from my company to any email address at their company bounce back from the System Administrator with this ...
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Exchange 2007 Client for Linux

Has anyone had success with a working Exchange 2007 client for Linux? I'm not looking for an IMAP client or anything of the sort...there's plenty of them around, but a client that actually supports ...
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How do I audit user's mailbox actions performed via IMAP in Exchange 2010?

I read through the Technet article on Mailbox auditing but it seems to only be working for MAPI access. I perform the following cmdlet to enable auditing of the owner: > Set-Mailbox -Identity "Mr....
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Backup Solutions for Exchange 2007

What Backup solutions do people use for Exchange 2007? In particular i'm interested in those that allow a mailbox level backup, so that individual mailboxes can be restored.
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Setting Out of Office message for someone else

On occasion, a member of our team calls in sick and is either unwilling, or unable, to set their Out of Office message in Exchange. What we've done in the past is just reset that user's password, ...
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Send email from server without creating new Office 365 user account/mailbox

We've just moved to Office 365 as it's cheaper than our previous email provider. Email addresses all work for our users, now we need more control. We need to send automated emails from our backend. ...
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Change Outlook "reply to" based upon sent address?

We have a shared mailbox on Exchange 2010 that multiple clients access using Outlook 2010. There are multiple distribution lists (that each have multiple email addresses) that point to this single ...
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Is there a pseudo backup procedure to force Exchange log truncation?

I have several separate test environments running 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010, at varying patch levels and for varying reasons. One consistent issue I encounter is that transaction logs for Exchange are ...
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Exchange 2010 Out of office doesn't show original senders email address

When one of our users is on holiday they will set their Out of office message and change the Out of office rule to forward all emails received to a colleague. This has always worked very well for us ...
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Recommendations for handling Directory Harvesting spam on Exchange 2003

Our Exchange server is getting slammed with anywhere between 450,000 and 700,000 spam messages per day. We receive about 1700 legitimate messages in the same time frame. Roughly 75% of the spam is ...
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How do I remove an orphaned Exchange 2010 server from the organization?

We properly uninstalled Exchange 2010 from a server but it is still appearing within the Exchange Management Console of the other Exchange 2010 server. How can we remove this server from the Exchange ...
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Microsoft Exchange: Mail rule allows regular expressions. But which ones?

I'm trying to set up a filter rule in Microsoft Exchange Online via the web interface (Office365 Admin Center > Exchange Admin Center > Mail Flow / Rules). I want to match the "sender address" ...
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Renewing SBS2011 Exchange Self-Signed Certificate w/o changing home page in IE?

On a previous server when we used the built in SBS wizard to renew the certificate it worked, however it reset all of the computers on the domain's IE home page to companyweb. Is there a way to do ...
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how to configuration dkim on exchange email server

Mails sent from our internal email server to public servers such as Gmail, Yahoo and all other external organizations are delivering to spam. We currently use exchange server, in order to tackle above ...
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test a pop3 secure ssl port 995

i am trying to login to microsoft exchange online using openssl openssl s_client -connect pop.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com:995 however when i pass the USER command it fails +OK The Microsoft ...
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Event ID 9331 MSExchangeSA & Event ID 9335 MSExchangeSA

I get this two Exchange 2010 Global Address book related event IDs: Event ID 9331 MSExchangeSA OABGen encountered error 80004005 (internal ID 50101f1) accessing the public folder database while ...
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SMTP 552 4.3.1 Session size exceeds fixed maximum session size

I'm having a frustrating problem with one of our clients who is running an exchange SMTP server. I have an emailing component that is written in .net and I've specifically used Mono DLL's to ensure ...
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Reducing the size of the EDB file

I have hit an issue on a MS SBS machine where every morning the datastore for the exchange mailboxes dismounts itself. We believe the issue is that it has grown too large over time and needs cut down ...
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Sending from alternative addresses in Exchange

One of the most frequent requests I get from users with Exchange, is to be able to send from one of their alternative email addresses, that is one of the addreses there account is configured with in ...
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What are some good methods for archiving MS Exchange messages?

I am familiar with archiving messages on the client side to .pst's... Are there good methods of archiving messages from multiple mailboxes on the server side?
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Preferred mail system/server for a company?

Say you are responsible for setting up an email solution at a company. Which would be your choice? I know of the following options, but many of them not well: Gordano Mail System Exchange Exim ...
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Preventing email blasts with Exchange 2010 IP Throttling (or any other technology)

We need to slow down the rate email spam is sent through the Exchange system from our developers' buggy applications. How can I throttle email messages in Exchange 2010 by Source IP, or sender, so ...
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Can I nest security groups (not mail-enabled) inside a Distribution List, to have members of the group receive mail to the list?

I would like to manage my distribution lists indirectly, via security group. So that when I add a user to the appropriate security groups, they will automatically be members of the appropriate ...
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Looking for an email encryption solution [closed]

I'm looking for an email encryption solution for a client. They are currently using Exchange 2007 but are willing to go to a hosted solution if necessary. They are looking for a solution that will ...
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Reducing the Exchange 2003 database size

Our company is running Exchange 2003 on Server 2003. Our primary exchange store file (priv1.edb) keeps growing and is now at over 45GB. If I add up the size of the mailboxes in that store I get less ...
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Autodiscover does not work - Exchange 2016

Recently I've set up Exchange Server 2016, configured external DNS accrodingly. Server itself works fine, can send and receive emails. OWA is working fine aswell (externally and internally). Issue is ...
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