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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Need to add a "Wait" command to a Powershell script

Here is my current code: Write-output “ENTER THE FOLLOWING DETAILS - When Creating Multiple New Accounts Go to EMC hit F5(refresh) and make sure previous new account is listed before ...
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Does Exchange support plussed users (e.g. [email protected]) or a similar mechanism? [duplicate]

Sendmail supports a feature called 'plussed users'. Once enabled, emails sent to [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] are automatically delivered ...
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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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Linux clients for Exchange (email and) calendar [closed]

At $work, the official email solution is Outlook on Windows, connected to an Exchange server. That's problematic for people with Linux on their desktop machine. The Exchange server supports IMAP, and ...
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Email Archiving in an Exchange Environment

We're looking into a solution to do email archiving and near-line backup of our Exchange Server 2007 environment. We currently have about 200 mailboxes and the Mailstore is approx 150 GB. We need ...
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Outlook fails to connect to a load-balanced Exchange 2013 cluster through Direct Access 2012 R2

We have a load-balanced Exchange 2013 SP1 cluster, running MAPI over HTTP. Client connectivity inside our own network works just fine, while clients connected over Direct Access does not connect. The ...
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How bad is it to run Exchange 2016 on a Windows 2012 R2 domain controller for a small organization with assuredly fewer than 25 users?

I know that it has been officially unsupported forever and yet I have seen or heard about many small business installations of a single host running AD DS and Exchange simultaneously. For a resource-...
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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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Good & free Exchange spam filter [closed]

Do you know a good (and free, if possible) Microsoft Exchange 2003 spam filter?
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Schedule/queue large e-mails in Exchange 2010, defer until latency drops

My challenge We have Exchange servers at various sites, but also aboard ships. The ships are connected to our network through satellite links when at sea, but switch to WiFi bridges when in port. ...
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All External Mail to Office 365 Fails SPF, Marked as Junk by EOP in a Hybrid Deployment

In short: legitimate emails are landing in Junk folders as EOP (Exchange Online Protection) stamps email messages as junk (SCL5) and SPF-failed. This happens with all external domains (e.g. gmail.com/...
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Exchange 2010 Powershell command to check if an email address exists in the system

I'm looking for an Exchange 2010 command that would do the following: Given an email address (fully-qualified with domain and all) check if the email address is associated to some mailbox or group in ...
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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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ActiveSync devices causing accounts to lockout

When a user changes his account password for whatever reason (read: expired), and the old password is stored in his mobile device connected through EAS. This will cause his account to lockout almost ...
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Moving from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010

Consider a small-medium business' deployment of Exchange 2003. The question is around migrating to Exchange 2010. Here's a bit about the landscape: Current state is 50-100 users/mailboxes with the ...
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Can't give 'send-as' permissions in Exchange 2010

I'm trying to give 'send-as' permissions to one user in Exchange 2010. Here is the Powershell command I'm running: Add-ADPermission "User1" -User "Ourdomain\User2" -Extendedrights "Send As" ...
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How can I tell if a user has more than one computer logging with Outlook?

I have reason to suspect that a user may be accessing their company email using a copy of Microsoft Outlook (or perhaps another email client) from a personal device for the purpose of data ...
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What are the implications of converting all my groups to universal groups?

In Exchange 2010 distribution groups must be universal. This is supported by documentation You can create or mail-enable only universal distribution groups. I am trying to create a role based ...
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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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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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Active Directory and Exchange Architecture Questions and Issues

Here's the background on our situation... Right now, we are setup as three distinct companies with three complete Active Directory and Exchange systems. The three offices (One in the US, two in ...
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outlook requiring password after exchange reboot

We recently moved from Exchange 2003 to 2010, and have noticed a quirk that is annoying us. If our exchange server (single server) goes down, ie it gets rebooted, or client loses connectivity (or for ...
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Why is email being delivered normally despite an SPF "hardfail"?

I'm trying to figure out why forged email is being delivered to major email providers (gmail.com, outlook.com) even though email is marked with an SPF hardfail. The email is also delivered to ...
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how do I resolve "user isn't assigned to any management roles" error in Exchange 2010 EMC?

Newly installed Exchange 2010 box (technically, a partially installed box, as this error is preventing me from completing the install). When I launch EMC or the Management Powershell, I get this ...
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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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How to stop Outlook 2007 asking for credentials when using RPC over HTTPS

I've configured several of our outlook 2007 clients (connected to Exchange 2003) to use RPC over HTTPS. This allows our users to connect to the Exchange server remotely without having to connect using ...
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Meeting availability using iPhone/iOS calendars

Our management team all use iPhones with the built-in iOS calendar app. We're looking into getting Microsoft Exchange for everyone here, but that'll take us some weeks to plan and roll-out across the ...
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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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Export GFI MailArchiver e-mails for import into Exchange 2010 SP1 Personal Archiving

We have an existing installation of GFI MailArchiver 5 with several databases of archives (perhaps 100-150GB). The goal is to export each user's archived e-mail and then import it into Exchange 2010 ...
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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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Can you configure MS Exchange to support the gmail "+keyword" trick?

Gmail allows users to create custom email addresses on the fly by appending "+keyword" to their email address. So, "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" & "myaddy+somethingelse@...
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Blackberry mail service basics?

Can someone explain very briefly the way Blackberry's email functions. I'm not looking for nuts and bolts, just answers to some very basic questions: Does a Blackberry check with an Exchange server ...
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Outline the quirks of Windows Small Business Servers (SBS)

I'm not much of a Microsoft administrator. However, I do work extensively with new and existing Microsoft Exchange deployments. That's just how the career-arc went. I'm working with a small customer ...
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Can Exchange be configured to populate a text/plain part of a meeting invite?

I work in an environment where some people are using Microsoft Exchange and some people are not. The meeting invitations sent out by Exchange include a text/calendar attachment with the meeting ...
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Why do big Exchange installations require downtime for maintenance?

I have used several top tier third party Exchange providers over the years, and all of them have had regular scheduled downtimes for routine maintenance (roughly once a month). I am wondering what is ...
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Steps to rename an Exchange 2010 SP2 server

I made an unfortunate error when I named an Exchange server msex0 which I felt of course was short for "MicroSoft EXchange." The server in question is running Windows Server 2008 R2 with all the ...
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Entering people's email addresses in AD attribute

We have a Windows 2003 Server Active Directory environment. In AD you can enter a person's email address. Back when we used to have Exchange, when creating a new user it would also create an entry in ...
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Mailbox unavailable, client does not have permissions to send as this sender - only the first time

Our users can send emails from our ASP.NET Web application on the click of a button. In our testing environment, there is a strange thing going on. The first time the application tries to send the ...
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Exchange Server Using Wrong Active Directory Site

Our Exchange 2013 server suddenly started logging errors about bad replication between sites (there should be no replication as there is no other server) as well as several other issues that appear to ...
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Exchange PowerShell in a Scheduled Task runs forever

I have a couple of Exchange 2010 PowerShell scripts that I'd like to run as Scheduled Tasks. If I launch PowerShell using "Run as different user" I can run the scripts and they execute correctly. If ...
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Migrating from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2010

I'm in the unenviable situation of being asked to migrate a mail server from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2010. The domain has two sites connected via T1 and an exchange 5.5 server (neither are installed ...
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Pros/Cons of switching from Exchange to GMail

We are a medium-large non-profit company, with around 1000 staff and volunteers, and have been using MS Exchange (currently 2003) for our mail system for years. I recently attended a Google ...
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iphones and exchange, what am I missing?

I am trying to get iphones to play with our exchange 2010 server. I have opened ports 25 and 993 on the firewall, and I can get the account to validate, but I cannot send or receive email from it. ...
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Display a TLS icon for messages that are TLS secured (Outlook)

One of my colleagues at a large financial institution has customised Lotus Notes to show a TLS icon for messages that are TLS secured. I'm interested in imitating this feature in Outlook, and believe ...
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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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Getting Exchange to do DKIM

Having read Jeff's blog post about Email and DKIM, I'm thinking it might be good to DKIM all mail coming out of our Exchange 2003 servers. Whats a good way of going about that?
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What are the pros/cons of running your own Exchange system vs. paying for a hosted solution

Surprisingly, after the long discussion on that well-known meta question, it doesn't seem like anyone's asked about the question that was used as an example: what are the tradeoffs of running your own ...
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When the Exchange Information Store Service stops, what's impacted?

My company recently experienced an email outage that impacted a majority of our users. My exchange team is telling me they can't find a root cause, yet when I pulled the system logs I can see the ...
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