Some Notes on the Machines

Something new, $10/year. Working great for me as of this writing.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/exquilla-exchange-web-services/

Go to the Exchange console, under Organization Configuration, Hub Transport, properties of the item(s) in the Remote Domains list, Message Format tab. Choose “Never Use” under “Exchange rich-text format”.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/10df55b7-1ea4-4539-96a1-8c2b6540f202/exchange-2010-sends-attachments-as-winmaildat?forum=exchange2010

A Microsoft reference is here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940881

with further notes here:

http://www.thirdtier.net/2009/02/setting-up-an-external-autodiscover-record-for-sbs-2008/

This has to be set at the Internet level only. We’ll use “domain.com” as the domain name, just replace it with yours.

1. If there are any A or CNAME records pointing to “autodiscover.domain.com”, delete them. If the cert for your server uses “autodiscover.domain.com”, change it to something else, e.g., “remote.domain.com”.
2. If there are any A or CNAME records pointing to “*.domain.com”, an asterisk for global, you’ll have to remove them too. You will need to replace with multiple specific records, or a subdomain, if you’re using a global configuration.
3. In your Internet DNS, create a new SRV record:

At Network Solutions, the “Service” pulldown needs to have “_autodiscover”, the “Protocol” pulldown needs to have “_tcp”, “Priority” and “Weight” need to be zero, the “Port” needs to be 443, and the “Target” needs to be the A record name used in the MX record, e.g., “mail.domain.com”.

At GoDaddy, “Service” needs to contain “_autodiscover”, “Protocol” needs to contain “_tcp”, “Name” needs to contain “@”, “Priority” needs to be 0 (zero), “Weight” needs to be 0 (zero), “Port” needs to be 443, and “Target” needs to be the A record name used in the MX record, e.g., “mail.domain.com”.

You can test the setup with nslookup:

nslookup -querytype=SRV _autodiscover._tcp.domain.com

The result should be approximately thus:

Server:  dns.domain.local
Address:  99.88.77.66

Non-authoritative answer:
_autodiscover._tcp.domain.com        SRV service location:
          priority       = 0
          weight         = 0
          port           = 443
          svr hostname   = mail.domain.com

Do these in Exchange command shell, replacing all site data as indicated (US is the short geographical form):

$Data = New-ExchangeCertificate -GenerateRequest -SubjectName "c=US, o=Organization Name, cn=fqdn.organization.com" -DomainName organization.com, secondarydomain.com -PrivateKeyExportable $true
Set-Content -path "C:\Docs\MyCertRequest.req" -Value $Data

Then get the thumbprint for the certificate request created above:

get-exchangecertificate

and paste it into this (replacing the thumbprint via copy/paste):

get-exchangecertificate -thumbprint asdfdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | new-exchangecertificate

and then, most likely (again replacing the thumbprint via copy/paste):

enable-exchangecertificate -thumbprint asdfdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz -Services POP,IMAP,SMTP,IIS

A better way to import PSTs into Exchange:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28767

It works very very fast (22% of 2G in 4 minutes on one new SBS2011 server, SATA RAID-5). Does need Outlook 2010 installed on the server though, if contacts are to be imported.

Here is a great set of instructions with screenshots:

http://support.verizonwireless.com/clc/devices/knowledge_base.html?id=47777

Here:

http://www.stevieg.org/2010/07/using-the-exchange-2010-sp1-mailbox-export-features-for-mass-exports-to-pst/

is an excellent set of steps for use when the need is to import and export PSTs for mailboxes in Exchange 2010.

In Exchange 2007, one can schedule the move of one or more mailboxes for after-hours times.

In Exchange 2010, one can move mailboxes while users are using them (!), without the users knowing anything is happening.

Well done guys!

In the Exchange GUI, just go under Server Configuration and Mailbox, and create a new mailbox, and then go to Recipient Configuration and Mailbox, choose some to move, right-click, and start the process.

A very good reference for 2007:

http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2007/management-administration/exchange-2007-message-size-limits.html

And another for both:

http://exchangepedia.com/2007/09/exchange-server-2007-setting-message-size-limits.html

Here is a good working order:

net start MSExchangeAB
net start MSExchangeADTopology
net start MSExchangeAntispamUpdate
net start MSExchangeEdgeSync
net start MSExchangeFBA
net start MSExchangeFDS
net start MSExchangeIS
net start MSExchangeMailboxAssistants
net start MSExchangeMailboxReplication
net start MSExchangeMailSubmission
net start MSExchangeProtectedServiceHost
net start MSExchangeRepl
net start MSExchangeRPC
net start MSExchangeSA
net start MSExchangeSearch
net start MSExchangeServiceHost
net start MSExchangeThrottling
net start MSExchangeTransport
net start MSExchangeTransportLogSearch
net start MSExchangeMailSubmission