LIVE ISSUE IN WINDOWS

1. Exchange 5.5 Server

Is it possible to restrict users of either a mailbox or public folder from
replying or forwarding emails in the mailbox or folder? We have a
department which needs some users to be able to view the contents of mailbox
or public folder without being able to do anything with them. The most
control I can get with the standard permissions is "read" but this still
allows users to reply and forward.

Also, I keep seeing references made to being able to publish the contents of
a public folder to a website. This would probably work, unless they are
just referring to OWA. Anyhow, I can find documentation that this can be
done, but cannot seem to find instructions on doing so.

2. Exchange 5.5 system and an Exchange 2000 system
I've got an Exchange 5.5 system and an Exchange 2000 system connected by
X400 connector. I have added the appropriate X400 address space on each side
of the connector to route mail to/from each system correctly. I am using an
in-house written app to maintain directory information. It creates custom
recipients (Ex5.5) and contacts (Ex2000) in each directory with an X400
target address corresponding to mailboxes in the remote directory.

My problem is how recipient addresses are recognised by the Exchange 5.5
system. For example:
User on Exchange 2000 system chooses my contact from their address list and
sends mail. The target address is the X400 address of my mailbox. The mail
is routed over the X400 connector to my mailbox. When I open the mail and
look at the properties of the sender, it correctly resolves to the custom
recipient that we have in our directory (because the sender X400 address
matches to the custom recipient) When I look at properties of the recipient
however, they just show the "legacyexchangedn" value from the contact on the
exch2000 system. It doesn't resolve to any object from our directoy.

So it appears that the sender field is received as an X400 value, which we
can resolve to our directory, but the recipients field is received as an
X500 value, which we can't.

Can anyone explain the reason for this behaviour to me? Why aren't the
recipients addresses also seen as X400?

This becomes a problem where the the original mail is sent to multiple
recipients on the Exch5.5 system. If any of the recipients chooses to
"reply-all", only the sender address is resolved correctly. The other
original recipients are not then properly addressed.

Apologies for the ramble, but I hope it makes sense. Thanks in advance for
any insight.



3. OWA Login Problem

We have one user that can not logion into OWA. When they login using
domain\user and password they get the 404 page not found. This is a E2K
2000 Front end server. Funny the page that pops up shows the outline of
the two panes for OWA with the error message listed twice. This is the
only user having this issue and it does not matter what desktop she
uses. Other people can login using her PC ok. However if I have her use
the https://webmail.domain.com/exchange/username/ it works fine. I have
looked on the IIS server and didn't see anything. Seems I saw this on
this list before and I do not remember what the problem was.



4. Outlook 2000

I have run into a problem with some of my Outlook 2000 clients. I have
Exchange 2003 running with 3 front-end servers and 7 backend servers.
When I configure the Outlook profile it can not resolve the name on 9 of
the 10 servers. The 1 server that does work was the first server in the
organization. Any ideas what could cause this?
5. Xchange 200 on 2000

I am running exchange 200 on 2000 server fully spack'd.
I would like to add a disclaimer to every email that leaves this
building.
How do I do this ?

I am searching on my own as well.
6. One:

AAdmin pack installed on an XP workstation with SP1. Connecting to a 2000
domain with an Exchange 2000 server. Very often when I use AD U&G to modify
Exchange addresses of a user when I hit apply/ok I get:

RPC Server Unavailable
MS Active Directory - Exchange Connector

This happens even if I point AD U&G at the Exchange server, which is also a
DC. Using AD U&G directly on the Exchange server and I never get this error.




7. Two:

The brought up a new server (Exchange 2000), moved the mailboxes, GAL's and
public folders over to the new server no problem. Then at some point the old
server either smoked or they just shut it down without removing it from the
site. So there is a server in there that does not and will not ever be back.
So extra routing containers everything for it. Can't right click and delete
it as it errors with server can not be contacted. Would really like to clean
this up before I bring up another and migrate to 2003.

8. Windows 2000 Active Directory, Exchange2000, Outlook2003 and OWA
clients

I have to hide a common Active Directory attribute (Office) from
displaying in the Global Address List. Is there any way to do this? I
have tried removing it from the details template and I have tried
modifying the permissions in the AD schema using ADSI Edit but neither
of these seem to work.


9.Has anyone used the Recover Mailbox Data Feature from EX2K3 on SP1
successfully on a Recovery Storage

Group where the names of the mailboxes include a comma? Evidently there is a bug in the program so that it fails if there is a comma in the display name. I was wondering if anyone had figured out how to get around this or had heard of a hot
fix?

I thought maybe I could use the ADSI Viewer (ADSVW.exe) to fix the comma
issue, but it doesn't appear that the RSG mailboxes are available in
that interface.

10 Automatically start perfmon alerts

I am trying to find a way to automatically start perfmon alerts on Windows
2000 server (if the perfmon service is restarted or if the server is
rebooted, all alerts are stopped and I have to start each one manually)

Is there a way?









11. All inbound

Is there a way to accept all inbound mail to a given domain that doesn't
match another directory entry into one maibox in Exchange 5.5? We've a need
to accept wildcard inbound mail - i know, not a pretty idea, but there's a
'business need'. Is it doable in Exchange or do I need to rewrite the mail
at the gateway?


12. Post Appointments

I can't figure this out. When I post appointments to our
shared calendar the appointment times that display on my
version of the shared calendar are correct, however, on
anyone else's instance of the calendar all the
appointments appear to be one hour later. All machines are running
XPPro With outlook 2003


13. The Checkbox

On a W2K workstation, the checkbox "Manager can update membership list"
is missing. This checkbox should be available for distribution groups
on the Managed By tab.

How can I enable this checkbox?

Solution :-

Install Windows 2000 adminpak on that workstation.

14. Create a single email that contains the addresses for all NDRs

Is there any way to configure Exchange 2003 to create a single email
that contains the addresses for all NDRs to messages? The goal is rather
than receive an individual email for each recipient that is not
reachable to instead have a single email that contains all the addresses
that failed. That single email could then be used with GREP to pull all
the email address and scrub the database or email addresses that are not
valid. Anyone have a way of doing such a thing?








15. NT4 domain (FOO) to Active Directory running on Windows Server 2003


In our organization (say foo.bar.com) we have recently upgraded our single
NT4 domain (FOO) to Active Directory running on Windows Server 2003
Enterprise Edition, with two domain controllers (server names: DC-1, DC-2),
running DNS (AD-integrated).

We also have Ex 5.5 running on NT4SP6 (originally member of the old NT4
domain, now member of the AD domain) that we wish to migrate to Exchange
Server 2003, also running on Windows Server 2003 (server name: ES-1).

We've been using the ExDeploy tool to migrate the Ex5.5 server. After
successfully finishing the required steps for Phase-1, we tried to run setup
/ForestPrep. Having reached to the component selection screen, ForestPrep
does not appear selected in the Action combo (filled with ...) and when we
tried to select it, we got the following error message: " The component
"Microsoft Exchange Forest Preparation" cannot be assigned the action
ForestPrep because:
- Either you do not have permission to update the
Active Directory schema or Active Directory service
is currently too busy.
"
However, the account under which the tool has been run actually has the
required permissions, since it is member of the following groups in the
domain:
Domain Admins
Enterprise Admins
Schema Admins
and the Administrators group of the ES-1 machine.

Any ideas? Are we missing something?

Additional Notes:
- The file LDIF.ERR referenced in the log does not exist.
- NTDS Service Parameter (registry) value "Schema Update
Allowed" is set to '1'.
- All OS hot-fixes up to MS04-25 have been installed on
all new WS2K3 servers.
- All machines mentioned form an isolated lan using a 100Mbps
switch, for testing purposes (not connected to the internet.)
- Test mentioned in Q319944 (DCDIAG /test:KnowsOfRolesHolders /v)
succeeds.
- Potentially interesting excerpts from the Setup Progress log file follow.