Exchange

Messaging security

This post is not directly Exchange related, but more general about one way of enhancing messaging security, so it’s actually relevant no matter what messaging platform you have. In this post I’ll try to outline some of the hosted mail gateway security products that are available on the market. A mail gateway is generally used to relay mail in and out of the company. Mail Security gateway became popular services a few years back, by …

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Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup Update 4 Released

As previously written in one of my earlier posts and on msexchangeteam.com, a pre-release version of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB952580) was inadvertently made available to Microsoft Update, the Microsoft Update Catalog, and Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) servers for download and soon after taken offline again. Now the final release of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 has been released. Fixes for the following …

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Cannot remove the domain ‘‘ because it is referenced by the proxy address template ‘smtp:@

As issue that I’ve seen on Exchange 2007 after a migration from Exchange 2003, if you try to remove an accepted domain, but keep getting this error: Cannot remove the domain ‘<domain name>’ because it is referenced by the proxy address template ‘smtp:@<domain name>’ First off go to the Exchange Management Console – Microsoft Exchange – Organisation configuration – Hub Transport – E-mail Address Policies. Make sure that the domain is removed from any policies …

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Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 4 pulled back

There’s an issue with the Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 4 patch and it’s confirmed by the Exchange Team on their blog. Some of the known issues are with the Exchange Web Services (EWS) and failures regarding backup, returning errors in the eventlog regarding “Storage Group Consistency Check”. I’ve seen problems with the last issue. The patch was originally released to the web, Microsoft Update and WSUS, but was pulled back again. But it’s not completely …

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