I’m sure Netlimiter is a fine application for throttling your Bittorrent client so you can steal music and movies while still leaving enough bandwidth to watch Youtube clips and IM your friends about what music and movies you’re stealing and which Youtube clips you’re LOLing at. But it does not belong on Exchange servers. Or [...]
Test your Exchange Server remote connectivity
When deploying or troubleshooting Exchange servers I regularly encounter the need to jump onto a host outside of the customer network to perform remote access testing. Over the years I’ve gotten into the habit of maintaining a host running 24/7 on my home internet connection that I can RDP to and perform these test. While [...]
Troubleshooting Exchange Server 2007 Outlook Web Access Logon Failure
From the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog: Despite our attempts at documenting various break/fix scenarios, it can often be frustrating when trying to locate the information you need to resolve an issue as quickly as you would like. I decided to share this information in an attempt to help you resolve the majority of issues that [...]
Spam quarantine features in Exchange Server 2007
With the right configuration and ongoing tuning the built in Exchange Server 2007 anti-spam features can be effective in many environments. One thing I’m not a fan of though is the quarantine feature. You can read more about it in my latest post to AllSpammedUp.com here. Link: Managing spam quarantine for Exchange Server 2007
How to configure Exchange Server 2007 Connection Filtering with SpamHaus
Over at AllSpammedUp.com I’ve written an article on the Exchange 2007 Connection Filter agent, and I walk through the steps to configure it to use SpamHaus as an IP Block list provider. A correctly configured Connection Filter agent saves the Exchange administrator a lot of time by avoiding the need to manually maintain a large [...]



