We have one exchange 2000 server and all mails are delivering to recipients
directly(including external domain without filter) from this server.Now the
problem is when i am trying to send one mail using the telnet command to my
mail server using the exposed IP from public network, i ...

We are planning to go for Exchange 2007 single forest topology with country A
being the hub and no Exchange server in other countries, like what Microsoft
is doing. But I would like to find out for the branch offices within each
country, can I just have an AD server at each ...

Currently we have an old ibm server with 2 yes 2 hardrives in it windows
mirrored hosting exchange for over 1000 users. There is another server with
an hp storage vault that backs up this exchange server and the backups
literally take 23 hours to complete. Management purchased 2 ...

Hey all,
We currently have an 2 node Exchange 2003 SP2 cluster installed on a Windows
2003 domain. The cluster isn't apart of RPC-HTTP topology right now.
We want to add an additional FE server and make the environment work as

I have a client with a new AD environment.  They are unsure of whether they
want Exchange 2003 or 2007 (depends on a CRM solution they are looking at).  
However, before I start migrating users and services to the new domain, I
would like to prep the environment for Exchange.  If ...

Can I make auto forward in exchange 2003 to more than 3 person
please Help ME

We have a small network of 80 users and one forest\domain. I have purchased
two new HP boxes to be used as DCs and installed W2K3 R2 32 bit for the OS on
both and upgraded them successfully to be DCs and transferred the master
roles from our existing DC. We are now running W2K3 ...

I would like to get some community feedback about this Design Change Request
(DCR):
There are 2 issues with cached mode that affects user performance and the
potential sale of hosted exchange CAL's.  The first issue is that it is not

Can I setup a rule somewhere in Exchange Management Console so that it
always knows I want the first initial and last name to be the user name?
Or is this an option in Active Directory?
Thanks

I am going to upgrade to exchange 2007. There are now 10 offices in different
countires.
I can keep with one centralised exchange cluster or is there any way to have
an exchange server in each office and sync them all together.

tell me if this should technically work....
my internal exchange 2003 server name is lets say, exchange.mydomain.net
publically, the url that points to owa is mail.mydomain.com
so my ssl cert uses mail.mydomain.com as the common name... this all works

It is my understanding that Exchange Server 2003 Standard cannot be a backend
server, however site we have inherited has a frontend server running Ex 2003
Std and a backend server running Ex 2003 Std and the mailboxes are available.
I thought that the frontend could be Std but ...

should i create an account first in AD and use this account to install and
run exchange with?
if so what permissions does it need?

OS: Windows Server 2003 x64 R2 SP2
Application: Exchange Server 2007
Disk 0: 68,25 GB (RAID 5)
Disk 1: 68,25 GB (RAID 5)

I have an exchange cluster with 2 nodes.  Both nodes have 4GB of RAM.  I've
configured the boot.ini file for the 3GB switch but the one thing I have
been unable to find is the recommended size of the page file given that much
memory.