We have Exchange 2000 w/ SP3 in Mixed Mode on Windows Advanced 2000 w/Sp3
and a front-end Exchange 2000 w/SP3 on WIndows 2000 /SP3. We do not have any
Exchange 5.5 or previous Exchange
IS THERE ANY CONCERNS WHEN WE SWITCH TO NATIVE MODE ?

My client's XP Professional computer will not shutdown.
Press START | Shut Down - result computer restarts
Press CTRL+ALT+DEL - Select Shut Down - result computer
restarts.

One of our end users is having problems sending mail
outside our intranet.  She uses Outlook 97 and receives
the below error whenever she tries to send external mail.
The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

first happy new year to everyone!
here is my issue,
running win2003/exch2003,
when in system manger pointing to public folders under servers, i do see the

Is there a way to resend mail to the receiver from Bad Mail.
We had a prolonged Exchange Server crash and due to this, all of the mail
bounced back and messages placed in BadMail.
When I changed the to: address of one of the email to the intended recipient

I recent;y re-did my exchange 2000 server...new HD, new OS, the whole works.
When I set up my PC again, I sent a test e-mail message from Outlook 2003.
Now, ever since Dec 27, at 12:49 AM, I get this message in my inbox.  It's
comes four or five times a day, every day since.

I have tested my IP for Open Relay and find that I am NOT an open relay, but
my mail server is accepting test 8 and rejecting it once accepted and the
mail fails to authenticate.  See log below:
To: "crp0499@yahoo.com"

I am planning to install an exchange server as a backup server as part of our
disaster recovery plan.
In my scenario I want to have a server in New York and another one in Canada.
If my server in NY goes down I want to be able to setup a secondary mx

I wanted a selution that will give me a quick recovery for a case of
disaster in my only ex2k .
My only ex2k in NOT a DC.
I need to know if this selution will work:

I want to forward messages to more than one email address.
I've created a contact in AD with the smtp address and forward is ok.
When i try to forward it to another smtp contact on the exchange tab in the
AD user, a message error tells me that only one contact is allowed.

For about a month now I have experienced very intermittent relaying
errors from some messages that bounce.  One particular email address
is more persistent than the others but none of them do it very often.
I am wondering if anything changed in the world recently that would

All employee workstations using XP Pro and log in to domain. They have
some donated computers they use only for internet access and they have
XP Home installed. They wanted to know if it would be possible to
configure one of them so someone could pick up email and I haven't

I am getting the LDAP...Null pop-up that seems to be pretty popular on this
newsgroup.  I know all I have to do is remove the LDAP address book, but I
would like to understand why only a few of my Outlook 2003 deploys are
getting this pop-up.  Outlook 2003 was pushed out to all ...

I want to backup up whateven data i will need in case of catastrophic
failure of our exchange server. I know that the outlook databases are
in the /mdbdata folder. What other files will I need if I ever have to
start from scratch. I need the files where the user names are kept? and

I noticed that exchange was not sending NDRs to the internet when a mailbox
was not found. Someone suggested that "This is done under Global Settings >
Internet Message Formats > Properties of Default > Avanced tab in the System
Manager.". This reminded me that i disabled it when ...