Internet Explorer 7 - Problems with Outlook Web Access!!!

Hi Guys,

Few of our customers facing this issue:

Unable to compose/reply a message when accessing Outlook Web Access; however, this is not an issue using other browsers (including IE6). You will also see a red square with an “X” in it when try to compose a new message.

The reason for this issue is due to security - where IE7 do not accept ActiveX and MIME. How to solve it?

The Solution:
1. In OWA, click on the "options" in the left Task Pane.

2. Under “E-mail Security” and Click Install or Upgrade the S/MIME Control. This will download a new add-on.

3. Click “RUN” when asked about the Microsoft Outlook Web Access S/MIME install and security warning.

4. Close and RESTART IE7

Solving lots of people problem? yes, it is.

How to enable mailboxes in Exchange 2007 for users in particular OU?

With Exchange Management Shell, everything now possible:

Under Exchange Management Shell, type:

Get-User –OrganizationalUnit “DOMAINANME/OUNAME” Enable-Mailbox -Database “SERVERNAME\DATABASENAME”

press ENTER.

Poo, what if I have 1000 users inside? All 1000 users will be mailbox enabled!

Is that simple? Yes, it is.

You set Exchange 2007 resource, what else need to be done?

Exchange 2007 allow us to creat resources mailbox, eg: Meeting Room, Projectors++. Once created, you will need to ensure the resources created to auto accept any query or request on the particular resource. Previous Exchange, you will need to login one by one to the particular mailbox to configure it. In Exchange 2007, after you create the resource mailbox, what else need to be done? You will need to run the following command in Exchange Management Shell:

NOTE: You can also set the resource capasity now! Eg: in one of your meeting room, only be able to fit 20 people, you can type in resource information, under the property of the object.

Set-MailboxCalendarSettings –AutomateProcessing AutoAccept

To verify, you can:
Type in MSH, Get-MailboxCalendarSettings to check whether the automate process is configured for the resource created, eg: Meeting Room 1

Hope this help and clarify

Standby Continuous Replication (SCR)

Guys,

Lots of customer discuss with us on CCR, bad things are, they need to configured in same subnet. Good news! Exchange 2007 SP1 now supporting SCR - Standby Continuous Replication, which allows the failover to another datacenter/location!

Besides, Exchange 2007 SP1 solve some problems we mentioned in previous blog, which includes:

1) Personal Distribution lists
2) Rules
3) Monthly Calendar view
4) Deleted item recovery
and Public folder access!

Want to know more?

Visit: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/02/23/435699.aspx - a quick glance on what Exchange 2007 SP1 provides!

MAPI Troubleshooting

MAPI is the protocol communication between Microsoft Outlook with Exchange server. Some of the time, we will find hard to troubleshoot this stuff. Read in some articles, sharing with you guys:

When troubleshooting Outlook with MAPI connectivity to an Exchange server, use the following

steps:

1. Identify network connectivity issues. If the Outlook client or the Exchange server is experiencing problems connecting to the network, Outlook will show a status of Disconnected, and no new messages can be transferred between the client and theserver. Sometimes, a simple ping or tracert will solve most of th issue.

2. Identify client configuration issues.
A client configuration issue can occur in Outlook configurations or in Windows configurations. An improperly configured client canprevent the computer from connecting to the Exchange server or create intermittent connectivity problems. Before going to the server, have a quick check, whether everyone is having the same issues, or only few?

3. Identify name resolution issues/DNS
Outlook clients must be able to resolve the name ofthe Exchange server they are connecting to. By default, Outlook 2007 clients use DNS host name resolution to resolve the name of the Exchange server to its IPaddress. If DNS servers are not available on the network or if the records in DNS areincorrect, Outlook clients are unable to connect to the Exchange server.

To troubleshoot MAPI on Exchange server itself, will write an article for that.

Some of the useful tools you might want to use
1) Ping
2) Telnet
3) RPCPing
4) Nslookup