Exchange Server

General

Installation

  • Prerequisites
    • Exchange 2003

      In Add/Remove Programs -> Application Server, enable: ASP.NET / IIS: NNTP, SMTP, WWW

Documentation

Administration

Exchange Active Sync

  • iPhone
    • A Few iPhone Exchange ActiveSync Gotchas
    • iPhone 3.0 Exchange ActiveSync: Better But Not Perfect
    • YouTube: Exchange Setup For The iPhone 2.0
    • YouTube: How To Set Up ActiveSync With iPhone OS 2.0
    • iPhone OS 3.1 Security Changes and Exchange ActiveSync Policy

      iPhone could not connect to Exchange Active Sync at Exchange 2007 if encryption policy is set, until upgrade to OS 3.1

    • Check iphone versions
      Go to the Phone button; 
      Click on the Keypad button; 
      Type the command: *3001#12345#*
      to enter the Field Test mode; 
      Select the Version item 
      The following are the definitions of the “Firmware version” values:
      
      1.0.0 firmware has the modem firmware version 03.12.06_G 
      1.0.1 firmware has the modem firmware version 03.12.08_G 
      1.0.2 firmware has the modem firmware version 03.14.08_G 
      1.1.1 firmware has the modem firmware version 04.01.13_G 
      1.1.2 firmware has the modem firmware version 04.02.13_G 
      1.1.3 firmware has the modem firmware version 04.03.13_G 
      1.1.4 firmware has the modem firmware version 04.04.05_G 
      2.0 firmware has the modem firmware version 04.05.04_G
      (all 1st generation iPhone stays at this modem firmware) 
      
      2.0 firmware has the modem firmware version 01.45.00 
      2.0.1 firmware has the modem firmware version 01.48.02 
      2.0.2 firmware has the modem firmware version 02.08.01 
      2.1 firmware has the modem firmware version 02.11.07 
      2.2 firmware has the modem firmware version 02.28.00 
      2.2.1 firmware has the modem firmware version 02.30.03 
      3.0 firmware has the modem firmware version 04.26.08 
      3.0.1 firmware has the modem firmware version 04.26.08 
      3.1 firmware has the modem firmware version 05.11.07 
      3.1.2 firmware has the modem firmware version 05.11.07

Free / Busy

Public Folder

  • public folders in OWA “HTTP/1.1 503 Service
  • 503 Error can occur for http://EXCHSVR/public/ if the IIS path is incorrect for the Public Folder Virtual Directory
  • Change the default domain name may cause public folder not work in OWA, reboot the server

Information Store characteristics

  • Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2000 database are incompatible
  • After Exchange started with a empty database, then later offline restore another database to the database directory still ok
  • Can start with an empty database then restore from a backup??

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