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A newly created recipient may not receive e-mail messages for up to 4 hours

Published Wed, Jan 7 2009 13:42 | steveb

Thanks to Susan Bradley for bringing my attention to this Microsoft KB. It looks like in Essential Business Server 2008 if you create a new recipient and attempt to send them mail, it can take up to four hours for the Exchange Edge Server to synch up...

Filed under: Exchange, EBS, Edge Server

IISReset /noforce

Published Wed, Oct 8 2008 13:51 | steveb

Pearl of wisdom from Mark Stanfill: On Exchange Servers, always run IISReset with the /noforce switch (“IISreset /noforce”) to ensure it doesn't force any services off. Check out this TechNet article for additional info. Thanks Mark!

Filed under: Exchange, IIS

Default SMTP Virtual Server instance would not start after System State Restore

Published Tue, Jul 31 2007 15:44 | steveb

The Default SMTP Virtual Server instance was failing to start after recovering from a System State Backup. Because this was a Domain Controller the server had to be started in Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) in order to do the ntbackup restore...

Filed under: Exchange

ExBPA and ExTRA

Published Tue, Jul 31 2007 13:06 | steveb

Prashant Joseph who works with Microsoft's Enterprise Messaging Support sent this to me at the resolution of a call Monday morning. Great stuff so passing it along. What I thought was cool is there is also a URL redirector for the ExBPA at www.exbpa...

Filed under: PSS, Exchange