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Can a user account that is disabled in Active Directory still receive email?

I'm reading Learning Exchange Server 2003 by Boswell, and there's a section in there that mentions that a disabled account in AD cannot receive email and that it will be bounced back. Currently, what usually happens when a person leaves our company…
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Microsoft Exchange Server Permission Insight

I was just assigned management of our Exchange Servers. The person who installed and configured our Exchange 2010 Servers did not set up permissions correctly. I noticed that anyone within the organization can open a users mailbox without them being…
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What to do with user mailboxes in Exchange 2003 after they leave organization?

Over the ages we've accumulated mailboxes of users who have since left the company. Due to concerns at the time (they have important stuff in the mailboxes, we need to get to it) the SOP was to leave the account ACTIVE and change the password to…
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Office 365 - Outlook shows Global Address List clicking "Rooms" during a meeting request

This appears to be a "known" issue, but apparently no fix for it. However, I've been impressed before at the tenacity of the experts here to figure out an answer/fix. ISSUE When booking a New Meeting in Outlook (2013 or 2010) and choosing the Rooms…
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What are the side effects of disabling an Exchange mailbox?

When working with Exchange Server 2007 or newer, disabling a mailbox is a fairly common operation. However, the Technet documentation has no details about the side effects of disabling a mailbox. This is all it says. "This task removes all the…
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Online Source for Rackmount Server Shipping Box

I have three Dell rackmount servers (2 2U, 1 4U) that I need to ship from Las Vegas to New York. Old shipping boxes that came with the servers were discarded sometime ago. Where can I buy some that fit nicely and can be shipped by UPS or Fedex? I've…
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Where does the output of a script placed in /etc/cron.hourly go?

Say I have a script named "testcron" containing the following: #!/bin/bash echo This script ran on $(date) I then set the permissions: chmod ug+x testcron Finally, I copy this script to /etc/cron.hourly And I wait for something to happen at the…
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How to enforce office 365 custom "role assignment policy" applied default to all new emails to be created?

I have created a RoleAssignmentPolicy called "DisabledForwardingRoleAssignmentPolicy" via Exchange admin center --permissions-- user roles. I would like to apply "DisabledForwardingRoleAssignmentPolicy" default to all new emails accounts to be…
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Why do servers not accept email address comments?

According to Wikipedia Email addresses can contain comments in parentheses like john.smith(comment)@example.com. I tried to send out some mails to valid Email addresses using such comments using several Email servers but all of them complained that…
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Nothing happens when sending a mail with (command line) sendmail

I want to set a mail server that can send mail with sendmail. Here is what I have done exactly service postfix start sendmail < mymail where mymail contains to:my@mail.com from:random@mail.com subject: None None With a packet capture, I see that…
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How do I see why a Mailbox Export Request failed?

I'm trying to export a bunch of mailboxes to PST files and a few of the requests terminated early in a failure. A few 5GB+ mailboxes succeeded and a few really small ones failed, I can't see anything common among them... Performing…
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Exchange 2010: very large shared mailbox

We have a unique problem I need some advice to deal with. Background: I've started a new job and inherited an exchange 2010 setup. One of the mailboxes is a shared mailbox that the company has been using to perform work flow rather than an…
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How to specify target directory in Postfix with MySQL?

I have setup a mail server with Postfix, Dovecot and MySQL. Dovecot works perfectly. Postfix sends mail, but I have a problem with receiving mail. After 2 days of debugging and tweaking configurations, I'm now able to receive mails successfuly. The…
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transferring mail hosts clients having to redownload all mail

im transferring mailboxes from godaddy over to opensrs. When clients connect to their mailbox after it has been transferred they are having to re-download all their old mail to their mail client (outlook, thunderbird, etc..) Is there a way I can log…
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Exchange Autodiscover Authentication fails after mailbox migration from 2010 to 2013 is completed; until server is backed up or rebooted

I have installed an Exchange 2013 Mail server on our network following the Microsoft guide on migrating from an Exchange 2010 to 2013 server. I am at the point where I have both servers running side by side with the 2013 server proxying the 2010,…
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