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It’s been sometime since I posted here, or even ‘resolved’ the RPC over HTTP problems I was having. My colleague was also looking a getting RPC over HTTP working. He had found a few posts online that stated that you need to reboot the Read More...
I’ve been struggling trying to get RPC over HTTP working from our main Exchange 2003 server. The box itself is on Server 2003 SP1 and is running SP1 of Exchange as well. The problem is that all RPC tests fail and Outlook constantly talks to our Read More...
Ever since the Exchange migration we've had this rouge distribution group that hasn't appeared in anybody's Offline Address Book. If you're an online Outlook user then you're fine, otherwise you just had to remember who the members of the "Americas" group Read More...
We're still reeling from the Exchange 5.5 to 2003 migration. The guy who did the migration is back in this week and I so I'm able to get a few answers answers to my questions. Anyway, yesterday it was brought to my attention that emails to certain domains Read More...
We've had some random issues with our address book ever since the migration. One that has been solved is the one where users get the message: 'Microsoft Exchange Server' reported error (0x8004010F), 'The operation failed. An object could not be found' Read More...

We've just done an Exchange 5.5 to 2003 migration. It was all set in motion before I arrived and for some reason the ADC (Active Directory Connector for Exchange 5.5) wasn't used.

The guy who did the migration over the weekend isn't in this week. He timed that very well as I've been dealing with the fall out.

I had a call yesterday from a user saying that my "From name" is wrong (the user, female, had got married since joining the company). It had to be picking it up from Active Directory, and as the user had no Display Name, Exchange was picking her name up from old Active Directory information. Giving her the right Display Name (in ADUC) solved that problem.

Had another today. A guy couldn't connect via POP - his authentication failed. I went into System Manager -> Servers -> <Server Name> , right click and "Properties" and to the "Diagnostics Logging" tab. I Chose "POP3Svc" from the left and set the logging level of all the right hand side entries to "Medium". Now Exchange started logging the guys login attempts.

One such log messages was:  "Authentication attempt from [IP address] to [email address] has failed with error 0x52e" . A search through Google Groups lead me to a posting on the 19 July from the SBS (Small Business Server) group that pointed in the direction of this knowledge article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;296387 . That was the clue that I needed; I had the guy try logging on with various usernames as I kept making changes in Active Directory. What eventually worked was changing the mailbox alias to his short-form username which then matched his pre-Windows 2000 username.