Ade Famoti's Exchange blog

Exchange Journaling: Literacy issues

When you implement Exchange journaling, the content-identifer (PR_CONTENT_IDENTIFIER) of the journal messages are expected to be "ExjournalData", or with envelope journaled messages "ExjournalReport" This header "Content-Identifier" is misspelled in Exchange

Regulatory Compliance with Exchange Server 2003 journaling

Some enterprises have implemented the Exchange journaling feature, to meet some of their regulartory compliance needs. Some of the well-known U.S. regulations with requirements that may rely on Exchange 2003 archiving/ journaling technology. Some of these

What happens to journaled mail when it NDRs ?

If you're implementing Exchange envelope journaling, then you've probably wondered what happens to journaled messages that cannot be delivered or NDR. Journaled or archived messages are considered as system messages. What this means is, if your journal

What's your " J " word for Exchange Server Archiving...

Exchange 2003 server archival feature for saving off copies of messages sent or received, is commonly referred to as Exchange journaling. Now one of the most commonly used phrases to describe archiving, and sure does not exist in the dictionary. The word

X-headers in envelope journaling

If you are implementing Exchange 2003 envelope journaling, nad using SMTP + auto-forward rules to get the archived messages to a 3rd party archival, the X-headers on the archived messages may not be preserved. When the journaled messages reach the journal-mailbox,

Journaled messages are system messages

Be careful when you edit or change your connnector configurations. If you have journaling enabled, and sending off to a 3rd party archive storage, make sure that you have "system" messages allowed on the content-restrictions tab of the connector properties.

Regulatory compliance using Exchange hosted archive

Frontbridge was acquired a while back by Microsoft. Recently it was announced that Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services will now take the front line for hosted services including compliancy, data rentention, encryption, confidentiality e.t.c The hosted

Envelope Journaling results in blank recipients - dont panic !

If you have implemented Exchange 2003 envelope journaling , then you may find this issue interesting. When you change the JournalRecipient mailbox on your recipents' stores, you may notice that some envelope journal reports contain a blank recipient list.

Exchange 2003 SP2 and UUENCODE attachments

We got lots of complains about weird and garbled attachments after installing SP2, with gibberish text appearing in the message body. Yes, SP2 does change the way certain uuencode message are now rendered to the client. It's even worth noting that this