Since the early days of Exchange Server our customers have used various methods to provide different views of the Global Address List (GAL) to subsets of users within the same Exchange Organization. This segmentation allowed administrators to optimize...

Hey folks, I know it has been some time since I have last posted anything on this topic and you are all waiting patiently. I want you all to know that this is something that I take great pride in doing and keeping everyone informed. With that being said...

I often run in to situations where customers are seeing the following events in the application log: Event Type: Error Event Source: MSExchangeSA Event Category: OAL Generator Event ID: 9373 Description: OALGen detected that the file '\\<SERVER name>...

Back on Wednesday, [January 06, 2010] I published the following blog: Exchange 2010 Address List Segregation – Update. In this blog I made the following statement: "I think you will be happy to know that I am towards the end of wrapping up the Exchange...

Hey guys, this is a long over due update with regards to http://blogs.msdn.com/dgoldman/archive/2008/02/02/looking-up-free-busy-information-in-a-mixed-org-e2k3-e2k7-will-return-a-4004-error.aspx . For more information please see: KB Article 972076 ...

When an OAB is being built by the system the OAB Generation process (OABGen.dll) will create the main share [ExchangeOAB] so the OAB files can be placed for pickup by the FDS (File Distribution Service) which runs on the Client Access Server. There are...

Hey guys, I wanted to post an update. At this current time the white paper is on hold . I will keep everyone posted. Dave

Back on Tuesday, December 01, 2009 I wrote the following blog: PLEASE READ –> Events 9320 and 9359 on new installation of Exchange 2010 . I worked with the development group, and we are going to make a change to the way we log the attribute truncation...

Hey guys, I think you will be happy to know that I am towards the end of wrapping up the Exchange 2010 Address List Segregation white paper. I will post another update as soon as we are finished with the editing and when it will be posted. With that being...

Bharat Suneja has written an EXCELLENT article on how to use GAL Photos in Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010 . Dave

In this blog I will break down how to use OAB throttling. There are a few things that I need to explain about this as most of the administrators that use this never get it to work properly. Using OAB throttling is not a set it and forget it type of deal...

I thought that this would be interesting to post as I don’t think that many people are aware of this. So we all know that when the OAB is generated it will be dropped to the local OAB share on the OAB Generation server in the following location: [D:\Program...

In all version of Exchange the OAB Generation process will store the data is reads from the active directory in the %temp% directory, on the server that is generating the OAB. Once the OAB Generation process completes the temp files will be removed. For...

We’re in the process of validating the existing Exchange Address List Segmentation whitepaper against Exchange2010.  The whitepaper was written for Exchange 2007 and may need to be modified to support changes in Exchange 2010.  The current plan...

When you attempt to generate your OAB you will see the following event id’s logged in your application log: Log Name: Application Source: MSExchangeSA Date: 12/1/2009 13:01:03 AM Event ID: 9359 Level: Warning User: N/A Computer: OABGenServer Description...

I am getting ready to write the whitepaper for Exchange 2010 address list segregation and I ran in to a problem where my setup was failing with no errors. I decided to open up the application log and MSEXCHANGEADTOPOLOGYSERVICE.EXE was nice enough to...

Back on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 I wrote the following blog on Microsoft Exchange and Search Folders . For this blog I also wrote a tool that would parse the isinteg.pri file to help identify exchange mailboxes that have high item counts or a high number...

The answer to this is throttling the bandwidth from the server. By default, every client request for a full offline Address Book download is served immediately, and the public store does not limit the number of concurrent full offline Address Book downloads...

This was an article that I wrote about two years ago. I have high lighted a section in red which I think is very cool. You can rebuild your web distribution off of your public folder OAB without creating a new OAB. When you update the offline address...

I have been working an interesting case for a large enterprise customer with a few other people from my group. We were having a problem where outlook clients were unable to connect to the exchange server, however the exchange server was operating like...

We released an update for Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 ( KB 968012 ) back on May 26th, 2009. When Exchange 2007 is running on a Windows Server 2008, the Exchange 2007 clients may be repeatedly prompted for their credentials during...

There are certain situations where the Global Address list display will show the legacyExchangeDN instead of the SMTP email address. The one condition where this is true is when you are viewing the Global Address List through Outlook 2003. The default...

Often we will get question that have to deal with deleting system folders in Exchange 2007. When deleting an OAB public folder from Exchange Management console, you receive the following error: 0x80070005. This error means "Access Denied." You...

Over the last few months I have seen a rash of calls come in where clients were being forced to download a full.  Full OAB downloads can cause very high network usage and cause more havoc than anything. Typically in these situations it is pretty...

I was recently asked by a HMC customer to see if this solution [ http://blogs.msdn.com/dgoldman/archive/2008/04/09/how-to-forward-to-internet-recipients-without-creating-an-internal-mail-enabled-contact.aspx ] would work for Exchange 2007 as it did work...