Glen's Exchange and Office 365 Dev Blog

Hot on the heels of last weeks resubmit tool I decided to rework this a little so it could also be used to resubmit messages from an NDR notification that may have been wrongly addressed. If you have configured your SMTP virtual servers to send a copy of Non delivery Recipients to a mailbox you’ll get a copy of all the NDR’s your server produces. Now in a large environment this is probably next to useless because of the number of messages you may receive but in small companies it may be a reasonable thing to do to allow you catch mis-addressed emails. But once you have received a badly addressed email if you try to resubmit that email from the NDR using Outlook (Resend) the sender address will be set to your email address which may confuse replies. So what this tool does it firstly extracts the original message from the NDR (if possible) and then allows you to specify the proper email address you want to submit it to and it will then resubmit the email so when it arrives at the recipi...

I came up with this little application this week to solve one annoying problem I have with a small client that uses an anti-spam application that submits any SPAM it finds to a public folder. As with everything the cheaper the anti-spam software the more chance there will be false positives so occasionally there is a need to go though this public folder and forward any false positives on to the intended receiver. Using the normal Outlook or OWA method will change the reply address’s and also the subject line which is usually also altered by the anti spam program. So what I came up with was two simple ASP pages that could be used to firstly query all the mail in a public folder and then allow an export (which is sometimes useful for checking the X-headers added by this spam program) and also resubmit an email to a desired email address (and allow any fix-up to the subject) buy firstly getting the RFC822 stream of the message via CDOEX and then saving this stream with an added x:sender a...

This is one for the Aussie’s and anyone who is managing a server on the East coast of Australia. Because of the Commonwealth games next year the date daylight saving starts on is being brought forward 1 week. If anyone remembers back a similar thing was done for the Olympics in 2000. First thing first is what is the overlap period? this is the period between when the new daylight saving starts and the period where it usually starts. This is between the dates 26/03/2006 and 2/04/2006. The long and short of it is that if your users currently have appointments created within this period including recurring appointments (no patches applied) these appointments are going to be out by 1 hour during this overlap period. Microsoft has released a patch that adds a new timezone to the registry but this patch doesn’t retrospectively fix appointments that already exist only those created after the patch has been applied. Because Timezone information isn’t year specific you now run into the problem...

A while ago I wrote this script to audit the Mailbox DACL in a reverse fashion so instead of the normal way where you would see these people have rights to this mailbox it did this person has rights to the following mailbox’s. The one thing this script didn’t check was for Send-as and receive-as rights. These particular rights are extended rights there a good description of what an extended right is here . The bit that is needed for this script is (quoted from that article) “Extended rights are not defined by an access mask. Instead, each extended right is identified by a globally unique identifier (GUID). This GUID corresponds to a controlAccessRight object that is stored in the Extended-Rights container within a forest's Configuration container. An ACE that grants an extended right specifies a GUID corresponding to a particular controlAccessRight object.” The ACE’s themselves that pertain to send-as and receive-as are added to the Active Directory User object Security descriptor...