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In the past, Microsoft Exchange has been scrutinized regarding the number of components required for the installation of the program. For Exchange server 2013, however, everything has been taken back to the drawing board. The total number of required agents during installation has been reduced from 5 to only 2 key components: the Mailbox ServerRead more

One of the challenges I’ve encountered over the years has been how to get heterogeneous servers to share information via file sharing over WAN. The traditional way was to use an RSYNC-like mechanism, common in the *nix world. On Windows machines I would use WinSCP, a simple scripting engine to transfer files via SFTP, whichRead more

If you’re doing desktop troubleshooting of end user mail clients and you want to make sure that a persons account is able to use SMTP Authentication properly, you to do this with a telnet client but it will take a little work. If you do a google search for troubleshooting SMTP Authentication, you will findRead more

Even though it is very rare that we use this command line, it can be a very interesting command line when troubleshooting connectivity issues. The Pathping, along with its features, also groups the Ping and Tracert features. So how does it work? Pathping sends packets to each router on its path to destination and thenRead more

Ever wondered how to test and maintain your mailbox without an email client? This quick guide on the manual POP3 commands will help you out. Below is a list of frequently used POP3 commands. In order to perform the following commands, all you will have to do is connect to the mail server using TelnetRead more