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Exchange 2003 calendar delegates

slagerst — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:15:20 -0800

How do I give my CEO's exchange calendar a new assistant? CEO had assistant 1. former IT people set it up that any calendar invite sent via exchange (2003) was copied to the assistant, who could then answer on the CEO's behalf.

assistant 1 became assistant 2. deleted a1 from exchange, added a2, and assigned delegate rights for CEO to a2.

the problem: i cannot find the mechanism that copies a1 on invites to the CEO. it is not rules on the CEO's profile. i see nothing referencing a1 in the CEO's exchange properties. meeting requesters get the following bounceback referencing a1 when they send request to CEO.

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: meeting
Sent: 9/2/2008 11:18 AM

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

a1 on 9/5/2008 11:18 AM
The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent to. Check the e-mail address, or contact the recipient directly to find out the correct address.

Delete/disable a User account but still forward their email?

bartleby — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:59:34 -0800

Server2003/Exchange - can I disable an account but still have its mail delivered/forwarded? In the past, when an employee left, they left and all the lights were turned out for their network/domain access.

Employees are given Terminal Server & Outlook access from home, so it's important that we turn off their remote access. It seemed best to cover all the bases by disabling/deleting the user account ASAP.

Now there's a request to have their email forwarded to a manager for 90 days, "just in case".

In my limited knowledge, that means that the account has to stay active - all I can really do is change the password.

What I'm looking for is a way to remove a user's ability to acess anything on the domain, but to still have any mail sent to "firedguy@company.com" to get automatically forwarded to "firedguysboss@company.com".

Server 2003, Exchange. My Active Directory kung-fu is weak, but I can follow directions. Help?

How do I get mobile activesync working?

geoff. — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 06:54:04 -0800

How do I get mobile ActiveSync working with Exchange 2003 on Windows Server 2003? The "OWA" page is working and I can't for the life of me get these batch of Sprint smartphones to use the ActiveSync function when not docked. The error I get across the board is "0x80072f17". After entering the domain and site name (exchange.server.com) the progress bar never increases and it says "Syncing folders" or something general and stays that way for a good hour before returning 0x80072f17. I was getting "Server cannot be reached" then I enable port 443 on the firewall (apparently SSL must be used, that's fine). I'm seriously out of ideas, I can't find the error code 0x80072f17 anywhere and thought I'd finally tap into the collective consciousness.

How to POP an Exchange 2k3 server using Outlook

SparkyPine — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 14:21:38 -0800

I need to allow a few people to access our mail server using Outlook from outside the building. They use OWA yet do not like having to use a web page to do this (yeah, I know...). I thought of setting up POP3 but am not sure what ports I need to open on the firewall (110, 25 do not seem to cut it). What is the functional difference between POP3 and IMAP and is either one better/easier to setup? (File folder sharing would be an optional objective). Microsoft's KB system sucks...any other useful articles out there?