Exchange 2003 to new Exchange 2007 server sending failure

After introducing first Exchange Server 2007 server into an existing Exchange Server 2003 organization, you may encounter an mail flow issue between the two servers.

Symptoms:
- Emails sent from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2003
- Emails not sent from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 and might be seen in the queue of the Exchange 2003 server.

Solutions:
Remove the smart host from the Default SMTP Virtual Server and instead configure a new SMTP Connector for the Routing Group to send internet email (the namespace of “*”) to the smart host.

Handling Exchange IMF & SCL

To enable IMF auto-updates:

1. In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange

2. Create the following value (DWORD):

ContentFilterState

and give it a value of 1.

To configure IMF to also add the SCL rating to the archived message:

1. In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\ContentFilter

Note: You might not find this key in place. If that is the case, create a new key under the Exchange key and call it ContentFilter

2. Within the ContentFilter key, create the following value (REG_DWORD):

ArchiveSCL

and give it a value of 1.

restart the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service

Custom Weighting Feature for Exchange IMF

IMF version 2 includes a completely new feature called the Custom Weighting Feature (CWF), which allows you to customize IMF even further. With CWF you can filter e-mail messages based on specific phrases within the body of the messages, the subject line or both.

Below is an example of specific phrases and values you can use in the MSExchange.UceContentFilter.xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<CustomWeightEntries xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2005/CustomWeight">
<CustomWeightEntry Type="BODY" Change="5" Text="abcde"/>
<CustomWeightEntry Type="BODY" Change="-5" Text="fghij"/>
<CustomWeightEntry Type="BODY" Change=”6" Text="klmno"/>
<CustomWeightEntry Type="SUBJECT" Change="MIN" Text="pqrst"/>
<CustomWeightEntry Type="BOTH" Change="MAX" Text="uvwxy"/>
</CustomWeightEntries>

Notes:
1. MSExchange.UceContentFilter.xml, should always be in the working path of IMF in latest update subfolder (be sure to check them regularly againts IMF Update)
2. You migh to restart SMTP services to make sure no problem while loading them
3. MSExchange.UceContentFilter.xml file should saved in Unicode format
4. SCL Result : a. determine by + and - change, b. if MAX match then reset to 9, c. if MIN macth then reset to 0.
5. CWLs will not match an entry to a substring of a word, but will match a shorter phrase to part of a longer phrase

Eseutil Error -528

Problem:
While try to recover priv1.edb and pub1.edb

c:\\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA>"c:\\Program Files\Exchsrvr\bin\Eseutil" /r e00

Initiating RECOVERY mode...
Logfile base name: e00
Log files:
System files:

Performing soft recovery...


Operation terminated with error -528 <JET_errMissingLogFile, Current log file missing> after xxx seconds

Cause:
Missing valid Exx.log files

Solution:
1. Look folder c:\\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA
2. Copy last E000xxx.log, E00.log and E00.chk to other place
3. Delete E00.log
4. Rename last E000xxx.log to E00.log
5. Execute
c:\\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA>"c:\\Program Files\Exchsrvr\bin\Eseutil" /r e00
5. You may need this procedures with following order:
c:\\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA>"c:\\Program Files\Exchsrvr\bin\Eseutil" /g

c:\\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA>"c:\\Program Files\Exchsrvr\bin\Eseutil" /p

c:\\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA>"c:\\Program Files\Exchsrvr\bin\Eseutil" /d