How to Verify That the Client Can Contact Backend Ports

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

By default, the RPC Proxy server does not publish the EPM port location. Therefore, you cannot ping the EPM from outside your intranet or use the UUID of the service.

However, you can specify the backend port that you want to test. By default, the store is on port 6001 and DsProxy is on port 6004. If these locations have been changed, the ports can be verified by using the RpcDump utility. The RpcDump utility is available from the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit package. Additionally, Microsoft does not recommend publishing the global catalog Directory Service or the Exchange referral service.

The following RPC Ping Utility examples are typed in at the command prompt. To access the command prompt, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
How to Use Basic Authentication and SSL to Connect to the Store’s Port
Syntax:
RpcPing –t ncacn_http –s ExchangeMBXServer -o RpcProxy=RpcProxyServer -P "user,domain,password" -I "user,domain,password" -H 1 –F 3 –a connect –u 10 –v 3 –e 6001
How to Use Basic Authentication, SSL, and Mutual Authentication to Connect to the Store’s Port
Syntax:
RpcPing –t ncacn_http –s ExchangeMBXServer -o RpcProxy=RpcProxyServer -P "user,domain,password" -I "user,domain,password" -H 1 –F 3 –a connect –u 10 –v 3 –e 6001 –B msstd:server_certificate_subject
How to use NTLM Authentication and Non-SSL to Connect to DsProxy Service
Syntax :
RpcPing –t ncacn_http –s ExchangeMBXServer -o RpcProxy=RpcProxyServer -P "user,domain,password" -I "user,domain,password" -H 2 –F 2 –a connect –u 10 –v 3 –e 6004

The body of the e-mail message appears empty when you open an encrypted or a digitally signed e-mail message in Outlook 2003

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

SYMPTOMS
If you open an encrypted or a digitally signed e-mail message in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, the body of the e-mail message appears to be empty. This problem occurs when you use Outlook 2003 in Cached Exchange Mode. If you use Outlook 2003 in online mode, the content in the body of the e-mail message appears as expected.

CAUSE
This problem may occur if both of the following conditions are true:
• You use the CryptoEx Outlook security add-in program. This third-party software is made by the Glück & Kanja Group. It is used to encrypt or to digitally sign e-mail messages.
• Outlook 2003 is configured to use Cached Exchange Mode.
When the CryptoEx Outlook security add-in program tries to replace the original encrypted or signed e-mail message body with the decrypted content, the call is unsuccessful, and the e-mail message body appears to be empty.

RESOLUTION
This problem was first fixed in a hotfix that is now contained in a service pack. If you installed the latest Microsoft Office 2003 service pack, you do not have to install the hotfix.

Service pack information
This problem is corrected in Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 1.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2003. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
870924 How to obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003

How to obtain the hotfix
This issue is fixed in the Outlook 2003 Hotfix Package that is dated December 17, 2003. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
830003 Outlook 2003 hotfix package: December 17, 2003

WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, do not use Outlook 2003 in Cached Exchange Mode when you use Outlook 2003 with Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server or with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. To turn off the Cached Exchange Mode feature, follow these steps:
1. Start Outlook 2003.
2. On the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
3. Click View or change existing e-mail accounts, and then click Next.
4. Under the Name column, click the account that you want to modify, and then click Change.
5. Click to clear the Use Cached Exchange Mode check box.
6. Click Next, click OK, and then click Finish.
7. Quit and then restart Outlook 2003.

STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
This problem was first corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 1.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft product updates, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

The third-party products that this article discusses are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these products.

Warn about installed templates and add-ins

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Security because macros can contain viruses, is careful about running them. Take the following precautions: run up-to-date antivirus software on your computer; set your macro security level to high; clear the Trust all installed add-ins and templates check box; use digital signatures; maintain a list of trusted publishers.

Depending on your macro “macro: An action or a set of actions you can use to automate tasks. Macros are recorded in the Visual Basic for Applications programming language.” security setting, when you open a macro, you will receive a warning and the macro may be disabled for installed templates “template: A file or files that contain the structure and tools for shaping such elements as the style and page layout of finished files. For example, Word templates can shape a single document, and FrontPage templates can shape an entire Web site.) and add-ins (add-in: A supplemental program that adds custom commands or custom features to Microsoft Office.)” (Including wizards).

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Security tab.

2. Under Macro Security, click Macro Security.
3. Click the Trusted Publishers tab.
4. Clear the Trust all installed add-ins and templates check box.

Note All templates, add-ins, and macros shipped with Microsoft Office 2003 are digitally signed by Microsoft. Once you add Microsoft to your list of trusted sources for one of these installed files all subsequent interaction with these files will not generate messages.

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