Exchange 2003

I was tasked to list a series of SMTP relays from a Win2k3 Exchange 2k3 ExchBridgeHead server.

So I cheated and posted to a Technet forum…well… so what???? A SysAdmin has gotta do what a SysAdmin has gotta do!!!!

The answer is… download the IPSec.vbs util from Microsoft! You can get that from here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=dcce0536-7edc-40b4-9950-8b6906abda2d&displaylang=en

Then follow the install instructions!
And follow the ” how to use” instructions, paying particular note as to how to register the IPSec.dll section otherwise you will hit ActiveX problems!
 So from the RUN field….
regsvr32 c:\exipsecurity\exipsec.dll (or the path you put it in!)

These instructions are here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/935635?p=1

I went on to ExchBridgeHead followed the instructions but paired the cli string down to this…..

cscript ipsec.vbs -o e -r relay -d Domain_Controller_Hostname > c:\smpt_relays.txt


Please keep in mind that this util can be used for full manipulation of SMTP relays.

ExchangeDump ToolTo extract a copy of the complete settings in your exchange environment to HTML or XML the exchange dump tool can be used.

Just now I've used this in the Exchange 2003 environment as in the Exchange 2007 environment I suspect that there have been some fundamental upgrades especially sine Powershell has been deployed in Exchange 2007.

Anyway, the tool I have used to save SMTP connector settings in Exchange 2003 is ExchDump follow this link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839116 Overview of ExchDump Tool

SMTPdiag UtilThis article explains the use of a handy SMTPdiag util that tests the exchange connectors to remote networks.
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/SMTPDIAGdiagnose-Exchange-2003-SMTP-DNS.html Exchange Org SMTPDiag command line tool

The Exhange NOMAS util
For security reason logon accounts may get disabled in AD. If this happens to exchange enabled user accounts then a load of error stamps can be put in the event viewer.
://www.msexchange.org/articles/NoMAS-Tool.html  MSExchange.org articlethere ya go!!!!