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Due to limited functionality in Exchange 2007 to manage public folders, many Exchange administrators use PFDAVADMIN to manage their public folders. In my opinion, setting permissions is the most important enrichment of PFDAVADMIN. I still can’t believe Microsoft did not implement it in their Exchange Management Console (EMC). Nevertheless, we may be glad that they DID make a GUI for creating and deleting Public Folders. :)

If you run Exchange 2007 SP1 with an antivirus program like Trend Micro ScanMail 8.0, the following event may occur in your eventlog:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: MSExchangeIS
Event Category: Virus Scanning
Event ID: 9874
Date:  8/4/2008
Time:  8:34:47 AM
User:  N/A
Computer: %
Description:
Unexpected error 0×80040109 occurred in “EcProcessVirusScanQueueItem” during virus scanning. Mailbox Database: %/cn=Microsoft Private MDB

After some troubleshooting in Exchange 2007, my eventlog was flooded by the following event:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: MSExchangeIS Mailbox Store
Event Category: Access Control
Event ID: 1029
Date:  7/25/2008
Time:  10:57:21 AM
User:  N/A
Computer: %servername%
Description:
%emailaddress% failed an operation because the user did not have the following access rights:

After an upgrade from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, you should immediately uninstall the Exchange System Manager (ESM) on any desktop in your organisation. This is because the ESM enriches your Active Directory Users And Computers with some Integrated Exchange Tabs. These tabs, that come with ESM 2003, do not work with Exchange 2007. And if they do work, you should not use them :)

After a migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, some users may experience problems while connecting to Outlook Web Access (OWA). When they try to logon, they face the following error: