Thursday 21 June 2007

Email sent to Mail Enabled Lists is bounced back by Exchange

Whilst on a customer site when mail enabling a document library called TestDocs the SMTP address for the contact created in AD was coming up as for example TestDocs@MOSS02.vsa.domain (name of my MOSS Server). Mail sent to this library was bouncing back as Exchange was trying to send it through its default SMTP connector and to a smart host which of course could not relay for MOSS02.vsa.domain

To get around this, once the list or document library is mail enabled a SMTP connector needs to be created in Exchange System Manager that allows mail to be routed to the SharePoint server. To allow this list to receive mail from external users you need to assign it a second SMTP address for the mail domain.

Wednesday 13 June 2007

Viewing Site Usage Reports gives http error or you are prompted to logon again

When viewing site usage reports you are asked to logon 3 times and this fails unless you log on as the application pool account or alternatively you get a http error. There is a hotfix available for the 32bit version of MOSS outlined in the following article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/913384

Alternativeley if you log on to each MOSS Front end server at least once with your application pool account for the web application where you are viewing the site usage reports it solves the issue. This is caused by a weird ASP error where the account running the process needs a user profile on the MOSS server.