Microsoft File Transfer Manager - Moving In-Progress Transfers to a New PC

When I migrated my SBS2003 box to SBS2008, I had a bunch of downloads queued up in Microsoft File Transfer Manager and the active transfer was a 10GB file that was more than halfway through. My monthly quota before shaping kicks in is 40GB, which is generally more than enough for what I do, but not so this time around.

I didn't really want to delay the migration nor did I want to have to re-download the file, so I looked at moving the in-progress trnasfer to another PC. Here's how I did it:

• Download Microsoft File Transfer Manager
• Install FTM, run it, enable updates and create a desktop shortcut
• Copy the files found at %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\File Transfer Manager from the old PC to the new PC
• Edit ftmTransferList.txt if your in-progress transfers are being moved to a different drive and folder path
• reference is URL encoded: %5C for \, %3A for :
• Copy your in-progress transfer files from the old PC to the new PC
• Export the registry settings found at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SIAM\FileTransferManager\Settings from the old PC and merge on the new PC
• Run FTM from the desktop shortcut and resume the transfers

Customising the Error Message for IP Block List Providers in Exchange Server 2007

One of the things I did for blocklist error messages in Exchange Server 2003 was to provide the lookup URL for the affected IP address. This makes life easier for the other end when they try to diagnose why their mail wasn't delivered.

Microsoft's Knowledge Base article 823866 details how to go about doing this by using the variables %0, %1 and %2.

When I performed my SBS2003 to SBS2008 migration, I went to do customise the blocklist error messages, but found that %0, %1 and %2 don't work. After some mucking around I found that {0}, {1} and {2} work instead.

Here's the Powershell command I used to add a custom error message for lookups done against the Spamhaus list:

Add-IPBlockListProvider -Name zen.spamhaus.org -LookupDomain zen.spamhaus.org -AnyMatch $True -Enabled $True -RejectionResponse "{1} has blocked your IP address ({0}) using the list '{2}'. Please see http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip={0} for further information."