View Mailbox Sizes for Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2010 through Powershell
If you need to view mailbox sizes for users in your Exchange organisation, you can do this from an Exchange Management Shell (EMS) for both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007/2010.For your Exchange...
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Reset Backup Exec 2012 to Factory Defaults
Symantec has published an article on how to restore Backup Exec to factory defaults using BEUtility.exe however this article only works for Backup Exec 11D/12.0/12.5/2010/2010R2/2010R3. This article...
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Exchange 2010 Randomly Loosing Access to Active Directory
I had an issue at a customer site where a vitalised multi role Exchange 2010 server was randomly loosing access to Active Directory. There were two Active Directory Domain Controllers with the Global...
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Removing the requirement to specify domain name with Single Signon for Remote...
Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services single signon provides the users the ability to login to RD Web Access and launch applications without having to provide login credentials twice. While single...
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Introducing Exchange Online Protection (EOP)
If you have yet to hear, Microsoft has retired their entire Forefront product suite. For products which will continue such as Forefront Identity Manager, these products have been moved to the System...
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Windows Server 2012 Deduplication
Tonight I am playing with the new Windows Server 2012 RTM which I have downloaded and installed in a virtual environment. One of the new features which I like in Windows Server 2012 is the File Storage...
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A Quick Look at WinSAT
WinSAT.exe is a fantastic free tool made by Microsoft for checking performance utilisation of a server through command line. WinSAT allows you to quickly look at the performance of your disk, cpu or...
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Exchange PST Capture Tool: Import error: Error opening mailbox
Today a customer consulted me to import 600 mailboxes into Microsoft Exchange from PST files scattered across the network. However when performing the import into Exchange the following error was...
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Unable to open PST file filepath. Error details: Access to the path filepath...
When attempting to import a PST file from an administrative workstation running Exchange Management Shell you may experience the following error:Unable to open PST file "filepath". Error details:...
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Active Sync Issues on Exchange 2010
I migrated 600 mailboxes to a new Exchange server from 2003 to 2010. The next morning when users got to work some users were complaining that their email was not working on their mobile phone. When...
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Problem Moving Mailboxes
When migrating mailboxes to a new Exchange 2010 server from an old Exchange 2003 environment, some mailboxes failed to move and generated the following powershell exception:Summary: 1 item(s). 0...
View ArticleApple iPhone iOS6 and Exchange Autodiscover
You may be wondering why iOS6 on the Apple iPhone does not Autodiscover anymore? It doesn't work! We have done extensive testing with multiple mobile devices on Exchange Server 2010 SP2 UR4:iPhone (4...
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PPTP VPN and Belkin F5D8635
There is an issue with PPTP VPN connections and the Belkin F5D8635 router. By default the Belkin F5D8635 router does not allow the GRE protocol which is essential for creating PPTP VPN connections...
View ArticleHow to move a Calendar from one mailbox to another.
I have just migrated a company running Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. Exchange 2003 does not utilise resource mailboxes and as a result, my customer has created a bunch of ordinary mailboxes to...
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What is the difference between IsExcludedFromProvisioning and...
New in Exchange 2010 and carried into Exchange 2013 is a feature called Automatic Mailbox Provisioning. This feature automatically load balances the creation of new mailboxes across all available...
View ArticleForce Active Directory replication on a domain controller
In order to force Active Directory replication, issue the command ‘repadmin /syncall /AeD’ on the domain controller. Run this command on the domain controller in which you wish to update the Active...
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Error: WMI exception occurred on server - Quota violation
Tonight I stumbled across a limitation in Exchange 2010 when moving a vast amount of Transaction Logs to volume on an Exchange 2010 SP2 server. This server had over 100,000 logs which needed to be...
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OABGen encountered error 80004005 while cleaning the offline address list
Today I had an issue with Exchange 2010 Offline Address Book Generation (OABGen) at a customer. The customer was complaining that their address book had not updated for quite some time.When manually...
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A problem has been encountered in the Microsoft Exchange Messaging and...
When decommissioning an Exchange 2003 server when upgrading to Exchange 2010, the Exchange 2003 server failed to uninstall successfully and presented me with the following error message:A problem has...
View ArticleVB Script - Remove Files from being Read Only
The below VB Code uses scripting.filesystemobject to go through a bunch of files and remove the read only parameter. I found it quite handy for a scheduled task when dealing with a rouge...
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