Archive for the ‘Exchange 2010’ Category
Outlook 2010 Nickname Cache – An insider Story
Name cache in Outlook is a great feature, we all know. I personally find it extremely very useful since it saves a lot of time while selecting recipients. It has also helped adding few of those recipients who were likely to get missed on an email. Outlook 2003 and 2007 both used locally stored .NK2 [...]
January 7, 2012
Posted in: Exchange 2010, Outlook 
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Listing Exchange ActiveSync Users and Device Details
As an IT administrator you must have come across a requirement from information security teams that they want to review the number of users who use emails on their mobile phones. Some companies require this data so that they can allow access only for selected users. Although listing users is not a big deal when [...]
December 14, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 Comments Closed
Exchange Server 2010 SP2 Installation – Few Must Knows
It is more than a week since Microsoft made the Exchange Server 2010 SP2 installation bits available for public download. Over a week’s time there are a lot of articles explaining the installation procedure of Exchange Server 2010 SP2. In this post, I am highlighting few things that you should know before installing Exchange Server [...]
December 12, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2010 5 Comments
Exchange Server 2010 Checklist
Few months ago someone in our discussion group had a requierment of an automated way to make sure that exchange servers health state should be checked automatically and a report should be sent to support team.During the discussion, we recieved a lot of ideas and many sample codes to do so. The largest piece of code [...]
December 7, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2010 5 Comments
Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 is available for Download
Microsoft has released SP2 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 today. The service pack is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28190 With release of SP2 a long awaited feature of Address List Segregation will now be available instead of using Exchange in Hosting Mode. A lot of other fixes are included in this release. Download your copy [...]
December 5, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2010 3 Comments
Changing From Display Name of Full Mailbox Notifications
I am sure almost everyone of us have seen this at least once in the lifetime One of our old days techies had this requirement of changing the From display name that is used by agents sending notifications about your mailbox size when it reaches the quota. Although you cannot edit the sender email address [...]
November 29, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 2 Comments
How to generate a report of full mailbox access
If you have gone through an ExRAP lately and have encountered this as an observation during operational interview you are definitely going to need this very small piece of powershell command. $CreateStamp = Get-Date -UFormat %d_%m_%Y Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Get-MailboxPermission | Where {$_.User.ToString() -ne “NT AUTHORITYSELF” -and $_.IsInherited -eq $false} | Select Identity,User,@{Name=’Access [...]
November 14, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2010, Exchange Server 2007 2 Comments
Script to create new mailbox and set mailbox feature
Edit: This script can be downloaded from Microsoft Technet Gallery as well. Download is available at Create Mailbox and Set-CASMailbox Features GUI Script I wrote this script for one of our L1 support team where they create mailboxes manually. Lately, the customer where this team works wanted to the POP/IMAP services to be enabled [...]
November 13, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2010 One Comment
How to Recover a Mailbox Server that is a part of a DAG
A day before yesterday, I was asked if an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox server which is a part of a DAG can be recovered using disaster recovery setup options. Due to considerable changes in the ways Exchange 2010 handles the clustering components it is little tricky to recover a crashed server that was a part [...]
October 13, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2010, MBX 4 Comments
BUG: Your email was deleted without being read – Exchange 2010 SP1 RU3 V2
Many people user MS outlook configuration to request read receipts of every email. An issue is observed for the users who use this configurations. Although emails requesting read receipts are read the notification is sent out that the email was deleted without reading. Solution: Exchange 2010 SP1 – Email Request for Read Receipt is giving [...]
May 27, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2010 One Comment