Archive for the ‘Exchange 2010’ Category
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
MX Records: Are they really needed?
Sound a weird question? Yes, it shocked me too. One of my customers run Symantech BrightMail Gateway for their inbound email handling. This appliance has multiple accepted domain names configured. We were amazed to see some domain names not having an associated MX records yet they were receiving emails from internet. I though of digging [...]
May 18, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Transport 5 Comments
Mail flow stops with 430 4.2.0 STOREDRV; mailbox logon failure
This is one of the most annoying error that you may probably face with your HT servers and they stop sending emails to MBX servers. There are multiple things that you need to go through to fix this problem. This post is just provide some common troubleshooting steps that can be performed if you face [...]
May 6, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 3 Comments
Error: This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, or arbitration mailboxes
Have you already tried removing an Exchange 2010 Server from your environment? If yes then you must have faced this error at least once. If you are removing an Exchange 2010 server from your environment then then you must also remove the databases hosted on that server where user mailboxes are. In case you have [...]
May 3, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2010 Comments Closed
Find All Distribution Groups and their Members in Exchange Org
Get-DistributionGroup –ResultSize Unlimited | FL Identity | Out-File C:TempAll_DGs.txt $AllDGs = Get-Content "D:TempAll_DGs.txt" ForEach ($DG in $AllDGs) { Echo $DG >>"D:TempAll_DG.csv" Get-DistributionGroupMember –Identity $DG -ResultSize Unlimited | FT Name, PrimarySMTPAddress, RecipientType >> "D:TempAll_DG.csv" } I know this simple script can be even better but it was written in extreme hurry so it does have [...]
February 25, 2011
Posted in: Exchange 2010, Exchange Server 2007 3 Comments
Disabling Outlook Anywhere Per User
RPC/HTTPS was the first name when outlook anywhere access was introduced with Exchange Server 2003. Exchange 2003 did not provide a very granular control on it though. With increase in productivity it also brought a concern with it. It could allow configuring user’s mailbox on any outlook client even if the user was not supposed [...]
January 5, 2011
Posted in: Active Directory, Exchange 2010, Exchange Server 2007 One Comment
Exchange 2010 Online Archive Support for Outlook 2007– Now Available
I have seen many people asking a very common question in forums and restricted news groups, “Is there any support available for Outlook 2007 clients to access Exchange 2010 online archive?” Answer to this was no but now Yes. It is available now. Exchange team announced the support yesterday and the December 2010 cumulative update [...]
December 22, 2010
Posted in: Exchange 2010, News, Outlook 4 Comments
The WinRM client cannot process the request….The content type is absent or invalid
One of my customers logged a case yesterday asking to fix their EMS issue on their only Exchange 2010 server. They were neither able to open the EMC on the server nor from a remote computer. The error that was shown in EMC was: "Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message: The [...]
December 17, 2010
Posted in: CAS, Exchange 2010 Comments Closed
#5.2.1 when sending emails from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2003
You will find a lot of posts related to this issue. I read a bunch of them on internet too. What interested me more is a cause behind this problem. Although this problem is very generic and doesn’t occur in every organization after upgrading to Exchange 2010 there are many people I see who reported [...]
November 18, 2010
Posted in: Exchange 2003, Exchange 2010, Transport Comments Closed