Archive for the ‘Exchange Server 2007’ Category

Deleted Items Folder is not visible in OWA or Outlook

One of our teams experienced a weird problem yesterday. One of the users was experiencing issues with him mailbox size. Mailbox Stats on the mailbox server (Exchange 2007) was showing his total mailbox item size as 1.3GB but the items in outlook were definitely not even close to that size as a sum of size [...]

April 5, 2012   Posted in: Exchange 2010, Exchange Server 2007, Outlook  4 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

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 2007 on Windows 2008 R2 will be supported soon

Microsoft Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008 R2 support is under consideration perhaps Microsoft has already made decision to support this combination. Though there is no further information available on this yet you can read the official story here Supporting Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2

November 5, 2009   Posted in: Exchange Server 2007, News  Comments Closed

Changing OWA time out on an Exchange 2007 and 2010 Computers

Exchange Server 2007 OWA will automatically time out for the security purposes. This feature has been designed to restrict unauthorized access to any mailbox when the user is using a public or shared computer. You can select this option before you logon to your mailbox: Though this feature is good for security reasons it may [...]

October 22, 2009   Posted in: CAS, Exchange Server 2007  2 Comments

How to Manually Rebuild the Full-Text Index Catalog

Content Indexing also known as CI is a great feature to speed up item searching through mailboxes. I had to rebuild a CI database for a mailbox yesterday because there were some errors showing up on application log (I dont really remember the errors now) which were indicating that the CI was unable to update few items from database. Turned out [...]

September 9, 2009   Posted in: Exchange 2010, Exchange Server 2007  Comments Closed

Using Secondary Email Address to Send Emails in Exchange 2007

This is just a work around and not a standard method. Broken rules on transport server may break the complete function. Due to design limitations outlook and exchange together wont allow to send emails using the secondary email address on some user account. There are some third party utilities like IvaSoft which will allow to [...]

June 19, 2009   Posted in: Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2010 Beta 1, Transport  One Comment

Exchange Server 2007 SP2 on its way

Microsoft Exchange Team announced the launch of Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2007 to be expected in third quarter of 2009. Few things you can expect from SP2: Exchange Server 2007 Auditing features: For those who have already started working on / testing Exchange 2010 Beta it may not be a new concept. Yes, [...]

May 21, 2009   Posted in: Exchange Server 2007, News  3 Comments

Using MFCMAPI to delete delegate rules from mailbox

Note: This post is purely intended to demonstrate the use of MFCMAPI to delete calendar delegate rules. There are several other steps you may want to go through before you actually go ahead and follow steps in this post. Outlook, LDAP and MAPI offer a great feature of delegation of mailboxes to a particular user [...]

April 30, 2009   Posted in: Exchange Server 2003, Exchange Server 2007, MBX  3 Comments