Exchange 2010 - zero loss of email possible?
I often think about possible scenarios and here is one that I am currently thinking about! What happens in the event that you lose your storage or a database drive/logs and need to restore from...
View ArticleUsers receiving certificate errors for a CAS not set as RPCClientAccessServer
Hoping someone can help shed light on this.We're setting up a new CAS with the intent of replacing the old one, and then retiring it. There is no CAS array (management decision), so from a CAS...
View ArticleExchange 2010 relay what servers are using it
Hi, I'm looking at closing off an Exchange 2010 relay. However, before doing it I'm trying to figure out what legitimate internal services are using it for relaying mails. Will enabling this logging...
View ArticleShell script to get certain mailbox information
I've been working on this for a while today, and can't get past this last stumbling block.Here's my command:Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Where-Object {($_.WhenMailboxCreated).Month -eq 12 -and...
View ArticleExchange Management Console strangeness
Some background. Were were running Exchange 2003 and have recently completed the migration to Exchange 2010. The Exchange 2003 servers have been decommissioned (uninstalled). For some reason when we...
View ArticleAdding isolated exchange 2010 CAS and DAG without affecting Production
We currently have a single CAS server (exchange 2010) and one back-end mailbox server (exchange 2010). I wanted to start with a clean slate and create a CAS cluster (2 front end) and DAG containing 5...
View Articleenable archive for a large set of users
hi i have been using this command to enable archive for users:enable-mailbox -identity "user" -Archive -ArchiveDatabase "dbName" how can i instead pipe in a list of users from csv or txt? thanks in...
View ArticleIIS Digest Authentication Required for Exchange SP3
Trying to Install Exchange SP3, but I'm getting the error below:Summary: 5 item(s). 4 succeeded, 1 failed. Elapsed time: 00:00:31 Configuring Prerequisites CompletedElapsed Time: 00:00:00 Organization...
View Articleexchange question on recieving and domain name differences
I have my first 2010 exchange server running on 2008 sr2. I also have one 2008 sr2 domain controller. I have setup the basics on exchange and can email internally. Question: I know my A record...
View ArticleMaking sure that .local shows up as .com when users send or recieve messages
What should I do when it comes to making sure my internal users email address comes up as there .com instead of .local? Is that an Alias thing or what? I notice when setting up email in exchange that...
View ArticleExchange UM Voice Quality of Auto-Attendant
Hi,I am using Lync2013 in conjunction with Exchange2010 and have a functioning Auto-Attendant up and running.Prior to today I had the default text-to-speech running then today we did some recordings,...
View ArticleCAS server requiring 2GB of memory per core...
According to this KB MS recommends 2GB of memory per CPU core: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd346700(v=exchg.141).aspxI'm transitioning to new CAS servers, and in my new servers (which...
View ArticleSend on Behalf permission
I am wondering why I can't see GrantSendOnBehalfTo permission with Get-MailboxPermission or Get-ADPermission?I can find FullAccess and SendAs with Get-MailboxPermission or Get-ADPermission. But I must...
View ArticleOAB download hanging for some users
Hello,I am having an issue with some users not having their OAB updated. When trying to manually download the OAB, it hangs and never completes.This is an Exchange 2010 SP2 environment. 2 hub/cas...
View ArticleExchange 2010 SP3 update failes on Sbs 2011
When installing exchange 2010 sp3 the update fails at ''client access role'' Error: the following error was generated when "$error.Clear();Start-SetupProcess -Name "iisreset -Args "/noforce...
View ArticleExchange 2010 DAG DNS Issue
I am having issues with my Exchange 2010 servers. I have two servers that have HUB/CAS/MAILBOX installed on them. They are configured to use DAG failover cluster. The Domain controllers are Server 2003...
View ArticleTransport Rule to Sender Confirming Send
Group,I'm wondering if it's possible to setup a Transport Rule that will return the e-mail to the user requesting confirmation before the message is sent. Here's what I'm thinking.1. User A sends an...
View ArticleKB 979744: Can't hotfix, can't uninstall, can't fix MMC.exe crashing. Please...
We have tried everything to resolve this.The KB 979744 bad patch was applied to the server at one time, someone else tried to fix it and we don't know what they did. We are trying to fix it now. We...
View ArticleRoom Delegate not getting meetings marked private
All,We have a number of 'rooms' setup in Exchange 2010 where the resource booking attendant is turned off and a delegate is assigned to receive meeting requests for approval of resource booking. (Box...
View Article