Upgrading VMware Tools Dismounts all Active Mailbox Databases on DAG Member...
Exchange Architecture:EXCHANGECASHUB1: Roles: CAS/HUBEXCHANGECASHUB2: Roles: CAS/HUBEXCHANGEMAILBOX1: Roles: MailboxEXCHANGEMAILBOX2: Roles: MailboxAll 4 servers are Exchange 2010 SP2 Enterprise...
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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 2010 and IOS 6.1
I received an email from one of my colleagues warning not to upgrade to iOS 6.1.Working with Microsoft and Apple, they have identified an issue in IOS 6.1 that if a user updates, deletes, modifies,...
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 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 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 ArticleMissing Exchange 2010 RC powershell cmdlets
Running Exchange 2010 RC and trying to configure DAG.DAG cmdlets are not available and having run get-excommand > c:\ex_commands.txtmany of the exchange cmdlets are not given including all related...
View ArticlePS Scripted mailboxes dont show up in OAB
Happy Saturday all,I recently started using a ps script to add all new users to my domain. I add the names to a .csv likecn,sAMAccountName,FirstName,LastNameJohn Doe,john.doe,John,DoeThen the PS script...
View ArticleGet-OwaVirtualDirectory - IIS directory entry couldn't be created
I have an Exchange 2003 environment that is being transitioned to Exchange 2010. For a number of reasons, the transition has taken a long time, but I have recently found a problem, which I believe...
View ArticleFailed Exchange 2010 Server - Recovery Database
Ok so here is what happened:We had an Exchange 2010 server that hard-crashed. We restored the user mailboxes from a recovery database without issue, and built a new server. Mail flows correctly, but...
View ArticleManagedFolderAssistant run retention policy as expected
I have a test account setup with tags and retention policy assigned. The tag moves all folders to archive within 1 day. I can use the script below to manually start the ManagedFolderAssistant and...
View ArticleTranscation logs not clearing .. DAG issue?
Hiwe have a two node dag. One of the nodes had a drive fill up to 100% because of the IOS6.1 calendar issues.We flipped the store to the second node (with a larger disk) and resolved the IOS6.1 issue....
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 ArticleEmail Alias and Autodiscover
I'm trying to figure out why autodiscover failed due to duplicate exchange aliases. What are aliases used for in Exchange 2007 and how are the involved in the mailbox lookup process? I really thought...
View Articleexchange 2010 rpc over http on a high port
Hi,I have onfigured RPC over http on non-default port 5005 as my default ports is listening for other applications. I can access the owa using the non-default port, for...
View ArticleCan you have a mailbox without domain credentials?
Is it possible to create Exchange email accounts in an AD network without permitting the user to log onto computers? If so, how do I configure the mailbox?
View ArticleNew-ManagementRoleAssignemnt takes a long time to become effective
Hi,I use new-managementroleassignment cmdlet to give an application impersonation permission to service account in our organization. Anyway I found out, that it takes up to 30minutes (average 25),...
View ArticleExchange 2010 and group or department calendars
We have been on Exchange 2003 and we are about to migrate to Exchange 2010 on O365. Upon testing we found a problem with the calendar system. We have two "team" calendars where we invite the...
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