A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
I was asked to rename an Exchange account (sitting on an Exchange 2010 SP2 server) for a customer today because the surname had changed so to do this tidily, I disabled the Exchange Mailbox, cleaned up the Databases to make the mailbox appear in the Detached Mailboxes folder using the following Exchange Management Shell command: get-mailboxdatabase | clean-mailboxdatabase […]
Read moreThe trend for Exchange Server in recent years is towards larger mailboxes. Email is a heavily used application, users are demanding more storage for their email, and current versions of Exchange Server have been engineered to provide large mailboxes without requiring expensive, high performance storage subsystems to store it all. All of that does not mean that you should remove […]
Read moreEmail spam continues to be a huge problem for organizations these days, and it usually falls on the Exchange administrator to do something about it. Aside from the usual anti-spam measures we can put in place to protect our own servers from spam, we also need to consider how to prevent spammers from spoofing (imitating) the domain names for our […]
Read moreWhen deleting a mailbox from Microsoft Exchange Server, the following error is sometimes displayed, especially if the user has been an Exchange Administrator: Microsoft Exchange Error – Action Remove could not be performed on object ‘User’ Error: Active Directory operation Failed on User. This error is not retriable. Additional inFormation: Access is denied. Active directory response: 00000005: SecErr: , problem […]
Read more*Note* This article applies to Exchange Server 2010 SP1. Recently I was asked to recover a single e-mail, because he deleted it by accident. In Exchange 2007 I would use the Export-Mailbox cmdlet. In Exchange 2010 SP1 a new cmdlet has been introduced: Search-Mailbox. For general information regarding this cmdlet, check the following TechNet article. I went through the following […]
Read moreIn general, we always try and keep our mail servers as secure as possible, and only allow relaying to trusted/authenticated users. This is in order to avoid our servers being used for spamming and subsequently blacklisted, which can cause delivery issues and headaches if it happens. However, there are occasional scenarios, where we may need to allow a trusted systems […]
Read moreHow can you quickly find the total number of mailboxes in your organization? You can do it now by running a shell command. Get-Mailbox | Measure-Object You can further customize the command to your requirements. Let’s say that you want to find out the mailboxes in one particular database or one particular server. You can find it by adding more […]
Read moreAt times we run into a situation where we need to find out who all have email forwarding enabled and to which address. It is easy to complete this task using the Exchange Shell. Run the following command. Get-Mailbox | Where-Object { $_.ForwardingAddress –ne $null } | Select Name, ForwardingAddress
Read moreMost exchange admins will run into this problem at some point. You do either one of the two actions – delete a user account using AD users and computers or remove the mailbox using EMC. Once the account is deleted, the mailboxes are not deleted straightaway by default. They (should) appear in the Disconnected Mailbox section under Recipient Configuration in […]
Read moreAs the name suggests, a shared mailbox is one that is used by multiple users to receive or send email. You’ve probably seen shared mailboxes used for situations such as an IT help desk, a HR department, payroll enquiries, and reception desks. A shared mailbox also has a calendar, so they can be used to coordinate team schedules or anything […]
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