Migrating DHCP Part 1: Installing a DHCP Server on a Windows 2012/2012R2 Server

Although Microsoft Windows Server 2003R2 went end-of-life on July 14, 2015, many business are still mid-process of upgrading to newer operating systems. Similar to installing 2003/R2 and 2008/R2, a 2012 or 2012R2 installation is fairly straight forward. This article explains how to install the DHCP role on a Windows 2012 / Windows 2012R2 and is the first in a two-part series on migrating […]

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Migrating DHCP Part 2: Migrate DHCP to a New Windows Server

With Windows 2012 / Windows 2012R2 now offering a way to failover DHCP, many organizations have opted to migrate their DHCP functions from an older operating system. There are multiple, creative ways to handling a migration from an old server a new server; this article outlines one method of migrating all DHCP scopes from an existing server to a newly […]

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User’s Receive a Message Stating that “User” Has Forwarded Your Meeting Request to Additional Recipients

I recently ran into a problem where some user’s were beginning to receive email messages from Exchange, informing them that their Meeting Request’s were being forwarded to additional recipients. See below for the fix.   Exchange 2007 Verify the setting is turned on or off: Get-MailboxCalendarSettings user | fl  Remove the setting: Set-MailboxCalendarSettings rscherer –RemoveForwardedMeetingNotificiations:$true        Exchange 2010/ […]

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How to Delete Emails from Mailboxes in Exchange 2010 Using Search-Mailbox

Quick post today.  If you have an criteria of emails that you want to delete from all mailbox’s you can use Search-Mailbox to delete the message from users mailbox.  For example, you get hit with a virus email that has the subject “I am a virus” from the user virussender@virus.com. The below search goes through all mailbox’s and deletes any […]

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How to View Disconnected Mailbox’s and Purge Disconnected Mailboxes from Exchange 2010

To view disconnected mailbox’s, essentially mailboxes that have been deleted from their user accounts, you need to first ensure that Exchange has gone through and cleaned the database.  This is done to ensure that it marks that mailbox as deleted.  If your database is MDB36, run the following command: Clean-MailboxDatabase MDB36 Exchange gives no result from the command.  But now […]

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