A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
Litigation Hold was first introduced in Exchange 2010 and is designed to preserve all items in a mailbox indefinitely for the purposes of e-discovery. Litigation Hold can be applied to mailboxes or distribution groups. When a user’s mailbox is put on Litigation Hold, they are still able to delete items, but Exchange retains the deleted items indefinitely with immutability. For […]
Read moreAre you looking at reducing hardware cost and utilizing your virtualization infrastructure to run your Exchange servers? Are you still on edge about virtualizing a mailbox role or unified messaging role? Today I’ll be sharing some tips for virtualizing Microsoft Exchange that I’ve picked up over the years – hopefully some of them may help ease your Exchange anxiety. Virtualization and Exchange are […]
Read moreWhat is a Non-Delivery Report (NDR)? If you take a look at the NDR below, you can see a sample nondelivery report. This nondelivery report contains all of the usual information such as the date and time that the message was sent, and the intended recipient. If you take a look at the last line of the nondelivery report though, […]
Read moreToday, I’ll show you another classic PowerShell Code for Exchange Server that will let you search for users with a mailbox size of X and above. I came across the need to do this when I had to rebalance mailboxes on Exchange Server and wanted to know which users have mailboxes over 5GB. The code below. Will show you all […]
Read moreSay that I have a Distribution List called “Finance Team“. At first I will have to find out the members of the Distribution List so then I can individually find their mailbox sizes. $GroupName = Read-Host “Kindly provide the name of the Distribution Group” Get-DistributionGroupMember $GroupName | Select Name | Export-Csv c:\Members.csv -NoTypeInformation Let us see what did we do […]
Read moreAfter recently deploying a hybrid configuration for Office 365, many email settings that were easily configurable within Office 365 portal could not be changed as these settings were being managed by on-premise Active Directory servers. To get past this restriction, the next best option is to access the Exchange Online via PowerShell. Note: PowerShell 3.0 is required. For Windows Server […]
Read moreI recently ran into a problem where some user’s were beginning to receive email messages from Exchange, informing them that their Meeting Request’s were being forwarded to additional recipients. See below for the fix. Exchange 2007 Verify the setting is turned on or off: Get-MailboxCalendarSettings user | fl Remove the setting: Set-MailboxCalendarSettings rscherer –RemoveForwardedMeetingNotificiations:$true Exchange 2010/ […]
Read moreQuick 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 […]
Read moreTo 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 […]
Read moreIf you have a public folder that your working on, and you need to apply permissions to it using the Exchange Management Shell, its pretty easy. The command is: Add-PublicFolderClientPermission –Identity “Foldername” –user UserName –AccessRights PublishingEditor For instance, to add the user pponzeka to the folder IT with the Publishing Editor permission, the command would be the following: This works […]
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