Quick Tip: Restarting all Microsoft Exchange services
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There are times when you need to restart all Exchange related services so here are 2 small scripts that will help you achieve this without going over each service in…
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How to Move Mailboxes in Exchange Server 2010
Mailbox moves in previous versions of Exchange were interactive in nature, in that a wizard, script or shell command was used to move the mailbox and it occured in real…
Exchange 2010 – List All Mailbox Sizes
Using the Exchange Management Shell, you can create a create a report of all mailboxes and list their size. List all mailboxes in a database – Exchange Management Shell The…
Exchange 2010 – Enable External Automatic Replies
By default, Exchange 2010 doesn’t allow sending automatic forwards, replies and Out of Office Assistant Messages (OOF) to external email addresses. This is mainly for security and performance reasons, as…
Exchange 2010 – Allow external senders to use distribution list
By default when you create a distribution group (also known as a distribution list) external email addresses are unable to send emails to the group. To allow external email addresses…
Exchange 2010 – Cannot login after mailbox has been disabled and attached to different AD user account
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…
Exchange Best Practices: Mailbox Storage Quotas
The 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…
A Sender Policy Framework (SPF) Primer for Exchange Administrators
Email 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…
Microsoft Exchange Action Could Not be Performed on User
When 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…
Allow Exchange relay emails from certain IP addresses
In 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…