A Drink of Technology for the Thirsty Mind
How 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 moreLet’s say that your only exchange server, which hosts all the roles have died and you need to build a new exchange server. In order to have a working server, follow the steps. Build a new server with the same operating system and drives. Give it the same name as the dead one. Reset the server account in AD and […]
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 moreThere are plenty of reasons why you might want to give one user access to another user’s mailbox. The first user may be in the hospital, or under HR review, or maybe they’ve been dropping the ball lately and management need to make sure that certain projects have been followed up on. It’s not really our job to care. The […]
Read moreIf you have an Exchange server and wish to create a new domain user account, the best way to accomplish it would be using Microsoft Exchange Server. Many IT professionals tend to create a domain account first, then go to the exchange server to create a mailbox for the new user; this is totally unnecessary. The Exchange Management Console will […]
Read moreGranting a user read-only access to the mailbox and calendar of another user in an Exchange Server organization. This is a common scenario and the solution is reasonably simple though perhaps not obvious. Let’s look at the scenario of Alan Reid trying to access the mailbox of Alex Heyne. With no access configured Alan gets an error message when he […]
Read moreOne of the less well understood components of a working email system is the MX record. I do find a lot of IT administrators looking after Exchange servers who don’t really understand what an MX record is and how they work. DNS Fundamentals MX stands for “mail exchanger”. An MX record is a type of DNS record, so any understanding of MX […]
Read moreCut down on spam with IP Block List Providers (RBL) One easy way to make a huge dent in the amount of spam your Exchange organization receives is to configure the IP Block List Providers anti-spam agent. This component checks senders against known databases of spammers, infected computers and open relays. Also known as real-time block lists (RBL), they are […]
Read moreOn a normal Exchange Server 2007 deployment an Edge server role is setup facing the Internet and the Hub Transport role is hosted on an internal server. Anti-Spam agents such as Content Filtering, Connection filtering, Sender ID, Sender Filtering, Recipient Filtering and Sender Reputation are only installed by default on the public facing edge server role. If you have a […]
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