I came across an issue at a customer site, which looked simple at the first glance. Users were getting NDR when sending an email to a particular user. The bounced message had the following information. Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups: There is a problem with the recipient’s e-mail system. More than one [...]
I was at a customer site and had to look into a strange issue. The issue was that one user kept getting spam emails, that too emails which are clearly spam in all respect. This was happening only for one user and the organization had a combined TMG, Edge 2010 & Forefront 2010 for Exchange [...]
Checking the size of the mailbox database is not easy in Exchange 2007. This is because of the fact that Get-MailboxDatabase doesn’t have the a databasesize attribute when used with the –Status switch. Fortunately, things have changed in Get-MailboxDatabase command in Exchange 2010. In order to find the size of mailbox databases, run the following [...]
Purging disconnected mailboxes isn’t that straightforward in Exchange 2007 & 2010. You have to run multiple commands to purge the disconnected mailboxes, read more here. The option to remove disconnected mailboxes is still not available in 2010 SP1 Console. Things have changed slightly in 2010 SP1, atleast in the Exchange Shell world. A new command [...]
All of us are familiar with turning on “read receipt” and “delivery receipt” while composing an important message to make sure that the message has been delivered & read by the recipients. Though this option was useful to some extend in knowing whether the email was read, recipients could always deny sending “read receipt” to [...]
A new client side feature which Microsoft has released in Exchange 2010 SP1 is the ability of Outlook 2010 to automatically map all mailboxes to which the logged in user has full access. Think of the shared mailbox scenario. I can see the benefits already, no more helpdesk calls asking to map mailboxes! All the [...]
Though Microsoft had released Exchange 2010 SP1, there was a known issue with upgrading Exchange Edge 2010 to SP1, when the same box has Forefront Protection For Exchange 2010 (FPE) & Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 SP1. Issue is discussed here With the release of Software Update 1 For TMG 2010 SP1, it is now [...]
Microsoft has released version 12.3 of the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator. Two main improvements that caught my attention are the following. The calculator now supports Active/Active user distribution model. You have three options in the calculator – Active/Passive, Active/Active (Single DAG) & Active/Active (Multiple DAG). A new worksheet that documents the Activation [...]
I had written a while back regarding the steps to be taken to set calendar options for resource mailboxes in Exchange 2007, read it here. The process was to use the shell command "Set-MailboxCalendarSettings". Few options could be set using OWA in 2007. We don’t have this command in Exchange 2010 anymore. More options for [...]
One of the issues with Exchange 2007 and 2010 deployments was the lack of a graphical interface to manage public folder permissions. Administrators have to use the shell or use third party products like PowerGUI in 2007 & 2010 RTM. Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta did something more by bringing few options to the public folder [...]
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