Archive for the Exchange Category

for some mysterious reason Microsoft has chosen to remove the convenience mailbox size you from the exchange system manager on exchange 2007 and exchange 2010.
In order to get the statistics and port them to a text file
Open exchange management shell

Copy and paste the command:
Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | ft DisplayName,@{label=”TotalItemSize(KB)”;expression={$_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToKB()}},ItemCount  > c:\mailboxstatistics.txt
Open the text [...]

OWA, Exchange 2003, Forms-based Authentication, domain issue

Note You must have the appropriate Exchange administrative permissions to do this.

Start Active Directory Users and Computers.
On the View menu, ensure that the Advanced Features check box is selected.
Double-click the user whose mailbox you want to give permissions to.
On the Exchange Advanced tab, click Mailbox Rights.
Click Add, click the user or [...]

In the old exchange 2003 server you could set all emails to archive to a mailbox or public folder. This option does not exist in Exchange 2010. Instead you need to create a Transport rule
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Before creating the rule create an Archive mailbox or mail enabled public folder to send copies of the mail to. The [...]

If you find your queues are getting full of NDRs from the postmaster to spammers you can turn off allow non-deliveyr reports in the Hub transport\remote domains\default\properties
This however will stop NDRs from being generated that are valid. You may therefore want to configure anti spam filtering
If running a single exchange server with hub transport on [...]

Do save having to manually edit and create uniform signature files for users, you can implement this VBS script which gathers information from Active directory about the user and inserts it into the appropriate signature folder on their system. At the bottom you will find the signature.htm and signature.txt files to edit and save
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‘Modify Reg [...]

I recently installed Outlook 2007 on a HyperV Windows 2008 R2 server terminal server talking to Exchange 2010 on another HyperV on the same box.
The server is a Dual Xeon with RAID 10 SAS drives pumping out 800Mb/s throughput yet Outlook 2007 would take about 8 seconds to open. Rubbish!
I found by disabling all add-ins [...]

To install Exchange 2010 on a Windows 2008 R2 server first install these 4 components:

Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5
Windows Remote Management 2.0
Windows PowerShell v2
ASP.NET AJAX 1.0

Also

Set static IP addresses on any Network cards
Open Control Panel\Programs\Programs and Features
Turn Windows Features On or Off
Add Role Web Server (IIS)

If you go through the exchange 2010 install process at this [...]

You can use this site to test exchange activesync connectivity
https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/
The site is an official Microsoft site specifically for testing Exchange installations and connectivity. The test will fail if you use a self-signed SSL certificate, in which case, you’ll need to check the “Ignore Trust for SSL” checkbox. On the [...]

By default if you change the client permissions settings on a public folder in Microsoft exchange 2003, the permissions do not propagate through the subfolders.
In order to manually force the propagation in exchange system manager Drill down to the public folder, right click and select All Tasks and Manage Settings…

This will open the manage public [...]