Posts Tagged Exchange 2007

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 [...]

To enable a default email client to authenticate with an Exchange 2007 server, the following command must be issued to the Exchange Shell then the POP3 service restarted.
Set-PopSettings -LoginType PlainTextLogin
Note that this will reduce the security of the system but it does help with clients that don’t support advanced security.