Communication Issues between Exchange Servers
Recently while transitioning one of my customers from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010, I experienced issues trying to replicate public folders between the servers. This was due to a larger mail flow...
View ArticleInstallation of Exchange Server 2010 Prerequisites
It has been about six months since I transitioned one of my customers from Exchange Server 2007 to 2010 and I’ve found myself saying “How did I do that?” so I decided to write a blog about the process...
View ArticleSpam Filtering for Microsoft Exchange Server
ORF Enterprise Edition is my spam filter of choice and has been through several generations of Exchange Server versions. The product is licensed per server so regardless of mailboxes or users you only...
View ArticleTypical Installation of Exchange Server 2010
This blog will walk you through the steps of a typical Exchange Server 2010 Installation. Be sure to follow the instructions in my “Installation of Exchange Server 2010 Prerequisites” blog. By having...
View ArticlePowerShell Script to Return a List of Mailbox Size for All Users
On several occasions, I’ve been asked to provide a report of mailbox sizes and number of items in a mailbox to a few of my customers who are running either Exchange Server 2007 or 2010. Like most of my...
View ArticleUnable to Grant Domain Local Groups Full Access Permission to a Exchange 2010...
John Doe is a user in your Active Directory environment (Windows Server 2008 R2 Forest Function Level) with a mailbox on the email server (Exchange Server 2010 with SP2): You want to grant a domain...
View Article2013 a Microsoft Software Release Odyssey
An Odyssey is defined as a “Long and Eventful Journey”. The first version of Microsoft Office that I can remember supporting professionally is Office 4.3 and the first version of Exchange was 5.5. It’s...
View ArticleHow to Install the Exchange 2010 Management Tools on Windows 8 RTM
This is definitely unsupported so be sure to read the disclaimer on the right side of this blog before continuing. Read this blog article completely before attempting this process. You’ve just reloaded...
View ArticleInsane PowerShell One-Liner to Return the Name of Users with Quarantined...
Have you ever had any mailboxes on your Exchange 2010 server marked as being quarantined? According to this TechNet article, Exchange will isolate or quarantine any mailboxes that it detects as being...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to Remove Phishing Emails from User Mailboxes on an Exchange...
You’ve all seen those phishing emails that occasionally get past your spam filters and you all also know that no matter how many times you tell users not to open those suspicious emails and click on...
View ArticleUse PowerShell to Determine what Outlook Client Versions are accessing your...
Earlier this month I saw a blog article on “The EXPTA {blog}” about “Reporting Outlook Client Versions Using Log Parser Studio” and I thought I would show you a simple alternative using PowerShell that...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to Retrieve Exchange Mailbox Statistics for Office 365...
Recently, I’ve been working on trying to finish up a migration from Exchange Server 2010 to Office 365. There are potentially numerous mailboxes that aren’t used and those won’t be migrated to Office...
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