Previously I wrote an article on how to remove items larger than 25 MB from a mailbox or archive in preparation for a move to Office 365. However, one of the downsides was creating a report for the items that needed to be exported. Search-Mailbox was not capable of producing a report of how many…
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Microsoft Exchange Server
Exchange 2013 CU3 and Exchange 2010 SP3 RU3 Released
After a bit of delay, Microsoft released two updates for their Exchange Server products today. Exchange 2010 SP3 has a new Rollup Update – RU3 and Exchange 2013 has a new Cumulative Update – CU3. There are numerous fixes included in these. Exchange 2013 CU3 has these fixes [kb2892464] 2865161 “Errors: Failed exporting item id:…
Distribution Groups – Cleanup with PowerShell
I recently had a client who wanted me to find an automated method for finding and hiding/disabling distribution groups that are essentially defunct. The project was part of a larger goal to cleanup AD and Exchange and keep it as automated as possible. Criteria for the goal: Any group that had not received email in…
Office 365 Large Item Dilemma
Office 365 has a well documented limit when it comes to the size of emails allowed to be imported. Microsoft has a KB Article on this very limit which is 35 MB. What if you want to move something larger to the cloud? You can’t. It’s that simple. My issue began with a client that…
MEC 2014 registration is OPEN!
For those of you who missed last year’s MEC, MEC 2014 is now open for registration. The event will take place from March 31- April 2, 2014. Visit the IAMMEC site to register now.
Exchange 2013 Best Practices Analyzer (BETA)
For those of you old school Exchange Admins, you’ll remember that the Best Practices Analyzer has been around for a long time. It’s been around so long that most admins today can’t remember a time when it wasn’t readily available. Until now. As has been stated in many blogs (mine included), Microsoft removed the tool…
Tame Those Pesky Exchange URLs
Now most people don’t build a new Exchange server everyday, every week or even every month. However, as an IT consultant I am constantly build, trashing and rebuilding labs with Exchange 2007, 2010 and 2013. Every time I build a new server I need to set the URLs to the environment that I am building….
Exchange 2013 CU2 – What’s New – Part 2
This article is a continuation of my CU2 released post located here. Looks like Microsoft added another Script into the scripts directory for Exchange 2013. This new script is called ‘Install-OutlookServiceVirtualDirectory.ps1’. What exactly does this script do for you? According to the description in the script itself: “Create XROP virtual directory on CAFE server”. Now…
Midwest Messaging and Collaboration User Group – Next Meeting (11/8)
For those of you who missed the last meeting in August, we are holding the second meeting of the reborn MMCUG (Midwest Messaging and Collaboration User Group) on November 8, 2013. The location will be at the Microsoft facility in Downers Grove, IL. We are still working on the agenda / list of presentations for…
Exchange 2013 and BES 5
If you work for a company that supports Blackberry ‘smartphones’ you know that Exchange upgrades need to be planned, make sure you have all your prep work done, and possibly even have some testing done. With previous versions of Exchange the preparation work was very similar, with some minor tweaks for the different version of…
