Category: Exchange

What are the overall steps for migrating Public folders from Exchange 2007 to 2010? 1) Create Public Folder databases for each server you want to host Public Folders [remember that DAG replication does not replicate Public Folder databases]. To create the databases: Open up the Exchange Management Console, expand Organization Configuration, select Mailbox and then…

During a recent migration for a customer we were following the article for decommissioning legacy Exchange 2007 servers [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb288905(exchg.80).aspx].  One of the steps invloves updating the email address policies to make them compatible with the new version of Exchange.  One way to do this is a one liner you can run in PowerShell: Get-EmailAddressPolicy | where…

During a recent migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 we had some users complain that an old Out Of Office message had been set again on their mailbox.  To check if a change was made after a migratsion, we decided to check this during the migration.  I wrote a PowerShell script to check before and after…

A week or so ago while migrating users to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2003 I encountered issues with the Personal archive not being in the correct place.  I’ve now written a script to proactively help with determining that the values in Exchange and AD are correct.  Here is the script: $rows = “User,” + “Archive…

The flow of email is crucial during a migration. It doesn’t matter if the email is one that was scanned in by an all-in-one device, an email forwarded by your CEO’s iPhone, routed by your alerting system or one sent to offsite archive storage. What can you do to make this work smoothly during an Exchange 2003…

One feature included in Outlook 2010 for the end user is a graphical view of exactly how much space your email is taking up in Exchange relative to the mailbox quota.  So how is this feature enabled?  The mailbox or the mailbox store where the mailbox resides needs to have two quota values set as…

Exchange 2010 introduced Personal Archives as a way to get rid of the reliance of PST files.   PST files are notorious for their downsides.  Personal Archives are just another mailbox for a user that is stored on a mailbox database in Exchange 2010.   This gives the user a place to store their emails and administrators…

So, you’re migrating to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2003 and you use disclaimers in your emails.  Great.  Almost all if not all corporations do this already.  The issue at hand is when the message from 2003 gets the disclaimer from an Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 server and the disclaimer gets garbled when sent from…