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…
Outlook 2010 – Mailbox Usage Bar Graph
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…
Personal Archive Won’t Open – Outlook or OWA
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…
Exchange 2003 to 2007/10 Migration – Garbled Disclaimer – OWA
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…
Quick Powershell Stuff 2
Here are some more PowerShell commands from my latest migration: During a recent migration from 2003 to 2010, we were requested by an external mail archiving vendor to create a send connector to relay emails to their servers as well as set all expansion servers to 2010. We did the second change per this article…
Quick PowerShell Stuff
Today’s post is on some quick Powershell commands I’ve used in various Exchange 2010 environments. Let’s say you need to verify what IPs you are allowing to relay through your server. First, get a list all your connectors and pick one that you want to verify the settings for: get-receiveconnector
Disabled Personal Archive – Reattaching
During a recent Exchange migration my client had some issues with users on their Exchange 2010 servers. In order to fix these issues properly, it was decided to move the users back to their original Exchange 2003 server and disable the Personal Archive that resided on Exchange 2010. In order to reuse these Personal Archives, we…
Exchange Disclaimer Based on OU
For Exchange 2010 there is no straightforward way to do this in the Transport rule as there is no option to filter by OU. However, there is a work around. Simply create a Dynamic Distribution Group for the OU in question and then use this group in your Hub Transport Rule. So how do we…
Moving mailboxes from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2003
During a recent migration for a customer we needed to move some mailboxes back to their legacy Exchange 2003 servers for various reasons. In order to do so, we needed to run a series of PowerShell scripts as the EMC does not allow for these moves. Microsoft has provided a good article on what to…
MEC 2012 Registration is now open!
Just got the email that the Microsoft Exchange Conference 2012 Registration is now open. Looks like registration for early birds is $1800. The MEC website has also changed:
