Exchange Maintenance Tasks
There isn’t really a lot to be done with Exchange these days. Since the advent of E12, the code name for Exchange 2007, the maintenance task list has shrunk quite a bit. The items that do need watching are just a subset of the “old days.” Maintain your daily backups – probably the most important [...]
“Delivery has failed” error When Scheduling a Resource
There are plenty of answers to the error message: “Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists: Jane Doe Your message wasn’t delivered because of security policies…” In our case, Jane Doe was no longer an employee and her account was disabled. The sender of the message was requesting a meeting with someone who had [...]
Search Fails for Some Outlook or OWA Users
Due to a recent power outage at a client site, their Exchange search catalogs became corrupted. The issue at hand was that searches in Outlook or OWA only resulted in showing results prior to the outage. To confirm that this was the case, I opened the trusty EMS and ran this command on an affected individual. test-exchangesearch username [...]
Script to Export a Mailbox to PST
With an occasional need to export a user mailbox to PST for archive, I decided it would be useful to be able to call up a script and save myself some time and mouse clicking. Should you wish to give the script below a try, copy it into a text file and change the extension to [...]
Recursively Add Public Folder Permissions
Last week I found myself having to export (for archival) and remove a large tree of Public Folders. I thought the task would be easy, open Outlook, highlight the top level folder and Export to PST. Little did I know someone changed the top-level permissions of the folder I previously created, removing any admins from [...]
Time Skew and Exchange Services
On a recent Sunday night, I was home watching The Walking Dead, a colleague called to say that our core switch was down in our colo. As he was on vacation, I raced over there, preformed some troubleshooting, finally rebooting our huge Cisco 4510 to bring everything back online, that is except Exchange. The Exchange cluster [...]
Setting the Out of Office Reply at the Command Line
If you’ve ever had to set someone’s (like a VP’s) Out of Office message because they left town before doing so, and of course don’t have access to Outlook Web Access, it can be quite a disruption to your work. Recently I was surfing Jim McBee‘s blog and found this gem, which he in turn [...]
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