Installing Failover Clustering With Windows Server 2008 R2
Creating a Cluster with Windows Server 2003 was a little bit confusing for administrators. Now with Windows Server 2008, its much easier. In this article I will be showing you …
Exchange 2010 – List All Mailbox Sizes
Using the Exchange Management Shell, you can create a create a report of all mailboxes and list their size. List all mailboxes in a database – Exchange Management Shell The …
Exchange 2010 – Enable External Automatic Replies
By default, Exchange 2010 doesn’t allow sending automatic forwards, replies and Out of Office Assistant Messages (OOF) to external email addresses. This is mainly for security and performance reasons, as …
Exchange 2010 – Allow external senders to use distribution list
By default when you create a distribution group (also known as a distribution list) external email addresses are unable to send emails to the group. To allow external email addresses …
6 Tips for a Successful Patching Process
Whether your servers run Windows or Linux, whether your workstations are Windows 7 or Macs, and no matter what vendor your network gear comes from, one of the most …
Exchange 2010 – Cannot login after mailbox has been disabled and attached to different AD user account
I was asked to rename an Exchange account (sitting on an Exchange 2010 SP2 server) for a customer today because the surname had changed so to do this tidily, I …
Exchange Best Practices: Mailbox Storage Quotas
The trend for Exchange Server in recent years is towards larger mailboxes. Email is a heavily used application, users are demanding more storage for their email, and current versions of …
A Sender Policy Framework (SPF) Primer for Exchange Administrators
Email spam continues to be a huge problem for organizations these days, and it usually falls on the Exchange administrator to do something about it. Aside from the usual anti-spam …
Unable to RDP into server
If you are unable to remote desktop into a server using the computer name, but you are able to remote into the server using the IP address and you get …