Understanding In-Place Hold and Litigation Hold in Exchange
Litigation Hold was first introduced in Exchange 2010 and is designed to preserve all items in a mailbox indefinitely for the purposes of e-discovery. Litigation Hold can be applied to …
Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Tips and Tricks
Are you looking at reducing hardware cost and utilizing your virtualization infrastructure to run your Exchange servers? Are you still on edge about virtualizing a mailbox role or unified messaging …
How to Understand an Exchange Non Delivery Report (NDR)
What is a Non-Delivery Report (NDR)? If you take a look at the NDR below, you can see a sample nondelivery report. This nondelivery report contains all of the usual …
Can’t remove additional Exchange mailboxes
I’ve added some additional Exchange mailboxes to my account but now I can’t seem to remove them anymore in Outlook as they don’t show up in my account settings or …
Quick Tip: Restarting all Microsoft Exchange services
There are times when you need to restart all Exchange related services so here are 2 small scripts that will help you achieve this without going over each service in …
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 …
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 …