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Recently I have involved in a cross forest Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 cross forest migration, and I had an issue on the converted mail user of source forest after the successful cross forest move. In my case the migration was from resource forest to account forest (Linked Mialbox to User Mailbox Migration)
This issue happens when initiate a remote legacy mailbox from Exchange 2007 forest to an Exchange 2010 forest.... Praveen 15 May 2012 Read moreGFI Software has a cloud-based solution for anti-spam, anti-malware, anti-phishing and more. It’s called GFI MailEssentials Complete Online (MEO) and it promises to save you money, give your business email continuity, and protect your mailboxes better than you can do it yourself. With the bar set so high, we wanted to give MEO a try to see if it lived up to the hype.
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MEO offers a free 30-day-trial, and... Praveen 25 Apr 2012 Read moreAs we all know ‘Role Based Access Control’ or RBAC is the permission model introduced with the Exchange Server 2010. By now almost all of us are having a fairly good understanding about the topic RBAC. I decided to write another post on RBAC because; recently I come across a query on confusion about role assignment and role groups. Why should we create role group, why don’t we use the... Praveen 18 Apr 2012 Read moreMS released the Update Rollup 2 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2, the same is now available to download at the Microsoft Download Center. To know more about the rollup, please read below article.
KB2661854: Description of Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2
When you try to run the rollup, you may see the warning about certificate revocation list,this is because Exchange tries to connect to the certificate... Praveen 18 Apr 2012 Read moreMicrosoft has released the Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (KB2655203). Both 32bit and 64bit versions are now available to download at the Microsoft Download Center. You may see the details of fixes in this Rollup by reading the below MS KB article,
Description of Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3
When you try to run the rollup, you may see the warning about... Praveen 18 Apr 2012 Read moreI have been seeing few questions about the mailbox PST export activity on Exchange Server 2010 in forums. In this post, I tried to pen down few helpful command combination of New-MailboxExportRequest in Exchange Server 2010.
Let’s first look at how simply you can export single mailbox PST, followed with some easier filtering option to bulk PST export.
Note – before you proceed, ensure that you have added the PSTAdmin (or any... Praveen 11 Apr 2012 Read moreThe next major release of Exchange is round the corner! Is it true? No choice other than accepting the fact, because Michael Atalla (Director, Exchange Product Management) have wrote about it recently on Microsoft Exchange official blog. The next version, i.e. Microsoft Exchange Server 15 is going into beta later this year.
As always, it is definitely sure that there will be a lot of good and new features. Here you... Praveen 05 Apr 2012 Read moreIt is very important to know few very important details/truths about the CAS Array object during the planning phase of an Exchange 2010 Infrastructure.Recently Brian Day written couple of very nice blog on this, in which he has explained about it very clearly.
The articles mainly focused on the answers for below points (truth about a CAS Array),
A CAS array,
does not load balance your traffic
does not service Autodiscover, OWA, ECP, EWS,... Praveen 29 Mar 2012 Read moreWhen you try to upgrade your Exchange 2007 Server with Exchange 2007 SP3(similar errors could be seen in sp1 and sp2 as well, but most of us will go for sp3 only these days), you may receive the below errors
Summary: 3 item(s). 0 succeeded, 3 failed. Elapsed time: 00:00:35
“Client Access/Hub Transport/Mailbox” Role Prerequisites
Failed
Error:
Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the 'beremote' () process (ID: 2432) has open files. Close the... Praveen 20 Mar 2012 Read moreOne of the most important stage of a Cross forest exchange migration is to have the Global Address List (GAL) availability to the end users in target forest including the required LegacyExchangeDN as x500 address. If we don’t add the legacyExchangeDN as x500 to the target forest, there are many chances of generating NDRs from user who sends email using outlook clients. This is due to the cached address list... Praveen 20 Mar 2012 Read moreThe update rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 is now available for download. Please download your copy of Update RU1 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2 from Microsoft Download Center.
Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (KB2645995)
As always, ensure that you disable Forefront Protection for Exchange users before you proceed with the installation and enable it once you finish the activity. This is to ensure... Praveen 15 Feb 2012 Read moreMicrosoft Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3.
Go through the below MS KB(Knowledge Base) article for the complete reference to the issues fixes by installing this Update Rollup 6.
Description of Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3
Imp Note - Disable the Forefront Protection for Exchange before you start the upgrade. If you fail to do that, the Information Store and Transport service... Praveen 29 Jan 2012 Read moreMostly we create Exchange Transport Rules Condition using the criteria’s like “when FROM address ...”, When recipient ...” “When user from inside/outside organization” etc. Recently I have come across to create a rule for filtering the emails from internet groups, and the from address will always shown as the primary email address of the sender which could be always well known internet domains like gmail.com, yahoo.com etc, not the news... Praveen 17 Jan 2012 Read moreWhen you try to uninstall Mailbox role of Exchange 2010 Server which is part of a DAG and hosting public folder, the following errors will be generated. In my scenario, I have 2 mailbox server which are running with Exchange 2010 Server SP2 (I have selected a server which has OAB, public folder and more over the first mailbox server in the environment. So, hopefully this will cover all possible... Praveen 15 Jan 2012 Read moreIf there’s one thing an Exchange admin is used to doing, it’s monitoring disk utilization on their mailbox servers. Users hoard email like gold, and as mailbox databases increase in size, backups take longer, restores can exceed recovery time objectives (RTO), and servers can run out of disk space. Admins might look to quotas to reign in runaway mailbox sizes, but those that implement quotas soon find that all this... Praveen 05 Jan 2012 Read moreI hope every one of us was waiting for the Service Pack 2 for Exchange 2010 to be released, may be just for the ABP (Address Book Policies). This is one good feature I think will be greatly utilized by most of us, because even without the GAL segmentation or ABP we were doing it with permissions/ACLs.
In simple, GAL Segmentation/ABP means we are grouping few of the address lists to... Praveen 07 Dec 2011 Read moreThe mini version of Outlook Web App is designed for using in simple HTML compactible browsers. This version will help mainly the users who were accessing the OWA using their mobile browsers. This feature was available in Exchange 2003 server, and it is good to see this again. The MINI OWA (OMA) gets enabled automatically once you install the Service Pack 2 on the CAS servers.
Append /OMA to the existing... Praveen 07 Dec 2011 Read moreThe SP2 upgrade is almost straight forward from Exchange 2010 SP1; however it requires the IIS 6 WMI Compatibility component for CAS role upgrade. Normally this would be installed when initially you have added Web Server (IIS) role, if this component is not installed already then add it prior installing SP2.
Follow the simple steps below(I did upgrade from my Exchaneg 2010 SP1 installation).
Install ‘IIS 6 WMI Compatibility’ if not installed... Praveen 06 Dec 2011 Read moreFinally, it is now available... Much waited Exchange Server 2010 SP2.
Click here to Download Exchange Server 2010 SP2
As we discussed earlier this year "Interestingly, Exchange 2010 SP2 later this year! " , there are many features available with this version of Service Pack. Few of them are Hybrid Configuration Wizard, Address Book Policies, Outlook Web App Mini etc.
This service pack updates you active directory schema as well, hence please read... Praveen 06 Dec 2011 Read moreI am sure that everyone will be very confused when doing the capacity planning for the new Excchange 2010 infrastructure. It is very important to plan the transaction log space requirement along with the backup policy designing. Recently Ross Smith has written an article in Exchange Official bog about planning the space requirement for your exchange implementation. He has clearly explained the parameters that has to taken into consideration, click the... Praveen 10 Nov 2011 Read moreI already have shared a script for migrating user mailbox into linked mailbox during the cross forest migration scenario in one of my previous posts, see here. Sometime(I faced all the time) during this process you would have observed that after the creation of linked mailboxes all manually configured limit, mailbox features are set back to the default. I have created two small of power shell command combination to import... Praveen 03 Nov 2011 Read moreMicrosoft has released a fix to resolve the issue for "EMC (Ex 2010 / 2007) fail to close with the error "You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange Management Console" when IE9 is installed. The issue details have already discussed in the below post.
Did Your EMC (Ex 2010 / 2007) fail to close with the error "You must close all dialog boxes before you can close... Praveen 19 Oct 2011 Read moreI know we are all talking about the new features of Exchange 2010 for a while now. Recently Microsoft has given a quick view about the exchange 2010 feature comparison with Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2003.
The comparison have been split into three major feature categories, which are Protection and Compliance, Anywhere Access and Flexible and Reliable.
Hope you all would be interested to have a look, see here.
What's New... Praveen 02 Oct 2011 Read moreIn case of cross forest migration, most of us will plan the mailbox and account migration together to avoid complexity. However, there are situations where we plan to go one by one (all the user account migration first and then the mailbox migration). In my case, I chose to do the user account migration due to some dependency to the new forest and keep the User Mailboxes still in the... Praveen 19 Sep 2011 Read moreThere was a blog from Exchange Team about this issue last day, it normally appears after you install IE9 on the machine where you have the Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2007 management tools installed. The error message is,
“You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange Management Console”, though there are no property windows left open.
There is no solution/workaround has been really in place now, however the team... Praveen 10 Sep 2011 Read moreMicrosoft Exchange team has released the latest update rollup for Exchange Server 2010 SP1, which is Rollup 5. This update mainly contains the fixes for few issues reported after the release of Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1.
The update is now available to download from the Microsoft center, please follow the below link to download the Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1.
Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service... Praveen 27 Aug 2011 Read moreI have seen few queries on exchange forums about this issue on exchange 2010.
The scenario is,
An external user (e.g. “
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”) is able to send email to all users of the organization but not to a specific user "
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". At the same time some other user from the same external domain (e.g. "
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") can send email to the specific user, "
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".
This scenario happens when you have an edge server present in... Praveen 22 Aug 2011 Read moreI know we all were a little uncomfortable when Microsoft has come up with the new Message Tracking in Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange 2010 (of course even me). But, now I become very comfortable with it and mainly because of its flexibility/features. Recently the message tracking helped me in identifying a spam attack from an application server, which made me to write this post. Here I have tried to... Praveen 27 Jun 2011 Read moreMicrosoft has released released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 to the Download Center. Microsoft has addressed some issues reported by customer by this, please do the testing before you plan for an implementation.
MS had to re-call and release the update due to below scenario,
While fixing a bug that prevented deleted public folders from being recovered, we exposed an untested set of conditions with the Outlook client. When... Praveen 24 Jun 2011 Read moreWe all are well aware about the mailbox movement tasks in different versions of exchange. When compared to the previous versions of Exchange, Exchange 2010 SP1 gives you more featured mailbox MoveRequest cmdlet. @ A Glance changes in Exchange 2010 SP1,
Soft delete the mailbox in the source mailbox in the source database.
MoveRequest cmdlet has been updated to support moving archives to separate database.
Now,... Praveen 09 Jun 2011 Read more
I know we still have been testing on SP1 and its possibilities and capabilities. You do not have to wait for long time, now get ready and read more about the new features that we can expect in the next version of Exchange 2010 Service Pack (SP2). There is a blog from Tony Redmond about few enhancements in Exchange 2010… At least some of us would have faced issue with Blackberry device sending duplicate messages which are connecting an Exchange 2010 SP1 RU3 environment. Upon receiving the bug report, the download link for RU3 was removed from the download site and the exchange team was working with RIM to identify and fix the issue. Microsoft has confirmed that and they… I have seen questions like Installing Exchange 2010 Standard on SBS 2008 Standard and inplace upgrade of Exchane 2007 to Exchange 2010 in SBS 2008 etc on few forums. You will find the answer for why the inplace upgrade and the exchange 2010 installation can not be done on SBS 2008.
SBS 2008 comes with exchange 2007 and the exchange 2010 having a… There are few posts that I have seen related to the Exchange 2007 SP3 upgrade. Thought of sharing few information related to the schema upgrade part of Exchange 2007 SP3.
When you install Exchange 2007 SP3 it updates the Active Directory schema. The schema extension is basically to enable co-existence with Exchange 2010.
Before you install Exchange 2003 SP3, please verify few things mentioned below,
The… On February 16th Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will be available for MSDN and TechNet Subscribers as well as Volume License customers. On February 22nd, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will become generally available for folks to download via the Microsoft Download Center and available on Windows Update.
Microsoft Exchange team has already tested the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 on… Microsoft has found an issue with the Exchange 2010 Personal Archives support for Outlook 2007 in the December 2010 cumulative update for OL 2007, which may have resulted in not able to access the personal archive of Exchange 2010 mailbox.
There is a fix has been checked-in in the Feb 2011 Cumulative Update for Office 2007, which is expected in later… Listen all Microsoft Exchange Server Lovers!!!!
Microsoft Exchange 2010 has won InfoWorld Technology of the Year award for the best Mail Server!
Best mail server!!!
Microsoft Exchange 2010 continues Redmond's longstanding market leadership in mail servers and related software. This release shows why the company's once-reviled product continues to be deployed widely in enterprises: it works, it scales, and it continues to gain… Multi mailbox search is one of the features introduced with Exchange 2010. This feature is very useful when you need to perform discovery searches for some required contents within Exchange mailboxes in your organization. For example, if your company adhere to legal searches you can make use of this feature. Also this can be used for Internal email verification, HR… Are you interested in Exchange 2010 Architectural design details? If your answer is ‘Yes’ then Microsoft has released a poster which talks about the high level architecture. The poster gives high level features included in Exchange 2010 design, giving a good start for exchange 2010 learners!
You may download the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Architecture poster here
This poster… Hello Friends, I am back again. I could not really spend time on exchange dictionary due to some personal reasons and overseas travel. You can expect new updates and articles from now on.
Ready to hit again!!!
Thank you all!
-Praveen You must be thinking do we get to see help and example for an Exchange Power Shell command. Yes, exchange 2010 gives more visibility to the commands and the usage of it. Let us now cover briefly on how to get help of any command that is at your interest. Get-help and Get-Command are the cmdlets used in Exchange 2010… The default replication port used by the Exchange 2010 DAG is 64327. Most of us know that in Exchange 2007 it uses the port 445 for log shipping, over SMB. You also have flexibility to change the port no used in Exchange 2010 DAG replication. To change the DAG replication port number, please follow the steps below. Execute the cmdlet … I know we all were waiting for the Exchange 2010 SP1 to be available for download. Do not wait anymore, here you go. Download the exchange server 2010 SP1 and enjoy the new enhancements.
Download your copy of Exchange 2010 SP1 here
Exchange 2010 SP1 software can be used to update an existing Exchange 2010 installation and to perform new installation.
The SP1… As you all would know the interesting features of Exchange 2010, and the improvements that are brought by introducing the Service Pack 1(sp1). Let us now see some really helpful improvement about database repair with Exchange 2010 SP1.
The functionality provided by ISInteg in 2003 or 2007 exchange server is now rolled into two Exchange Management Shell commands in Exchange 2010… DAG (Database Availability Group) is the answer for Exchange 2010 database high availability. The Database Availability Group is a set of up to 16 exchange 2010 mailbox servers which gives automatic database-level recovery from a Database, Server or Network failures. If you are new to DAG concept see Database Availability Group. In this blog we will see how to configure…
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