Exchange 2010
Find Exchange Server 2010 Mailboxes without Storage Quotas
As an Exchange Admin you might be tasked to find all mailboxes that have no storage limits or custom ones. You cannot achieve this using the Exchange Management Console but rather using the Exchange Management Shell. Open up the Exchange Management Shell and run the...
Room mailbox adds new meetings as tentative
You might find that a Resource mailbox with no delegates does not accept a meeting request but tentatively accepts it. To check and fix this we need to do the following: Open up the Exchange Management Shell and run the command below: Get-CalendarProcessing "Name" |...
Cannot Reconnect Mailbox Exchange 2010
In Exchange 2010 you might need to reconnect a mailbox to a user account. The process to do this is rather simple. Open up the Exchange Management Console (EMC) Step 1 -> Expand Recipient Configuration and then click on Disconnected Mailbox. Step 2 -> Find the...
430 4.2.0 STOREDRV; mailbox logon failure
In Exchange you might come across the following: Mail stuck in a specific queue with the following error: 430 4.2.0 STOREDRV; mailbox logon failure Here are a few things you can look out for and solutions to resolve the above: Check that all Exchange Services are...
Change SMTP Banner In Exchange 2010
This guide shows you how to change the SMTP banner in Exchange 2010. When you do a telnet to your exchange server, the default response 220 <Server Name> ESMTP Mail Service Ready at <date> To change this we can run a simply command, open up the Exchange...
Exchange 2010 SP3 Upgrade Error SBS2011
When running an Exchange 2010 Upgrade to SP3 on SBS2011 you might come across the following error: Error:The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info "Creating SBS certificate"; $thumbprint =...
Create mail enabled contacts in bulk – Exchange 2010
This quick guide will show you how to import a CSV file into Exchange and create multiple contacts: In Excel create 4 Columns: Name Firstname Lastname ExternalEmailAddress Now from the Exchange Management Shell run the following command: Import-Csv “contacts.csv”...
Change the Autodiscover/EWS url in Exchange 2010
If you are installing a new Exchange 2010 Server or want to update the existing servers Autodiscover and EWS URL's then follow the commands below. EWS (Exchange WEB Services) To check what the URL is currently run the following command from the Exchange Management...
Exchange 2010 SP3 Hub Transport Installation Error
Error: The following error was generated when "$error.Clear(); Set-WERRegistryMarkers; " was run: "Provisioning layer initialization failed: 'Failed to reconnect to Active Directory server <DC>. Make sure the server is available, and that you have used the...
Exchange 2010 SP3 Installation hangs on languages
Error: Exchange 2010 SP3 installation hangs on languages installation. Solution: Upgrading to Exchange 2010 SP3 starts out fine. Later on during the installation when the task to install language just hangs and the progress bar doesn't move at all. As this server was...