Exchange 2010
Mailbox Exports stuck in a Queued Status
Today I am exporting mail to PST so I can start consolidating my Exchange Servers and when running the New-MailboxExportRequest command you might find that the mailboxes just stay in a queued status without processing. You can check this by running the following...
Windows 7 & Outlook 2007/2010 Password Prompts
Since the upgrade of Exchange 2010 from SP2 to SP3 and running office 2010 x64 on Windows 7 x64 I notice that outlook keeps prompting a handfull of users for their username and passwords. Some of the culprits I have picked up are as follows: Windows 7 Credential...
Exchange 2010 SP3 Event ID Warning 10001
Today out of the blue I started getting the following warning on one of my Exchange Servers: Mailbox cleanup could not completely remove the mailbox for user following mailbox removal. Encountered error 0xfffffae8. Should this message continue to persist for the same...
Quickly stop your backups before running Exchange 2010 upgrades
Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the “beremote()” process has open files: The error listed above is not something to really stress about. If you running Symantec Backup Exec you will need to stop the services and then retry the checks, they should all...
Exchange 2010 Error – No more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper.
Today I encountered another error whilst doing an upgrade from Exchange 2010 SP2 to SP3. This was an error on my part as I will explain shortly. The error you can get when updating the UM Role is as follows: "There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint...
Exchange 2010 SP3 Upgrade Error
Today whilst busy updating one of my other sites I encountered the following error: Some controls aren’t valid. Setup previously failed while performing the action “Install”. You can’t resume setup by performaing the action “BuildToBuildUpgrade”. For some reason...
Exchange 2010 SP3
Today I started with upgrades to Service Pack 3 for Exchange 2010. The download is around 549MB. Because all my sites run DAG's I started with the smallest one. Starting with the Passive server I ran the upgrade, the install runs through a list of checks. A new...
Exchange 2010 SP2 Federation Trust Setup
Today I got round to setting up a Federation Trust in Exchange 2010. The steps are pretty straight forward but you need to make sure of the following: Autodiscover for your organization resolves externally, you can test this via the following...
Exchange 2010 Personal Archives and Outlook 2010 Standard
Today I decided that our environment needs to be cleaned up and PST files that are a major headache are the first things that need to be looked at. To start off with, MS say that Office 2010 Standard does not support Personal Archives, however I enabled it on my...
Create new Exchange 2010 Database fails in the EMC
Today I went to create a new Mailbox Database as I wanted to get rid of the white space in the current one. So I thought I would open the EMC (Exchange Management Console) and quickly create it. Upon giving the new database a name and setting the DB and Log location...