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  • Blog Post: A better way to recover a mailbox

    The process of recovering deleted users or mailboxes in a hybrid or cloud-only organization can be frustrating. When dealing with these scenarios, customers would sometimes end up with multiple mailboxes for a single user, find that some emails are missing, or even lose data associated with other services...
  • Blog Post: Using an Azure VM as a DAG Witness Server

    I’m happy to announce support for use of an Azure virtual machine as an Exchange 2013 Database Availability Group witness server. Automatic datacenter failover in Exchange 2013 requires three physical sites, but many of our customers with stretched DAGs only have two physical sites deployed today. By...
  • Blog Post: Mailbox (Discovery): Permissions, Open without “Full Access” Permission – Office 365

    Tests as on 27 November 2014. Objective: Providing non-Full Access Permission on a Discovery Mailbox (Exchange Online) and opening it in outlook. You can have one of the following "Access Rights" on a Discovery Mailbox. FullAccess ExternalAccount DeleteItem ReadPermission ...
  • Blog Post: On-Premises Legacy Public Folder Coexistence for Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 7 and Beyond

    What are we talking about today? In Exchange 2013 CU5 (yes 5, V, cinco, fem, and cinque) we started implementing changes to how Legacy Public Folder endpoint discovery will be performed by Outlook (for Windows) in the future. This work continues behind the scenes and will be completed with the release...
  • Blog Post: Come get your Calculator Updates!

    Today, we released updated versions of both the Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator and the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator . The Exchange 2010 version is an incremental update and only includes minor bug fixes. You can view what changes have been made, or download the...
  • Blog Post: Those pesky lazy indices

    In Exchange 2013 there are indices within a given mailbox database. The indices are created, maintained, and deleted by the Information Store Worker Process associated with a given database. These indices are not to be confused with the Exchange content indexes that are built via the Search Foundation...
  • Blog Post: O365: Accessing Another Mailbox via OWA URL

    It may become necessary for an admin or delegate to access a mailbox (other than their own) in OWA. There's two ways to do this and most people are familiar with the change in the URL method, which is what I'll be covering in this post. In Wave14 (Exchange 2010), you merely had to append the...
  • Blog Post: Keeping up to date with what’s happening with Set-MailboxDatabase II

    Tony Redmond is absolutely correct when he says “No matter how long you work with software, it’s impossible to master every possible detail, especially when you’re talking about a complex product like Exchange 2013.” With the pace of innovation faster today than ever before, and even faster tomorrow...
  • Blog Post: This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes…

    Let’s say you are in process of removing the last copy of a mailbox database or uninstalling an Exchange server and run into the following error message: “This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes…” You check again and again but can’t find a mailbox on the server being uninstalled or the database...
  • Blog Post: "MigrationPermanentException" error when you move a mailbox from Exchange Online to an on-premises Exchange 2010 server in a hybrid deployment

    PROBLEM Assume that you have an Exchange hybrid deployment that includes on-premises Exchange 2010 servers. When you try to offboard or move a mailbox from Exchange Online to an Exchange 2010 server in your on-premises environment, you receive the following error message: Error: MigrationPermanentException...
  • Blog Post: Update-DatabaseSchema cmdlet

    The Update-DatabaseSchema cmdlet is designed to safely upgrade database schema in a DAG deployment. Unlike previous releases, a database schema upgrade in Exchange 2013 can only occur after all DAG members are upgraded to a version of software that supports the schema version and there is control over...
  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 TIFF iFilters

    Overview Exchange 2010 has an interesting if little known feature based on Windows TIFF iFilters. I had an interesting problem not long ago where a customer wanted to be able to scan as many attachment types as possible for specific key words. The well known filters were the Office 2010 iFilter pack...
  • Blog Post: Exchange 2013 database schema updates

    Recently, we have seen some questions about what the Update-DatabaseSchema cmdlet in Exchange 2013 is about. So I thought I would share some additional information on the subject. The Update-DatabaseSchema cmdlet is a part of the infrastructure that we’ve built into Exchange 2013 to safely upgrade database...
  • Blog Post: Common mailbox / folder sharing scenarios Guided Walkthroughs now available

    Exchange and Outlook have, for years, been great collaboration platforms, where our customers could share information easily with others. One of the things that came to light when a lot of our customers adopted Office 365 , is that many often have trouble matching their business needs to actual features...
  • Blog Post: Move Mailbox Database

    1. Remove the Mailbox database copy: 1.2 In the EAC, go to Servers > Databases. 1.2 Select the mailbox database whose copy you want to remove. 1.3 In the Details pane, locate the passive copy you want to remove and click Remove. 1.4 Confirm the removal on the warning dialog box by clicking yes...
  • Blog Post: CCR or SCC?

    Have had this discussion on many occasions and this 3Sharp whitepaper by Missy Koslosky would have proved very useful as an external reference point… High Availability Choices for Exchange Server 2007: Continuous Cluster Replication or Single Copy Clustering In conclusion…  (this isn’t the only...
  • Blog Post: Strange Jetstress 2010 results..?

    Are you running the latest version of Jetstress 2010 against data created using the beta ?  If so then you may see some very strange results because there are some minor updates from the beta version which mean that you cannot mix databases created using the beta version with tests run using the...
  • Blog Post: 1 AD Site, 1 DAG = no DAC

    So as the TechNet article ( Understanding Datacenter Activation Coordination Mode ) explains you can’t enable DAC mode in Exchange Server 2010 for a DAG where all members are in the same AD site…  So what happens if you lose your primary data centre where your Witness Server is located and you do...
  • Blog Post: 3 into 4 can go…

    Once you’ve determined the number of Exchange Server 2010 mailbox database copies you’re going to use it makes sense to deploy a complimentary number of mailbox servers in the DAG .  If you decide to go with an odd number of database copies go with an odd number of nodes; if you use an even number...
  • Blog Post: When you attempt to move mailbox from/to Exchange Online, you receive the error "The call to Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService timed out"

    Symptom: When you attempt to move mailbox from/to Exchange Online, you receive the error: The call to 'net.tcp:// server name /Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService server name ' timed out. Error details: This request operation sent to net.tcp:// server name //Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService...
  • Blog Post: How to Restore an Individual Exchange 2010 Mailbox with Windows Server Backup ?

    For all the Exchange administrators this is a most recommended article :) How to Restore an Individual Exchange 2010 Mailbox with Windows Server Backup - Exchange Server Pro http://exchangeserverpro.com/restore-individual-mailbox-exchange-2010?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign...
  • Blog Post: Exchange Server 2007 & 2010 - Importazione ed esportazione dati mailbox

    Ciao a tutti, è da tempo che volevo scrivere su un post quest’argomento dato che le cmdlet che vedremo più avanti si sono rivelate risolutive in alcuni scenari dove, senza di esse, le cose si sarebbero alquanto complicate. Inoltre, come saprete, il caro vecchio ExMerge è stato discontinuato nelle ultime...
  • Blog Post: Mailbox Quarantine

    One corrupted mailbox can have the potential to disrupt service by taking down the entire information store, thereby affecting all users on that server. Mailbox quarantine has been introduced in Exchange Server 2010 to help prevent this situation. What is Mailbox Quarantine? Mailbox quarantine is a feature...
  • Blog Post: Export-Mailbox using a filter does not export anything

    Recently I was working with a customer on a case with Exchange 2007 where they were trying to use Export-Mailbox to remove specific items from a user’s mailbox, as documented here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998579.aspx   In this case, we were attempting to remove all items matching...