Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
When users are deleted from the Active Directory, the Exchange mailboxes are not automatically deleted but disconnected. This means that the mailbox still exists in the database, but is no longer assigned to a user. If the user associated with a mailbox has only recently been deleted, the disconnected mailbox is not displayed directly in the ... Read more
If you want to change or add the display name for users, you can easily do this for individual or all users via the Exchange Management Shell. The attribute of the mailbox that contains the display name is called "DisplayName". This command can be used to display the current display names: Get-Mailbox -Database "Name of the mailbox database" |select Name,displayname If you now want to ... Read more
Microsoft has published the architecture poster for Exchange Server 2010. For all those interested, the poster is available for download at the link below: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=cea0cf7e-d824-49bb-8924-39d66a5fb88e PS: For Exchange 2007, the architecture poster is available at the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=FDCDF6E5-DE47-4B58-8086-282101BCDDE9&displaylang=en
It has been possible to change passwords via OWA for some time now. What is new, however, is the possibility to change expired passwords via OWA. The prerequisite for this is Exchange 2010 with Service Pack 1 or Exchange 2007 with Service Pack 3 on Server 2008. To be able to use the new feature, a DWord (32Bit) ... Read more
If the setup of Exchange Server 2007 reports that no Global Catalog Server is available at the site, this is usually due to the following reasons: There really is no Global Catalog available at the site. Solution: Assign the Global Catalog to an existing DC or provide a new DC The DC at the site is a Windows Server 2008 and the domain functional level ... Read more
To get a quick overview of the size of the mailboxes on the Exchange servers, the following command helps: Get-MailboxStatistics -server | sort TotalItemSize | FT DisplayName,TotalItemSize The command displays the name and size of the mailboxes, all clearly laid out in a table.
