Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
If event 5003 is logged after a server restart and the Exchange information storage service (MSExchangeIS) cannot be started, the cause is usually that the time between the DC and the Exchange server is too different. In vmWare environments, this can be caused by the time being synchronized with the ESX host and not with the DC. ... Read more
If Outlook 2010 constantly asks for logon information in an Exchange 2010 environment, the following procedure can help. If you have not already done so, you should first install the latest service pack and update rollup for Exchange 2007. Which rollup is current can be found here. If Outlook still asks for logon information after installing the updates for Exchange 2007, ... Read more
By default, Exchange 2010 creates undeliverable messages (NDR) in the language of the sending system. Unfortunately, this does not always work reliably, at least not for NDRs that leave the organization. This can be remedied by specifying the language for external NDR messages: Set-TransportConfig -ExternalDsnDefaultLanguage en-us -ExternalDsnLanguageDetectionEnabled $false This command switches off the automatic detection ... Read more
But then I looked out of the laundry sparingly. I open the Exchange Management Console on an Exchange 2010 and want to make some configuration changes. But the console shows this message as soon as I open it: "Error trying to connect to the specified Exchange Server: ..." The message indicates an authorization problem, although the user ... Read more
Version 1.0 has just been made available for download. The main reason for the quick update is that there was a problem with the display of Outlook rules, which has now been fixed. Umlauts in the report now also work. You can update from version 0.9. If the report for "mailboxes near the sending limit" is activated ... Read more
The new version of the Exchange Reporter has just been released. Thanks to some suggestions from readers, I was able to fix a few bugs and add a new feature. There will also be an update routine for the next versions so that not all data has to be re-entered. However, version 0.9 will have to be reinstalled. Furthermore, there are ... Read more
If you only want to allow Active Sync for certain users, you can let a script do the work for you. This small script initially deactivates Active Sync for all mailboxes and then only activates it for the mailboxes in the file "user_with_activesync.csv". Contents of the file "set-activesyncuser.ps1" Set-ADServerSettings -ViewEntireForest $true get-mailboxdatabase | get-mailbox | Set-CasMailbox -ActiveSyncEnabled $false ... Read more
The update RollUp 2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 has been released. The update can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de-de/details.aspx?familyid=6b2fb2d9-df78-4cef-8ea3-2a913a89ac4a A list with the included fixes can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2661854 Furthermore the update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 has been released, this rollup can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de-de/details.aspx?familyid=51d1079c-b5e2-418d-9431-0e556917c5de and also ... Read more
Users of Outlook or OWA are able to create rules for their mailboxes, for example if they want to forward mails to another person when they are on vacation. However, it sometimes happens that users forget that they have activated rules. There is, however, the option to view the rules that a user ... Read more
The new version 0.8 of the Exchange Reporter has just been released. Many thanks to Gerd, Jürgen and Marcel for pointing out some bugs. The changes can be found in the ChangeLog. Go to the page here Unfortunately, there is still the problem that the sorting of the weekdays in the bar charts for the mail statistics is mixed up. I am working ... Read more
