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At this point, I would like to point out a few useful little helpers that have already made my life easier on several occasions in my day-to-day business: N2Kview: Nice tool to view and edit the Outlook NK2 file. This allows you to quickly delete old or incorrect entries from Outlook's auto-complete function. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/outlook_nk2_autocomplete.html PFDAVadmin: A great tool for managing the public folders ... Read more
From several conversations with partners who are using Exchange 2010 in conjunction with Outlook 2010, one error kept coming to light: 07:56:27 Transmission to server "EXSRV01.frankysweb.local" 07:56:27 Error synchronizing some deletions. 07:56:27 [0-130] 07:56:27 1 item(s) was deleted in the online folder. This error is also discussed in the Office 2010 forum, the last ... Read more
If you only use IIS7 (Internet Information Service) and the standard website for OWA and want to redirect calls to https://exchange.frankysweb.de directly to https://exchange.frankysweb.de/owa, you can use the IIS role service "HTTP redirection". If not already installed, the "HTTP redirection" role service must first be installed for the IIS role. The easiest way to do this is via the server manager, or via ... Read more
Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 received RTM status today. It will therefore be available for download from February 22, 2011. MSDN customers will already receive the service pack on 16.02.2011. The SP1 brings 2 interesting new features for Server 2008 R2. One is Dynamic Memory and the other is RemoteFX. As soon as I ... Read more
If you want to quickly find out the Exchange version in use, you can compare the build numbers and version numbers with the table here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/exchange-server-and-update-rollups-builds-numbers.aspx This allows you to quickly find out the patch level and the service pack version in use.
Older programs or older fax solutions can sometimes only be connected to Exchange with the help of a PickUp directory. By default, the PickUp directory is located here (server with installed Hub Transport role): C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\TransportRoles\Pickup If you want to change the path for the PickUp directory, you can use the CDMlet Set-TransportServer: Set-TransportServer "Servername" -PickupDirectoryPath "d:\ExPickUp" All correctly formatted ... Read more
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Here is a list of the maximum database sizes for the various Exchange versions. Starting with Exchange 2003 up to the current version Exchange 2010. Exchange version Maximum database size Exchange 2003 16 GB Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 75 GB (see below) Exchange 2007 250 GB Exchange 2010 2 TB The information refers to a single ... Read more
To coincide with the first birthday of Exchange Server 2010, Scott Schnoll from the Exchange Server Team Blog has put videos on high availability online. The video consists of 4 parts and is available here. Anyone planning or using a highly available Exchange environment would be well advised to watch the video. If you are interested, here is the ... Read more
If you want to change mailbox features via Exchange Management Shell, you can use the CMDlet set-CASMailbox. For example, to disable OWA for all users, the following command is sufficient: Get-Mailbox -database "Name of database" | set-CASMailbox -OWAenabled $false In this way, the features can be quickly configured for all users. Like the parameters of the other features (ActiveSync, ... Read more
