Installing Exchange on Server 2012 R2 show’s no Information When you install Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2012 R2, you will notice that when you open the Management console that you cannot see any servers or modify any properties and the screen will look as follow. To resolve this issue, you will have to install…
Search and Delete specific email for all or specific users using PowerShell. In many cases an Exchange Administrator will get a request to delete an email which was sent to a specific user or to multiple users. Exchange allows us to do this with a feature called search-mailbox, this feature can be used to…
Microsoft Exchange Error: ResourceDelegates can only be enabled on resource mailboxes. During the process of adding additional Room Mailbox resource delegates, I received the following error: Resource Delegates can only be enabled on resource mailboxes. This is an pretty straight forward error to resolve, in the current environment where I am facing this error…
Set Exchange resource mailbox to send auto decline for double booking. This is a topic that always seems to come up from the helpdesk team , in this post i will configure a resource mailbox to auto decline when there is a double booking. In this post i will use the Exchange Powershell to configure…
Slow SMTP Relay for Applications using Exchange 2010 Receive Connectors. In this post we will look at the default “SMTP Delay” for messages received from a system that don’t support shadow redundancy. By default, Receive connectors delay acknowledgement up to 30 seconds. For more information, see “Delayed Acknowledgement” in Understanding Shadow Redundancy. To view the…
Exchange Mailbox has “Empty HomeMDB attribute” After doing an Mailbox Move one of Mailboxes ran into an issue where it lots its “HomeMDB” attribute. How do we resolve this ? There is a quick and easy fix to resolve this , to start we need to open “ADSI Edit” . Select “Default naming context” Once…
Error Removing Mailbox Database: This Mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes. When you try and remove an “Exchange Mailbox Database” you received the following error: “This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, public folder mailboxes or arbitration mailboxes. To get a list of all mailboxes in this database, run…
How to remove Exchange 2013 Mailbox Database using PowerShell In this post i want to share something that’s very common but i thought i’ll share some steps on removing a mailbox database. This post will focus only on doing these steps using Powershell. Firstly run the following command to get a list of all Exchange…
Create Exchange Mail Contact using Powershell How to create an Exchange Mail Contact using Powershell one liner. To create the new Mail Contact run the following in Exchange Shell. New-MailContact -Name “Lazy-Mails” -ExternalEmailAddress “LazyAdmin@Gmail.com” -OrganizationalUnit “OU=Contacts,DC=LazyAdmin,DC=com” Quick and easy . #ThatlazyAdmin
Remove Exchange Mailbox Move-Request using PowerShell Lets look at how to remove Exchange Mailbox Move-Request with PowerShell. Get-MoveRequest This will list all current Mailbox Move-Requests InProgress and Completed. To remove run : Remove-MoveRequest -Confirm:$false Lets looks at combining the “Get” option and only show “Completed” Move-Requests and then remove the “Completed” Move-Requests. Get-MoveRequest |Where-Object…
Add and Remove Distribution Group Members Powershell Lets look at some quick Powershell one liners to Remove and Add Distribution Group Members. Add DistributionGroup Member: Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity LazyAdmins -Member ShaunH Remove DistributionGroup Member: Remove-DistributionGroupMember -Identity LazyUsers -Member John.Long Quick and Simple One liners. #ThatLazyAdmin
Remove Exchange Inbox Rules using PowerShell Lets look at a quick way to view , remove and disable user inbox rules. First lets get list of inbox rules for a user by running the below: Get-InboxRule -Mailbox Shaun.Hardneck To disable one of the Inbox Rules run the following: Disable-InboxRule -Mailbox shaun.hardneck -identity <rule name> Next…