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Intro So we were working on a project for a customer who has 6 Exchange servers, 3 CAS and 3 MBX. The customer have an Exchange Server 2013 organization and about 200 users. Basically it all sounded easy and quick project, however their Exchange Server has other saying on this! After we configured the co-existence […]
Little intro I’ve got a case where the customer wanted to delete all of his users’ data in their mailboxes on the Exchange Server, that they got before 1-JAN-2018. He has an incident happened with some leaked critical email messages and he wanted to prevent it by taking this action! The way to do this […]
Intro This is just the back story for this incident and the Exchange Server environment setup. Skip to The issue section for the actual stuff I recently had a project started to migrate an Exchange Server 2010 organisation to G Suite. The customer had 4 (very old) servers, 2 DAG and 2 CAS. While we […]
This is just a quick guide to decommission an old Exchange server 2007, since now 2010 and 2013 and even Office365 are everywhere, 2007 is considered obsolete same as 2003 during the days of 2010… I am not going to get in details about this, just I will summarize the guide by putting the steps […]
In order to get a list of all (or part) of the mailboxes and view their sizes, simply use the following PS script: Get-mailbox | Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | ft DisplayName, ItemCount, TotalItemSize, Database -auto | Out-File c:\mbx_sizes.txt The above command, will get all the mailboxes, and list their sizes and the database […]
Sometimes you get a sudden need to forward bulk users’ mail to external destination… in normal days, you would create a mail contact, then forward the selected user’s mail to the new external contact. Now what if you got a large number of contacts to forward? well, you can either: Manually create all the required […]
Below is a useful script to create bulk contacts in Exchange Management Shell: Import-CSV “C:\NameList.csv” | Foreach{New-MailContact -Name $_.Name -ExternalEmailAddress $_.ExternalAddress} You need to have the following prepared before you use the script: A CSV file contains 2 headers: Name, ExternalAddress, with all the contacts list that you want to create. Save the CSV file […]
Hi It has been a while since I did a transition for Exchange server 2010, and last days I did one… Today I was doing the final part of it which is decommissioning the old server, I did it but I had to do some extra work to finish the job… I had moved all […]
Hello Everybody, I have got through a problem where MS Outlook continuously asks for user name and password to authenticate the user for exchange… This could be annoying for users and frustrating for the guys who are troubleshooting that, today I made some researches about problem and I got some solutions for it, but all […]
