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How to reset the Search Index in Exchange 2010 Search
Exchange 2010 has a built in search feature which allows you to quickly search for emails in your mailbox using Outlook (when Online), OWA, Exchange ActiveSync etc. Exchange 2010 search indexes items as soon as they are received by the Mailbox Database. So if you’ve just transitioned from Exchange 2003 to 2010, Exchange may not […]
How can I stop Outlook 2010 from automatically mapping all my full-access mailboxes ?
In Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Exchange introduced a feature that allows Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 clients to automatically map to any mailbox to which a user has Full Access permissions. If a user is granted Full Access permissions to another user’s mailbox or to a shared mailbox, Outlook automatically loads all mailboxes […]
Exchange 2010 servers constantly showing Event ID 1069 and 1558.
If you are getting events 1558 and 1069 stating “The cluster service detected a problem with the witness resource” every 15 minutes, there is now an official fix from Microsoft. I noticed an issue like this at a previous client who had a 6 node Exchange 2010 fail over cluster with 1 file share witness. […]
Top 5 admin tools for Exchange Deployments and Migrations
Time to dig out some favourites from my browser and share the top Exchange admin tools / sites … Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator – Helps you properly design Mailbox servers for your environment, http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2009/11/09/3408737.aspx Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer (ExRCA) – Provides a test system for administrators to use to validate external connectivity to Exchange. Essential for […]
How do I disable Exchange Server 2003 minor link-state changes?
Exchange 2003 can detect link state changes, notify other Exchange servers about the changes, and advise them to use other routes. A minor state change is when a link is detected as either available or unavailable. The notification actually sends the entire state table. A major state change is an administrator-made manual routing change, such […]
Windows Update Error 0xC80003FB
Click Start, select Run, type in: services.msc then press enter Now look for the Automatic Updates Service, right click it and choose to stop Click Start, select Run, type in: %windir%SoftwareDistribution then press enter Open the Datastore folder and delete its contents. Click Start, select Run, type in: type services.msc then press enter Now look […]
Can I still use Microsoft Virtual Server or Microsoft Virtual PC to test Windows Server 2008 clustering?
Virtual Server has commonly created a shared disk over the emulated SCSI controller to use for clustered storage. However, Server 2008 clustering doesn’t support parallel SCSI. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. Server 2008 clustering supports the majority node set model, which means a cluster doesn’t need shared storage. Server 2008 […]
I changed the IP address of a server running the SMTP service, but I can’t send mail to it locally. What’s the problem?
t’s common to install the SMTP service on servers that require limited mail-sending capabilities–for example, on a Microsoft SharePoint server. I recently had a problem in which the box got a new IP address, and at that point the services that used the SMTP service could no longer send email. The problem was that the […]
What’s the new transaction log size in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007?
The transaction log size in Exchange 2007 is now 1MB instead of 5MB, which was the transaction log size for Exchange 2003. The reason for the size reduction is related to the new log shipping clustering technologies in Exchange 2007. The smaller the log file means a smaller amount of data loss because you can’t […]