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Generate HTML Mailbox Size and Usage Report using PowerShell for Exchange 2010 / 2013

Here is a nice way to see who is using up the most space on your mailbox servers.   Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Get-MailboxStatistics | Select DisplayName,TotalItemSize,ItemCount, Database,LastLogonTime,LastLoggedOnUserAccount | SortTotalItemSize -Descending | ConvertTo-Html -Title “Mailbox Stats”|Out-file “C:\MailboxStatistics.html

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 […]

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 […]

Propagate Public Folder Permissions On Exchange 2003

You can use Exchange System Manager to propagate permissions for public folders using the following steps: Exchange System Manager Goto the public folder you want to adjust permissions on Properties Permissions Hold Ctrl while clicking Client Permissions You should now be able to set permissions to public folders and propagate to child objects