Stop a windows stucked/hung service Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic If you ever have trouble with a service being stuck in a ‘starting’ or ‘stopping’ state, you can run a couple of simple commands to kill the service. 1. Query the process To kill the service you have to know its PID or Process ID. To find this just type the following in at a…
how to check mailbox usage of users and send report to e-mail address Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic 1. download script below (userquota.txt) and rename it to userquota.PS1 2. edit field to accommodate your organization 3. execute script from exchange powershell ## explanation what need to be edit $ToAddress = "your.email@yourdomain.com" – this is address where to send report. can be external address $SendingServer = "mail.yourdomain.com" – This is the mail server through…
Troubleshooting Exchange 2010 Management Tools startup issues Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic Issue: Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message: The WinRM client cannot process the request. It cannot determine the content type of the HTTP response from the destination computer. The content type is absent or invalid. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic. OWA redirect not done properly and powershell virtual…
Setting Message Size Limits in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007 Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic A huge amount of business happens through the medium of email and, as such, email is naturally one of the Business Critical applications in almost every organization. With that in mind, maximizing the performance of your Exchange infrastructure is clearly a priority, and restricting the average message size which your users can send/receive is a…
OAB issues after simplifying the OWA 2010 URL? Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic Back since Exchange Server 5.0 which was the first version to include a webmail service (at the time known as Exchange Web Connect before renamed to Outlook Web Access, and now with Exchange 2010 renamed to Outlook Web App), customers typically required the webmail URL to be simplified. That is changed in such a way…
Redirecting OWA URLs in Exchange 2010 Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic If you are satisfied with this article you know how to help this site :).. One of the things I’ve been doing for as long as I can remember is redirecting requests that don’t go to https://owa.customer.com/owa (or /exchange) to the correct URL. So, if someone goes to http://owa.customer.com or https://owa.customer.com, they get redirected to…
Create new owa virtual directory Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic Prior to this we must first make a site called "clients" New-OWAVirtualDirectory –Name "owa" –WebSiteName "clients" Set-OwaVirtualDirectory -identity "owa (clients)" -DefaultClientLanguage 3098 This is if you want to set the default one language, so that clients do not need to choose the first time they login to OWA 3098 is code for Serbian (Latin) lenguage
Public Folder Messages are Blank — Message bodies appearing blank in messages within public folders? Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic We have a large number of public folders used to hold e-mail messages. I have found recently that some, but not all, folders have messages that do not have any content. These messages did have content when they were moved/copied to the folders. SOLUTION: In my case problem is solved by switching off integration of…
Exchange standard vs enterprise licence Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic Exchange 2010 Feature Details Exchange 2010 Server Licenses: Existing features have been significantly enhanced and new features have been added to both of the Exchange Server editions. The following table provides a feature breakdown for each server edition of Exchange Server 2010: Feature Standard Server Edition Enterprise Server Edition Mailbox Databases 1-5 databases 6-100 databases…
Forward Email to externel mail address in exchange 2010/2007 Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic To forward mail that arrived to us to a foreign address, first we need to make exchange mail contact that refers to an external email and then activate forwarding. How to do that? Folow next lines Create a MailContact Create a MailContact using the EMC: Expand Recipeint Configuration | Mail Contact In the Action…
How to restore Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox from DPM Server 2010 Backup Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic DPM Server uses a combination of transaction log replication and block-level synchronization in conjunction with the Exchange Server VSS Writer to help ensure your ability to recover Exchange data. In this post, I’m explaining the process of how to restore the Exchange Server 2010 mailbox from the DPM Server 2010 backup; when compared with exchange…
EMail\Database Disaster Recovery Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic This page contains the information related to E-Mail Recovery, Database Recovery and Disaster Recovery scenarios, all the information posted below are related only to Exchange Server 2010 and Outlook 2010. Following are the Topics that are going to be discussed here 1. How to Recover a Shift Deleted E-Mail in outlook 2010 By default 14…
Managing Mailbox Database in Exchange Server 2010 Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic Lot of changes has been introduced in the server level architectures of Exchange Server 2010, but Microsoft continues to use the Exchange Store as the storage platform and the .edb file as the database file for exchange server 2010 Also, this Topic Includes How to Create a New Mailbox Database How to Mount and Dismount…
remove corrupted or missing public folder database from exchange Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic I suspected that perhaps some replicas had been missed by the Management Command – but I was running short of time and really needed to remove the Exchange Installation from the Machine so I thought – perhaps I could just remove the reference to the Public Folder from Active Directory. So I broke out…
How to Enable / Configure Circular Logging in Exchange Server 2007 Posted on February 16, 2012 by dpejic Circular Logging feature was available in all Exchange previous versions. This feature allows Exchange server to overwrite transaction log files after the old transaction log data has been committed to the database. By default, this feature is disabled. The limitation of this feature is that in case of disaster, it will not be possible to…