By Paul Cunningham Exchange Server 2010 like its predecessor Exchange Server 2007 makes heavy use of SSL certificates for various communications protocols. When you install a new Exchange server is comes pre-configured with a self-signed certificate. Before putting a new server into production you should create and assign a new SSL cert for the [...]
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Reprint from article by Demazter For this migration to work you will need the following software: Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS 2003) Windows Small Business Server 2011 Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer which can be downloaded from:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=1B6E9026-F505-403E-84C3-A5DEA704EC67&displaylang=en Steps required: Health Checks on Small Business Server 2003 Configure SBS2003 for single NIC Run Migration [...]
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Reprint from Khrishna MVP There is always been the requirement that in any organization few users or High profiles users wanted to send and receiver bigger attachment. Bigger the attachment, bigger the challenges for the Administrators. It is recommended to keep attachment size smaller. Smaller the email faster will be processing both on the SMTP [...]
READ MORE »Eseutil Defrag Tool Database defragmentation is a process to arrange non-contagious data into contagious form to reduce the size of database and eliminating the extra space. In case of Microsoft Exchange Server, online defragmentation of the Exchange database is performed automatically during normal database maintenance. But, being the system administrator you cannot just rely on [...]
READ MORE »Article is a re-print from exchangeserverpro.com by Paul Cunningham The Exchange Management Shell, powered by PowerShell, makes it easy to collect size information for the mailboxes in an Exchange 2010 organization. For example, to list the sizes of all mailboxes on a particular database we can use this command. [PS] C:\>Get-Mailbox -Database MB-HO-01 | Get-MailboxStatistics | ft displayname,totaldeleteditemsize,totalitemsize [...]
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Article is a re-print from exchangeserverpro.com by Paul Cunningham Restoring an Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox Database to an Alternate Location The first step is to perform a restore of the mailbox server backup, redirecting the restore to an alternate location on the server. Start by launching Windows Server Backup, and then in the Actions panel click on Recover to start [...]
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Archive Mailbox In Exchange 2010… Article re-printed from howexchangeworks.com Archive Mailbox is one of the many welcoming features in Exchange 2010 Server. This feature solves issues related to PST files which gives headache for any exchange admins. Let me explain how archive mailbox feature will address the existing problems. There is no company which doesn’t [...]
READ MORE »Article from MS Technet PowerShell ##################################################################################### # Exchange 2010 Mailbox Database HTML Email Report # Author: Thiyagu14 # Date Jan 28th 2010 # Script gathers below information # 1. Server currently hosting the Database. # 2. Database Size # 3. Database file path # 4. Number of users in the Database. # 5. Amount of Whitespace # 6. Top Mailbox in the Database and the size of it. # 7. Last Backup time and days since last backup. # ################################################################################### # It then generates HTML Files for this. # You can setup Threshold in the script,below are the items which can have threshold # 1. Number of Mailboxes # 2. Database Size # 3. How old a Backup can be # 4. Top Mailbox Size # If any one of the above threshold is reached the configured threshold. # It will be marked as red in the HTML. ##################################################################################### Remove-Item C:\Users\thiyagu\Documents\DBReport.htm New-Item -ItemType file -Path C:\Users\ADMIN\Documents -Name dbreport.htm $mailboxCountThreshold = 30 $dbSizeThreshold = 10GB $backupThreshold = 1 $mbxSizeThreshold = 30MB $fileName = ”DBReport.htm” Function writeHtmlHeader { param($fileName) $date = ( Get-Date ).ToString(‘yyyy/MM/dd’) Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ’myExchangeWorld.COM Database Report’ Add-Content $fileName ” Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”myExchangeWorld.COM Database Report - $date” Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" [...]
READ MORE »Description Script to set calendar-permission for mailboxes in Exchange Server 2010. PowerShell <# NAME: Set-CalendarPermissions.ps1 AUTHOR: Jan Egil Ring EMAIL: jan.egil.ring@powershell.no COMMENT: Script to set calendar-permission for mailboxes in Exchange Server 2010. For a list of valid AccessRights, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff522363.aspx More information: http://blog.powershell.no/2010/09/20/managing-calendar-permissions-in-exchange-server-2010 You have a royalty-free right to use, modify, reproduce, and distribute this script file in any way you find useful, provided that you agree that the creator, owner above has no warranty, obligations, or liability for such use. VERSION HISTORY: 1.0 19.09.2010 - Initial release #> #requires -version 2 #Load Exchange Server 2010 Management Shell if not loaded. You may delete/comment out this step if you are running the script from the Exchange Management Shell if (-not (Get-PSSnapin | Where-Object {$_.Name -like ”Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010″})){ Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010 } #Custom variables $mailboxes = Get-Mailbox -Database ”Mailbox Database A” $AccessRights = ”Reviewer” #Loop through all mailboxes foreach ($mailbox in $mailboxes) { #Retrieve name of the user`s calendar $calendar = (($mailbox.SamAccountName)+ ”:\” + (Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity $mailbox.SamAccountName -FolderScope Calendar | Select-Object -First 1).Name) #Check if calendar-permission for user ”Default” is set to the default permission of ”AvailabilityOnly” if (((Get-MailboxFolderPermission $calendar | Where-Object {$_.User -like ”Default”}).AccessRights) -like ”AvailabilityOnly” ) { Write-Host ”Updating calendar permission for $mailbox…” -ForegroundColor Yellow #Set calendar-permission for user ”Default” to value defined in variable $AccessRights Set-MailboxFolderPermission -User ”Default” -AccessRights $AccessRights -Identity $calendar } } Verified on the following platforms Windows Server 2008 R2 [...]
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Exchange Server 2010 like its predecessor Exchange Server 2007 makes heavy use of SSL certificates for various communications protocols. When you install a new Exchange server is comes pre-configured with a self-signed certificate. Before putting a new server into production you should create and assign a new SSL cert for the server. In this example [...]
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