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PowerPoint from Microsoft Campus Days (Oct. 2011)

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Last week I had the honor of presenting at Microsoft Campus Days 2011 in Copenhagen. The session topic was about Exchange 2010 and integration with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) and Forefront Protection for Exchange (FPE). The session was recorded (In Danish) and will be available from Microsoft soon. I will post a link to the recording when it is available. For now I have made the slides (PowerPoint) for you… Session P14: Exchange …

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Test sending mail to your SMTP connector using Powershell

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As a consultant I often test SMTP connectors on Exchange.  There are several ways of doing this. There is the good old way of using telnet, ExchangePro has a great article describing the Telnet way of testing you SMTP connection: http://exchangeserverpro.com/how-to-send-email-via-telnet The other way of testing if a SMTP connector works on Exchange (2007/2010), could be using PowerShell. In PowerShell 2.0 there is a builtin cmdlet cmdlet: Send-MailMessage You can run the following command in …

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Cannot remove Public Folder database from Exchange 2007 server

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Here is some notes from a recent issue error, I encountered at a client, doing a decommission of some Exchange 2007 servers. We had followed the best practices for moving Public Folder database content to new Public Folder databases. But still could not remove the Public Folder databases on some of the Exchange 2007 servers. The best practices for removing a Public Folder database is: 1. Move the public folder replicas to another server. See …

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Using Exchange MessageTracking with wildcards

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Here are some field notes from a recent message tracking case. If you have to find all messages from one certain domain, that have entered your Exchange environment, this is possible using Exchange Management Shell and the Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet. Run the following: Get-MessageTrackingLog -Server "ExchangeServerName" -Start "8/1/2011" -End "9/1/2011" -resultsize unlimited | where {$_.Sender -like *@domain.com} This works on Exchange 2007 and 2010.

Registry key has subkeys and recursive removes are not supported by this method

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Here is some notes from a recent issue error that I encountered at a client. This error may be seen on Exchange Server 2010 SP1, when removing or adding a Database Copy to the Database Availability Group (DAG). This error will look like this: Summary: 1 item(s). 0 succeeded, 1 failed. Elapsed time: 00:00:00 EXDB02 Failed Error: Registry key has subkeys and recursive removes are not supported by this method. Warning: An unexpected error has …

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