Here are some field notes from a recent Exchange 2010 Retention and Archive case. We had to get data back from the Online Archive and back into the users mailbox, to it’s original location. There are several ways of getting data back from an Exchange Online Archiving into the Mailbox of the user. One way is having the user copy the data back manually from his/her archive into their inbox using drag and drop. Another …
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 …
Here are some field notes from a recent Exchange 2010 Retention and Archive case. I have made a simple Exchange 2010 PowerShell script Get-ArchivedMBStats.ps1, that shows mailbox statistics for all mailboxes that have Online Archive enabled. It is great for following the progress of archiving of individual mailboxes. The output of the script is the following information about each mailbox with archive enabled: Mailbox Display Name Mailbox TotalItemSize (MB) Mailbox ItemCount Mailbox Database Mailbox RetentionPolicy Archive Display …
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 …
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 …