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Removing an auto-mapped mailbox

In Exchange Server 2010 SP1, shared mailbox with full access rights will be auto mapped to the users given such rights. This is fine for that user who doesn’t seem to know how to add an additional mailbox to their Outlook 2007, 2010, 2013 client. But what about those support and systems admins who grant themselves access for troubleshooting […]

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Issue: Outlook Address Book Not Updating

Symptoms: New users added to Exchange 2010 do not show up in global address book Tests Performed: 1. Searched for new users from Outlook – This failed 2. Searched for new users from OWA – This works 3. Put Outlook in non-cached mode and searched – this worked Suspected Problem: Offline Address Book Generation is […]

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Simple Exchange 2010 Database White Space Report

I was looking at some of my database on Exchange that seemed to be very large in size so first thought was that an offline defrag may be needed, but before I reach that point I wanted to know how much ‘slack’ or white space existed in each of my Exchange databases. This was done […]

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Exchange 2010 SP2 | Mailbox Export Request

Exchange 2010 has many improvements.  As we know when things change they do not often stay the same. In this case the method used to export exchange email boxes to PST files. Back in a previous post I went over the steps of exporting a mailbox to PST. To do this all you needed was […]

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ESEUtil to Defrag an Exchange 2010 Mailbox Database

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Enable POP3 in Exchange 2010

They say a picture is worth a thousand words — here is one for ya Run this command to configure the POP3 service to start automatically. Set-service msExchangePOP3 -startuptype automatic Run this command to start the POP3 service. Start-service -service msExchangePOP3 – jermal