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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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Determining Free Space in an Exchange 2010 Mailbox Database

In Exchange 2010 you can see how big your mailbox databases are, and how much white space they have, by running the following command in the Exchange Management Shell. [PS] C:>Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | ft name,databasesize,availablenewmailboxspace -auto In screen-cap database AB is 64.76 GB in size but has 11.97 MB white space due to mail deleted. This is […]

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Public Folders Not Replicating From Exchange 2007 to 2010

After a migration from Exchange Server 2007 to Exchange Server 2010 I encountered a problem with the replication of public folders. It seems they would not replicate regardless of what I attempted.  I spent sometime looking into this, and not wanting to HACK in a solution just to make it work.  I wanted it to work […]