Using the following Exchange Management Shell command you can cleanup emails from a mailbox such as one used to catch spam emails: Search-Mailbox -Identity “<mailbox_name>” -DeleteContent -Force You can also check the number of items in the mailbox by issues the following command: Get-MailboxFolderStatistics <mailbox_name> | Select Identity, ItemsInFolder
Tag: Exchange 2013
Here are some steps that worked for me in converting a user mailbox to a shared mailbox. Info: You can convert the following mailboxes from one type to another User mailbox to resource mailbox Shared mailbox to user mailbox Shared mailbox to resource mailbox Resource mailbox to user mailbox Resource mailbox to shared mailbox Example reason […]
Quick an simple power shell line to list a mailbox type in the Exchange 2013 environment Get-Mailbox -Identity “mailbox-name” | Format-List RecipientTypeDetails Additional info on RecipientTypeDetails enumeration can be located here
Quick an simple power shell line to list all shared mailboxes in your Exchange 2013 environment. Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited -RecipientTypeDetails SharedMailbox What’s a Shared Mailbox A shared mailbox is a mailbox that multiple users can use to read and send email messages. Shared mailboxes can also be used to provide a common calendar, allowing […]
In a previous post I wrote about my Exchange 2013 CU6 Adventure and how it caused my Exchange Replication Services to crash. That wasn’t the only issues faced after updating to CU6. It seems that the CU6 upgrade had crippled my ability to use the POP3 service. I have been waiting for a week now for […]
Working with my Exchange 2012 Hybrid configuration I into the following error: ERROR : Subtask NeedsConfiguration execution failed: Configure MRS Proxy Settings Execution of the Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory cmdlet has thrown an exception. This may indicate invalid parameters in your hybrid configuration settings. The task wasn’t able to connect to IIS on the server ‘exchange’. Make sure […]