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
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Beginning with Exchange 2010 then on to Exchange 2013. User who used the client Outlook 2007/2010/and 2013 had a new feature called automapping. Automapping takes advantage of Exchange auto-discovery services to map mailboxes in which a user has “Full Access” permissions granted. This is very helpful to the end-user as he or she is no […]
After my last round of mailbox migrations from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 RU2 I ran into issues with a few mailboxes that were left in the state “FailedOther” at 95% completed. I attempted to resume / restart the mailbox move with: Get-MoveRequest | where{$_.Status -eq “FailedOther”} | Resume-MoveRequest without success. At this point I was […]
I open PowerShell as Administrator and type the following: Install-WindowsFeature AS-HTTP-Activation, Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface, Web-Mgmt-Console, WAS-Process-Model, Web-Asp-Net45, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Http-Redirect, Web-Http-Tracing, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-ISAPI-Filter, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-Metabase, Web-Mgmt-Console, Web-Mgmt-Service, Web-Net-Ext45, Web-Request-Monitor, Web-Server, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Static-Content, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-WMI, Windows-Identity-Foundation followed by pressing enter… what next you ask? Well stop by later and […]
Open the Exchange Shell and type the following command: New-Mailbox shared –shared –userprincipalname shared@jermsmit.com If the mailbox was already a user mailbox and you are converting to shared type the following command: Set-Mailbox -Identity shared@jermsmit.com -Type Shared You can now verify that the box is indeed a shared mailbox by typing the following command: Get-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 […]