Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
After installing Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2010, you may receive this error message if you try to access OWA and ECP unencrypted via HTTP: "The request could not be executed. There may be security reasons or a session timeout." This can be resolved: First, check in the IIS Manager whether "SSL required" for ... Read more
I have to admit that I have always been a little wary of public folders. Especially since the release of Exchange 2010 and the introduction of the DAG, public folders were rather annoying because they could not be included in the DAG. However, most companies like to use public folders frequently. Even entire applications for ... Read more
In this article, I already described how the mailbox sizes and the send and receive limits can be written to a CSV file. Here is a slightly modified version that converts the values into MB so that they can be better evaluated: "Name;LANID;Database;IssueWarningQuota;SendQuota;SendReceiveQuota;MailboxSize" | set-content "postfaecher.csv" $mbxlist = get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited foreach ($mbx in $mbxlist) { $size ... Read more
What can I do if the partition/hard disk on which the Exchange database is stored is full and the information store refuses to work due to insufficient free memory? Experience has shown that it is not the size of the Exchange databases that causes a partition to fill up, but the log files of the databases take up the free memory over time. Read more
A customer encountered the following problem when starting the Exchange Management Console: Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : The WinRM client received an HTTP server error status (500), but the remote service did not include any other information about the cause of the failure. For more information, see the ... Read more
Exchange 2013 no longer has an MMC-based console like Exchange 2010. Exchange 2013 is now configured either via the Exchange Management Shell or via a web interface; the ECP has been significantly improved for this purpose. The Metro interface of Server 2012 only contains the Management Shell and an Exchange Toolbox. The new administration console can be accessed at https://Servername/ecp. ... Read more
The preview of Exchange Server 2013 was released yesterday. I set about installing the new version. I set up a small test environment consisting of a domain controller and a member server. Both servers run under Windows Server 2012. The domain controller was set up as described here, the future Exchange Server is ... Read more
The Exchange Server 2013 preview was released today. An overview of the new features can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/07/23/the-new-exchange.aspx The Exchange Server 2013 preview can be downloaded here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh973395.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_116_1_33 The download is 1.36 GB in size. I am of course very excited about the new version and will start the installation tomorrow morning. Of course on ... Read more
For environments with load balancers or firewalls between the Exchange servers, it makes sense to configure static ports for the distribution of the address book and RPC. By default, Exchange uses dynamic ports for these two services, which makes the configuration of firewalls and load balancers more difficult. To configure a static port for RPC, a new port must first be ... Read more
Just stumbled across this, a Google app can analyze the mail header and displays it a bit more readable: https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/messageheader/ Quite nicely done J, but better if you don't need such tools ;-)
