Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
If you often have to deal with replication problems in your Active Directory, you should switch on "Strict Replication Consistency". In the event of replication problems between 2 or more DCs, the following scenario could arise: An AD object is deleted on DC1, but due to replication problems the change cannot be replicated from DC1 to DC2. If the replication problems last longer in this case ... Read more
To get a quick overview of the size of the mailboxes on the Exchange servers, the following command helps: Get-MailboxStatistics -server | sort TotalItemSize | FT DisplayName,TotalItemSize The command displays the name and size of the mailboxes, all clearly laid out in a table.
By default, the maximum size for mailbox rules is 64 KB. If you have mailboxes with a large number of rules, you may reach this limit. Unfortunately, Outlook and Exchange do not complain if you exceed this size limit, the rules are simply no longer executed. However, it is possible to adjust the maximum size for mailbox rules. Here is a small ... Read more
Now the time has come, Franky's Web is online. Since I work a lot with Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange Server, I sometimes come across quite strange problems or errors. I have decided to publish the solutions to help or at least show the right way to fix them. Furthermore, there will also be HowTos and instructions for ... Read more
