Good day -

Question - We are getting ready to implement a 90 day "delete" emails across all exchange/outlook folders (defaults plus any folders end users may have created). Via test mailboxes (only a couple), the policy is working however, it is not actually deleting. I think I know the answer, but want to make sure. The policy was implemented 4 days ago. If I sign on to OWA for example, I can see the retention message stating the following:

Retention Policy: Delete Inbox 90 days (90 Days) Expires: 11/24/2010 This item will expire in 0 days. To keep this item longer, apply a different Retention Policy.

Will this eventually be removed from Outlook (is there a default time window before delete?) Below is the WorkCycle:

CalendarRepairWorkCycle           :
CalendarRepairWorkCycleCheckpoint :
SharingPolicyWorkCycle            : 1.00:00:00
SharingPolicyWorkCycleCheckpoint  : 1.00:00:00
SharingSyncWorkCycle              : 03:00:00
SharingSyncWorkCycleCheckpoint    : 03:00:00
ManagedFolderWorkCycle            : 1.00:00:00
ManagedFolderWorkCycleCheckpoint  : 1.00:00:00
TopNWorkCycle                     : 7.00:00:00
TopNWorkCycleCheckpoint           : 1.00:00:00
UMReportingWorkCycle              : 1.00:00:00
UMReportingWorkCycleCheckpoint    : 1.00:00:00

Also with the above question "Will the items eventually be deleted?", to ensure that Calendar and Task items do not expire, the below has to be set?

• Path: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeMailboxAssistants\Parameters
• Name: ELCAssistantCalendarTaskRetentionEnabled
• Type: DWORD
• Value: 0 = Do not process Calendar and Task folders

Thank you for your time and help....

Is therea way to do a quick test scom alert on exchange 2010 thats being monitored? 

Hi all,

A few domain admin accounts were renamed in my environemnt, since then when i launch the Exchange 2010 EMC conosle i get the below error. I was able to log in just fine before the account rename.

I have a user reporting an issue with moving emails to subfolders in OWA. (exchange Server 2010, SP3, RU6, no new changes).

User logs into OWA and sees a list of subfolders under her inbox (not pst).   She can move emails to some of the subfolders but not others.    If she logs into Outlook 2010 client, those folders she can't move into in OWA are not even showing up in Outlook client.   By default, cache mode is disabled in our environment, but helpdesk did not verify that the user did not manually enable.  User works night shift on a shared computer, so I cannot check until they are on again.

Get-mailboxfolderstatistics reports the user as having 35 folders.  And the users account is 400mb with 2100 items.  Nothing has changed on the user side or server side recently. 

Hallo,

We have problems to send mails to a mail address in the public folder

Sometimes mail sending works but sometimes not, but when the user get the message that the mail failed and he open the mail and resend it, the mail sent normally.

Message from the Exchange Server:

What we have changed at the same time:

• Installed a new DC (Server 2012R2)

Whatwehavealready done:

• Create a new folder with mail address
• Authorization reassigned with write permissions for users and groups
• Deleted ost from local user
• Work in cache mode on the client
• Work over OWA
• Update of Windows Server
• Install Exchange SP3 Rollup 7
• Change DNS Server
• Set-ADServerSettings -PreferredServer

I am attempting to recreate what we have done previously using exmerge under Exchange 2003 where we can archive out specific emails based on subject to pull out 0 days spam etc.  What I want to do first is to copy the mails to an individual .pst per user (in case we need to pull any emails back)

I have manged to do this with using the following command (in this example extracting a subject containing the sub-phrase junktest):

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foreach ($mbx in (Get-Mailbox | Where {$_.ExchangeVersion.ExchangeBuild.Major -eq 14})) {New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox $mbx -ContentFilter {(subject -like "*junktest*")} -FilePath "\\ssf-adm-ex01\mailboxexport\$($mbx.Alias).pst"}

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I would like now to simplify the use of this so I am attempting to create a script where the user can input the emails Subject rather than having to edit the code each time.

However I cannot get this to work. Using the following script it just exports emails with a subject line of $subjectstring rather than the variables content

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$subjectstring = Read-Host 'Please enter the Subject String'

foreach ($mbx in (Get-Mailbox | Where {$_.ExchangeVersion.ExchangeBuild.Major -eq 14})) {New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox $mbx -ContentFilter {(subject -like "$subjectstring")} -FilePath "\\ssf-adm-ex01\mailboxexport\$($mbx.Alias).pst"}

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using the following just exports all of the emails from the server

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$subjectstring = Read-Host 'Please enter the Subject String'

foreach ($mbx in (Get-Mailbox | Where {$_.ExchangeVersion.ExchangeBuild.Major -eq 14})) {New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox $mbx -ContentFilter {(subject -like $subjectstring)} -FilePath "\\ssf-adm-ex01\mailboxexport\$($mbx.Alias).pst"}

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I have tried all sorts of  combinations however I cannot get this to work correctly.

Can anyone help a powershll newbie out?  Thanks in advance.

Hi,

My Exchange Environment contains

• Two Exchange 2010 SP3 CAS/HUB servers with WNLB configured
• Two Exchange 2010 SP3 Mailbox servers with DAG
• External mail is send via a smarthost - Sophos Email Appliance

I have an application that sends mails to internal distribution lists, this lists contain contacts with external addresses.

This is used for 10 distribution lists and delivers mails to the external contacts for 9.

The one that is not delivering gives the following error in Exchange Tracking Log

501 5.1.7 Bad sender address syntax

I have tried to recreate the contact but no joy.

I can mail the contact from my Outlook profile.

I can mail the contact from the account stated in my Application via Outlook.

Anyone seem this error before ?

Hello All,

I have a strange issue here. I am trying to create a new contact entry in a Contact Type, Public folder. No matter what i do I always get the following error when trying to create a new contact:

Request
Url: https://mail.userdomain.com:443/owa/ev.owa?oeh=1&ns=EditContactItem&ev=Save
User: Robert User
EX Address: /o=userdomain/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=Robert User768
SMTP Address: domain_ruser@userdomain.com
OWA version: 14.3.181.6
Mailbox server: Server-EXCH02.userdomain.local

Exception
Exception type: Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.StoragePermanentException
Exception message: Cannot save changes made to an item to store.

I can edit an existing contact, also i can add/edit/delete contacts from another Contact Public Folder. Its just this one (above) that gives me the error.

I have reset the permissions, checked them with ExFolders, checked them with the EMS etc. The permissions are correct, there are no limitations for database size and this particular PF is about 16 MBs in size.

I get the same problem with OWA, and Outlook. When testing with Outlook i get the following error message:

Usually this error message occurs when your mailbox has exceeded the size limit established by your administrator. Or, your mailbox has exceeded the mailbox size restriction of two terabytes.

To eliminate this issue, archive or delete messages until the size of the mailbox is less than the limitation imposed by the administrator or is less than two terabytes, whichever is smaller.

There are no limits set on the PF database itself, so that shouldn't be an issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Robert

Robert

So we have a multi server/multi site Exchange 2010 SP3 UR5 environment that somehow at one site has begun pointing to the wrong service endpoint.  When I run a test-outlookconnectivity with either TCP or HTTP I receive the following result. 

The service endpoint appears to be resolving for another site's cas array initially, but after the web service request, begins pointing to the correct Endpoint.  I would like to correct this, but do not know where or why it is initially hitting the wrong cas array.  I have checked ADSI edit and the service endpoint appears to have a correct value.

ClientAccessServer               ServiceEndpoint                               Scenario                            Result         Latency
                                                                                                                  (MS)
------------------                     ---------------                               --------                                       ------       -------
SERVER1.DOMAIN.COM      INCORRECT-CASARRAY.DOMAIN.com      Autodiscover: Web service request.      Success 1060.81
SERVER1.DOMAIN.COM      CORRECT-CASARRAY.DOMAIN.com         RFRI::GetReferral.                              Success    0.00

I had to change our autodiscover service because the local domain was on the certificate.  I've gone through all the steps, uploaded the new cert, and everything is working fine.  However, autodiscover still connects to mail.domain.local, instead of mail.domain.com.  Thus, a user leaves the environment, exchange wont connect without a VPN connection.  I can not for the life of me figure out how tell autodiscover to use the public mail DNS entry, instead of the local one.  I dug down to find the service connection point record (SCP) is labeled as the "Localserver"  Is this what i need to change to make this work right?

Exchange 2010 environment as well.

If the above wasn't clear, when I open outlook and it goes through autodiscover, it populates "server.local" rather than "mail.domain.com".

Thank you!

I need to remove the replication network from my current DAG as I will be migrating the databases to an additional datacenter and eventually removing them from the datacenters that have a replication network.  Seeing that all DAG members need to have the same network setup I need to remove the replication network without causing any issues or an outage.  Can I simply run Remove-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupNetwork cmdlt, remove the static routes and disable the rep NIC?

Hi,

I am facing a issue to Mount the default database of Exchange Server 2010.

Past incident:- 1. 1 physical server with RAID configured which is also a Exchange 2010 CAS and MBX Server. One HDD of that server was crashed somehow and we rebuilt the RAID again. Now we face the problem of MBX Database is showing "un mounted"

We Checked :-

1. From owa when we try to connect the database it showing the following error message.

Message :-

Couldn't mount the database that you specified. Specified database:
Mailbox Database 1686274192; Error code: An Active Manager operation failed. Error:
The database action failed. Error: Operation failed with message: MapiExceptionDatabaseError:
Unable to mount database. (hr=0x80004005, ec=1108) Diagnostic context: Lid: 65256 Lid: 10722 StoreEc:
0x454 Lid: 1494 ---- Remote Context Beg ---- Lid: 45120 dwParam: 0x1BDCB0 Lid: 57728 dwParam: 0x1BDDD9 Lid: 46144 dwParam: 0x1BE26D Lid: 34880 dwParam: 0x1BE26D Lid: 34760 StoreEc: 0xFFFFFC06 Lid: 46144 dwParam: 0x1BE6B3 Lid: 34880 dwParam: 0x1BE6B3 Lid: 54472 StoreEc: 0x1388 Lid: 42184 StoreEc: 0x454 Lid: 1750 ---- Remote Context End ----
Lid: 1047 StoreEc: 0x454 [Database: Mailbox Database 1686274192, Server: MAILSRV.domain.com].

We are also unable to mount it using Exchange Shell Commends.

Please suggest the recovery steps.

Note :- We do not have any DB Backup and no Failover is available.

Regards, Koustov Choudhury

Hi guys!! Good evening!!

I'm having the next scenario.

My client has an Ubuntu Server, managed by Zentyal, Is it possible to migrate to Exchange Server 2010 from that enviroment?

Thanks for your answers.

Has anyone seen this?

I created a new email address policy in Exchange 2010, that applies if the user has a specific value in the company field. It has a priority of 1, and users without the company name get their email address from the next priority.

When a new user is created (with the company name), the priority 1 policy is not applying, and they get the same address as everyone else.

If the company name is deleted and re-added in AD users and computers, the policy still doesn't apply.

If the company name is deleted and re-added in EMC, the policy applies.

If I right-click the policy and choose apply, it applies appropriately.

In either case I have to go back and delete the first email address.

Any thoughts?

Hi there:

We are using this command to collect how much space does Exchange database has:

Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | select ServerName,Name,DatabaseSize,AvailableNewMailboxSpace >C:\how-much-space-left-for-exchange-databases.txt

And the idea is to get the SUM of numbers in the 3rd column and put it into file.

Is it possible and how to?

with best regards,

bostjanc

Hello All,

I have been trying to find this user to no avail. I will provide you with a background first. We did a migration to a different domain (from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2010). We had a user with 10 GM mailbox and the moving mailbox was failing, thus we created a temp account to try to move the mailbox (User Temp),and that did not work, but eventually we managed to migrate the mailbox. I think the User Temp was deleted from AD, I have tried to search for it and it does not exist in AD. However, we have a exchange monitoring tool that provides us with report that shows the Temp user has a mailbox, but no e-mail address nut it shows the size of the mailbox. I could not get the vendor of the tool to provide me with the script the tool uses to generate the report. I have tried to use PowerShell command to get all the mailbox:

Get-MailboxStatistics -Database “Mailbox Database” | Format-Table DisplayName, LastLoggedOnUserAccount, ItemCount, @{expression={$_.totalitemsize.value.ToMB()};label=”Size(MB)”}, LastLogonTime, LastLogoffTime

The above command does not show the user anywhere. I also get the following event id 9042

Service MSExchangeMailboxAssistants. Calendar Sync Assistant for database Store_DB1 (b76571fb-a1b5-410d-8561-8453f208428f) is exiting a work cycle. No mailboxes were successfully processed. 2 mailboxes were skipped due to errors. There are 0 mailboxes in this database.

I went to event ID 9025 and it shows that phantom user (User Temp) with GUID:

Service MSExchangeMailboxAssistants. Calendar Sync Assistant skipped 1 mailboxes on database Store_DB1 (b76571fb-a1b5-410d-8561-8453f208428f). Mailboxes:

User Temp(e95173fa-4d2c-45fa-b29c-141805511a41)

Is there a way to remove that user?

Our topology:

2 Exchange 2010 SP2 CAS/HUB

2 Exchange 2010 SP2 Mailbox

We had Exchange 2010 SP1 Standard in production. We had created some mail enabled public folders that worked fine. Recently they started giving a bounce back message (see below) when mail is sent from within the organization, but goes through fine from an external address. We upgraded to Exchange 2010 SP3 Roll Up 6. This did not fix our issue. We have verified that “Anonymous” has contributor permissions and that all legacy servers have been removed from the old Administrative Group in ADSIEdit. We also directly assigned a user contributer permissions that was reciving this message when sending to the email address assigned to the mail enabled public folder and they recieved the same error.

Diagnostic Information from the bounced email

#554 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Deliver.Exception:AccessDeniedException.MapiExceptionNotAuthorized; Failed to process message due to a permanent exception with message Cannot complete delivery-time processing. 16.55847:A30C0000, 17.43559:000000009E020000000000009C00000000000000, 255.23226:12280000, 255.27962:0A000000, 255.27962:0E000000, 255.27962:0A000000, 255.27962:9E000000, 255.17082:D6040000, 0.18273:00000000, 4.21921:D6040000, 255.27962:FA000000, 255.1494:43000000, 255.1238:13800000, 6.21970:0F01048003002F3D0F010480, 4.23921:EC030000, 6.21970:0F0104800B003A6603009480, 4.3010:0F010480, 4.3010:0F010480, 4.3650:0F010480, 4.23921:EC030000, 6.21970:0F0104800300C4660F010480, 4.23921:EC030000, 6.21970:0F0104800201E13F02011667, 4.23921:EC030000, 6.21970:0F010480030060670F010480, 0.22086:40001500, 0.26000:0F010480, 4.4580:05000780, 0.26640:0F010480, 4.4408:05000780, 4.7637:D8040000, 0.49797:03002B0E, 4.5093:D6040000, 4.5318:D6040000, 4.10104:D6040000, 0.57449:0B001630, 4.6025:05000780, 4.5257:05000780, 4.4606:D6040000, 255.1750:00000000, 0.26849:2D000000, 255.21817:D6040000 ##

Hi all,

Here is the situation, I have a coexistence environment (2003 & 2010) I had to recover our exchange 2010, fortunately none of my users mailboxes were sitting on it since it was just installed couple days before. nevertheless the HD crashed and I just had to reinstall exchange on the same server using our media  (Setup /m:recoverserver). it went through all the steps COMPLETED no error.

Now when I open EMC I can see under Organization Configuration (Mailbox database 010101 and Public folder database 010101) but they are both dismounted.

when I tried to mount the mailbox database I go this:

a window pop up with this message:

"At least one of this store's database files is missing. Mounting this store will force the creation of an empty database. Do not take this action if you intend to restore an earlier backup. Are you sure you want to continue?"

I clicked Yes and then I get this:

Error:

Couldn't mount the database that you specified. Specified database: Mailbox
Database xxxx; Error code: An Active Manager operation failed with a transient
error. Please retry the operation. Error: Database action failed with transient
error. Error: A transient error occurred during a database operation. Error: An
error occurred while preparing to mount database 'Mailbox Database xxxx '.
Error: An I/O error occurred while attempting to enumerate log files. Error 0x3
(The system cannot find the path specified) from Windows API 'FindFirstFile'.
[Database: Mailbox Database xxxx , Server: mailserver.contoso.com

I checked under 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Mailbox\  there is no database, only 2 folders (Address and MDBTEMP)  MDBTEMP is actually empty).

since everybody still under 2003 database, that was not a big issue, but how can I get this resolved?

it seems to me, exchange can see the databases but they are not physically present.

I also Checked with adsiedit if there's a exchange server with that name installed and the databases. and YES there are both showing.

Help.

Thanks,

We are in the testing stages of migrating from EX2010SP1 on-prem to O365.

The first test users have been migrated.  They show up in the EMC under Mail Contact as "Mail User".  Other users still on-prem cannot find the migrated users in the GAL now.

Doing a get-globaladdresslist shows a blank recipientfilter.

I tried exporting the GAL but since the recipient filter is null it would not export.

The "Hide from address list" box is unchecked on all of these accounts.

Any ideas?  Thanks.