January, 2012
Microsoft Releases PST Capture Tool
PST Capture helps you search your network to discover and then import .pst files across your environment – all from a straightforward admin-driven tool. PST Capture will help reduce risk while increasing productivity for your users by importing .pst files into Exchange Online or Exchange Server 2010 – directly into users' primary mailboxes or archives. [...]
Exchange Server 2007 SP3 Roll Up 6 Released
Exchange Server 2007 SP3 Roll Up 6 Released Last Week Microsoft released Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 to the Download Center. This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of RU5. See KB 2608656: Description of Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3′ [...]
Email Formatting Issue with iPad / iPhone with ActiveSync when Disclaimer is added
Email Formatting Issue with iPad / iPhone with ActiveSync when Disclaimer is added Users with iPad & iPhone started to complain of the formatting issue of their emails when a disclaimer was added to the email. I use Trend Micro IMSS in the enviornment for stamping the disclaimers. We noticed that whenever a disclaimer was [...]
Convert Public Folder Calendar to “Room Mailbox” in Exchange Server 2007
Convert Public Folder Calendar to “Room Mailbox” in Exchange Server 2007 There is no native way to convert public folder calendars into resource mailbox. We can follow below steps to export calendar items from public folder calendar and import it into resource mailbox calendar using Outlook 2003 SP2. Note: – We are not using Outlook [...]
W3WP.exe process consuming 100% CPU on Exchange CAS Server
This one took one full day but was worth spending this much time at the end. one of my CAS server was at 100% CPU & was causing my iPAD users to sync emails extremely slow. as a troubleshooting step, I stopped ActiveSync App pool on the CAS server & saw the CPU usage came [...]
Using Logparser with IIS logs to filter connection statistics for Exchange Server
Often we need to get statistics of connection types of users connecting to Exchange. Logparser provides a very easy way to get a detailed statistics of connection types based on IIS logs. This is where you can download Logparser (for free): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=890cd06b-abf8-4c25-91b2-f8d975cf8c07&displaylang=en we can use following queries to get a detailed list of [...]
Blackberry Enterprise Activation Demystified
I have been involved with a lot of BES activation issues for my customers & have a few notes that I turned into the attached document for a ready reference. This document not only discusses the complete process but also lists common error & the KB article numbers to resolve these issues. I [...]
Extracting Distribution List information in Exchange
This was due for quite some time, & I spent good two days for this. keeping it short , here is a Script that extracts all DL's ( including Query based), their DL managers, number of members & the restriction if any on the DL's .needless to say this was one of the task I loved [...]
Why does PrepareAd create New groups Eg: Exchange Servers1
Why does PrepareAd create new groups with suffix 1 Eg: Exchange Server (1)? Recently one of my client asked me why does Setup.com /PrepareAd create new groups with suffix 1 Eg: Exchange Servers1 or Exchange Recipient Administrators1. I did research on that and came to know something new so thought to share that. Before [...]
Distribution List displayed as User Mailbox
Distribution List displayed as User Mailbox in Exchange Management Console!!! Recently I encountered an issue where my all distribution list displayed as user mailbox in exchange management console. When I tried to check the recipient type details in exchange management shell I got the same result. So I figured out why this was and [...]