Recently i got a chance to work on following issues. I would like to share basic information about password change feature and then how we fixed this issue. This feature is really helpful when user password has expired and he is not connected to domain and wants to change his password by himself. Users are unable to [...]

Recently we encountered an issue “User was unable to change his password using owa because user account shows as resource forest user account.” Here is my environment details. Account Forest – Wipro.com Resource Forest – ATT.com. Recipient type details – Linked Mailbox I have user accounts in Wipro.com domain and linked mailboxes in ATT.com domain. [...]

Recently I encountered an issue with the offline address book. During the course of troubleshooting we found our one CAS server was unable to pull the OAB file from mailbox server. Tried to run the following command it failed with warning. Update-FiledistributionService -Type OAB -identity CAS2001 Warning: ”One or more synchronization tasks failed. Please check the [...]

Following steps explain how to manually uninstall Exchange Server from a computer without removing Active Directory Information of the Exchange Server Please note: Microsoft does not officially support Manual Removal of Exchange Server 2007 unlike earlier versions – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927464 Following steps are based on best efforts support   1. Open registry editor & navigate to [...]

This permission was introduced in Exchange 2000 and provides the capability of "administering an information store". That's a pretty non-specific permission, but that's what all the available Microsoft documentation says about it. See, for example, here Unfortunately, there is no available public documentation that fully defines this permission and/or what capabilities it may allow. I [...]

As of April 10, 2012, Exchange 2007 has entered the Extended Support phase of our Support Lifecycle.This means going forward Microsoft will provide only security fixes for it. No Hotfixes will be provided unless there is an Extended Hotfix Agreement (the only exception is if changes are needed for support of Exchange 15 which will support Exchange 2007 [...]

Today we are going to see how we can user Procdump to generate dump in differente scenarios. With the help of Procdump we have the ability to generate dumps based on performance counter values.  Advantages over adplus: 1.       No need to install Debugging tools for Windows 2.       Light (approx. 300kb) instead of large Debugging tools [...]

Microsoft has announced Exchange Client Bandwidth Calculator Beta is available for download!!! This new calculator is based on all new prediction data and is designed to work with both Exchange on-premises and Office 365 deployments! What does it do? The brief was concise and simple for this calculator; we wanted to be able to predict [...]

Microsoft has released the Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool (OCAT). OCAT was developed by two Microsoft support engineers with over 30 years of combined experience in Outlook, Exchange and Office support. Based on their support experience, they compiled a set of detection rules that look for Outlook configurations that have historically been potential sources of problems [...]