This is a new feature which has been introduced in Exchange 2010 RTM. This feature keeps the track when a user or Administrator make any changes to the Exchange organization, Server configuration or Recipient. This can be helpful to trace following information. 1- Who has made the Change 2- What Changes have been made 3- [...]

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 [...]

Today I would like to discuss my recent experience with Microsoft exchange VSS writer. Recently I encountered issue with VSS backup for exchange 2010 server and during troubleshooting I learnt something new. Here are my environment details: 1 Domain controller DC/GC/DNS 1 Exchange 2010 SP1 MBX + Hub transport server 1 Exchange 2010 SP1 CAS [...]

 In Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007, We had to use pfdavadmin to assign permissions centrally on user’s calendar or any other folder. For few users we used to open up mailbox and assign calendar permissions.  In Exchange 2010 we have a new feature call Mailbox folder permission. This enables you to "manage folder-level permissions for all [...]