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Filter Exchange SMTP logfile before decommission using PowerShell

by Admin | Feb 23, 2019 | Exchange, Office 365 | 0 comments

All Exchange admins have been there. You have moved all your mailboxes and want to decommission the server but before you uninstall, you check the SMTP logfile (for Exchange 2010, that is \Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange...

Mailbox size and Quota useful PowerShell commands for Exchange

by Admin | Sep 25, 2013 | Exchange | 3 comments

I often need to get statistics and check mailbox sizes and quotas and here are some useful notes and examples that I often cut’n’paste instead of re-inventing them: Get top list of big mailboxes, sorted by size: Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited |...

Public Folder alternatives but NOT Sharepoint and NOT Exchange 2013

by Admin | Aug 7, 2013 | Exchange | 0 comments

In this article I explained how you can inventory and hopefully get rid of many Public Folders. But you probably end up with a couple that’s actually being used. What to do with them if you want to dismount and remove that last Public Folder database? Microsoft...

Delegate (RBAC) Exchange 2010 based on OU and/or Database

by Admin | Jul 28, 2013 | Exchange | 0 comments

See my other post if you want a basic introduction to RBAC. In this post you will learn how to scope UK admins so they can manage only users in “their” OU and “their” Exchange database. Sure, you could just scope on OU, but then an admin would...

Exchange 2010 SP2+RU3 cause “User setting ‘PreferredSite’ is not available”

by Admin | Jul 25, 2013 | Exchange | 0 comments

Just ran into this when upgrading Exchange 2010 CAS-servers to SP2 + RU3 (yeah, SP3 is available and it might be fixed there…) and couldn’t find many other posts regarding it and thought I’d let you know. After the upgrade (and reboot), my CAS...

Mailbox move on E2010 SP2 RU3 with “Warning: Failed to clean up the source mailbox after the move”

by Admin | Jan 7, 2013 | Exchange | 0 comments

I started getting the following problem when moving mailboxes, even within the same server but between databases: Warning: Failed to clean up the source mailbox after the move. Error details: MapiExceptionUnexpectedMailboxState: Unable to delete mailbox....
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