Year: 2014

Symptoms: When you try to expand public folder management console you get an error as given below:   No existing ‘PublicFolder’ matches the following Identity. ‘\’.  Make sure that you specified the correct ‘PublicFolder’ Identity and that you have the necessary permissions to view ‘PublicFolder’ Cause: This issue can occur if the admin account is…

  I was recently working with one of my customer and he had issues while performing discovery search. He was typically getting a 404 error while performing search. Customer was trying to perform a query and export data to a .pst.   Error as given below: Digging more into it and found customer was using…

I was working with one of my customer last week. He had a strange issue where all mailboxes for DB01 was in disconnected state. While verifying HomeMDB for these disconnected mailbox found it was missing along with few other Exchange attributes. Almost 1800+ users were impacted. Also realized 70+ AD accounts were in disabled state….

Before removing the last legacy Exchange server from the organization during an Exchange Server 2007 or 2010 transition you should move the Public Folder hierarchy from the Exchange 2003 Administrative Group to the Exchange 2007 or 2010 Administrative Group.     Right-click the Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT) and choose New -> Public Folders Container.     Now simply drag the Public…

Unbale to send mails to mail enable Public folder after migrating from legacy exchange server to Exchange 2010. Most of the time we disable these mail enabled PF and delete the object in ADUC and re-enable them. In case of thousands of PF it’s really hard to perform these steps for each and every mail…

When the EMC (exchange management console) is launched, it returns the following error: ——————————————————– Microsoft Exchange Warning ——————————————————– The following warning(s) were reported while loading topology information: get-PublicFolderDatabase Completed Warning: Object EX01\First Storage Group\Public Folder Database has been corrupted and it is in an inconsistent state. The following validation errors have occurred: Warning: PublicFolderHierarchy is…

The Windows Installer Cache, located in c:\windows\installer folder, is used to store important files for applications installed using the Windows Installer technology and should not be deleted. Same statement applicable for Exchange server and other hosted application. If the installer cache has been compromised, you may not immediately see problems until you perform an action such as uninstall,…

I worked on a case today which had 2 Exchange 2010 servers in a DAG with about 5 mailboxes databases, all in healthy status. All but one that is. This DataBaseCopy just would not come back into sync and was stuck in the eternal Resynchronizing loop. First thing you would want to do is to get a…

Hi All, You can find Microsoft product lifecycle in bellow link/URL: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&alpha=exchange+server+2010+&Filter=FilterSP&spdate=3 Thank you, Mukut-

  Lists all user display name and mailbox size in KB for individual database:    Example database name in below script is DB02.  $a=0 get-mailbox -Database db02 | Get-MailboxStatistics | %{ $_.DisplayName.ToString()+"     "+ ($_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToKB()+$_.TotalDeletedItemSize.Value.ToKB()) $a+=($_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToKB()+$_.TotalDeletedItemSize.Value.ToKB()) }     Lists all user display name and mailbox size in KB for entire organization:     $a=0 get-mailbox…