Month: June 2014

  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…

I was asked how can we export Public Folder Permission including each nested folder to a CSV or TEXT File before restrict the users? And is there a way to re-assign the same permission to the particular Public Folder in the future?   This is very much achievable. Please follow below solution.     Get-PublicFolderClientPermission:…

We often get the question by customers on how to upgrade CCR cluster successfully. We have a successful way to upgrade is to make life easier while upgrading CCR cluster.   Consider the following conditions when you upgrade to Exchange 2007 SP3:   If you install Exchange 2007 SP3 on a computer that is running…

We often get the question by customers on how to find newly released hotfixes for Cluster. We have 2 Wiki pages that will make life easier for you when looking for hotfixes for Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster. You can also setup an RSS Subscription to the Wiki page so you can the updated Wiki…

  While working with one my customer realized that his exchange 2010 nodes were remove from DAG membership on on VMWare ESX.   Went through two blogs by John Marlin and Kevin Ledman from Core team and it seems really helpful.   Articles to approach the issue:   http://blogs.technet.com/b/supportingwindows/archive/2013/06/03/nodes-being-removed-from-failover-cluster-membership-on-vmware-esx.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/02/08/having-a-problem-with-nodes-being-removed-from-active-failover-cluster-membership.aspx     VMware also has…

Content are taken from various Microsoft blogs and making in sequence::  An Incremental backup of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 database saves changes to the database that have occurred since the last Full or Incremental backup. When all the database files and log files are restored to the system, they can be recovered to the state…

Recently I was working with a customer who migrated from O365 to Exchange 2010. Customer had two forest and they were using Linked Mailbox. They noticed permission for linked mailboxes are getting rest for some users. While working I understood that all impacted and not impacted users are in the same OU in the account…

Few content are taken from Microsoft blogs:   Step by step process of migrating legacy Public folder to Exchange 2013 modern public folder:   Once we know how to configure Modern public folders and want to migrate it from Exchange 2007/2010 Public Folders to Exchange 2013. Here are few documentation on how to do this…

I was working with one of my customer and he had requirement of replacing the installation drive for CCR cluster as it was running out of space. As it was a physical disk he could not add more space in the drive and he decided to replace existing HDD with new HDD with more space/size….

Use Setup /m:RecoverServer to recover a server   Important: In this example we are recovering DAG member MBX1 which has only one database copy DB1.   You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Mailbox database copies" entry in the High Availability Permissions…