I’ve been doing some archive database moves for a client and started running into an issue where a few of the moves would fail, while a majority of the rest would run OK. Looking...
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It’s Official!
After spending most of the Memorial Day weekend studying, I knocked out my 70-417 (Upgrading MCSA to 2013) and my 70-342 (Advanced Solutions on Exchange 2013), getting over a 900 on both, and earning...
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Dynamic Distribution Groups based on user’s home database
With some recent Exchange database consolidation at a client, one of the requirements came up from the CIO to have a way for the company’s communications department to notify people effected by a certain...
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Excluding Domain Controllers in Exchange 2010
Update 5/31/2013: DO NOT PUT YOUR LIST IN QUOTES! Putting the list of domain controllers within quotes causes Exchange to view that item as a single name, versus parsing out at the commas. I’ve...
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Integrating Exchange 2013 + Lync 2013 for UCS & OWA integration
Update 7/13/2015 – Two and half years after the original post and finally some updates! I have had a chance to fully patch my environment to the latest updates for Exchange and Lync 2013....
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Exchange 2013 Liftoff! Part 1 – Installation
Just this past week, Exchange 2013 has been RTM’d (Released to Manufacturing)! We’re still a few months away before the general public can start their installs, possibly longer for migrations since we’re waiting for...
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Exchange 2013 Liftoff! Part 1.5, Installation Troubleshooting
Updated 4/9/2014 with additional information to hopefully help you Now Microsoft has made the Exchange 2013 setup is pretty easy, but what happens when you run into problems? There are a myriad of different...
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Getting Mailbox Statistics from a select group of users
I’m working a project where they’re targeting a pilot group of users for mailbox quota information, and I was requested to put together a Powershell command that allowed them to put together a list...
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Can’t create/mount a new Exchange 2010 database in a multi domain environment
This morning I went to create a new database on Exchange 2010 server in a client’s new server environment, and when I did it failed to mount due to the following error. Error: Couldn’t...
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Restoring a deleted Exchange 2010 mailbox from PowerShell
In our hosted Exchange 2010 SP1 environment we have to administer the environment via PowerShell, versus using the traditional Exchange Management Console (EMC) – one of the lovely limitations of using /hosting mode. Surprisingly,...
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