The ramblings of a computer geek
While doing some housekeeping on an Exchange 2010 server, I needed to delete a mailbox database but couldn’t getting the error shown below: PROBLEM: The mailbox database ‘Mailbox Database 2 G-L’ cannot be deleted. Mailbox Database 2 G-L Failed Error:This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, or arbitration mailboxes. To … Read more
A colleague had a problem when attempting a restore a mailbox, this error was generated: Error: MapiExceptionInvalidParameter: Unable to modify table. (hr=0x80070057, ec=-2147024809) Diagnostic context: Lid: 55847 EMSMDBPOOL.EcPoolSessionDoRpc called [length=228] Lid: 43559 EMSMDBPOOL.EcPoolSessionDoRpc returned [ec=0x0][length=348][latency=15] Lid: 23226 — ROP Parse Start — Lid: 27962 ROP: ropModifyRules [65] Lid: 17082 ROP Error: 0x80070057 Lid: 27745 Lid: … Read more
You’ll probably find yourself using the message tracking logs to find if an email has gone missing. But what should a normal working mail transaction look like? Well below shows it, where the mailboxes are stored on the same server. EventId Source Sender Recipients MessageSubject NOTIFY STOREDRIVER {} RECEIVE STOREDRIVER fred@sender.com {bob@receive.com} Hello! SUBMIT STOREDRIVER … Read more
In Exchange 2013 you can set an email to be put in the user’s Junk E-Mail folder based on if you think it is SPAM or not. This doesn’t use the Exchange built in spam filtering, it assumes you have a spam filter external to your Exchange environment that can tag an email that it … Read more
I needed to have an automated way to bulk import a load of PST files into Exchange 2013. In my case all the files were named as follows: samAccountName@domain.co.uk so for example: fred.bloggs@thingy.co.uk.pst You can run this command from an Exchange PowerShell console, bear in mind that you’ll need to change your domain name on … Read more
If you’re like us you still have old legacy applications that use POP3 for various things. On Exchange 2013 the way POP3 works has changed slightly. Now you access a POP3 mailbox via the CAS servers that proxy you to the mailbox on the Mailbox role server(s). Our application only supports plain text authentication, but … Read more
There’s some basic tasks which are good to automate, to save you some time, you can configure them to run as a scheduled task. First step is to create a user account to run the scripts, this account should have access to change Exchange and change Active Directory, lets call the account: exchangeserviceuser. To run … Read more
In Exchange 2013 the message tracking log viewer has gone, you need to view the tracking logs from PowerShell. Here’s a basic command to make that happen: Okay this shows you the logs from a particular sender to a particular recipient and shows it in the GridView, this is a nice GUI type view with … Read more
After a successful Exchange 2013 migration, the old exchange 2010 object was left behind. When opening Exchange 2013 EAC under the “Servers” option, “Servers” tab, you can see it listed as a “provisioned server”. For some reason this is not removed from AD automatically when Exchange 2010 is uninstalled from the server, so you need … Read more
I’m in the middle of a migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 at the moment. All was going well until I repointed the DNS records to the Exchange 2013 CAS servers. In Exchange 2013 all client connectivity is now made using RPC over HTTPS (a.k.a Outlook Anywhere) unlike Exchange 2010 where only external clients … Read more