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Useful Exchange Recovery Commands

November 5, 2022June 19, 2011 by Tristan Self

Some useful Exchange recovery commands for when the sky has fallen, and you don’t have a working backup.

Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 Mailbox Move Fails with “Error: Property Expression Isn’t Valid

November 5, 2022June 16, 2011 by Tristan Self

We were moving our mailbox from our old Exchange 2003 server to a new Exchange 2010 server, we moved the vast majority of people no problems, however there were about 10 or so users who we had this error with. Problem: “Property expression <blah> isn’t valid. Valid values are: …..” Now the user’s mailbox on … Read more

Delays to outgoing messages from Exchange 2003 using Postfix MTA

November 5, 2022June 13, 2011 by Tristan Self

Was getting the problem that mails were being delayed from Exchange when sending outbound via a Postfix SMTP relay. After much work to try to determine the issue, I discovered that the Postfix server was responding with 400 errors for domains that did not exist or for domains that didn’t even have MX records. I … Read more

Mail Delivery Problem to Another Internal Exchange Server

November 5, 2022June 12, 2011 by Tristan Self

Setting up a second exchange server in the same routing group, all installed fine, however, after moving a mailbox to the new server and then sending an email to the mailbox, the mail got stuck in the queue on the first server. Checked the common things like DNS, firewall ports etc. all looked fine. But … Read more

Finding email addresses on an object in Active Directory

November 5, 2022June 12, 2011 by Tristan Self

You can find a duplicate email address, by using Active Directory Users and Computers, then following this procedure: To search for a duplicate address do the following: Open Active Directory Users and Computers. Right click on your domain name and click on the “find” option. Then choose “custom search”. Then click on the “Advanced” tab. … Read more

Exchange 2003 SP2 – Event ID 1159 (and others)

November 5, 2022June 12, 2011 by Tristan Self

I came into work this morning to a downed Exchange storage group and mail store. In the event log just after the backup ran i saw these string of events in the event log on the Exchange server. <em>Event Type: Error Event Source: ESE Event Category: General Event ID: 482 Date: 27/10/2010 Time: 21:00:34 User: … Read more