Tag: Exchange
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Mailbox moves and error no. c1034ad6
We have been moving mailboxes to a new Equallogic iSCSI SAN volume. The old information store is almost empty, except for one mailbox that did not get removed at the end of the move. It was sitting there with a red “X”. When we tried to delete it we received the error: The Operation cannot…
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Verify if a Recipient Policy is being applied to a user
We use the excellent Dell EMS Email Continuity product. It is fantastic. All our mail is replicated (via an SMTP sink and vaultbox) to their data center. In the event of and outage, our mail will route to their system, and they provide a way for the mail to be delivered to the user. One of the benefits, is that…
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My adventures in Exchange Log Replaying.
I wanted to restore our exchange environment in an off line VM. One of my goals was to take an information store and mount it – just to prove that I can access the data. At our off site business continuity location, we have a Double-Take replica of our production Exchange 2003 server, including replicas of all our information…
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Exchange 2010 SP1 and New-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup
I was progressing along on with my offline Exchange install, and I ran into a problem when creating my Database Availability Group (DAG). I wanted to put the witness directory on a non exchange server and the instructions say: If the witness server you specify isn’t an Exchange 2010 server, you must add the Exchange Trusted Subsystem universal security group to the local Administrators group…
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My offline Exchange 2010 install script
As I mentioned in my previos two posts, I am creating an offline replica of our Windows environment in order to test migrating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. Now that I had a replica of our Exchange 2003 server running, I wanted to add a new Exchange 2010 box. I already had a SCCM OSD with…
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Creating an offline replica of our Windows Environment-Part 2
In part one I setup an offline DC with DHCP, DNS, AND and a Windows 7 VM. Next I wanted to create a copy of our exchange server offline. Easy, right? Just install exchange 2003 with DisasterRecovery mode (setup.exe /DisasterRecovery). Easy. That is when the fun started. I brought up one VM with Server 2003 R2 Enterprise,…
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Creating an offline replica of our Windows Environment-Part 1
I am working on my new project, upgrading our Exchange 2003 environment to Exchange 2010. I wanted to create an off line replica of our current environemnet. This is how I set about doing that Before I started, I created a new workstation – Windows 7 on our ESX server. This machine is joined to the domain,…