Category Archives: Exchange 2010

Exchange Server Troubleshooting Companion eBook now available

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Tony Redmond

I’ve been spending a lot of time on Office 365 recently, so it was nice to have the opportunity to work on an Exchange on-premises book for a change. I’m delighted to say that MVPs Paul Cunningham and Andrew Higginbotham … Continue reading →

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Exchange’s underappreciated single-page patching capability

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Tony Redmond

I really like single page patching, the facility first introduced in Exchange 2010 to enable a database to detect that a database page is corrupt and to retrieve replacement data from another database copy. It’s one of those elegant pieces of functionality … Continue reading →

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The scourge of autosignatures

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Tony Redmond

Have you ever wondered just how much valuable storage is occupied in email databases by totally useless autosignature content? You know, logos and other tasteful adornments to the bottom of email, repeated ad nausem on every message, internal and external, … Continue reading →

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Write some code and you can influence DAG failovers (for now anyway…)

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Tony Redmond

A recent debate on the Exchange 2013 (unofficial) Facebook group started off with the question “can I built my own failover criteria in a DAG?” and pointed to the TechNet page on Active Manager. The debate began with sheer denials, … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – January 2015

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Tony Redmond

January 2015 proved to be quite a varied month in my Exchange Unwashed blog on WindowsITPro.com.  Everything from technology transfer from the cloud, new mobile clients, some issues I had with Delve, the new Office for Windows, and Azure witness servers, … Continue reading →

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Brick backups and Exchange – not recommended

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Tony Redmond

I was recently asked whether a company should invest in brick-level backup for Exchange 2010. This request came as quite a surprise because I hadn’t run into anyone who was interested in this kind of technology for a number of … Continue reading →

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AQS and KQL: Two query languages for different versions of Exchange

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Exchange 2010 uses AQS (Advanced Search Syntax) to construct its discovery searches. Exchange 2013 takes a difference approach and uses KQL (keyword query language). Why the change? AQS is shared with other Windows search components such as Windows Desktop Search. … Continue reading →

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Using Search-Mailbox to look for items with a specific date

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Tony Redmond

A question from a reader is often a good start to a useful discussion or to probe into a topic. Tim Read contacted me to discuss some problems he had with using the Search-Mailbox cmdlet (available in cloud and on-premises … Continue reading →

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The strange case of the MailboxSentItemsConfiguration cmdlets

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft introduced the rather useful cmdlet set of Set-MailboxSentItemsConfiguration and Get-MailboxSentItemsConfiguration a long time ago (Exchange 2010 SP2 RU4 – August 2012). As you might recall, these cmdlets allow an administrator to exert control over where Exchange stores copies of messages sent by delegates. What’s … Continue reading →

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