Category: Exchange 2013
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Fixing a “FailedAndSuspended” content index for an Exchange 2013 database
For space reasons, this text is another bit that was cut out of my Exchange 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability book. FWIW, here it is… Imagine my annoyance when I ran the Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus cmdlet on a test Exchange 2013 server and found that three of the databases reported a “Failed…
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Exchange/Office 365 MVP sessions at Ignite
Many people have asked me to recommend some sessions to go to at Microsoft Ignite (a good planning tool to build your own schedule is available online). With nearly 800 sessions to select from over five days, there’s enough going on to suit every one of the 15,000 or so…
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PowerShell to the rescue to control Exchange 2013 logging
I’m sure that you, like me, pay close attention to Microsoft’s stated requirements to install Exchange 2013. It is, after all, gripping reading of the kind that is guaranteed to lull the reader into a deep sleep within 22 nanoseconds. In short, it’s material that you try and read just…
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Zombie health mailboxes and EAS probes
When I discussed how some corrupt health mailboxes came about following my flattening of an Exchange 2013 server, I called them “zombie mailboxes”, which might have seemed unkind to some. In fact, it’s an accurate reporting of the fact that the Exchange Health Manager service will faithfully recreate two health…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – February 2015
February might be the shortest month but that’s no reason not to have lots to discuss on my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. Here’s what happened during the month – a lot about the new Outlooks apps and Delve, but some other stuff too, including a new estimate for the…
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Corrupt health mailboxes from a flattened Exchange server
I flattened an Exchange 2013 server the other day. I don’t mean that I took the physical computer out into the parking lot and drove a large vehicle over it to reduce the server to so many random bits of metal. Instead, I did what Exchange administrators have done ever…
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Synchronizing the Exchange 2013 public folder hierarchy across public folder mailboxes
For space reasons, this text is another bit that was cut out of my Exchange 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability book. FWIW, here it is… As you’re probably well aware, public folders are scrubbed and polished to become bright, new, and modern in Exchange 2013. Instead of the legacy public…
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Why Exchange 2013 doesn’t need the Microsoft Office Filter Pack
For space reasons, this text is another bit that was cut out of my Exchange 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability book. FWIW, here it is… If you’ve ever installed Exchange 2010, you’re probably aware of the need to install the Microsoft Office Filter Pack 2.0 (the latest version is SP2).…
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Using the Exchange 2013 cmdlet extension agent to populate mailbox settings
For space reasons, this text was cut out of my Exchange 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability book. I only found it again recently, so here it is… Many properties can be set to control exactly how a mailbox functions, but some are more important than others. All mailbox…
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Exchange Unwashed Digest – December 2014
The last month of 2014 provided the time to look back on what’s happened since Microsoft released Exchange 2000 and how well Exchange 2013 has done in the market (acceptance and in terms of the new features). But we also discussed mobile email strategy, the horrible comparison made by Novell…
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