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Tag: Mailbox Replication Service

  • Batching Exchange 2010 mailbox moves

    My post from November 22 about clearing mailbox move requests prompted some questions about auto suspending moves. This is new functionality introduced in Exchange 2010 as all mailbox moves performed in earlier versions occur synchronously. In other words, an administrator decides to move a selected mailbox and the chosen management…

  • Clearing out mailbox move requests

    After you’ve run Exchange 2010 for a while, you’ve probably moved a few mailboxes around and have accumulated some completed mailbox move requests. When it begins to move a mailbox, the Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) stamps the user object for the mailbox with six attributes that it uses to indicate…

  • Exchange 2010 problems due to insufficient access to Active Directory

    Like every version since Exchange 2000, Exchange 2010 has a huge dependency on Active Directory. Essentially, if you don’t deploy and manage Active Directory in the right way, you have little or no chance of being successful with an Exchange 2010 deployment. If you disbelieve me, simply break out the…

  • Accessing Exchange 2010 mailbox move history data

    By default, the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) keeps the last two logs for moves performed on a mailbox.  Each log occupies approximately 300KB and, if desired, you can increase the number of logs that MRS keeps by editing its configuration file (MSExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config), which is kept in the Exchange…