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  • Exchange 2013 workload management controls how the Mailbox Replication service uses system resources

    One of the more important changes for the Mailbox Replication service (MRS) in Exchange 2013 that I discovered when researching content for “Microsoft Exchange 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability” is how the function of the MRS configuration file has changed. As you might recall from the steps taken to…

  • Automatic mailbox move requests in Exchange 2013

    Soon after writing about the need to clean out lingering mailbox move requests for Exchange 2010, I requested the developers to add the ability to remove move requests automatically after a certain period. After all, it’s a royal pain to find that you can’t move a mailbox just because an ancient move…

  • GAMME – an unfortunate name for Google’s new migration utility

    I know (because I have visited the Dublin Googleplex several times) that Google employs several thousand people in Ireland. Couldn’t one of them have looked at the acronym for their new Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange (GAMME) service and raised a red flag that perhaps a second meaning can…

  • What caused the crippling of Exchange 2013 modern public folders?

    Now that the initial fuss about the limitations that recently emerged for Exchange 2013’s modern public folders has subsided (but just a little), cooler minds turn to thinking about why these limitations exist. After all, there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason why the limitations should kick in…

  • Exchange Unwashed blog digest October 2013

    October began with the Exchange Connections conference in Las Vegas and ended with some thoughts on whether to go to TechEd or MEC next year. In between, I contemplated some of the questions raised by attendees at Exchange Connections as well as some thoughts that came up in my own…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest August 2012

    Another month has gone by so here’s the digest listing of posts to my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. After a year or so of posting to WindowsITPro, I’ve settled into a routine of publication every Tuesday and Thursday. Given the imminent arrival of Exchange 2013, I’m trying to split…

  • How curious! Outlook 2003 can’t read Exchange 2010 PSTs

    Microsoft has released KB2742408 to report that Outlook 2003 clients can’t read PSTs generated by Exchange 2010’s New-MailboxExportRequest cmdlet. This is kind of curious, if understandable. New-MailboxExportRequest is processed by the Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) running on a CAS server. It creates a PST in the newer Unicode format (rather than the older…

  • Moving a database between DAGs

    A recent email discussion between MVPs focused on a topic that I totally missed in my Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out book (also available at Amazon.co.uk), so think of this as an update to chapter 7. The problem arises after you set up a Database Availability Group (DAG) with mailbox servers and…

  • Exchange 2010, mailbox imports, and LocalSystem

    Anything posted on the Internet has a reasonably long half-life, a fact that I was reminded of when I researched some information about the Windows LocalSystem account and discovered an article that I wrote for Windows IT Pro magazine about Exchange 2000. In a nutshell, the article discussed a major…

  • Does a suspended mailbox move request expire?

    A discussion on this point recently took place via the Exchange MVP mailing list. It doesn’t contain anything secret and I think it’s worth documenting for the benefit of others, so here goes… As you might know from this post or other sources, you can ask the Mailbox Replication Service…