A Treasure Trove of Technology Tidbits
As you probably already know, removing the Exchange 2003 Server from your domain requires you to local with administrative rights and use the “Add or Remove Programs” feature within the “Control Panel”. As a reminder, the steps are as follows. Bootup the old Exchange Server and login. Open Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs. […]
Today, I would like to talk about the Exchange 2010 Offline Address Book (OAB). By default Exchange 2010 installs will have all versions of the OAB client support enabled. Version 2 supports Outlook 98 SP1 and earlier clients. Version 3 supports Outlook 98 SP2, all Outlook 2010, and Outlook 2003 SP1. Version 4, which is […]
Storage quotas for email accounts have been available for a long time, but many administrators still fail to use them. One reason given is that management will be affected negatively by storage limits and thus will not approve their implementation. But, this excuse is flawed, as not every user has to have the same storage […]
The final step to getting Exchange 2010 implemented is to remove remnants of the old email services from the domain. It is a very bad idea to simply format the old servers! Rather, the decommissioning process involves uninstalling the old services from the old servers and only then re-using or scrapping the old servers. Here […]
Some companies, for instance for litigation purposes, end up with a long list of disabled (but not deleted) mailboxes. Sometimes, for instance when a co-op returns from college, one of these disabled mailboxes needs to be re-enabled. At one company I recently visited, the scenario was that they had disabled a mailbox in Exchange 2003, […]
So, this week I was helping a customer transition from Exchange to Office365. The implementation included Microsoft Lync features as well as email. We were looking for the key parameters to alter in order to make the transition. After digging about on the Microsoft website, I came across this very useful information. Refer to the […]
If you have just installed Exchange 2010 Server, you will notice that it hounds you until you have licensed the server. What I find most aggravating is that the popup that reminds you the server needs licensing does not bother to provide a link, or any information about how to enter the product keys. So, […]
When migrating user mailboxes from Exchange 2007 to 2010, you can either use the Exchange Management Console (EMC) or the Exchange Management Shell. However, when moving from 2003 to 2010, you are supposed to specifically use the shell. For more information, you can link to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638187.aspx which goes into the details. Calendar items seem to […]
By default, Exchange 2010 requires that users login with their fully qualified domain credentials. So, for instance, mycompany\julia instead of just using the login name. For many installations, there is only one Windows domain, and requiring the domain name to be entered is a little silly. How do you assume the domain so that users […]
