Thanks to Mr Proactive of TechNet Blogs for the great list!

After you have determined the design you would like to implement, you can follow the steps in the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Design Example article within the Exchange 2010 Online Help to calculate your solution’s CPU, memory, and storage requirements, or you can leverage the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator.

There is a giant article that explains the whole thing, check it out here. You can go straight to the downloads section as well, the calculator will be the first in the list.

The specified e-mail address policy couldn’t be edited. E-mail address policies with legacy versions of Exchange must be upgraded using the “Set-EmailAddressPolicy” task with the Exchange 2010 filter specified.

What this means is that you havent upgraded you Default Policy after migration from Exchange 2003. You need to upgrade the policies, run the following command from the Exchange Management Shell:

Get-EmailAddressPolicy | where {$_.RecipientFilterType –eq “Legacy”} | Set-EmailAddressPolicy –IncludedRecipients AllRecipients

This example returns the statistics for the public folder Marketing with a piped command to format the list.

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Get-PublicFolderStatistics -Identity \Marketing | fl

Note:
The value for the Identity parameter must include the path. For example, if the public folder Marketing existed under the parent folder Business, you would provide the following value: \Business\Marketing

Using the following commands and comparing to Exchange 2003/2007 you can make sure that each of the folders are replicated fully.

Of all the migration tasks in Exchange, Public Folders take the most amount of time!

Good Luck
-NS

‘The following error occurred when searching for On-Premises Exchange server:[myservername.local] Processing data from remote server failed with the following error message: The user “domain\username” isn’t assigned to any management roles. For more…. It was running “Discover-ExchangeServer – USeWIA $true -SupressError $true’

Now the reason this would happen, is if you are not a member of “Organization Management”, and this happens mainly if you were not the person that did the Exchange 2010 install. ie. Exchange 2010 was installed with a different userid.

All you have to do is add the proper userid’s to the “Organization Management” Group and you will be good to go.

The following new features for high availability and improvements to existing high availability features are available in Exchange Server 2010 SP1:

Continuous replication – block mode
Active mailbox database redistribution
Improved Outlook cross-site connection behavior and experience
Enhanced datacenter activation coordination support
New and enhanced management and monitoring scripts
Improvements in failover performance

These features are discussed in greater detail in this blog post. But more general details about Exchange Server 2010 SP1 can be found here on Microsoft’s official blog.

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Giving your users the ability to store more e-mail has many advantages. Large mailboxes keep e-mail on the Exchange Server instead of allowing it to be scattered in Outlook Data Files (.PST files). That helps reduce the risk of data loss, improve regulatory compliance, and increase productivity among both workers and IT staff. The main barrier to implementing large mailboxes is the perceived cost and complexity of storing large amounts of e-mail data. Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 is specifically designed to overcome these barriers. This paper discusses how Exchange 2010 enables you to give users large mailboxes without breaking your budget.

Enhanced VMware vSphere 4.0 Support
Integrated backup and deduplication support for both online and offline VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 and vSphere 4.0 – plus new first-to-market virtual application protection for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and Active Directory. Now from a single-pass backup, administrators will also experience automated Log Truncation of a virtual machine applications. From that single backup, administrators can then easily recover either the virtual machine or granular application data such as Exchange mailboxes, messages, calendar items or individual Active Directory user accounts or objects

First-to-market granular recovery for applications
Rapid Exchange and Active Directory backup and recovery
Eliminate redundant backups and recover data in minutes
Protect the latest VMware vSphere environments
Deduplicate virtual server backups
Reduce and consolidate storage

Windows 7, Exchange 2010 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Support
Comprehensive protection for the latest Windows desktop, email and server environments. Get the latest backup support for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 including VSS Express Writers, plus redirected restore support to .VHD files for simple protection of virtual disk data alongside of traditional physical disk data. Integrated Exchange 2010 support for the new Database Availability Group (DAG) in Exchange 2010 and enhanced granular recovery support provides fast recovery of individual email and mailboxes while eliminating the need to perform an additional mailbox-level backup.

Backup the latest Windows desktop and server and email application environments with ease
Easily meet your recovery point objectives for Exchange with unmatched backup technology
Reduce your Exchange 2010 backup requirements
Manage your desktop and server backups through a single console

Check out the full article here.

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But what about Exchange 2010? Will a similar plug-in be available with this Exchange Server version, which is nearing RTM? The answer is yes. And in fact this is exactly what I am going to cover in this article. So sit back and grab a nice cup of fresh coffee and carry on reading.

Check out the article here.

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Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService.MailboxReplicationTransientException: Exception details: MailboxReplicationTransientException (80040111): Mailbox database ‘a0dd10be-fa72-47bd-afb4-0bf3ce7175e’ is offline

I went to Exchange System Management on the Exchange 2003 Server and right clicked on the First Storage Group\Mailbox Store; Security Tab; then added a Computer Object(EXG01) and gave it Full Control… I was then able to use Exchange Server 2010 to utilize the “New Local Move Request” to the Exchange 2010 Database…

How did i figure this out? I found this link to Social.Technet.Microsoft.com and based on former user posts, figured out the solution… i also posted the answer there

I was the able to login to OutlookWebApp and check my mail…

Hope this helps out some people!

-NS