Exchange Mailboxes Questions


Moving Exchange Server 2007 Mailboxes
When moving exchange mailboxes from one database to another, do the mailboxes actually get moved or copied?

Answer Question   |  April 23, 2010  2:25 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 administration, Exchange 2007 Mailbox Manager, Exchange Mailboxes
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30 pts.

Disable Mailbox in Exchange 2007
My understanding of Disabling a mailbox in EMC is the active directory user account will stick around and the mailbox will be deleted in x amount of days. Why is the mailbox still deleted (or moved to “disconnected”) when you “disable” it? On the flip side, “Removing” from EMC will delete the AD user account and [...]

Answer Question   |  December 11, 2010  10:57 PM
Active Directory, Exchange 2007, Exchange Mailboxes
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35 pts.

How can Systems Center help with uptime, availability and performance of SQL Server instances and Exchange mailbox servers?
We are particularly concerned with the uptime, availability, and performance of SQL Server instances and our Exchange Mailbox Servers. How can Systems Center help me with this? This question was asked during the Microsoft System Center live chat on IT Knowledge Exchange in January 2010.

Answer Question   |  March 2, 2010  4:18 PM
Exchange Mailboxes, Exchange Server, Microsoft System Center, SQL Server, System Center
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16,755 pts.

Accessing a hidden mailbox – Exchange 2007
How can I access a hidden mailbox when it is hidden from the GAL?

Answer Question   |  January 11, 2010  7:54 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange Mailboxes, GAL, Global Address Lists
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15 pts.

Exchange 2007
How to move than 5 Mailbox from exchange 2007  in on one  process do we need to any registry changes ? because default is 5 if more than 5 how is it?

Answer Question   |  November 19, 2009  9:18 AM
Exchange 2007, Exchange Mailbox Migration, Exchange Mailboxes, Exchange migration
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10 pts.

redirect exchnage mailbox
Hi How can I store 1 exchnage mail box to any other location .A exchnage user want to recieve around 100 mail s per day and other users want to see thi emails through OWA .So my exhcnage server Disk space is very low .How can I redirect thi users mail box to any other [...]

Answer Question   |  October 30, 2009  6:49 AM
Exchange 2003, Exchange mailbox store, Exchange Mailboxes, Outlook Web Access, OWA
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1,675 pts.

Exchange bulk mailbox creations
How can i create 500 mail boxes at a time from my existing datalist I have a 500 mail list with all required fields, from the data list (ex:mail.xls) can i create 500 mailboxes at a time using any commands or etc..

Answer Question   |  October 19, 2009  11:06 AM
Exchange 2007, Exchange mailbox management, Exchange Mailboxes
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40 pts.

How to purge deleted mailboxes in Exchange 2007?
How to purge deleted mailboxes in Exchange 2007?

Answer Question   |  October 1, 2009  5:06 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange Mailboxes
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16,755 pts.

Shared mailbox permissions
Can i allow multiple users to access a shared mailbox, but only with read or view onlu rights. We have shared mailboxes that 3 or 4 users have full rights over. to allow them to pull in that shared mailbox into their own outlook profile. can i limit their access to only view, or read. [...]

Answer Question   |  July 30, 2009  5:53 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 shared mailboxes, Exchange Mailboxes, Exchange permissions, Exchange Shared Mailboxes
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5 pts.

Exchange mailbox exceeding the maximum of 500 objects
We have a mailbox that is used by one of our departments that has a lot of folders and saved emails. I have allowed 4 users to view this large mailbox from within their own mailbox. When they open their mailboxes it generates an event id 9646. I understand that there are to many objects [...]

Answer Question   |  July 14, 2009  12:36 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 administration, Exchange mailbox management, Exchange Mailboxes, Exchange storage
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40 pts.

Share one mailbox with many
We use internet faxing that comes to a general “Fax” mailbox. We would like to share this mailbox with multiple recipients but not copy the emails (as some of these faxes are large.) Sort of like a shared folder where all the faxes will go into one mailbox that multiple users can see and open. [...]

Answer Question   |  May 22, 2009  7:23 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange Mailboxes, Group mailbox
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20 pts.

Exchange 2007-Move Mailbox stalls/hangs
We are migrating from Exchange 2000 to 2007 and have already successfully moved several mailboxes via the Move Mailbox wizard from the Exchange console. However, when we tried to move a user with a 1gb mailbox it hung with a continuing status of: “Opening source mailbox”. After 20 hours we killed the process. Unfortunately at [...]

Answer Question   |  May 15, 2009  8:00 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange Mailbox Migration, Exchange Mailboxes, Exchange migration, Exchange performance
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60 pts.

Exchange 2003 mailbox store
Users are stating that they are getting message that their mailbox is over its limits and cannot send any mail. Unlimited options are set in the mailstore.

Answer Question   |  April 29, 2009  7:06 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 mailbox store, Exchange mailbox store, Exchange Mailboxes
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15 pts.

Exchange 2003 mailbox size
In exchange system manager I drill down to First Storage Group – Mail Box Store() – MAilboxes. I then add up the column Size (KB) and the total is 98G but if I look at the priv1.* and Pub1.* they total about 58G. My boss believes we are out of space because our DB limit [...]

Answer Question   |  April 27, 2009  5:56 PM
Exchange 2003, Exchange Mailboxes, Exchange Storage Group, First Storage Group
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5 pts.

Reconnect an exchange mailbox
I have reconnected an orphaned mailbox to a new user called Bob Lee. When anyone tries to email the new user with autocomplete enabled it is showing the original mailbox owner ‘Jane Dell’ in brackets eg John Smith <JaneD>. All the other contacts that we email show up as eg John Smith <JonhS> which is [...]

Answer Question   |  April 21, 2009  1:17 PM
Exchange Mailboxes, Exchange user profile
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75 pts.

Grant “Read Only” access on a shared mailbox with Exchange Management Shell
I want to prevent several specific users from being able to delete messages in a shared mailbox. I wish these users to be set to “Read Only” permissions. Can I do this from the Exchange Management Shell? And if so, would someone mind posting an example or leaving a suggestion? Thanks a lot. Moderator Note: [...]

Answer Question   |  September 29, 2010  6:41 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 administration, Exchange Mailboxes, Exchange Management Shell, Exchange permissions, Shared mailboxes
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6,580 pts.

How to stop a user/security group deleting mail from a SPMA
We have Exchange Server 2003 and our mapi client is Outlook. I am looking to deny a security group the ability to delete emails posted to this account. I have tried checking deny for “Delete mailbox storage” permission for the security group in permissions for mailbox rights. This had no affect. Can this be done [...]

Answer Question   |  March 27, 2009  7:21 PM
Active Directory, Exchange 2003, Exchange Mailboxes, Exchange permissions, Outlook, Outlook permissions
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5 pts.

Best practice – guidelines, whitepaper, links
Hi all, I am looking around for “Best practice – guidelines, whitepaper, links” regarding best mailbox size, performance, restore etc. We have about 16000 mailboxes in our environment – splinted up on 2 mailbox server running in CCR cluster. Both having 1TB storage. If any could provide me with some good articles, web links or [...]

Answer Question   |  March 25, 2009  7:36 PM
Exchange Best Practices, Exchange mailbox management, Exchange Mailboxes
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5 pts.

Get Mailbox Creation Logs
Hi, I want to check the logs of Mailbox Creation .i.e. the user Account by which mailbox is created. Can we get the logs for mailbox creation. ( need to check who has created the mailbox)

Answer Question   |  March 23, 2009  6:23 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange Mailboxes, Windows Server 2008
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210 pts.

Setting an auto-reply message for a global mailbox on Exchange Server 2003
How do I set an auto-reply message for a global mailbox on Exchange Server 2003?

Answer Question   |  March 9, 2009  4:42 PM
Auto reply, Exchange Global Mailbox, Exchange Mailboxes, Exchange Server 2003
580 pts.