Mailbox Management

Reattaching an orphaned mailbox in Exchange

I have a user that has left the company(bill) and an existing user(frank). I have made bills mailbox orphaned and re attached frank to this mailbox. All is good and the mailbox has now changed its name to frank and is woking fine. The problem comes when other users wish to email frank. When they...

Exchange 2007 Storage Quotas

I have set mailbox size limits for individual users. I then set default storage limits for the database. Shortly after applying the default limits I got a call telling me that e-mail was being rejected because the receivers mailbox was full. The users mailbox was only half full. When I...

Exchange 2003 mailbox move

I created (On a separate drive on the same server) a New Group, Store, and moved a couple mailboxes. I did this because my primary drive only has 2.75Gb left. I moved 3 boxes totalling 8Gb. On the new drive, it showed that I now occupy 8Gb of that drive with Exchange data. However, on the old...

Can not move mailbox by Exchange Task!

I have 1 forest(1 root DC,2 child DC) and each child DC have one exchange server. Exchange server is exchange 2003. I'm use old image file on vmware all of 5 server. I meet problem can't replicate but I solve by use registry. Now I try to move one mailbox from one exchange server to another but...

Second Mailbox in Outlook Express 2003 with POP3 server

How do I set up a second mailbox in Outlook Express 2003 using a POP3 server?

Shared mailbox

I need to implemet the shared mailbox solution for the work requiremtns. My concern is if its possible to track which user of the users who already have Send As permission to that shared mailbox, has sent actually the email. Is is possible? And HOW? Thanks

External mails getting stuck in the local queue

Hey, This is strange problem we are facing occasionally.Sometimes our external mails get stuck in our queue and the mails will not be delivered to the user mailbox.The internal mails will work fine.Then once we restart the frontend all the mails will get delivered and the queue will be...

Backup & Restore in Exchange 2003

Hi, how to backup and restore single mailboxes and multiple mailboxes. i was try but unsuccuss. Sadiq.Fazal

Mailbox sizes will not update in system manager

We are running exchange server 2003 and the mailboxes are getting out of control. We have some users that have 2GB mailboxes! We have spoken to these users and they have been deleting their mail everyday. The problem I am having is that even though these users have drastically lowered their mailbox...

Looking for an Exchange tool for rules on deleted item retention, mailbox age and limits

It's been a few years and I'm once again an Exchange Administrator (Ex2003standard, migrating to enterprise in about 3 months). I formerly had a tool for rules on deleted item retention, mailbox age and limits (eg: all sent items to archive after 6 months), which was formerly the mailbox manager....

Microsoft Outlook 2007 multiple mailbox permissions

I'm probably missing something very simple here. I can add multiple mail boxes to my Outlook 2007, however I cannot expand the folder marked with the new mailbox name. I already have 2 existing, usable mailboxes and need to access one more through Outlook 2007.Is there a setting on my end or one...

How to create multiple mailbox for same user

I already have a mailbox inside exchange server, e.g.123@abc.com I would like to create another mailbox inside this server e.g.456@abc.com . Can I create mailbox like that and how can i do it?

Microsoft Exchange 2003, Recipient Policy, mailbox management.

A question submitted on SearchExchange.com I created a policy that deletes or is supposed to delete all emails older than 240 days. Followed the MS kb article to a T in setting up the rule. The mailbox manager goes out finds emails, deletes them, and reports having done so. Checking mailboxes it...

Exchange 2007 Send As Permissions

Hi Need to know how to set the send as permissions to a security group for al lmailboxes in Exchange 2007 console or powershell?? Thanks Jason

how can I increase the size of mailboxes in ms exchange and how much is the default size?

Hi I don't know where I can find the default size of the mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition and when I increase it for a mailbox it doesnot work and again it says the error message for size limitation!!! is it posible to increase the size of mailbox or not?if yes why it...

Exchange 2003 Is there a way to have redundancy of a mailbox

A question submitted on SearchExchange.com Hello, Is there a way to have redundancy of a mailbox ? I looked at solutions such as XoSoft and DoubleTake, but they only propose a redundancy of server or Exchange Db. I am interested in having a server hosting "clustered" VIP's mailbox from several...

Exchange 2003 Mailbox Reassignment

I am troubleshooting a problem and had to create a new user (for an existing employee). I'd like to move her mailbox to her new user account but can't figure out how to do this. (I'm leaving her "old" account out there in case this doesn't solve the problem.)

One user with Multiple mail boxes.

Hi all, i am a newbie at outlook and exchange so some advice will be much appreciated. Here is my issue, we have a secretary (Jane) that has 2 roles. 1: Being a secretary (Jane@bling.com) 2: Customer service (Customer_service@bling.com) Currently we are on SBS with exchange server. Jane has a...

Can I set up a generic auto-reply message in Exchange 2003?

We are using Exchange Server 2003. Our office just relocated to another state and we had 30 employees that decided not to relocate. Their user accounts have been disabled, but email is still in their mailboxes. What is the best way to forward email from a former employee’s mailbox into a current...