As the part of my research to understand the new features of Exchange 2010, I recently gone through the the study and application of Retention Policies/Tags features. I have applied the features successfully at my test mailboxes and sharing those thoughts here: I am describing the whole theory of Retention Policies/Tags at first and want to […]
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Connect to Exchange Server from Windows Powershell
I have followed the following simple steps to connect to my exchange servers from my windows 7 computer to perform the daily activities: Note: There should be TCP/IP connctivity between the computer and Exchange Server 1. Open Windows Powershell as Administrator 2. $UserCredential = Get-Credential 3. $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri http://Servername.domain.com/PowerShell/ -Authentication Kerberos 4. […]
How to change Scope of the domain operation through Powershell
Lesson: Exchange 2010 SP2 The requested search root domain.local/Users’ is not within the scope of this operation. Cannot perform searches outside the scope ‘child.domain.local’. I have prompted with an error message, while performing a powershell operation in one of the child domain in the forest as follows: [PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-MailboxDatabase ‘Database Name’ -DomainController ‘Domain Controller name’ | mailbox -ActiveSyncEnabled $False The requested […]
Database copy is “failed and suspended” shown at EMC
I had come across an issue in database replication on one of the database of my DAG yesterday. The ‘Copy Status’ where shown as ‘Failed and Suspended’ as below: I have tried to ‘Activate Database Copy’, but that has failed. Then I have gone through some web research and found a Microsoft article here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff359982(v=exchg.140).aspx […]
How to Connect to Exchange Online (Office 365) from Windows PowerShell
I’m presenting simple steps to follow to connect to your cloud based Exchange Online organization as the part of Office 365 from Windows Powershell 1. Install Windows PowerShell and Windows Remote Management (WinRM) on your computer (Windows 7 is already equiped with the features) 2. Open Windows Powershell (Run as Administrator) and run the following […]
Test-ServiceHealth
How to test the health of Exchange Server services health quickly? Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP2 I have found a useful cmdlet Test-ServiceHealth to test whether all the Microsoft Windows services that Exchange requires on a server have started. Simply run Test-ServiceHealth and you will get the output like as below when every services […]
ExchangeOnline.in
I am introducing a dedicated portal where I would like to share my experiences on working with various new generation Microsoft Exchange Server products like Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013 including Exchange Online
