MSExchange ADAccess EventID 4027

A customer of mine contacted me today regarding an EventID 4027 from MSExchange ADAccess they wanted resolved.  This error was being generat...

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Removing Large Amounts of Spam from Exchange Server Queue Database

A customer running Exchange 2010 experienced a large number of spam emails in the submission queue (over 80,000). All the Spam Emails starte...

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Shared Mailboxes and Sent Items in Microsoft Exchange

In this post I'm going to focus on an Exchange feature introduced back Exchange 2010 SP2 Update Rollup 4 which has not had heavy exposur...

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GFI MailEssentials 2014 SR2 Transport Issues during Exchange Migration

I had an issue with a third party email filtering product GFI MailEssentials 2014 SR2 during an Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 migration.  G...

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Filtering Exchange MessageTrackingLog Output from Get-MessageTrackingLog Cmdlet

In todays blog I am going to show you how to filter Message Tracking Log output from the Get-MessageTrackingLog command.  I had a customer f...

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Exchange 2010 User Sends Two Out of Office Messages

One of my customers had a mailbox user which generated two Out of Office messages whenever her Out of Office automated replies were enabled....

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Error Moving Mailbox Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010

Today I had an issue moving a mailbox from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 where the following error was generated in Exchange Management She...

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Setup Wizard for Update Rollup 7 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 (KB2961522) ended prematurely

When installing Update Rollup 7 on Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 I received the following error message: Setup Wizard for Update Rollu...

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Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Identity' because it is null

When attempting to install Exchange 2010 SP3 Service Pack on an Exchange 2010 SP1 Server I received the following on the Mailbox Server Role...

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This server role can't be installed because the following roles aren't current: AdminToolsRole

When attempting to install Exchange 2010 SP3 service pack on an Exchange 2010 SP1 server I received the following error: This server role ca...

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Couldn't resolve the user or group "domain.local/Microsoft Exchange Security Groups/Discovery Management." If the user or group is a foreign forest principal, you must have either a two-way trust or an outgoing trust.

I ran into a problem when running the Exchange 2010 SP1 setup in an environment with a single Exchange 2007 SP3 server.  The setup failed on...

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Exchange Database file: '-546 The log file sector size does not match the sector size of the current volumn

When attempting to backup an Exchange 2007 server running on Small Business Server 2008 with Backup Exec 2010 R2, the Exchange backup compon...

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V-79-10000-11226 - VSS Snapshot error Microsoft Exchange 2007

An SBS Customer of mine running Exchange 2007 on Microsoft Windows Server SBS 2008 with Backup Exec 2010 R2 ran into a backup issue where th...

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Exchange 2007 Mailbox Import Export Issues with Outlook 2010

A customer of mine experienced two hard disks dying in a RAID5 array over a weekend which held their Exchange 2007 mailbox databases.  They ...

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Unable to Delete Emails on Exchange 2010 Sent from Scanner

A customer of mine running Exchange 2010 SP3 with no Update Rollups had an issue where users were unable to delete emails sent from a scanne...

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Outlook - Changes to the distribution list membership cannot be saved. You do not have sufficient permission to perform this operation on this object.

In legacy versions of Exchange such as 2003 and 2007, when assigning a user "Managed By" permissions to an Active Directory securi...

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Changing Mailbox Permissions in Exchange Not Working

Over the years I have had numerous customers contact me and complain that when they change mailbox permissions such as "Manage Full Acc...

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Recursively Remove Mailbox Folder Permissions

You have been assigned a task to recursively remove mailbox permissions from a user mailbox in Exchange 2010/2013 using Exchange Server mana...

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