The company policy where I work is that everyone has Reviewer permissions for everyone else’s calendar. This is for scheduling purposes as well as for pulling the right people in to meetings as they’re getting set up.  The problem is that (as far as I …

After a recent server migration from SBS2005 to SBS 2008, I ran into an issue where users were not able to download the offline address book.  They would continue to receive Sync Issues consisting of the message “Microsoft Exchange Offline Address Book …

Recently I had an Exchange migration from 2003 to 2007 and had an issue with a few users who were unable to receive calendar invites and users were unable to view their calendars.  I came across a Microsoft article which had the fix for us, it required …

Autodiscover is a very nice service to have, especially internally, but it can be a pain if it’s not configured correctly.  When purchasing an SSL certificate, if it’s not purchased for the server name, (which it’s usually not) it will give certificate …

There is a new feature in Outlook 2007 to autodiscover all mail settings based on your email address.  To set this up for your domain, all that is required is a mail server that supports the autodiscover service and creating SRV records.  Usually the i …

A couple quick commands to export/import mailboxes using the PST format in Exchange 2007.  These must be run from the Exchange Tools Console on a 32-bit machine. Export-Mailbox –Identity <mailboxUser> -PSTFolderPath <pathToSavePST> The foll …

After upgrading from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, your address lists and email address policies will continue to work, but you will not be able to edit them.  In order to upgrade them to Exchange 2007, I have included a few quick commands as well as …

Recently we performed some maintenance on our Exchange server at the office, we had to reinstall the Client Access Role in an attempt to regain OWA functionality.  After the maintenance was completed, we found that we were no longer receiving external …

In Exchange 2003 there was a feature called Mailbox Manager, which allowed an administrator to control many things about the messages that existed in users’ mailboxes.  One of the main features for this was to delete or move messages older than a certa …

Whether it be for configuring Blackberry Enterprise Server, Email Archiving, or Backups, at some point you will have to grant an individual user full access to all of the mailboxes in your environment.  Here are a few handy commands to do that. Grant F …

Recently we were approached by a long-time client who was merging with another company, and they had mutually decided to keep the other company’s internal domain, which would force our client to migrate to their domain.  They also wanted to upgrade fro …

Working for a consulting agency, I often have to develop a migration plan along with an approximate timeline of how it will go.  Below is my list of things to do or verify when performing an Exchange migration, along with commands or links to posts on …