Export and import exchange receive connector ip addresses
One thing that often happens when migrating an exchange server is having to replicate some receive connectors (for example, some relays for the internal network). Often these connectors are configured to respond to tens or even hundreds of IP addresses. Now… bringing them back by hand is a nerve-wracking and take away job […]
How to extract all calendars permissions from exchange with powershell
This is the script that I created to extract the permissions of all the calendars in an Exchange organization. The script searches in each mailbox the folders of type “Calendar” and, for each of them, extracts its permissions, the result is output to a csv file. $mailbox_list = Get-Mailbox -Resultsize […]

How to schedule an exchange powershell script with task scheduler
Here's a quick example for creating a scheduled task to run a .ps1 script in exchange powershell, it is not as simple as you might think… The parameters to be passed are: Program or script: C:WindowsSystem32WindowsPowerShellv1.0powershell.exe Arguments: -NonInteractive -WindowStyle Hidden -command “. ‘C:Program FilesMicrosoftExchange ServerV15binRemoteExchange.ps1’; Connect-ExchangeServer -auto; c:ScriptsExchangescript_name.ps1” If you have a simpler method […]

Exchange 2013 imap service not responding from other servers
A very strange problem that happened on an exchange server 2013 CU12: I enabled the two imap backend and imap services for a helpdesk that works by reading the messages by imap protocol. The very strange thing is that doing a telnet on port 143 from any other machine […]

Recreating the public folder hierarchy in active directory with adsiedit
Often appens that, after the dismission of a legacy Exchange server, Users are no longer able to access the public folders despite they have been correctly migrated to new servers. If you have the certainty of having successfully migrated the data / messages in the public folder you can rest easy, you have not lost anything, the problem lies only […]

Outlook (2007 and 2010) on windows xp can not connect to exchange 2013
This problem has made me crazy, I've lost almost a day so I share it willingly hoping will come in handy to someone else. I am following a double migration of a customer's exchange (from 2003 to 2010 and then 2013), during the transition between 2010 and 2013 all Windows XP clients. Once the user migrated to […]

Delete old exchange 2013 iis logs
Exchange 2013 generates by default a huge amount of logs, especially in the form of IIS logs, The really brilliant thing is that there is no process that cycles or clean up them and, if you leave them in the default path, you risk to fill up a C disk even of 100 giga in a few months (obviously it depends […]

Exchange mail enabled public folders don’t receive emails after 2003 to 2010 migration
It happened to me a couple of times, after the migration of public folders from an Exchange 2003 server to an Exchange Server 2010 mail enabled public folders would stop receiving emails following the complete disposal of the 2003 server (soon after its uninstallation). All email destined for public folder remained […]