When you have external legitimate email sender’s email address and domains, it may have been end up in Junk E-Mail in Outlook. You can tell users to right click on the email in Junk E-Mail folder and select Junk –> Never Block Sender (or Never Block Sender’s Domain). But every user had to do this … Continue reading Exchange 2010: Populate Safe Senders List on all Mailboxes via PowerShell script
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Exchange 2010: “Could not convert property WindowsEmailAddress to type SmtpAddress. Error while converting string ‘emailaddress’ to result type”
You already have an Active Directory account and you want to create an Exchange Mailbox. You clicked New Mailbox command from Action Pane, selected the account and clicked New. Now you get this very “informational message”, Exchange refused to create Mailbox because it “could not convert property WindowsEmailAddress to type SmtpAddress.” Do Not Panic. Oh! … Continue reading Exchange 2010: “Could not convert property WindowsEmailAddress to type SmtpAddress. Error while converting string ‘emailaddress’ to result type”
Exchange 2010: Cannot Disable or Delete Mailbox
If you end up with message Action ‘Disable’ could not be performed on object ‘name’ along with “Active directory response: 00002098: SecErr: DSID-03150BB9, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data 0”, there is an explanation and solution for this issue. Is the active directory account for the Mailbox disabled? If yes, Mailbox is probably lost permission on … Continue reading Exchange 2010: Cannot Disable or Delete Mailbox
PowerShell: List Active Computers from Active Directory
I had a requirement to get list of active computers from Active Directory with some stored properties in computer account like OS, OS version and OU name where the computer account exists. I have defined the active computer as if LastLogonDate is less than 60 days. Here is the script. P.S. Your computer should be … Continue reading PowerShell: List Active Computers from Active Directory
PowerShell Grid view is “sooo” much better than Exchange 2010 Tracking Log viewer in browser
Exchange 2010 tracking log viewer is great, but you can copy/export the results or even sort the results for different needs. So far Exchange admins are run the get-messegetrackinglog in power shell and export to CSV file using export-csv cmdlet. It’s great, but greater idea is grid view. I found Power shell grid view is … Continue reading PowerShell Grid view is “sooo” much better than Exchange 2010 Tracking Log viewer in browser
Windows 7: Automatically expand Navigation tree to the current folder
Once I learned this option exists, it is a breeze to use Explorer on multi-level sub trees. It’s better then changing sub folder levels in address bar. Once you enable this setting, this is you see it. If you are interested, follow the steps to enable it. On you Explorer window, click Organize and select … Continue reading Windows 7: Automatically expand Navigation tree to the current folder
Outlook: Windows 7 cannot connect to Exchange Server. But Hey, OWA works just fine.
This issue is interesting. Some Windows 7 computers refused to connect to Exchange server. User is able to use Outlook Web App to check emails. After some research, I found LmCombatibilityLevel registry key (which is explained here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc960646.aspx). By default it supposed to set to 0. The value zero means, Clients use LM and NTLM … Continue reading Outlook: Windows 7 cannot connect to Exchange Server. But Hey, OWA works just fine.
Outlook 2010: “Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook window. The set folders could not be opened. The server is not available. Contact your administrator if this condition persists”
This wonderful heavenly Outlook message brings loads of joy to the user when he/she sees it. You could create a new Outlook profile, but there is a better way. Click Windows Key+R to open Run dialog and type the following. Outlook.exe /ResetNAVPane It should resolve the issue by recreating the folders. If Yes, so say … Continue reading Outlook 2010: “Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook window. The set folders could not be opened. The server is not available. Contact your administrator if this condition persists”
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