Exchange: Delete Meetings of terminated users’ in conference room calendars

How to free up the conference room calendar from terminated employees' meetings? Here are the base line PowerShell commands for you to write a script. To check if any meetings booked by employees in any of the conference rooms who no longer works in your office: Get-Mailbox -RecipientTypeDetails RoomMailbox | Search-Mailbox -Searchquery "kind:meetings from:<DisplayName>" -EstimateResultOnly … Continue reading Exchange: Delete Meetings of terminated users’ in conference room calendars →

Get-MailboxFolderPermission – The security principal specified is already on the permission set

Are you getting this error when running Get-MailboxFolderPermission? PS E:\> Get-MailboxFolderPermission deptcalendar@company.com:\calendar The security principal specified is already on the permission set. + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-MailboxFolderPermission], CorruptDataException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=ZN1UR12MB0288,RequestId=b4f155be-a238-4a98-8b3f-f3d9258e22d2,TimeStamp=6/19/2018 10:10:41 PM] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-CorruptDataException] F8D77EE2,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.StoreTasks.GetMailboxFolderPermission + PSComputerName : outlook.office365.com The error message seems cryptic, right? But it is not. It … Continue reading Get-MailboxFolderPermission – The security principal specified is already on the permission set →

Exchange: list mailbox folders size and items count

As Exchange Administrator, if you want to find out any user's mailbox size information by folder and number of items in each folder, you can to the right place. Here is the PowerShell Command to list the folders, number of items in the folder and size of the folders. Replace the username@domain.com with user's primarySMTPAddress. … Continue reading Exchange: list mailbox folders size and items count →

Exchange: The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The system load quota of 1000 requests per 2 seconds has been exceeded

Are you getting this following error in Exchange Console or Shell? Connecting to remote server ExchServer.company.com failed with the following error message : The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The system load quota of 1000 requests per 2 seconds has been exceeded. Send future requests at a slower rate or raise the system quota. … Continue reading Exchange: The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The system load quota of 1000 requests per 2 seconds has been exceeded →

Exchange 2010 (& Service Pack) Setup: A Restart from a Previous Installation is Pending

Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2010 Service Pack fails on Exchange Analyzer on checking pre-requisites. This should be easy to resolve. If you are seeing this same error after reboot, there must be orphaned registry values left from previous setup files. Check and fix the following two registry keys and setup should continue normally. To remove … Continue reading Exchange 2010 (& Service Pack) Setup: A Restart from a Previous Installation is Pending →

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 →

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” →

Exchange 2010: “Set as Reply” greyed out

Changing the primary SMTP e-mail address in Exchange system is as easy as select a e-mail address & set as reply in E-Mail Addresses tab in Mailbox properties. Well, now it’s greyed out. Baffled? Don’t be. Answer: Uncheck the option for Automatically update e-mail addresses based on e-mail address policy. That’s it. E-mail address policy … Continue reading Exchange 2010: “Set as Reply” greyed out →