Exchange 2007 / 2010 Search for and Delete Emails Containing “yoursearchtext”
KB ID 0000343 Problem You have a nasty email that contains a virus or some offensive content and you want to delete ALL instances of it. Solution 1. Log on as the domain administrator > Open the Exchange Command Shell. 2. First grant the correct rights to the administrator account. This gives the Administrator FULL rights to ALL mailbox’s Get-mailbox -Database “Mailbox Database”| add-mailboxpermission -user...
Connecting Evolution Mail Client to Exchange 2010 (and Exchange 2007)
KB ID 0000378 Problem Out of the box Evolution can only connect to Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003, this is because it uses OWA to connect, when Exchange 2007 was released, the way OWA was presented changed a great deal. So if you try and connect to a newer version of Exchange it will error. (Before you email in, I know in 2010, its now called Web App not OWA). But there’s nothing to stop you connecting to Exchange 2007 and...
Mailbox move error ‘This mailbox exceeded the maximum number of corrupted’
KB ID 0000489 Problem While attempting tom move an Exchange mailbox the move fails and the details of the movement request tell you, Error: This mailbox exceeded the maximum number of corrupted items that were specified for this move request. Solution 1. As you can see from the error this mailbox has some corrupt Emails in it, Exchange will fail by default if it sees even one corrupt email. What you should do is get the user to tidy...
Exchange 2010 Install Error – ‘Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server’
KB ID 0000577 Problem I had a nice clean install on a greenfield site today, Exchange 2010 Standard c/w SP1 on Server 2008 R2, so I was not happy when this happened! Error: The following error was generated when “$error.Clear(); if ($RoleStartTransportService) { start-SetupService -ServiceName MSExchangeTransport } ” was run: “Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on...
Exchange – “This operation can only be performed by a manager of the group” Error
KB ID 0000603 Problem Seen On Exchange 2010 (SP1), when trying to add a user to a distribution group. Add-DistributionGroupMember Failed Error: You don’t have sufficient permissions. This operation can only be performed by a manager of the group. Solution 1. There a few reasons for this error, I’m assuming that there is no user set as the manager for this group? (Properties > Group Information > Managed By). In my...