Exchange: No Arbitration Mailboxes?
KB ID 0001434 Problem I was doing a ‘mop up’, after an Exchange install problem, (post to follow.) And went to look at the ‘Arbitration’ mailboxes in the clients Exchange Organisation. And they could not be seen? Get-Mailbox | -Arbitration Get-MailboxDatabase | Get-Mailbox -Arbitration Solution In my case, it was because the Exchange server was in a ‘Child Domain’ and the...
Exchange 2007 / 2010 (Pre SP1)- Export Mailbox’s to PST files
KB ID 0000286 Problem WARNING: This only covers early Exchange 2010 deployments. The procedure changes in Exchange 2010, after you install Service Pack 1. If your Exchange deployment is Exchange 2010, (or newer). Use the New-MailboxExportRequest command instead. In the days of Exchange 2000/2003 we used to use EXMerge to do this, but with Exchange 2007 (After Service Pack 1) we have the Export-Mailbox PowerShell command. Solution As...
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...