Exchange 2010 – Blank OWA Page?
Nov17

Exchange 2010 – Blank OWA Page?

KB ID 0000429 Problem When trying to access Outlook Web App (or Outlook Web Access for those used to earlier versions of Exchange), you see a blank white page and nothing else. The certificate and IIS works but no OWA. Solution This is usually due to an exchange pre-requisite that is missing, or one of them is not working. 1. Launch the Exchange Management Shell, (Start > All Programs > Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 >...

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Exchange 2010 Mailbox Move Error “Property expression isn’t valid”
Nov17

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Move Error “Property expression isn’t valid”

KB ID 0000430  Problem Seen while trying to execute a move mailbox move. Error: Property expression “username” isn’t valid. Valid values are: Strings formed with characters from A to Z (uppercase or lowercase), digits from 0 to 9, !, #, $, %, &, ‘, *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } or ~. One or more periods may be embedded in an alias, but each period should be preceded and followed by at least one of the...

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Exchange 2010 – Delete / Remove all Disconnected Mailboxes
Nov17

Exchange 2010 – Delete / Remove all Disconnected Mailboxes

KB ID 0000470  Problem In older versions of Exchange, we just had to “Purge” disconnected mailboxes, now we don’t have that option. Solution WARNING this will remove ALL disconnected mailboxes, make sure you actually want to do this before proceeding. Launch > Exchange Management Shell. Issue the following commands; $mailboxes = Get-ExchangeServer | Where-Object {$_.IsMailboxServer –eq $true} | ForEach-Object {...

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Exchange – ‘The certificate status could not be determined because the revocation check failed.’
Nov17

Exchange – ‘The certificate status could not be determined because the revocation check failed.’

KB ID 0000484  Problem Seen on Exchange (with or without service packs) when you access the internet through a proxy server. Note: Exchange does NOT take its proxy settings from Internet Explorer. Solution 1. To prove that the proxy is the problem drop to command line and issue the following command: netsh winhttp show proxy   If it says “Direct Access (no proxy server)” and you have a proxy server then that’s...

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Mailbox move error ‘This mailbox exceeded the maximum number of corrupted’
Nov17

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...

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