While performing maintenance to Exchange 2010 DAG server you should first remove the DAG member from DAG group.Other wise you may have unwanted DB failovers and many other unexpected issue that may affect company mail services availability Shutting Down DAG Members The Exchange 2010 high availability solution is integrated with the Windows shutdown process. If an administrator or application initiates a shutdown of a Windows server in a DAG that has a mounted database that's replicated Read more

  Some times we need to use PS script to send email, script can be used in Task Scheduler or any other program BatchFile to run script: Create *.bat file C:WindowsSystem32WindowsPowerShellv1.0powershell.exe -PSConsoleFile "C:Program FilesMicrosoftExchange Serverbinexshell.psc1" -noexit -command ". C:scriptslocationscriptname.ps1"   PS Script to send mail: Create  .ps1 file $filename = “c:filelocationHtmlFIleyouwant torecieve.html” $smtpServer = “SMTP Read more

Full list of Microsoft  Outlook 2003 command line switches and parameters /a - Creates an item with the specified file as an attachment. Example: "C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice11Outlook.exe" /a "C:My Documentslabels.doc" /altvba otmfilename - Opens the VBA program specified in otmfilename, rather than %appdata%MicrosoftOutlookVbaProject.OTM. /c messageclass - Creates a new item of the specified message class (Outlook forms or any other valid MAPI form). Examples: * /c ipm.activity Read more

As you probably know Microsoft releases set of DST patches for their systems every year at December . To avoid DST calendar issues  make sure to install/deploy the following updates to entire organization. Microsoft Windows Server and Windows XP/Vista Clients : KB 955839 Microsoft Exchange Server and outlook 2000/2003/2007 Clients:KB 941018 make sure to read MS DST Blog The country that was skipped in MS  Day Light Saving update are Argentina/Brazil and Chile. Daylight saving time begins: Read more

Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS). AD CS role services install on a number of operating systems, including Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2000 Server. Naturally the fullest implementation of AD CS is only possible on Windows Server 2008. You can deploy AD CS as a single standalone certification authority (CA), or you can deploy multiple servers and configure them as root, policy, and certificate issuing authorities. You also have a variety of Online Responder configuration possibilities. Active Read more

Users Not Receiving Messages to Handheld After Mailbox Move BlackBerry server maps user mailboxes by using a process called worker treads. Blackberry version [4.0.4.5], is capable of mapping worker treads back to a user mailboxes when a mailbox gets moved to a different store by scanning the GAL for changes in the Server DN.BES users may not receive messages to their handheld device after a mailbox move . After mailbox move the BES server should pick up the new mailbox location and start sending Read more

It happens after SP 2 Installation. Users started to receive meetings directly to their calendars without accepting . I used Microsoft ExBPA in order to see if there is any problem and discovered that The site-wide public folder database for administrative group 'Group Name' has been deleted. . And followed MS Instruction on how to recreate folder back. Open an Active Directory editor, such as ADSI Edit. Locate the public folder information store you want to designate as the Site Folder Server, Read more

On errors: Mapi session "/o=COMPANY/ou=Europe/cn=Recipients/cn=User1? exceeded the maximum of 32 objects of type "session". Task "Microsoft Exchange Server" reported error (0×80040115): "The connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action." Task ‘Microsoft Exchange Server' reported error (0×8004011d): ‘The server is not available. Contact your administrator if this condition persists.' Don't waste your time on profile Read more