Category Archives: Exchange

Unable to delete items in modern public folders : “Some Items cannot be deleted. They were either moved or already deleted, or access was denied”

Posted on March 5, 2017 by mell9185

Recently we had reports from a subset of users that they received the following error when they tried to deleted items from a specific set of public folders using their Outlook client: “Some Items cannot be deleted. They were either … Continue reading →

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The various picture resolutions supported by Exchange 2013 mailboxes

Posted on April 24, 2016 by mell9185

In researching what picture resolutions are supported by Exchange (and Lync 2013/Skype for business) I came across this MS Technet article stating the the following 3 resolutions used in Lync: 48 x 48 : Used if no higher resolution image is selected … Continue reading →

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Display Names on mail enabled public folders in Exchange 2013

Posted on April 17, 2016 by mell9185

Fun fact, you can have a different display for the same public folder if it’s mail enabled [PS] Get-PublicFolder "\Market Data Services\MDS Bills" | Select Identity, Name | Ft -AutoSize Identity                        Name ——–                        —- \Market Data Services\MDS Bills MDS Bills[PS] … Continue reading →

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I took my Exchange 2013 environment down doing a CU11 prerequisite check

Posted on April 9, 2016 by mell9185

In preparing for my company’s Exchange 2013 CU8 to CU11 uprage a few weekends ago I decided during my lunch break to the run the CU11 installer through the prerequisite check on all our servers just to make sure nothing … Continue reading →

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Using SHA512 SSL certs with Exchange 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2 breaks TLS at lower OS rollup levels

Posted on March 12, 2016 by mell9185

We use and internal certificates in my company for Exchange 2013 and recently we employed a company wide mandate to move all internal SSL certificates from SHA1 to SHA512. Our current company patching policy is to apply security patches and … Continue reading →

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Email messages with a blank X-OriginatorOrg header will repeatedly crash the FrontEndTransport Service in EX2013 CU8+

Posted on December 27, 2015 by mell9185

My company recently ran into this issue 2 weeks ago and confirmed with MS that it affects Exchange 2013 CU8, CU9, and CU10 (Exchange 2016 is fine). Basically any message that contains an X-OriginatorOrg header with a null or just … Continue reading →

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PowerShell script to download attachments from an email

Posted on October 29, 2013 by mell9185

Recently I was asked to automate the process of grabbing an email from a mailbox and downloading all the attachments to a specified destination. The following script accomplishes this using the Exchange Managed Webservices API. A few notes about this … Continue reading →

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Make sure your Exchange 2003 server is fully removed before raising your AD Domain Functional Level

Posted on December 5, 2012 by mell9185

Though we completed our Exchange 2010 migration over a year ago we still kept our Exchange 2003 server around due to some hard-coded references in internally developed apps. Once those were taken care of we shutdown our Exchange 2003 server for a … Continue reading →

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How to change and then resume a failed New-MailboxImportRequest In Exchange 2010

Posted on October 7, 2012 by mell9185

Recently I had to import a handful of PST files into a our Exchange 2010 server using the New-MailboxImportRequest cmdlet, and did so without setting the -baditemlimit parameter. During the import one of the files threw an error. Despite the discoverability … Continue reading →

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