just as a reference for meself or usefull for some people alot of good scripts out there. Get-MailboxStatistics -Database "Mailbox Database XXXXXXXXXXXXX" | Select DisplayName, ItemCount, TotalItemSize | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | Export-CSV C:\MailboxSizes.csv
i had to create bulk mailboxes on exchange 2010 in my hosted environment, so i search on the internet for scripts and put them together to fit my environment. so i wanted to use, first name, surename, Display name, username, variable password and put the users in certain OU map in AD so my CSV file will look somehing like this fname,lname,username,password,OUPath els,konnick,els.konnick,Test123!,domain.local/customer/cust01 here is the script you can copy paste in a notepad and save it as .ps1 #csv file with fields:fname,lname,username,password,OUPath import-csv 'C:pathtocsvfileuserlist.csv' | Foreach-object { $Fname = $_.FName $LName = $_.LName $DisplayName = "$FName $LName" $User = [...]
i'm not going to write the entire procedure here since there are a lot of good articles out there. here are some I always use when im migrating exchange servers from 2003 or 2007 to 2010 or 2013 so thank you Pete Long For migrating exchange 2003 to 2013 you will need an additional step and migrate to exchange 2010 first. The following links are very good to follow all migrations Exchange 2003 to 2010 Exchange 2010 to 2013 enjoy and good luck
my customer ran into a problem that his exchange server just didn't receive any mail no more or couldn't send mail also. when i checked the mail queue i found the following error: 451 4.4.0 DNS query failed. The error was: SMTPSEND.DNS.NonExistentDomain; nonexistent domain after checking everything from connectors and exchange settings, I started to check just everything, and the first steps i always do is: are the TCP/ip config correct on your network card(s). turns out the DNS 2 entry was set to external dns 8.8.8.8 once you remove this DNS entry and only use the internal DNS server everything [...]