Questions tagged [exchange-2010]

Exchange 2010 is a Microsoft collaboration server product offering e-mail, calendar, and other functions.

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When the Exchange Information Store Service stops, what's impacted?

My company recently experienced an email outage that impacted a majority of our users. My exchange team is telling me they can't find a root cause, yet when I pulled the system logs I can see the Information Store service stop and restart itself 4…
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How to reconcile user with both on-premise and cloud mailboxes?

We are in the middle of hybrid coexistence migration from Exchange 2010 on-premise to Office 365. That means we have ADFS and "Dirsync" (now called Windows Azure AD Sync) running. We are more than halfway through migrating mailbox, so about 60% of…
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Restored 2 day old Microsoft Exchange - lost one month of entries

I have a strange situation. On the weekend our Exchange 2010 system got fried, so I pulled out the backup from Friday 12/12/2014 and restored it. Now when our users reconnect to their mailboxes, whether via Outlook or their phones, they don't see…
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Exchange restore backup. What happens to local ost files?

A virtual hard disk crashed containing our sql server and exchange server. I have several backups but the one I can use is 3weeks old. What happens to local Outlook clients when I restore that Hyper-v backup? Will all email from the clients from the…
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How do I get the full parent path of an Exchange public folder in Exchange 2010?

If I need to perform a procedure on an Exchange public folder, such as changing permissions, but I don't have the full path to the public folder (which is required in the -identity parameter for most public folder commands), how do I get that full…
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Recipient receives mail not addressed to them

I have a very bizarre set of circumstances. One of my staff received an e-mail addressed to me from a consultant, however this consultant would have no idea who this staff is or their e-mail address. I also received the e-mail, however it's quite…
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Why do some sites have a TXT record with only a base64 hash code?

What is the purpose of the TXT record in (for example) the root Microsoft.com zone? I don't see any reasonable tie into SPF, SenderID, DomainKeys, or even TLS-OBC or DANE for TLS. microsoft.com IN TXT…
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Two emails receiving the same Message ID

A user is experiencing a problem whereby when sending emails, some emails are being allocated the same Message ID. The issue looks to occur when the user has a draft email and they forward the draft to one person, and then later send the draft to…
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Users can't change password trough OWA for Exchange 2010

Here's our problem, users who want to change their password trough OWA get this error "The password you entered doesn't meet the minimum security requirements.", even if users are respecting the minimum security requirements. With these settings, we…
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Exchange 2010 - Need to gather emails for a court subpoena

We've been subpoenaed to send all emails exchanged with a couple different individuals for a court case. How would I go about doing this in an Exchange 2010 environment?
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Exchange 2010 some users mailboxes have a green arrow

when we look at our Exchange Server and all the mailboxes we notice that some users have green arrows pointing right over their icon. This does appear to only be on older users on our system so I just want to see if this means that the users have…
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Can Exchange 2010 high availability be achieved with only 2 servers?

In Exchange 2010, you can define Database Availability Groups and have your mailbox database(s) automatically replicated between multiple servers, and you can have mailbox server which are members of a DAG also host other server roles, such as Hub…
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Single-Signon options for Exchange 2010

We're working on a project to migrate employee email from Unix/open-source (courier IMAP, exim, squirrelmail, etc) to Exchange 2010, and trying to figure out options for single-signon for Outlook Web Access. So far all the options I've found are…
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For an internet-facing, all-roles-in-one Exchange server, what do I need to let through the firewall?

As the result of a recent penetration test, in which we did not fare well, it has been brought to my attention that our internet facing, all-roles-in-one, Exchange 2010 SP3 server has no firewall in place, and is therefore completely exposed to the…
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Exchange 2010 Search-Mailbox SearchQuery with ### on the subject

I'm trying to search for messages that include "###" on the subject. I'm checking the AQS documentation but can't see how to escape characters. I've tried quoting, double quoting, but nothing seems to work.
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