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Exchange 2010 – Restore mailbox

Posted by Mads Dam on 20. J 2011 in Blog

So, sometimes my HR-department makes mistakes and, mistakenly, lay of a person in our HR-management-system. This in turn, makes the AD-user-object, files and mailbox disappear magically via our daily cleanup-powershell-script. HR corrected the mistake, and it’s now up to me to restore the mailbox, among other things. Here’s how I do it: We used: Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup Update 6 System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 Create a recover database on the mailbox...

Exchange 2010 – Distribution Groups and adding/removing users

Posted by Mads Dam on 19. J 2011 in Blog

So, I have joined the wonders of Exchange 2010 – And I’ve had my share of users calling in to complain they can’t add or remove users to distribution groups anymore. 1st of all, I had to update every distribution group from Exchange 2007 to 2010 – This is a migration scenario. I can’t remember how, just that I had to 🙂 2nd I found out that in Exchange 2010, you cannot have groups managing distribution groups anymore, but you can however have...

Oneliners

Posted by Mads Dam on 20. J 2010 in Blog

1. 43% of all statistics are worthless. 2. 7/5th of all people do not understand fractions. 3. 99% of lawyers are giving the rest a bad name. 4. A bachelor’s life is no life for a single man. 5. A bad plan is better than no plan. 6. A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. 7. A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. — Emo Philips 8. A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking. 9. A day for firm...

Exchange 2007 – CCR, restore, RSG and you

Posted by Mads Dam on 20. J 2010 in Blog

Okay, this blog-post is really just help for myself next time I encounter a need to restore something. The scenario was – Try to restore just something in Exchange 2007 SP3 with a setup like this Physical/Virtual servers: DC1 (dc1.ilab.local) – domaincontroller, backup-server and general exchange management-server MBX1 (mbx1.ilab.local) – Mailbox role MBX2 (mbx2.ilab.local) – Mailbox role CASHUB1 (cashub1.ilab.local) – Client Access role and...