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Removing the first Exchange 2010 database requirements

admin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:41:22 +0000

Run this command first
Set-AdServerSettings -ViewEntireForest $True

The first thing you must do is move all the mailboxes to another database. This can be accomplished via this command
get-mailbox –database “Database You’re trying to remove” | new-MoveRequest –targetdatabase “Database to move users to”

Now you must move the arbitration mailbox
get-mailbox –arbitration –database “Database You’re trying to remove” | new-MoveRequest –targetdatabase “Database to move users to”

You can now check the status of the mailbox move
get-moverequest

Once they are all completed run this command to remove the request
get-moverequest | remove-moverequest

You can now remove your mailbox
Remove-mailboxdatabase –id “Database You’re trying to remove”

Outlook not finding Exchange 2010 server when trying to autoconfigure email

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:58:45 +0000

If you create your Mailbox database before the creation of a Client Access array or the installed a Client Access server within the Active Directory site, you’ll need to reconfigure the value of the RPCClientAccessServer property. If no Client Access server exists in the Active Directory site when the Mailbox database is created, the value of the RPCClientAccessServer property will be set to the FQDN of the Mailbox server. To configure the value of the RPCClientAccessServer property, use the following command.

Set-MailboxDatabase -RPCClientAccessServer

Once this command is ran reset IIS on your CAS server. Wait a few minutes and try Outlook again.

Cisco ASA 8.3 and above NAT ranges how to

admin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:48:15 +0000

object network obj-Server1

host 192.168.1.5

object service MyRange

service tcp destination range 50 100

nat (outside,inside) source static any any destination static interface obj-Server1 services MyRange MyRange

access-list outside_access_in extended permit tcp any host 192.168.1.5 range 50 100

access-list outside_access_in in interface outside

Deleting disconnected mailboxes in Exchange 2010

admin — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:17:02 +0000

First you need to get a list of all the disconnected mailboxes –
Get-MailboxStatistics -Database “” | Where-Object {$_.DisconnectDate -Notlike $NULL} | FL DisplayName, DisconnectDate, MailboxGuid

Next step is to take the GUID of the account you want to delete and use this command –
Remove-Mailbox -Database “” -StoreMailboxIdentity

Setting up a Cisco secure IPSEC tunnel on an iPAD

admin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:31:21 +0000

Settings>General>Network

VPN

Add VPN Configuration

IPSec –

Description: CompanyVPN
Server: vpn.company.com
Account: Your domain username
Password: Your domain password
Group Name: ipsec group name
Secret: ipsec secret shared key

Slide VPN to on and you should be connected

How to use %username% variable in vbscripts

admin — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 05:54:11 +0000

If you try to use a vbscript to map a network drive using the %username% variable it will not work. The reason for this is the %username% variable only works in .bat files. The equivelant in vbscript is objNetwork.UserName That being said here is an example

on error resume next
Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Network”)
WshNetwork.RemoveNetworkDrive “U:”
WshNetwork.MapNetworkDrive “U:”, “\\mawfi-2008r2.mawfi.local\users$\” & WshNetwork.UserName , True

Nat rules change after 8.3 upgrade breaks VPN

admin — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:32:24 +0000

Normal Nat statment

access-list nonat extended permit ip
nat (inside) 0 access-list nonat-inside

New nat statment

object network vpnpool
subnet
exit

nat (inside,outside) source static any any destination static vpnpool vpnpool

This NAT rule says to keep the source address for anything coming from the internal interface going to the range designated by the vpnpool object while also keeping the destination address the same.

Seems like a strange way of going about this but this is all i have come across so far. Anyone else has a better way please leave a comment.

Changing the global catalog server for Exchange Server 2010

admin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:21:27 +0000

If you want to force the Exchange server to use a specific GC instead of letting the server automatically choose a GC, you can perform the following steps:

1.Open Exchange management console
2.Right click on “organization configuration” or “server configuration”
3.Select “modify configuration domain controller”

You can view which server Exchange is using by going to “server configuration”. Right click on your server name and select properties. Under the “system settings” tab you will find the servers being used by Exchange.

Searching Exchange 2010 mailboxes with Powershell

admin — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:23:44 +0000

#Assign the role to the required user account
New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role “Mailbox Import Export” -User administrator
#Restart the shell

#This would search every mailbox for messages containing the word secrets in the message body,
#and export them to the administrator mailbox in a subfolder called Export
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Search-Mailbox -SearchQuery “Body:’*secrets*’” -TargetMailbox administrator -TargetFolder Export
#Or, to search one mailbox for bob smith
Search-Mailbox -Identity bsmith -SearchQuery “Body:’*secrets*’” -TargetMailbox administrator -TargetFolder

#you can also do this via ECP
#see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298014.aspx

No more exmerge in Exchange 2010, using mailbox import export

admin — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:29:27 +0000

First you have to give permissions to the account that needs to import/export or nothing will work. Where “MyExportAccount” is the account that needs permissions to export user mailboxes
New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role “Mailbox Import Export” -User “MyExportAccount”

Next you must submit the request to export a mailbox(you must export to a UNC path). Where ExportMailboxuserName is the alias of the user you are exporting
New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox ExportMailboxUserName -FilePath “\\Server1\PSTExports\ExportMailboxUserName.pst”

You may notice if you run the command below that the export status is queued
Get-MailboxExportRequestStatistics ExportMailboxUserName\mailboxexport | fl

If it is queued run this command below
Resume-MailboxExportRequest ExportMailboxUserName\mailboxexport