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How to find and move the Exchange Arbitration Mailboxes

The Exchange System (Arbitration) Mailboxes, like 'Discovery Search' are created on the first Exchange server installed in the organization.  If you need to remove a database or uninstall Exchange you will need to move the arbitration mailboxes to a different database or different server, respectively. Command to search all databases for the arbitration mailboxes: get-mailboxdatabase | Get-Mailbox -Arbitration |ft name,database,servername Here is the command to determine if arbitration mailboxes Read more [...]

Troubleshooting The Exchange Offline Address Book and Address Lists

Background: On any Outlook client, the Offline Address Book (OAB) is used when pulling the list of Outlook Contacts in order to address a message. The offline address book is only updated once every 24 hours, however the update can be forced by (send/receive, download offline address book).  To add more to the story, the Outlook Name Cache is a function of Outlook in which the "To:" line of a new email will automatically populate as soon as the user inputs the first letter of a recipient that they Read more [...]

Outbound email messages stuck in OWA’s Drafts folder and are never sent out

Issue: You receive reports that users cannot send outbound email from the Exchange server in one of your sites Diagnosis steps: You attempt to test outbound mail with a test account using Outlook Web Access and out mail email immediately moves to the Drafts folder after you click 'send'. -You review the queue viewer, however there appears to be nothing stuck in the queues: -You attempt to telnet on Port 25 from the troubled server to a healthy server or healthy server to troubled server Read more [...]

400 Bad Request Error attempting to Change Password via OWA

Issue: When users attempt to change their password via OWA they are redirected to "https://exchange/owa/lang.owa" and then receive an http "400 Bad Request" After clicking "ok" user received "Bad Request" in the browser: Cause: Users experiencing the issue are showing blank Time Zone and Language settings: You query the same settings for users that do not have the change password issue and determine their Time Zone and Language settings are populated: Resolution: 1) It's Read more [...]

Search All Users Mailboxes for specific content in Discovery situation

LEGAL DISCOVERY: The administrator needs a way to extract messages from multiple users' mailboxes which contain certain keywords in the subject and/or body for Legal Discovery purposes. In this case, the content found should not be deleted, but only extracted to a single target mailbox.  I will provide solutions for both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. Exchange 2007 Solution:  In Exchange 2007, The administrator will need to use the Export-Mailbox task from the Exchange Management Shell with Read more [...]