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Exchange Discovery Search broken: discovery mailbox can’t be found

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Issue: At one of my customers, the Discovery Search feature of Exchange stopped working when performing searches from EMC.  This error may be displayed: Cause:  I determined this may be due to the System Mailbox or Discovery Search mailbox being deleted, modified, or damaged. Taking inventory:   1) Confirm both the System Mailbox and Discovery Search Mailbox exist in AD and Exchange:  "SystemMailbox{e0dc1c29-89c3-4034-b678-e6c29d823ed9}".  If one or both is missing then it's clear Read more [...]

Mail Enabled Public Folders Fail to receive email and produce Bounce / NDR after migrating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010

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Issue: None of your mail enabled public folders are accepting mail after migrating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010.  The public folders still show as being mail enabled, and each folders permissions still shows the Anonymous group as at least having "Contributor" rights. Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups: PUBFOLDERNAME (PUBFOLDER@contoso.com) There's a problem with the recipient's mailbox. Please try resending the message. If the problem continues, please Read more [...]

Move Mailbox Failing: Insufficient access rights to perform the operation (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS)

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The following is a common issue when moving mailboxes (New-MoveRequest) from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007/2010.  This issue is caused by the end users AD account / mailbox missing certain permissions which allow the administrator account and system to modify and move the mailbox.  This issue is scarcely documented, but can be easily corrected by forcing the AD account to inherit permissions.  Many migration issues are caused by permissions issues resulting from the 'inherit permissions' checkbox Read more [...]

Exchange 2010 Rollup taking forever: “Setup Wizard is generating native images for .NET assemblies”

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Have you noticed the .NET assemblies portion of an Exchange Rollup installation takes a very long time?  This is due to a check against the certificate revocation list for each .NET assembly that is compiled.  This wait time is even more extreme in the case of servers without internet access as each revocation list check must time out before it moves on to the next. I discovered a fix which helps significantly:  Temporarily, turning off the certificate revocation list check before running Read more [...]

Outlook Web Access is in the wrong language for one user

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After moving mailbox's from Exchange 2003 to 2010, one remote user reported their OWA was in Spanish. This can be fun to try and walk them through changing the OWA language options over the phone when the options are in spanish so I opted to fix it via the Exchange Management Shell: [PS] C:\Windows\system32>Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration -Identity jsmith -Language en-us [PS] C:\Windows\system32>get-mailboxregionalconfiguration -identity dlogsdon |fl RunspaceId : 8d5eecb9-1952-4605-876f-c08c540d96a8 DateFormat Read more [...]