Tag Archives: Exchange 2010

Search All Users Mailboxes for specific content in Discovery situation

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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 [...]

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 [...]

The Checkbox of Doom

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There are many issues that come up in exchange which are fixed by an undocumented checkbox procedure (see very bottom of post for an examples of issues).  I call this checkbox, The Checkbox of Doom as it is responsible for many failed move-mailbox requests as well as causing mobile devices to stop receiving mail after mailboxes are migrated (iPhone mail shows as connected to server but inbox is empty). 2021 Update: "The Checkbox Polymorph'ed Self" You find yourself in a dungeon and your head hurts. Read more [...]