I had a need to export particular data of users from a specific group in Active Directory. Windows has two tools for this: cvsde and ldifde – the de stands for Directory Exchange.So the following gives an example of exporting to CSV data of users from a group. I just ran this from a Windows… Read more »
Posts Categorized: exchange
Exporting Global Address List
I was thinking of trying to export/convert the Exchange Global Address List GAL so that I could then import this into other email client address books such as Evolution or Thunderbird. While it would be possible to do this with any language and running an LDAP search I happened upon the following micro$oft tools: csvde… Read more »
Exchange Offline Address Book Not Updating
Some users where complaining about the Offline Address Book being out-of-date. Checking the Event Viewer on the cluster node which creates the OAB showed the following error: OALGen detected that the file ‘…..lzx’ is corruptedor missing. This indicates data tampering or disk problems. Restorefiles in this folder from the recent backup or clean up folder… Read more »
Grepping MailboxFolderStatistics
I am trying to get the the mailbox folder sizes for a user with many folders. Wouldn’t it be great if I could just: get-mailboxfolderstatistics USER | grep “foldernamepattern” | ft Obviously this does not work so: Get-MailboxFolderStatistics USER | Where { $_.Name -match “pattern*” } | sort -desc FolderSize | ft Name,ItemsInFolder,@{expression={$_.FolderSize.ToKB()};Label=”Folder Size (KB)”},@{expression={$_.FolderAndSubFolderSize.ToKB()};Label=”Folder… Read more »
Items Stuck in OWA Outbox
We had an Exchange user with message items appearing in her OWA outbox but which did not display in Outlook. Attempts to delete these items failed and the items kept re-appearing in the OWA outbox possibly indicating some sort of corruption of these items? Solution: Move the mailbox to another mailbox database setting the BadItem… Read more »
Exchange server address list service failed to respond
Attempting to move a mailbox from one database to another and received the following error: The address list service on the server ‘SERVERNAME’ is not running. The Exchange server address list service failed to respond. Solution: The ‘Microsoft Exchange System Attendant’ service on the server may be showing as running but needs to be restarted,… Read more »
Outlook messages stuck in Outbox
Slight problem today with emails stuck in users’ outboxes in Outlook and for OWA users their messages were moving to the Drafts folder without being sent. Problem was that a few services on the server hadn’t started automatically after an update. Starting the services again seems to have solved the problem.
Problem Adding Exchange Profile
Setting up the email account for Outlook results in the message: “The action cannot be completed. The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action.” The server address I had used had an outdated certificate. I was able to add the account by providing the actual mailbox… Read more »
PST Export from Recovery Storage Group
I was hoping for some Export-Mailbox -PSTFolderPath functionality for mailboxes in a database in a recovery storage group but what I ended up doing was: get-mailboxdatabase -identity “ServerName\Recovery Storage Group\Mailbox Database” | Add-ADPermission -user “domain\adminusername” -ExtendedRights Receive-As Then using ExMerge on an Exchange 2003 box to export the mailboxes to PST format. The following Powershell… Read more »
Outlook Web Access Light To the Rescue
Microsoft’s deliberate feature omissions from OWA Light came to the rescue today when some of our users could not access OWA full during a recent spell were we had to use temporary mailbox databases while we repaired corrupted databases.While normal Outlook access appeared to be fine. OWA was giving the following error message for some… Read more »
