OWA allows for changing the AD/domain password but in our case this needed to be disabled as currently password syncronisation back out to the other directories is not possible.EMC > Server Config > Client Access , for each of the Client Access machines right-click the Outlook Web Access – owa option and choose Properties. In… Read more »
Posts Categorized: exchange
Offline Addressbook Problems
I had a customer who was having difficulty sending emails to a user who was given a new mailbox/email address. Updating the addressbook in Outlook (via Tools > Send and Receive > Download Address Book) was failing.I checked the folder (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Exchange\ClientAccess\OAB) on a recently rebuilt Client Access / front-end machine which did not… Read more »
Active Directory MMC – Object Tab
I keep forgetting how to enable the ‘Object’ tab in the Active Directory MMC to view the location of an object in the tree, so for future reference….In the main MMC window choose View > Advanced Features
Exchange 2007 Logs from Client Access Machines
A short script to make it a little easier to retrieve logs from several client access machines. A little quicker than using the Toolbox Message Tracking Log: $strEvent = “RECEIVE”$dteStart = “31/08/2008 12:34:00”$dteEnd = “01/09/2008 16:44:00”$strMessageSubject = “Email Account Owner”Get-ExchangeServer Where {$_.ServerRole -match ‘ClientAccess’} ForEach {Get-MessageTrackingLog -Server $_.Fqdn -EventID $strEvent -MessageSubject $strMessageSubject -Start $dteStart -End… Read more »
Add Exchange Snapin to Windows Powershell
Trying to run exchange-specific commands in the windows powershell returns errors so to make the windows powershell aware of the exchange commands we need to add the appropriate snap in with: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Powershell.Admin That line can be added at the top of any scheduled task scripts.exchange powershell scheduled tasksimport use exchange commands in windows powershelladd… Read more »
Exchange 2007 Re-build Problem
We had a problem when re-building one of our client access / hub transport machines from scratch. The Exchange installation would not proceed as the machine existed before with the same hostname.To solve this we used the ADSI Edit snap-in in an MMC and: Right-clicked ADSI Edit and chose ‘Connect To’, then change the Naming… Read more »
Beginning Powershell
When writing my first powershell script to check free disk space on a dozen exchange servers I picked up a few useful things for future reference. Echoing output to the command lineA script can print/write output to stdout using Write-Host “Hello World” but this command is aliased too, so that echo “Hello World” will also… Read more »
