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Inbox missing in Outlook when using Exchange Server
We had a user today that advised his Inbox is missing from Outlook. The first few things you need to check and try are as follows: 1. Open Outlook and click on yourname@company.ccc, on the right-click “Customize Outlook Today…” 2. Then click on “Choose Folders” 3. Tick “Inbox” if it has not been ticked. If Inbox shows that it has been ticked go to the step 4. 4. Close Outlook. 5. Click on start, and in “run” or “Search Programs and Files” type outlook.exe /resetfolders 6. Open Outlook. If the Inbox is still not shown the read the next few steps but make sure you only change what the article…
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How to export the relay list from an Exchange 2003 server
It’s always a good idea to export your relay list regularly in case of server crash or failures. Yes there’s other ways to restore this but if you have a txt document then it’s a lot quicker to import the list to a rebuilt or new server. In order to do this download IPsec.vbs from here. After you have downloaded the package unzip it and then register the exipsec.dll by opening the command prompt and using the syntax “regsvr32 pathtoexipsecurityexipsec.dll” and pressing enter. After registering the dll open the command prompt again and change to the ExIpSecurity folder. Then type “cscript ipsec.vbs -s (servername) -i (instance id like 1 or 2 or 3)…
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How to verify your SQL Server Version
I had a query today from auditors that needed a SQL server’s version details and for some reason using help=>about does not show if it’s the Standard or Enterprise version. To get this info open your SQL Management Studio, click on new query, in the query field type “select @@version” without the quotation marks, then click execute. This will show you the SQL version details as per below screen shot.
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How to list installed updates on Windows servers
Unfortunately the link below does not contain the script anymore. However you can use the following commands to export the list of patches installed to txt or html. wmic qfe list brief /format:htable > “%USERPROFILE%\hotfix.html” or wmic qfe list brief /format:texttablewsys > “%USERPROFILE%\hotfix.txt” The above was found on the Tech Support Alert website If you need to compare installed updates between servers then this article might just be what you are looking for. The easiest way is to run a vbscript that you may download from Jesper Johansson’s blog here. After you downloaded the script click on start => run and type cmd Then browse to the folder you downloaded…
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Export Sending Message Size Limits for users in Exchange 2003
Some companies love to set Sending Message Size Limits per user to avoid certain users from sending mail larger than the set limit on their Active Directory Account. (Please note that this is not the best practice and when used extensively will become a huge headache for you in the future) If you need to report on the set sizes for users in your environment then I would recommend you use CSVDE to export the data from Active Directory to a CSV file. The attribute in Active Directory that you are looking for is “submissionContLength”. You can see the set value in ADUC or using ADSIEDIT. To change the allowed send…
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Reporting on OWA for Exchange 2003
I recently received a request to report on OWA for a 2003 Exchange environment. Needless to say without any 3rd party tools you are kind of left in the dark. However, I found the below website that assisted me with pulling some stats from the IIS logs using Log Parser 2.2 and 2 SQL scripts. First browse to this website and follow the instructions. The site will give you 99% of the information you need to pull the reports. There was one issue that they failed to mention though. How do I export the data to CSV??? Here is a screenshot of how the command looks like: (you need to add -o:CSV…
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Export mailbox permissions on Exchange 2003
I had a request to export mailbox permissions on an Exchange 2003 Exchange server to see who has rights on certain individuals’ mailboxes and what rights these groups and people have on the said mailboxes. I found a tool called ADModify that did the job perfectly. The tool exports the data to xml. Open it with Microsoft Excel and choose “Open as XML Table”. Then use the filters at the top to view what the permissions are and what permissions each object holds on the particular mailbox. The download link to ADModify is here. A very nice tutorial on using the tool to only export mailbox rights can be found here. Note…
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Windows 2003: The Cluster Service on node ‘Clustername’ cannot be started. The network path was not found.
There are two ways of resolving an issue when you receive the error “Windows 2003: The Cluster Service on node ‘Clustername’ cannot be started. The network path was not found.” when trying to open Cluster Administrator on an Exchange 2003 server running Windows 2003 First try this: From one of the cluster nodes: Click Start, go to Programs, go to Administrative Tools, click on Cluster Administrator. When prompted to connect to a cluster, type a (.) in the Open Connection to Cluster box, and then click Open. (Just bring the offline resources online if nothing has changed on the Network Adapter side of things and skip the next steps) Click the…
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Unable to Exmerge or getting error (0x8004011d)
If you are unable to exmerge a mailbox on Exchange 2003 or get the error (0x8004011d) try the following: 1.Verify that the user account under which you run the Exchange Mailbox Merge program has the Receive As and Send As security permissions set to Allow for the Mailbox Store. To do this, follow these steps: •Start Exchange System Manager. •Expand Servers and expand the server that you want to run exmerge on and expand the storage group that you want. •Right-click Mailbox Store, and click on Properties. •Click on the Security tab and then click the user account whose permissions you want to verify (this is the account you are running exmerge with).…
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Export Mailbox sizes per server to csv (Exchange 2003)
If you need a rather quick way to export all the mailbox sizes on a particular server then the below link is for you. Download the script, run it by opening the command prompt and type cscript MSX_GetMailboxSize.vbs thenameoftheserverhostingthemailboxes>filenameyouwanttochoose.csv Remember to add the export location to the above command if you want to save the export to a particular path ie: cscript MSX_GetMailboxSize.vbs servername>e:reportsserver1.csv Open the csv export with Excel after you ran the script. You can then manipulate the contents to the format you need as all mailbox data will be there. Fields exported to csv using this script are: Display Name SizeMB SizeGB Storage Group Store Total Items I used…
