Download Address Book in Outlook generates error 0x80190197
Users at a new remote site have reported that they are unable to download the offline address book (OAB) in Outlook as it generates an error: Task ‘user@domain.com’ reported error (0x80190197) : ‘An unexpected error has occurred.’ The Exchange environment…
Exchange 2010 – The user has insufficient access rights when deleting a mailbox
While attempting to remove an old user mailbox from an Exchange 2010 environment (using the EMC) I encountered an access denied error: Error: Active Directory operation failed on <domain controller>. this error is not retriable. Additional information: Access is denied….
Update the Offline Address Book
By default the Offline Address Book (OAB) in Exchange 2010 only gets rebuilt every 24 hours. Also, Outlook clients only download the OAB once every 24 hours so it can seem like days before new entries are visible to end…
View the members of a Dynamic Distribution Group using PowerShell
If you need to preview the members of a Dynamic Distribution Group then you can do this easily using the Get-Recipient and Get-DynamicDistributionGroup cmdlets. The following example returns the list of members in the “Newport Users” DDG: $DDG = Get-DynamicDistributionGroup…
Create a Dynamic Distribution Group by Office
Using the Exchange Management Console in Exchange 2010 to create a Dynamic Distribution Group only allows for a limited number of conditions, such as State, Department or Company. As is often the case PowerShell is the way to get around this….
Enable SMTP logging in Exchange 2010
By default logging is disabled for the SMTP protocol. I need to enable it for troubleshooting so here is how to do that using the EMC (Exchange Management Console): Open EMC Navigate to Microsoft Exchange On-Premises -> Server Configuration ->…
Use PowerShell to determine the total size of disconnected mailboxes in a mailbox database
I have been performing some housekeeping tasks which include removing old user mailboxes. While doing this I was curious how much disk space I would be saving so I took a few minutes to leverage the Get-MailboxStatistics cmdlet and…
Calendar requests sent to resource mailbox have no content
I have been trying to work out why calendar invitations sent to room mailboxes have the content stripped out. I now understand that this is applied to all resource mailboxes by default. I have changed this by using the Set-CalendarProcessing…
Change a mailbox type using PowerShell
Today I needed to convert an existing user mailbox into a room mailbox. I was able to do this quite easily using the Set-Mailbox cmdlet. Here is an example of how to do this: Set-Mailbox -Identity “boardroom” -Type Room Note:…