How do I know which DAG member is running primary active manager ?
"PAM is the Active Manager in a DAG that decides which copies will be active and passive. If the server that owns the cluster quorum resource fails, the PAM role automatically moves to a surviving...
View ArticlePST Capture, Import Error: Value cannot be null.
Hi allWhen trying to import with PST Capture tool PST's to mailbox, after transferring reach to 100% we get error.Import error: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: keyCan someone please explain this...
View ArticleManually start mailbox archiving
Hi all,is there a way to configure exchange 2010 that emails would be archived on predifined times?Let's say it would check all the mailboxes for emails older than 7 days every Sunday and move them as...
View Articledatabase portability question
Hello all,I have Exchange 2010 SP2 UR2 (Enterprise edition) CAS & Hub transport running on one server (Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise) Mailbox running on one server (Windows 2008 R2 Standard)Goal is to...
View ArticleSP2 Rollup 6 Has Broken Outlook Anywhere!
Hi there,We have a setup as below..Flint, US3 x CAS servers in an ArrayDublin, EU3 x CAS servers in an ArrayEach server has got outlook anywhere enabled identically with a front end name and SSL...
View ArticleSend As permissions and Domain Admin
Good Afternoon, I'm running into a problem that I'm trying to work around. I have a owner of a company who has Domain Admin access on his account and needs his administrative assistant to have the...
View ArticleExchange 2010 Coexisting Servers - Disabling send connector.
I have completed my migration of mailboxes to my new Exchange 2010 server, which is running side by side currently with the old Exchange 2010 server that I will be decomissioning.Before I move forward...
View ArticleExchange 2010 SP3 - Site Failover Test
I have a 2 site DAG (2 servers in primary and 1 in DR Site). FSW and Alt-FSW have been configured for potential need.I have a requirement in which I need to regularly test the failover mechanism - to...
View ArticleOutgoing e-mail routing confusion
Hi,I ran into a situation in an Exchange 2010 environment recently that I am having a hard time understanding so I am posting the symptoms here, hoping someone can clarify :-)The setup consists of...
View ArticleExchange 2007 to 2010 Mailbox Moves - Suggestion Needed
Hey everyone! I'd like to get some ideas - we have ~3000 mailboxes with which to contend during this move and I want to make it as seamless and time efficient as possible. My first inclination was to...
View ArticleCan't delete email messages with voice mail attachments
EXCH 2010, SP2, RU6 [installed 18FEB]. Clients use Office 2010 Enterprise. Voice mail messages are dropped to EXCH2010 inboxes by Cisco Unity Voice Mail servers as *.wav attachments to emails. Voice...
View ArticleExchange Auth breaks when no local GC
(Cross post from ServerFault) I ran into a problem while installing our Exchange 2010 server where client access authentication breaks when there is no local global catalogue. I went to production...
View ArticleError 0x6d1 (The procedure number is out of range)...
Thank goodness for Dev servers! :)A couple of weeks back, a co-worker installed .Net 4.5 and PowerShell 3 on one of our Dev Exchange servers. In doing so, it broke the Exchange Mgmt shell because we...
View ArticleUninstall Exchange 2010.... "isn't a fully qualified domain name (FQDN)"
I'm running into an issue with uninstalling Exchange 2010 from a Server 2008 R2 (non SBS environment).I'm not finding much on the error or figuring out how to fix it. Anyways when it runs through the...
View ArticleOWA advice please
Hi, recently all clients on our SBS network are having problems with automatic replys, after reading a lot of posts related to this, i noticed people say Automatic replies are working in OWA. I wanted...
View ArticleExchange 2003 to 2010 Routing group - queues randomly grow and delay.
I am in the process of migrating users from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. We have a routing group connector for Exchange 2003 to 2010 connectivity and for the most part it works fine.However, all of...
View ArticleFSW folder is empty
HiWhile checking the folder contents of FSW folder after adding second node to DAG it seems to be empty. Also with failover cluster still it's showing as Node majority (not as expected Node and File...
View ArticleUpgrading Exchange 2010 SP1 to SP2 failed
I was trying to update my exchange server 2010 sp1 to sp2 and got the following error~: Summary: 16 item(s). 0 succeeded, 1 failed. Elapsed time: 00:02:16 Organization Preparation FailedError: The...
View ArticleOne CAS array - multiple DAGs
As the title, this will be utopia for me!Two highly connected datacenters with two stretched DAGS.Would like to implement HW load balancing between CAS servers in each DC.. so 1 single CAS array for...
View ArticleDefaultAppPool keeps stopping, causing Activesync disconnects
After an unexpected reboot of one of our Exchange 2010 CAS/Hub servers...the DefaultAppPool will not start using the ApplicationPoolIdentity that is assigned by default. I get the following 3...
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