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Allowing manager access to user's email stealthily

Environment: Exchange 2010 SP1, Outlook 2010 Pro Plus We have a manager that needs access to a user's live email box without that user knowing about it (suspected wrong doing). Obviously, we could ...
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Deleting an Exchange 2010 database. Should anything special be done with system databases?

I'm about to delete and recreate a mailbox database, however I still see mailboxes in the database [PS] C:\Scripts\Exchange>Get-MailboxStatistics -Database db01 | ft -a DisplayName ...
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DAG IP address is that of the *passive* site. What could cause this and how do I correct?

I have two sites in a stretched DAG across 2 sites. When I ping the name of the DAG (not CAS array) I get the IP address of the remote site where no mailbox replicas are mounted. What impact does ...
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Exchange 2010 - Mailbox Export much larger than actual size

I issue this command to export the mailbox of a user: New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox "user" -FilePath "\\server\share\user.pst" After 2 minutes or so, this file have been generated: Notice the ...
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Shared mailbox - users cannot create or view subfolders

I've setup a shared mailbox on our Exchange 2010/SBS2011 server. I've added some users as Full permission-users on this mailbox, and when they open Outlook/login to OWA the mailbox is automatically ...
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Purchased another company, need to keep their domain up and change their logons and merge mailboxes. [closed]

We recently purchased a new company and we need to migrate the users to our active directory and domain. We have to keep their active directory domain up for some time to log into a business ...
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Exchange 2010: Event id 9554 for deleted mailbox

I've deleted a mailbox and it's user in Exchange 2010. Now I'm getting the following warnings in the event log of the Exchange server: Unable to update Mailbox SD in the DS. Mailbox Guid: ...
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Design Exchange mailboxes

I would like to have the following functionality in Exchange 2010 on SBS2011. department mailboxes dep1@domain.com, dep2@domain.com personal mailboxes user1@domain.com, user2@domain.com etc. avoid ...
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Exchange 2010 Mailbox Export

How can I make a backup of an Exchange mailbox to .pst without the end user noticing (aka, not deleting/removing content from the mailbox and not notify the user at all. Basically we have a sensitive ...
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Any command to help export multiple mailboxes in Exchange 2010?

Any command to help export multiple mailboxes in Exchange 2010? I'm not exporting all the mailboxes but I was wondering if you had any useful tip to make the process faster and easier. Thank you :)
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Check for an existing Mailbox Move Request

Using Powershell, how can I check if there is an existing move request for an Exchange mailbox without it throwing up an error? I need to run this script from code, and I'd rather not check for the ...
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Move exchange mailboxes cross forest

Having a hard time migrating user mailboxes across 2 forests. I've set up ADMT 3.2, No dns issues and fully route-able between the domains etc. Have come to migrate user mailboxes and the exchange ...
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Configure two Exchange 2010 machines for failover

Background: We will be using Exchange 2010 to deliver time-sensitive email alerts to known users outside of our organization (lets call our org 'internal.loc'). The project calls for some sort of ...
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Exchange 2010 MailboxDisabled after Storage Quota Reached

In Exchange 2010 we have found that users are not able to access their mailbox once they hit their storage quota. This is not what we want: we want them to receive a warning, but still be able to get ...
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Exchange 2010 mailbox server role on a secondary dc - what is your opinion

I'm looking at the database availability groups in regards to creating a constant replication of the mailbox database. Here are three options I'm thinking of (and sorry if I'm wrong with my ...
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Viewing full access mailboxes in OWA

I'm running Exchange 2010 and I give full access permissions to the HR mailbox to John. John only accesses his mailbox through OWA; he doesn't even have Outlook on his Mac. How does John view the HR ...
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How much storage space is required for an Exchange Mailbox Server? MS Calculator must be high

I am building an Exchange 2010 environment and am trying to determain the amount of storage that will be required for the 2 Mailbox servers. Here are the specs: -2000 user mailboxes (per mailbox) ...