November 24, 2011 Dave Stork Exchange 2010, Management, Question of the day 2 comments

Handing out only Send-as permissions with Exchange 2010 RBAC

Reading Time: 2 minutesOn a project I am currently working on, the management of mail recipients was handed over from the build/migrate team, to the administrators after the mail was migrated from the old mail system to Exchange 2010 We had to restrict the administrators temporarily from other settings, like server and organization settings, even some small restriction on the normal Mail recipient management (setting and adjusting mailbox quota’s). Not to be annoying, but to keep responsibilities clear. When working with Exchange 2010

November 5, 2011 Dave Stork Active Directory, Exchange 2010, Management, OWA, Question of the day Leave a comment

Can’t change OWA password at first logon via Threat Management Gateway?

Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring the first stages of delivering services of our newly built infrastructure to end-users, we came across an annoying issue. Exchange was the first to be accessed, but specifically through Outlook Web App (OWA). As the users where migrated from eDIR and GroupWise, they would get credentials from us. As a security measure we wanted to make a password change at first logon mandatory. I knew there were issues with Exchange 2010, but they were resolved with Service Pack 1.

November 2, 2011 Dave Stork Exchange 2010, High Availability, Management, Question of the day Leave a comment

Unable to change database path on Exchange 2010 in a DAG?

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you find yourself unable to change the database path of an Exchange 2010 database, check whether it is part of a DAG. See the screenshot for the missing option: If so, you cannot move it. The solution is to remove all copies except the active. Now you can move the DB and Transaction log paths. Do note that you will have downtime! Changing the path requires a dismount and since you do not have the redundancy of a DAG,