Exchange 2010 – Page 8

Send email from another Person or Group

Scenario: When sending an email, you want to Send as/Send on behalf as someone else.

Via OWA:

1. Log in to your mailbox using Outlook Web App.
2. Click + New mail above the folder list. A new message form will appear in the reading pane.
3. Click the more options menu … , and then click Show from.
4. Select the email address that displays in the From field and delete it.
5. Type the name of the user for which you have permission to send email. If you don’t see the name in of the person you want to send From box, you can click Search contact & directory to search the directory of your organization.
6. Add recipients, a subject, and the contents of the message as you typically do, and then click send Send.

Via Outlook 2013/2010

1. Click on New Email.
2. Click the From box and select Other E-mail Address… from the dropdown. (The From field is hidden click Options from within the message and then select From.)
3. You will now be able to type in or select the email address you wish to send as/send on behalf as.

A Mailbox Move Request Failed with the following Error: “An error occurred while updating a user object after the move operation. –> You cannot have ArchiveDomain set when archive is not enabled for this user”

Scenario: A mailbox fails once it tries to complete the move request. When you run get-moverequeststatistics mailboxname | FL , you see the following listed in the Message property:

An error occurred while updating a user object after the move operation. –> You cannot have ArchiveDomain set when archive is not enabled for this user

Cause: Its a mailbox attribute thats left over from a previous Office 365 migration.

Resolution: Run the following:

Set-mailbox mailboxname -archivedomain $null

Test Exchange 2013 Anti-malware with the EICAR Virus

Scenario: If you want to check to see if your Exchange 2013 Anti-malware policies are working, send EICAR virus through email. Its not a actual virus, but Exchange 2013 will treat it as if it was due to the contents of the file.

1. Put the string below in the contents of a text file:

X5O!P%@AP[4PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

2. Save it as EICAR.txt

3. Attempt to email this file as an attachment to someone and observe the behavior set in your anti-malware policies.

When removing Mobile Devices from Exchange Mailboxes, you get the error message: DeviceId cannot contain hyphens.

Scenario: When you attempt to remove a mobile device from a users mailbox, you receive the error below.

Error: An unexpected error has occurred and a Watson dump is being generated: DeviceId cannot contain hyphens.

Resolution: Remove the mobile device object via ADSI Edit.

1. Open ADSI Edit.
2. Under the Default Naming Context, navigate to the user object of the mailbox that has the mobile device.
3. Expand that user object, and click on the CN=ExchangeActiveSyncDevices.
4. Delete the Mobile Device for this user.

Time your Powershell Commands

Task: You want to measure your Powershell commands so you can time your commands for efficiency. In the example below, I want to time how fast my results are returned for finding all Mailboxes in our organization.

Resolution: Select from #Start to #End and copy and paste it all into PowerShell. Make sure you paste it all at once. It will execute the start and end time variables and then subtract it. It will then display the $total in these various units of measure; TotalMilliseconds, TotalSeconds, TotalMinutes, TotalHours, TotalDays, and Ticks.

#Start
$Start = Get-Date
Get-Mailbox -resultsize unlimited
$End = Get-Date
$total = $End-$Start
$total
#End

Retrieve all mailboxes assigned to a specific ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy

Task: Retrieve all mailboxes assigned to a specific ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy. The ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy we are searching for is labeled “VIP”.

Run the following:

Get-CASMailbox -ResultSize unlimited | Where ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy -like “VIP” | Select SamAccountName, DisplayName,ActivesyncMailboxPolicy,ServerName | Export-csv C:VIP_EASPolicy.csv

Get all messages from all transport servers by a specific sender, starting on a specific day

Get all messages from all transport servers by a specific sender, starting on a specific day and export to CSV

Use this one-liner:

Get-TransportServer | Get-MessageTrackingLog -sender:test@test.com -start 7/15/2014 -resultsize unlimited | export-csv c:export.csv

Configuring Message rules for a shared Mailbox

Configuring message rules for a shared mailbox

Scenario: How do I access a shared mailbox and change a rule. I do have admin rights and full access to this mailbox but when I do a file > open> and try to change the rules, it reverts back to my primary mailbox rules.

Note: Exchange 2010 users cannot modify rules for mailboxes in Exchange 2013, and vice versa

There are several methods to get this to work:

Method 1: Outlook 2010 or Outlook 2013

Configuring Message rules for a shared Mailbox/Service Mailbox

If you are using Outlook 2010 or Outlook 2013 and either have been granted Full Access permissions to the mailbox or have been provided separate credentials for it, then you can also configure this shared mailbox as an additional Exchange account or add it as a secondary mailbox of your own.

How to add an additional mailbox in Outlook 2010:

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/microsoft/add-a-second-additional-mailbox-in-outlook-2010/

How to add an additional mailbox in Outlook 2013

http://www.groovypost.com/howto/add-additional-mailbox-in-outlook-2013/

Once the mailbox has been added, select its Inbox folder and add the rule as you would normally do for your own mailbox.

Method 2: Outlook Web App

When you have been granted Full Access permissions, then you can log on with your own username and password and click on your own name in the top-right corner to get to the option of opening another mailbox.

If you haven’t been granted Full Access permissions but do have separate log on credentials for the additional mailbox, you can use that to log on.

Once logged in, you can create a message rule in the following way:

For OWA 2013:
Gears icon (right side of your name)-> Options-> Organize email

For OWA 2010:
Options (below your name)-> Create an Inbox Rule…

Add a user as the manager of a distribution group without removing existing managers via Exchange PowerShell.

Scenario: Add a user as the manager of a distribution group without removing existing managers via Exchange PowerShell. If you were to use the Set-DistributionGroup command with the -managedby switch, it would remove the existing managers and set the managers you specified in the switch. To add the user jdoe1 as a manager and not remove the existing managers from the distribution group ‘HQ-All Employees’, run the following PowerShell commands below.

$Group = Get-DistributionGroup “HQ-All Employees”
$Managers = $Group.ManagedBy
$User = Get-User jdoe1
$Managers += $User
Set-DistributionGroup “HQ-All Employees” -Managedby $Managers -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck

Excel Magic: If you have an Excel sheet full of groups in Column A and wish to add jdoe1 as the manager to each of those groups, copy the Excel formula below and drag it down for the entire list of groups. The value of each cell will create the Powershell command that you will need for each group. Copy the cells (the cell values) and Paste it into Exchange PowerShell. Each command is separated by a ; so the 5 PowerShell commands needed will fit into one Excel Cell and fit on one PowerShell line for each group.

=”$Group= Get-distributiongroup “””&A2&”””; $Managers= $grp.managedby; $User=Get-User jdoe1;$Managers+=$User;Set-DistributionGroup “””&A2&””” -managedby $Managers -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck”

A user receives ‘Something went wrong Sorry, we can’t get that information right now. Please try again later. If the problem continues contact your helpdesk’ error message when accessing OWA.

Scenario: A new mailbox is provisioned and the user is receiving the following error when accessing their mailbox via OWA:

😦something went wrong

Sorry, we can’t get that information right now. Please try again later. If the problem continues, contact your helpdesk.

All normal mail protocols such as OWA and ECP were enabled by default.

Resolution: I performed a search against the email address for that mailbox and came across two mailboxes that had the same email address (get-mailbox jdoe@domain.com). I removed this email alias from the user who was not using it. The user experiencing the problem could now login to OWA.