Shared Mailbox deleted and sent items separation

Most of us who has used Shared Mailbox in Microsoft Exchange environment, met with users complaints that emails which they sent a message using the shared mailbox account goes to Sent Items personal mailbox.

This behavior is normall for scenario when we use Microsoft Outlook with personal mailbox and automapped shared mailbox. Then when we delete or send message from shared mailbox account, the message goes to personal recycle bin or sent items.

 

How can we separate Shared Mailbox deleted and sent items ?

We have two solutions to separate sent and deleted items:

  1. Use Microsoft Outlook 2010 and add shared mailbox as normal mailbox account
  2. Change windows registry on client computer with different Outlook versions


 

1. Use Microsoft Outlook 2010 for Shared Mailbox to separate sent and deleted items

When you use Microsoft Outlook and you get permissions to shared mailbox, this mailbox will be automapped in Outlook.

After automapping when you send a message from shared mailbox this message will be saved in sent items of your personal mailbox. This behavior often is unwanted.

To make Outlook 2010 to save all sent items or deleted items from shared mailbox to sent items folder or deleted items folder in shared mailbox you have to add shared mailbox as equivalent mailbox in Outlook.

Close Microsoft Outlook 2010 with your personal mailbox, and go to Control Panel, Mail  next in Mail Setup – Outlook window choose:
E-mail Accounts…

Next in Account Settings window choose New…, and select

Manually configure server settings or additional server types

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Exchange recipients limit

In fact, this information is easily available on technet, but sometimes it is useful to organize and put them in one place.

Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007  recipients limit

There is an important change compared to Exchange 2003 – Distribution group are treated as one recipient.

We can restrict recipients limit at the following levels:

  • Organization
  • Transport server
  • Receive Connector
  • Mailbox

So…

Recipient limit  at the organization level, we can check this PowerShell command:

Get-TransportConfig | fl MaxRecipientEnvelopeLimit

or in EMC

Organization Configuration | Hub Transport | Global Settings | Transport Settings tab | Transport Settings Properties

Transport Settings

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Exchange 2010 get information about mailbox size

Information about the amount of space that occupies a particular mailbox, we can easily preview the Exchange Management Console.

Unfortunately, if we want to get more information about the mailboxes, or mailboxes that meet that special condition, the realization of such a task in the EMC will be very time consuming.

In such a case comes to us from the console using the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) in which the PowerShell commands, we can get a lot of interesting information on the mailboxes located on Microsoft Exchange.

Display all information about the mailbox:

Get-MailboxStatistics john.smith@domena.com | FL

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Exchange 2010 Powershell how to count mailboxes

We often encounter the need to determine how many mailboxes in a given time is in different databases or around the Microsoft Exchange Server.

Such information can be easily obtained by using the Exchange Management Shell cmdlets for Exchange 2010.

Examples of use:

Determination of the number of all mailboxes in an Exchange Organization

 

(Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited).count

ResultSize option we use if our Exchange environment has more than 1000 mailboxes

Number of mailboxes in different databases:

Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited | Group-Object -Property:Database | Select-Object Name,Count

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Search-Mailbox search and remove emails

Each administrator of the Microsoft Exchange Server had certainly met or will meet with a situation where you have to find a specific email in the mailboxes, and sometimes even remove it.

In Microsoft Exchange 2010 to search mailboxes, we can successfully use the Search-Mailbox command.

But first make sure that we can run the command Mailbox-Search and
New-MailboxImportRequest
.
If you try to run the New-MailboxImportRequest and reveive the message:

 “The term ‘New-MailboxImportRequest’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet”

 

This means that we do not have appropriate access rights.

Giving the appropriate permissions:

In Active Directory, create a universal security group such ExchangeImportExport_Allowed

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Microsoft Exchange 2010 what affects the size of the mailbox database

The Microsoft Exchange database size depends mainly on the number and size of the mailboxes located at the mailbox database.

Size of boxes, which will be located in a given database, we can predict and control so that we know about what size will depend on our database.

Unfortunately, there is still a couple of other factors that could cause sudden expansion of the size of the database or its continued growth.
Below we will present on what you should look in the settings database.

The main parameter determining the maximum size of mailboxes in the database is Quota.
Quotas can be set at the mailbox database and then will apply to all mailboxes in the database if individual quota is set on mailbox.

The quotas can view the values and set in the Exchange Management Console in the properties of the database, we can also be changed using the PowerShell command:

Displays the current quota limits:

 Get-MailboxDatabase "MailboxDatabase" | Select *Quota*

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Microsoft Exchange 2013 New PowerShell cmdlets

List of new PowerShell commands (cmdlets), released with Microsoft Exchange 2013 we published in our post on Exchange Blog here:
Exchange 2013 Powershell

You can now find in internet a detailed list of new commands and a description of their use.
This list is shown below:

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Microsoft Exchange 2010 how to reduce the size of the database

As is known in the Microsoft Exchange database size after removal of the mailboxes is not decreasing but remains the same.
Created the database “gap” so called White Space which tells us about the amount of available space, which can be used without the need to increase the size of the database file .edb.
Only after completing the White Space, a further increase in the size of mailboxes in the database, it will increase the file size .edb file.

In the case of Microsoft Exchange databases such solution is problematic, because in order to reduce file size .edb after removing mailboxes from the database we use the most with ESEUTIL, which have performed defrag the database.

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How to remove (purge) Disconnected Mailboxes

If in the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 we delete mailbox users by selecting the Remove or Disable, mailboxes and their contents are still stored in the Exchange database.

The difference between the operation Remove and Disable:

  • Disable – disconnects the mailbox from email were the user account in Active Directory, leaving the user account enabled, as indicated in the Disconnected mailboxes list, disappears from the address book and it can be reconnected by going in for EMC: Exchange Organization -> Recipient Configuration -> Disconnect Mailboxes
  • Remove – removes the user account in Active Directory with mailbox

If you want to see a list of disconnected mailboxes in specified Exchange databasethen use the command:

Get-MailboxStatistics -Database "MailboxDatabase" | Where { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | select DisplayName, DisconnectDate,TotalItemSize, TotalDeletedItemSize

to show all disconnected mailboxes in specified mailbox server:

Get-MailboxStatistics -Server MBXServer | where { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | select DisplayName,DisconnectDate | sort DisconnectDate

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Exchange Administration Center how to use

Console Web-word Exchange Administration Center is available in Microsoft Exchange 2013 Preview, we can start typing in the browser to the Exchange server:

https://serwer/ecp

Next in the window like the following log in to the console

EAC Logon Screen

 

When you start the console found in the sections such as:

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