Exchange 2013 PowerShell changes

We have already published the list of the new PowerShell commands available in Microsoft Exchange 2013.
You can read about it here:
Exchange 2013 Powershell

It turns out that with the appearance of additional new commands to help you work with Exchange 2013 using Powershell also disappeared a few requests to use public folders. Probably has something to do with the change the organization of public folders in the new Exchange.

The following commands are no longer available in Exchange 2013:

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Microsoft Exchange 2013 OWA (Outlook Web App) supported browsers

 

Below that systems with which browsers support the latest solutions used in Outlook Web App (OWA)

descriptions:

  • Best – all Outlook Web App functions are supported
  • Good – most of Outlook Web App functions are supported
  • Light – only Light Outlook Web App available in browser

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Microsoft Outlook search tips

When you want to find something in Microsoft Outlook you can use Search Bar.

To do this press Ctrl+E or just click in Search Bar.

The search bar in the new Microsoft Outlook 2013 allows us to select items in search:

  • current mailbox
  • current folder
  • subfolders
  • all mailboxes
  • all Outlook items

 

But in Microsoft Outlook you can use more options which will help you to find something.

You have to just write specified query in search box.
like:
messagesize:>5mb – find all messages which size is more than 5MB.

subject:”some subject” – find all messages with subject some subject

also you can use logical operators like AND, NOT, OR, <, >, = to refine your search.
Remember: Logical operators must be typed in uppercase letters.

More examples of search criteria can be found below in table:

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Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 7 (KB2743248)

On 13th August 2012 Microsoft released next update for Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1.

This time this is Rollup 7 (KB2743248)

To download this update Rollup 7 for Exchange 2010 SP1 visit link:

Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (KB2743248)

Issues that the update rollup resolves

Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 resolves the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles:

  • 2740358 MS12-058: Vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server WebReady document viewing could allow remote code execution: August 14, 2012

 

Full description of new update can find here:

Description of Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1

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Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP3 Rollup 8

New update for Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP3 was released on August 13th 2012

This is Rollup 8 for Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP3 which can be downloaded from Microsoft Download Center:

Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3

This update contains a number of customer reported and internally found issues.

For detailed description of this update go to:

Description of Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 KB 2734323 

Issues that the update rollup resolves:

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Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP2 Rollup 4

On August 13th 2012, the Microsoft Exchange team released Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2.
This update Rollup 4 can be downloaded from Microsoft Download Center:

Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (KB2706690)

This update contains a number of customer reported and internally found issues.

Detailed description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 can be found here:

Description Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 KB 2706690

Remember, you only need to download the latest update for the version of Exchange that you’re running.

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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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Exchange 2010 SP2 RU1 RU2 RU3 and CAS to CAS Proxy Incompatibility

Exchange 2010 OWA

Exchange 2010 SP2 CAS Proxying

If any of you considering installing Exchnage 2010 SP2 with RU1 or RU2 or Ru3, the following information is addressed to you.

 

If your Exchange Organization have many Exchange Servers with CAS roles with different Exchange version, then after upgrade any of CAS server to Exchange 2010 SP2 with RU1 or RU2 or RU3 you can have problems with CAS to CAS proxying.

In scenario where an Exchange 2010 SP2 RU1 Client Access server is proxying to an earlier version of Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2007 Client Access server, then you are affected with a problem to use OWA.

In Event Log you can find errors like:

Event ID: 4999
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchange Common
Task Category: General
Level: Error
Description: Watson report about to be sent for process id: 744, with parameters: E12, c-RTL-AMD64, 14.02.0283.003, OWA, M.E.Clients.Owa, M.E.C.O.C.ProxyUtilities.UpdateProxyUserContextIdFromResponse, M.E.C.O.Core.OwaAsyncOperationException, 413, 14.02.0283.003.

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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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Outlook size limit for .pst .ost files

If you use Outlook with internet mailbox or with Exchange cached mode, outlook will use .pst or .ost file to store data.

Each of this files has his own maximum data limit supported by Outlook.
If this limit is reached .pst or .ost files are permitted to add any more data.

If outlook pst, ost file reach the size limit then you will get the warning.

Below, in table you can check maximum size limit, depended on Outlook version.

 

Outlook 2010

Name Type Valid Data Range Default
MaxLargeFileSize REG_DWORD 0x00000001 – 0x0000C800 0x0000C800 51,200 (50 GB)
WarnLargeFileSize REG_DWORD 0x00000000 – 0x0000BE00 0x0000BE00 48,640 (47.5 GB)
MaxFileSize REG_DWORD 0x001F4400 – 0x7C004400 0x7BB04400 2,075,149,312 (1.933 GB)
WarnFileSize REG_DWORD 0x00042400 – 0x7C004400 0x74404400 1,950,368,768 (1.816 GB)

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