Microsoft Exchange

How to: Moving an Exchange Mailbox from one user to another

OK so I have had a few issues at work where for some reason or other users are prompted for their AD credentials when accessing the Internet through our proxy server (ISA 2000 with Surfcontrol 5.0). For the life of me I could not get to the bottom of the issue. I tried cleaning out her profile, deleting her profile, move her out of Group Policy and it still happened. The same problem had happened before so the only other thing was to delete the user and recreate the account and re-attach the mailbox. The problem with this is that if...

11 March 2008One Comment

Exchange 2003 System Manager and Windows Vista

Well I finally decided to think about using Windows Vista, we have a copy of it at work for use with our MSDN Subscription. So I commandeered a decent laptop with plenty of RAM and good processor and installed Vista on it. The install was pretty straight forward, installed the OS, installed the drivers, installed some updates and we were ready to rock and roll. I then installed the Active Directory Tools, these went on no bother. Then I thought I'll install ESM 2003, now, as this needs IIS 6/IIS 5 installed I thought I'll install IIS. question was where? I opened...

23 January 2008Add Comment

Exchange Mail Stores Do Not Mount After A Restore

I recently tried a restore of an Exchange Backup on to a DR (disaster Recovery) system as I wanted to test the diskpart utility as our exchange servers are running out of space. I ran a full AD and Exchange backup of the live system, then plugged that backup server into a small DR Network.I had already backed up and restored AD. So I restored the Exchange Server's file system, System State, re-booted and all loaded ok. Next thing was to restore the Mail Stores. I kicked that off and as my mini network was running at 1.0gpbs the restore...

23 January 2008Add Comment