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Powershell – Get-DistributionGroup with all email addressess

$File = “C:\ita\groupslog.txt”
Get-DistributionGroup | select name , alias ,displayname,EmailAddresses | foreach {
“Name: “+$_.name
“Alias: “+$_.alias
“Displayname“ +$_.displayname
$_.EmailAddresses | foreach {
if($_.SmtpAddress){
“SmtpAddress: “+$_.SmtpAddress
}
}
} | out-File $File

Test Exchange remote connectivity

Microsoft have launch a new webpage to test Exchange remote connectivity.

It can test:

ActiveSync
Activesync autodiscover
Outlook autodiscover
Microsoft Exchange Web Services Connectivity Tests
Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTP)

Outbound SMTP E-Mail

https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/

A problem occurred while trying to use your mailbox

Today i have a user that could get access to the exchange webmail. (OWA).

There are som solutions for this error, try to fix from bullet number 1, and down.

  1. Get-Mailbox User_Name | format-list ExchangeVersion
    if the version is below 0.1 the run this command:
    Set-Mailbox User_Name -ApplyMandatoryProperties
  2. 1. Open ADUC, and go to the properties of the user that is having problems.
    2. Click the Security tab, and then the Advanced button.
    3. Make sure the “Allow inheritable permissions from the parent to propagate to this object…” is checked.
    4. Give AD time to replicate the change and try to login in via OWA again.
  3. Restart the Information Store service.
  4. 1. Open ADUC, and go to the properties of the user that is having problems.
    2. Click the Security tab, and then the find the account SELF.
    3. Give it fuld access.
    4. Give AD time to replicate the change and try to login in via OWA again.
  5. If all this dosen’t work, disable the user in Exchange EMC, this will delete the mailbox, so remember to have a backup of the account first. Then create a new mailbox to this user, and create the user again, and restore the mailbox from your backup.

Export Exchange 2007/2010 tracking log

To export Exchange 2007/2010 tracking log to a Excel, just run this command.
get-messagetrackinglog -Start “31-08-2010 00:00:00” -End “01-09-2010 12:16:00″ -resultsize Unlimited | select-object Timestamp,ClientIp,ClientHostname,ServerIp,ServerHostname,SourceContext,ConnectorId,Source,EventId,InternalMessageId,MessageId,TotalBytes,RecipientCount,MessageSubject,Sender,ReturnPath,@{Name=”Recipients”;Expression={$_.recipients}},MessageInfo | Export-Csv
It will export all mails from 31/8-2010 to 1/9-2010, with the selected fiels.

Outlook crash on opening a shared calendar

I have a problems today with an Outlook that keeps crash sometimes when a user is opening a share calendar. I tested it on my test machine and when the user opening the shared calendar at my test machine my own outlook crash also.

I then try to give the user full permission to the mailbox and that resolve the issues.

The error code in the event viewer was:

Faulting application outlook.exe, version 12.0.6514.5000, stamp 4a89dc70, faulting module mso.dll, version 12.0.6425.1000, stamp 49d65443, debug? 0, fault address 0x000057ba.

This is not the best solution but is a workaround for now. It seams to be a bug in the way Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2007 is running.

See also: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/43469ef9-2274-403c-9a15-44460540f9e4

Delegates (Stedfortræder) problems in outlook

The error messages in Danish:
Indstillingerne for stedfortrædere blev ikke gemt korrekt. send på vegne af-liste kunne ikke aktiveres. Du har ikke den nødvendige tilladelse til at udføre denne handling på objektet.

The error messages in English:
The Delegates settings were not saved correctly.
Unable to activate send-on-behalf-of list.
You do not have sufficient permission to perform this operation on this object.

Solution:
In order to resolve this you need to give Write Personal Information permission to the SELF account on the user who is trying to add the delegate. To do this, follow these steps:-

Connect to your mail server.
Open Active Directory Users and Computers, and then click Advanced Features if it is not already selected on the View menu.
Expand your domain, and then locate the user’s Organisational Unit (OU).
In the right pane, right-click the user who is experiencing the delegate issue, and then click Properties.
Click the Security tab, locate the SELF account, and then click “Write Personal Information” and “Read Personal Information”.
Click OK