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Exchange 2010 : The user has insufficient access rights

January 16th, 2012 No comments

If you see the error message :-

The User has insufficient access right

When trying to delete, move or carry out other operations on a mailbox do the following :

AD Users and Computers
View, Show Advanced
Double click on user
Click Security
Click Advanced
Tick the box include inheritable permissions

Exchange 2010 Find SMTP Address

November 23rd, 2011 No comments

Log onto the mail server.

Open up a command prompt as administrator.

Run the following command :-

ldifde –f c:\addresses.txt –l proxyaddresses

This will create a file in c: called addresses.txt. You can then open it and find the address you are after.

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Exchange Management Console, Initialization failed

November 16th, 2011 No comments

When loading the Exchange Management Console for Exchange 2010 you might get the error :-

The following error occurred while attempting to connect to the specified exchange server ‘servername.local’:

The attempt to connect to http://servername.local/Powershell using “Kerberos” authentication failed: Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message: The WSMan client cannot process the request. Proxy is not supported for HTTP Transport. Change the transport to HTTPS and specify valid proxy information and try again

In order to resolve this I opened a command prompt in admin mode and ran the following command :

netsh winhttp reset proxy

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Increasing the Rules Quota limit in Exchange Server 2010

September 21st, 2011 No comments

In the previous versions of Exchange Server we cannot play with the mailbox rules limit that is only 32kb (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886616). Using Exchange Server 2010 we can do that through Exchange Management Shell. Let’s see how to do that..

The cmdlet utilized to set up the mailbox is called set-mailbox:

Set-Mailbox -RulesQuota:

Let’s change the user Anne to 256KB limit using set-mailbox.

Set-Mailbox annec -RulesQuota:256KB

Change Exchange 2007 / 2010 Mailbox Type

September 14th, 2011 No comments

To Change a mailbox from one type to another in exchange 2007 and 2010 like below :-

User mailbox to shared mailbox
User mailbox to resource mailbox
Shared mailbox to user mailbox
Shared mailbox to resource mailbox
Resource mailbox to user mailbox
Resource mailbox to shared mailbox

Type the following in the exchange management shell.

Set-Mailbox ConfRoom1 -Type value

Where value is Regular, Room, Equipment, Shared.

The operation failed due to an invalid format in the HTTP request

May 9th, 2011 No comments

When branching out the public folders in exchange system manager if you see the following error :

The operation failed due to an invalid format in the HTTP request. Verify that the host header is correct for the virtual server.

Check to ensure the default website is started.

How to export email addresses from Active Directory

April 21st, 2010 No comments

A neat little command to dump out the whole of Active Directory users email addresses to the root of c: can be found below :-

dsquery * -filter "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(mail=*))" -attr mail displayname -limit 0 > c:\email_addresses.txt