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How to Clean up a Mailbox or Clean up the Dumpster using Discovery Search in Exchange 2010

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Updated – Supports Exchange 2010/2013 and Exchange 2016

Lets say I want to Clean up a Users mailbox completely to have a fresh Start.

We can use Discovery Search to do this task

First Assign the Permissions which is required to use discovery Search – Refer Below link

https://www.azure365pro.com/deleting-a-specific-email-from-entire-organization-in-exchange-2010-2/

I just Created a Test user with Few mails and Few Items in his dumpster

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Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity "User2" -FolderScope RecoverableItems | Format-Table Name,FolderPath,ItemsInFolder,FolderAndSubfolderSize

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Now am doing a search query with a wildcard to query everything and deleting it completely including the archive mailbox

Get-mailbox "User1"| search-mailbox –searchquery "Subject:'*'" –DeleteContent

Caution : Its going to Clean up the Archive Mailbox as well

Use this command for not to include archive

Get-mailbox "User1"| search-mailbox –searchquery "Subject:'*'" –DeleteContent -<em>DoNotIncludeArchive

 

Use this command to delete Dumpster alone

Get-mailbox "User1"| search-mailbox –searchquery "Subject:'*'" –DeleteContent -<em>SearchDumpsterOnly</em>

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Now mailbox is cleaned up completely including the dumpster

Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity "user1" -FolderScope RecoverableItems | Format-Table Name,FolderPath,ItemsInFolder,FolderAndSubfolderSize

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If you feel its too confusing –  Check out the Automated Script to do these tasks for you

Discovery Search Simplified Script to Delete a Specific Email and other Tasks – Exchange 2010

 

How to Login to Exchange Administration Center (EAC) in Exchange 2013 Preview

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To Find your Server URL to login to Exchange Admin Center (EAC)

Get-ECPVirtualDirectory | Format-List InternalURL,ExternalURL

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Open internet Explorer

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Now On-premise Exchange Server and Office 365 can be managed in the Same place !!

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Just find the New Look Outlook Web App , which is smartly designed for smart phones !!

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Hope the information !! Helped you

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Installing Exchange 2013 Preview on Windows Server 2008 R2 Sp1

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Domain Controller – Windows Server 2008R2 Sp1

Exchange 2013 on – Windows Server 2008R2 Sp1

Active Directory must be at Windows Server 2003 forest functionality mode or higher.

Am Going to install Exchange 2013 on a member Server

Please read some Important Guidelines , Before Installing Exchange 2013 Preview

Some Important Guidelines

Step 1:

  1. Open Windows PowerShell

Run

Import-Module ServerManager

Run the following command to install the required Windows components.

Add-WindowsFeature Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework, NET-HTTP-Activation, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Web-Server, WAS-Process-Model, Web-Asp-Net, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Http-Redirect, Web-Http-Tracing, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-ISAPI-Filter, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-Metabase, Web-Mgmt-Console, Web-Mgmt-Service, Web-Net-Ext, Web-Request-Monitor, Web-Server, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Static-Content, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-WMI

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Reboot the Server

Download the Prerequisites in the Following Order and Install it :

1. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 RC

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2. Windows Management Framework 3.0

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Reboot the Server

3. Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 4.0, Core Runtime 64-bit

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4. Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack 64 bit

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5. Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack SP1 64 bit

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6. Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB974405 (Windows Identity Foundation)

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Below hot fix may already available if you have windows updates ON

7. Knowledge Base article KB2619234 (Enable the Association Cookie/GUID that is used by RPC over HTTP to also be used at the RPC layer in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2)

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Reboot the Server

8. Knowledge Base article KB2533623 (Insecure library loading could allow remote code execution

Step 2:

Before Installing Exchange 2013 Preview, you must also uninstall Microsoft Visual C++ 11 Beta Redistributable (x64).

. To uninstall Microsoft Visual C++ 11 Beta Redistributable (x64), do the following:

  1. Open Control Panel > Programs and Features. Select Visual C++ 11 Beta Redistributable (x64) – 11.0.50531 and then click Uninstall.

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2. In Microsoft Visual C++ 11 Beta setup, click Uninstall.

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3. When Microsoft Visual C++ 11 Beta is uninstalled, click Close.

Just for Information – If you have any doubts on Default file names –

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Step 3 :

Download Exchange 2013 Setup from the Below link

Download Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Preview

 

Run the Setup

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Choose Next

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I accept –Choose Next

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Choose Mailbox Role And Client Access Role – Choose Next

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Choose Next

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Choose Next

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Choose Next

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Choose Next

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Choose Next

 

 

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Great !!

You installed Exchange 2013 Preview Version Successfully !!

 

Microsoft Releases Exchange 2013 Preview Version !! – Download Exchange 2013 Preview Setup & Help Link

Satheshwaran Manoharan
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Atlast !!  Microsoft Releases its Next version Exchange 2013 !!

A Vast difference in Architecture

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 has only Two Roles :

  • Client Access server role – All Client Requests hit only the Client Access Server Role as there is Hub Transport role anymore !!

Client Requests such as  Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Web App, mobile devices, POP, and SMTP and also accepts mail from and delivers mail to other mail hosts on the Internet.

High Availability – CAS array

  • Mailbox server role – It stores all the mailbox data, All requests from Client access Server for client connections proxied by the Client Access server,

It also handles Unified Messaging requests.

High Availability – database availability groups (DAGs).

The Exchange Administration Center (EAC) is the web-based management console in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Preview that allows for ease of use and is optimized for on-premises, online, or hybrid Exchange deployments.

The EAC replaces the Exchange Management Console (EMC) and the Exchange Control Panel (ECP)

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Great right !! Hassle free Without any console issues and Less server requirement !!

You can Download the Help Link for Exchange 2013 to read it offline.

For On premises – Download

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 

 

Before Downloading – Please Read the Important Guidelines from the Help Document

– The Edge Transport server role isn’t included with Exchange 2013 Preview

– Coexistence with Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 is Not supported with Exchange 2013 Preview.

Coexistence with Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 will be supported with Exchange 2013 RTM.

– So Exchange 2013 Preview can’t be installed in the same Active Directory forest as Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010.

Use an Active Directory forest with no prior installations of Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010.

–  Although you can create and manage public folder mailboxes from the Exchange Administration Center (EAC),

you can’t do some tasks yet like creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting public folders, and modifying permissions on public folders.

To work around this issue, use the Microsoft Office Outlook client to manage public folders.

– Address book Policies is not fully functional yet

I just had only the important lines above . Please read the help file for brief description

More to Come !!

See also –

Installing Exchange 2013 Preview on Windows Server 2008 R2 Sp1

How to Login to Exchange Administration Center (EAC) in Exchange 2013 Preview

 

How to Disable “User must change password at next logon” after cross forest move using ADMT 3.2

Satheshwaran Manoharan
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After moving mailboxes across forest using ADMT.

If users are using Password Export Server to Export their passwords

After moving the mailboxes across forest using ADMT.

Users will be prompted to change their passwords at their first logon

“You are required to change your password at first logon”

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If you feel you got to disable that , You won’t able to disable it using GUI

Open Active Directory Users and computers – View – Advance Features

Go to User properties – Attribute Editor

Set “PwdLastSet” attribute to –1

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Now User won’t be getting the below prompt

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You can Search for Tools like Admodify to do it in bulk

 

How to Enable MRS Proxy and Increase timeout In Exchange 2010

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The Mailbox Replication Proxy (MRSProxy) service is installed on every Exchange 2010 Client Access server. MRSProxy helps to facilitate cross-forest move requests and runs on the remote forest’s Exchange 2010 Client Access server. However, by default, MRSProxy is disabled

If we are going to do a Cross forest move mailbox ,

Source Forest Exchange 2010 Client Access Server should have MRS proxy enabled to facilitate the Remote move

If the Source Forest CAS servers are in a Cas Array

All Client Access servers in the Network Load Balancing (NLB) array must have MRSProxy started

Otherwise you will end up with an Error

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 To Enable MRS Proxy

Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Identity "EWS (Default Web Site)" -MRSProxyEnabled $true

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To Increase Time Out

Browse to the Below Location

C:\Program FIles\Microsoft\Exchange Server\v14\ClientAccess\exchweb\ews

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Open Web.Config Using Notepad

Browse to the bottom or Find Mrsproxy , Get to the Below Location

By default It will be “00:01:00” , Where if you feel MRS proxy gets to a idle time out we can increase that 20:00:00 minutes maximum

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Take a Copy of the Web.config File , you can change to “00:20:00” minutes as below

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Save And Close it

and Do a iisreset in your command prompt

Reference Link –

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee732395.aspx

 

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