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Moving from TechNet blogs to Jekyll on Windows Azure
For nearly a decade, I’ve been occasionally blogging on the Exchange Team Blog, and later on my personal TechNet blog. Those platforms are stable, easy to use, and perfectly acceptable. But they’re...
View ArticleCleaning Up Microsoft Exchange System Objects (MESO)
Someone recently posted a question on an old blog post of mine: Bill, We have eliminated our public folders, and I would like to clean out the MESO folder. There are still hundreds of objects that...
View ArticlePublic Folder Replication fails with TNEF violation status 0x00008000
Edit 2014-06-02: For an update on this issue, please see this post. Edit 2015-06-09: For the most recent update, please see this post. We now have a much better solution. In Exchange 2010, you may find...
View ArticleMapiExceptionNotFound during content replication
Today, I want to talk about another public folder replication problem we see repeatedly. Aren’t you glad PF replication is gone in Exchange 2013? This is one of the rarer public folder replication...
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Delegated setup fails in Exchange 2013
In Exchange 2013, the built-in Delegated Setup role group allows users to install new Exchange 2013 servers after those servers have been provisioned with the /NewProvisionedServer switch. However, you...
View ArticleMailbox lock contention in Exchange 2013
In Exchange Server, when a call into the Information Store fails, we often report a diagnostic context. This information is extremely useful for those of us in support, because we can often use it to...
View ArticleEvent 9414 means your OAB is missing objects
Today, I want to highlight a behavior that isn’t really called out anywhere in any existing documentation I can find. This is the behavior that occurs when Offline Address Book generation on Exchange...
View ArticleCleaning up Microsoft Exchange System Objects - part 2
In a post last month, called Cleaning up Microsoft Exchange System Objects (MESO), I described how to determine which objects can be eliminated from the MESO container if you have completely removed...
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LDAP send queue limits cause event 2070 and 2084
I recently worked on an issue where the domain controllers kept intentionally disconnecting the Exchange servers. The error messages that described the reason for the disconnect were rather misleading,...
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Working around findstr's regexp limitations
It’s my job to solve difficult problems involving Exchange Server, and this often involves a lot of various types of tracing. Almost daily, I find myself needing to parse through huge amounts of text...
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MfcMapi error when opening public folders
There are a lot of little problems I run across that I never investigate, simply because there’s no impact and no one seems to care. I have my hands full investigating issues that are impacting people,...
View ArticleTNEF property problem update
Back in January, I wrote a blog post about PF replication failing due to corrupt TNEF. The problem is caused by the presence of a couple of properties that have been deprecated and shouldn’t be present...
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Directory Name Must Be Less Than 248 Characters
Over the holiday weekend, I was deleting some old projects out of my coding projects folder when Powershell returned an error stating, “The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully...
View ArticleAutomating data collection with Powershell
One of the challenges with analyzing complex Exchange issues is data collection. Once the server goes into the failed state, any data collection at that point only shows us what the failed state looks...
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DsQuerySitesByCost and public folder referrals
In Exchange 2010 and older, when you mount a public folder database, the Information Store service asks Active Directory for the costs from this site to every other site that contains a public folder...
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Database bloat in Exchange 2010
I keep deciding not to write this post, because Exchange 2010 is out of mainstream support. And yet, we are still getting these cases from time to time, so I suppose I will finally write it, and...
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Use MAPIFolders for the TNEF issue
I’ve written a couple of previous posts on the corrupt TNEF issue that causes this error: 1Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.ConversionFailedException: The message content has become corrupted. --->...
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A History of Cached Restrictions in Exchange
In this series of posts, I’m going to discuss three basic approaches to searching the content of Exchange mailboxes, and the tradeoffs that come with them. This series is for developers who are...
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From Jekyll to Hexo
Two years ago, I dove into the wonderful world of static blog generators when I left my TechNet blog behind and started using Jekyll to generate an Azure web site. With my newfound freedom from...
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Missing DNS entries break New-Mailbox
It’s interesting how fairly obvious settings can break things in very non-obvious ways. We recently had a case where the customer was not able to create new mailboxes on Exchange 2007. This had worked...
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