10 Reasons to Migrate Older Exchange Server to Office 365

The popularity of Office 365 is getting higher from day to day; not because of its functionality to anywhere access but its compatibility with other email server platform. Whether you’re using Exchange 2013/2010 or any other on-premises Exchange Server version, with few simple steps you can easily migrate all your Exchange mailboxes to Office 365 account.

Moving Mailboxes in Bulk on Exchange Server 2010

Moving mailboxes in Exchange 2010 is easier task until you’re moving only one or few mailboxes. But if you’ve to move mailboxes in bulk, I’m sure the mailbox moving process could be long and bit hard for lots of administrators. 

Repair Corrupt Exchange 2016 Mailbox: New-MailboxRepairRequest

I’ve already posted multiple ways to repair Exchange 2010/2013, but I never published how to repair a corrupt mailbox in Exchange 2016. Ofcourse, Exchange 2016 is very new topic among all Exchange administrators; still many of us are not aware with new changes in Exchange 2016. So before moving ahead, it is recommended to check what’s new in Exchange Server 2016. 

Fixed: Slow Mailbox Migration Issue in Exchange 2013

Moving one mailbox on Exchange 2013 is an easy task for an administrator but when an admin migrate lots of mailboxes, slow mailbox moving issue occurs on Exchange Server. However, with simple steps, you can fix the slow migration issue and increase the speed of user’s mailbox in your Exchange Server environment. 

Reasons to Migrate from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010

MS Exchange Server is a Microsoft-developed email server that stores and manages your mailbox data including emails, contacts, calendar, and more. Since Exchange Server is a member of Microsoft server line of products, it runs Windows server operating systems. In fact, Exchange Server is the most popular and preferred email server, which is evident from its several versions (Exchange Server 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003, and previous ones) that are available today. However, each new version includes some brand new as well as upgraded features, which enforce exchange users to upgrade to the newer version. 

Troubleshooting Exchange Server Sync Error 0x80040119

There are different causes and circumstances behind the unknown error code 0x80040119 in Exchange Server environment. Among the various conditions, error 0x80040119 mostly occurs due to synchronization problems between Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server. But it is also occurred if you’re upgrading Exchange.

Fixed: Exchange Server Jet Error 1216 (JET_errAttachedDatabaseMismatch)

Exchange Jet Error 1216 is amongst the most common issues which anonymously occur when you try to mount database in Exchange Server, and unluckily you encounter the error message:

'Error -1216 (JET_errAttachedDatabaseMismatch)'

Fixed: Mailbox move/restore Fails with Error 1056749110

You may surely come across Error 1056749110 if you’re restoring, moving or migrating Exchange mailboxes on the server. Following is the error message-

Mailbox migration failed after cannot open 'System Attendant Mailbox Error' in Exchange 2013

If you have ever migrated mailboxes on Exchange 2013, you had surely come across this error when you try to move a mailbox and move request fails immediately with the error message-

"Cannot open mailbox /o=Test Lab/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Configuration/cn=Servers/cn=MY2013Server/cn=Microsoft System Attendant"

Reseeding a 'Failed and Suspended' Mailbox Database in Exchange 2010

Usually, there comes a state in Exchange server 2010 where Exchange server mailbox database status shows as 'Failed and Suspended'. It indicates that there is any possible issue in mailbox database which needs to be rectified by an Exchange admin. But, the replication service doesn’t sometimes check whether this error has been resolved or not, so as an administrator you need to figure out this issue using shell command before the mailbox database replica can be restored to again a healthy state.

Event IDs 486, 455, 413: Not Mounted Exchange Database

When you try to mount a user database on Exchange Server, you may come across Exchange Error 1811 corresponds to JET_errFileNotFound. The following message will appear on your screen-

Recovering deleted items from Public Folders in Exchange 2013

Exchange public folders by default store in Public Folder Mailboxes. So if you delete any item or content from the public folder, it directly goes to Dumpster where they are retained according to the retention settings. However, 14 days is the by default settings in Public Folder Dumpster.

Ways to migrate different multiple email accounts to Office 365

Due to the significance usage of emails and inbox components like calendar, contacts, task list etc., migration of e-mails accounts from one system to another has become very essential than ever. With few convenient steps one can easily migrate their emails, inbox items as well as mailboxes from server to server.

Troubleshooting Exchange Server Migration Problems

As you know, Microsoft Exchange is the email server that manages users’ mailbox data, including emails, attachments, contacts, calendar, notes, and other useful information in both online (i.e. in OWA) and offline (i.e. in Outlook email client) mode. Additionally, Exchange Server is a calendar-cum-contacts manager software, which has been widely used in organizations for exchanging emails containing crucial information. 

The Exchange Server address list service failed to respond - Fixed

If you’re an Exchange administrator, you had come cross this problem whenever you had tried to perform some changes on users mailboxes, either adding an older mailbox to server, move a mailbox, exporting a new user objects to Active Directory, or creating a newer one on Exchange Server 2007; you have got this error message on your screen -

10 Newly Added PowerShell Cmdlets for Exchange 2013

Some Exchange Administrators do the perfect job with the combination of cmdlets on Server, that’s why Microsoft is increasing the new cmdlets in Exchange server with the every new release. There are 187 Powershell cmdlets in Exchange Server 2013 alone. With the latest product release of 2012-2013 cycle, Microsoft has added lot of new Powershell cmdlets in Exchange 2013 to help Administrators. So if you’re an Exchange Administrator who is planning to deploy an Exchange 2013 Server, these 10 newly added Powershell commands you should definitely need to know about-

Exporting Exchange 2010 mailbox to PST with Date Range

This could be a great idea to export data for a particular date range in Exchange Server 2010, rather than exporting complete mailbox only for selective data. Sometime as an Exchange Administrator I need to export only selective mailbox item in a time range for keep the data as backup, or one of the user used to do this for create a monthly archive for a particular mailbox. 

How to fix Exchange Error: 1022 which restricts data access

Most of the organizations, especially the larger ones configure Microsoft Exchange Server as the primary communication medium between e-mail clients. And MS Outlook is among the most popular and preferred e-mail client for organizational business purpose.

Methods to fix Exchange Server Disk space problems

Of course ‘Bigger is better’ in various cases and it is also very true in case of Exchange Server. Even though with the massive availability of multi-terabyte hard disks, the MS Exchange Server can use huge amount of disk spaces. Otherwise, the flow of email exchange between two email clients may be severely delayed.

How to work/deal with disconnected mailboxes in Exchange Server 2013

An Exchange mailbox is a composition of a Directory user account and mailbox data stored in the Exchange mailbox database. The Exchange attributes of Active Directory user object stores all configuration data for a mailbox. The database of mailbox contains the mail data that’s in the mailbox associated with the user account.

Right approach to perform Exchange Server (on premises) to Office 365 migration

The process of mailboxes migration from MS Exchange to Office 365 seems to be a very simple and easy task when you know about the complete migration process. Still you may face certain problems or technical glitches while performing the migration process between Exchange servers. 

Exchange 2010/2013 Mailbox Backup by PST-Export Powershell

Performing the backup of Exchange mailbox database is the most crucial part than any other process executed under Exchange server environment. As Microsoft doesn’t provided any powerful utility for Exchange mailbox backup, So Organizations lose their important data everyday due to lack of mailbox backups. However, there are few manual methods which is successfully performed by Exchange Administrators for all Exchange versions, including 2013, but these methods don’t work always particularly if there are some errors in Exchange mailboxes.

Steps to Migrate from Exchange 2007 to Office 365

Microsoft has made Exchange administrator’s job easier to execute migration between Servers. With an official online guide (Exchange Server Deployment Assistant), one can choose required options and practice the migration steps to understand how easily an Exchange administrator can migrate Exchange Server 2007 to Exchange Online.

Microsoft rerelease it’s Exchange Server 2010 SP3 update RU8

Few weeks back, Microsoft rereleased its update Rollup 8 in order to fix the issues which had found in the earlier version. This former update version has a problem associated with ‘the ability of Outlook to connect to Exchange’ for those who are using Exchange Server 2010 SP3.

How to Migrate Exchange 2003 Server to Office 365

Microsoft has stopped official support for Exchange server 2003; it means they will not release any newer update in the near future for Exchange 2003 server. So, administrators who’re currently using Exchange 2003 do have the option for upgrade to Exchange newer versions. Either they can move to Exchange 2007/2010, or migrate to newly introduced Microsoft Office 365; but they must have to move towards most updated version for updated features, strong security, and for robust environment. 

Fix 0x80040115 Mapi_e_network_Error during Exporting Mailbox to PST

If you’re exporting a large size mailbox to PST in Exchange Server 2010, probably you may get 0x80040115 Mapi_e_network_error during exporting a mailbox data to PST file. Of-course, exporting user’s mailbox data in a PST file is a very regular task in Exchange environment but if you’re exporting large sizes (5 GB+) mailboxes using New-MailboxExportRequest shell command; mailbox exporting process may be hang and then fail without completing the process.

How to Open Exchange Log File Using Routing Log Viewer

Transaction log files play a very vital role in Exchange Server as it contains the records of all the changes that were made on Exchange server database. Any changes that were made to an Exchange database is first written on transaction log file later to an Exchange database. So it’s the liability of an Exchange Administrator to keep checking the records in log file and ensuring that Exchange server is running fine without any error or failure. 

How to Fix ‘Error A0010006:GRE_ERR_FAILEDTOGETEDBDETAILS’ in Exchange Server

Microsoft Exchange and Outlook are two very significant components needed for most secure and comprehensive online communication. Every time, when an email is sent through MS Outlook, an exact replica of that email generally get saved on Exchange Server database file (.EDB files). Moreover, all sorts of the information are saved in EDB files in such as ‘To’, ‘Cc’, ‘Bcc’ including calendar, contacts, notes, journal etc.