Exchange Server administrators experience one or other issues in the Exchange environment as part of its management. For example, after migration to on-premises Exchange 2013 or later versions, an issue is commonly observed where Event log errors are received with the mention of arbitration mailboxes. It means these mailboxes are either in a corrupt state…

Has it happened with you that while trying to send an email with a big attached file via Exchange 2010 and faced the error mentioning that “attachment size exceeds the allowable limit”? If yes, then you might have got some idea by now about the messaging limits in Exchange Server. Due to these message limits,…

Even the latest Exchange Server versions like Exchange 2019 is not completely secure; data loss can happen due to manual errors like accidental deletion, EDB corruption, and access problems in Exchange Server. However, when a mailbox is deleted, it can be restored from Exchange 2019 database it is retained for some time. Because of the…

When configured with Office 365 account, sometimes you may face the following message while opening the Outlook: Your mailbox has been temporarily moved to Microsoft Exchange server. A temporary mailbox exists but might not have all of your previous data. You can connect to the temporary mailbox or work offline with all of your old…

The Exchange mailbox of a user is the repository of all the professional communication. As the number of mailboxes increases in the database and the volume of data increases in mailboxes, the size of the Exchange database file (EDB) grows. There are many examples when the users are unable to open a specific mailbox which…

When you have installed the new Exchange Server 2016 at you Windows Server and want to configure the Exchange account in the Outlook, then there is a useful feature called Autodiscover. The Autodiscover feature facilitates the user to only input the user ID, and password and the account gets configured automatically. The Autodiscover finds the…

If you think that you get spammy and fishing emails in your personal email account only, and not in the professional email account, then you are wrong. Whenever you use your professional email account at a suspicious website, then get ready to face the spammy and phishing emails. The phishing email is a direct attack…

Being a widely used cloud platform, Office 365 holds almost every bit of email data of an organization. Users even store contacts and calendar information in their Office 365 accounts. Storing contacts in Office 365 is very helpful as it makes sending and receiving emails easier. But, users need to delete some contacts that are…

When you conduct a migration of Exchange Server to either another version of Exchange Server or Exchange Online, then you need to run the move request to complete the migration. The Move Request uses many parameters and switches, and each parameter has a dedicated task to complete. One of these parameters is Bad Item List….

Keeping a large number of emails in mailboxes increases the database size ultimately. This forces users to look for some tricks and techniques to manage the Exchange data. One of the techniques is archiving used in Exchange Server which moves the old or not-so-important emails to a separate location. It generally archives that data to…