If you are planning an Exchange database repair, it is essential to know about the new Microsoft support policy. The new support policy requires that if the repair count value is greater than 0, then all mailboxes on this database would have to be moved to the new database. It ensures that the database structure…

While trying to create a remote mailbox for an on-premises AD user, Exchange may throw an ‘Insufficient access rights’ error if you don’t have sufficient permissions. This error usually occurs in a hybrid Exchange environment, when you try to create an Office 365 mailbox for an on-premises AD user by running a cmdlet – Enable-RemoteMailbox…

In Exchange Server, circular logging is disabled by default. In circular logging, Exchange overwrites individual transaction log files after the log files data has been committed to the database. This keeps transaction log from expanding. Thus, circular logging saves hard disk space. By the term “circular,” we mean that the deletion of log files in…

A disconnected mailbox is actually an orphaned mailbox – a mailbox that is not linked to an Active Directory user account. When administrators disable or delete a mailbox either from EAC or from Exchange management shell (using Disable-Mailbox or Remove-Mailbox cmdlet), the mailbox gets disabled for a period of 30 days (and gets deleted permanently thereafter) if they…

When you add data to an Exchange database, naturally the size of the database will increase; but if you delete some mailboxes, the size of Exchange database may not necessarily decrease – it may remain same. For example, if your database size is 30 GB, and you delete 4 GB data, then the expected the…

Active Directory is the place where all the Exchange Server settings are stored. So, it is possible to rebuild the configuration of the Exchange environment from Active Directory. Here is how you can do this: Recover the lost Exchange Server Reset a Computer Account: To do this, you must be a member of Domain Admin,…

Exchange Server disasters can happen despite all the precautionary measures taken by the administrators. Fortunately, there are many professional Exchange recovery tools that help in dealing with such situations. Still, many experienced administrators keep regular backups so that everything can be recovered after Exchange crashes. This two-part article shows you how to use the backup…

Organizations cannot afford to lose their Exchange data after corruption and server crashes. In most occasions, database corruption occurs without any warning. Though highly efficient solutions are available for Exchange recovery, many administrators like to keep backups for their Exchange data so that they can use them in case of eventualities. Administrators can use the…

Exchange Server Database Mounting is referred to the procedure of establishing connection between offline EDB and live server. Though it is a simple process, sometimes you may fail to mount the databased store in Exchange Server. As you try to mount the database, you may get an error message: “An internal processing error has occurred….

Are you facing a hard time dealing with a critical error (Error 0x8004010f) of Exchange information store? Well, in such a case, user is unable to initiate Exchange information store in Exchange Server 2010 or MS Exchange Server 2007. Even after trying to restart the services manually, the user is displayed the following error message:…