In simple language, Dial tone portability means allotting users a temporary mailbox for sending and receiving emails till their original mailbox becomes functional after a repair or restoration. This feature helps businesses to maintain email continuity in scenarios of Exchange Server failures or database issues. You can have the temporary mailbox on the same server…

As an Exchange administrator, you can use Exchange Management Shell to search user mailboxes to find specific emails. The main cmdlet that is used for searching mailboxes is Search-Mailbox. Other than searching specific items in a mailbox, following tasks can be also performed using this cmdlet: Recover items from Recoverable Items folder Copy messages to…

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…