MailTips is a new feature in 2010, which displays informational message while a user composes a message. As an administrator, you can configure custom mailtips for a mailbox, distribution group, dynamic distribution group, mail contact and mail enabled public folders.
In this example, I want the users to see the message “Please send only e-mails with ICT related problems” while they compose an email to the ICT Helpdesk. This can be done in two ways, either from Exchange Control Panel (ECP) or Shell.
Run the following shell command to set this feature.
Set-MailBox -Identity HelpdeskICT -MailTip “Please send only e-mails with ICT related problems”
Default there are no contact lists available after a new installation of Microsoft OCS 2007 R2. How can you central manage contact lists? The answer is with a script called LCSAddContacts.wsf in the OCS Resource Kit Tools.
1.) Make a txt file called users.txt
2.) Make a txt file called contacts.txt
3.) Copy the script LCSAddContacts.wsf and the other two textfiles in one directory
4.) Add the OU path in the users.txt file (in my example all the users in the OU “Gebruikers”)
5.) Add the users you want to puth in the new contact list in the contacts.txt file (in my example there are only two users)
6.) Open the command line
7.) run the following command:
cscript LCSAddContacts.wsf /usersfile:users.txt /contactsfile:contacts.txt /contactsgroup:”ICT Department”
In my example the /contactsgroup is “ICT Department”, but you can make your own choise here!
8.) Open the OCS client and verify the new created contact list!
If you want to delete a user from a contact list, you’ll run the same command again, but with the /delete paramater at the end!
cscript LCSAddContacts.wsf /usersfile:users.txt /contactsfile:contacts.txt /contactsgroup:”ICT Department” /delete
If you want to change the message “Running: Lite Touch Installation” in the progress display when deploying a computer, you’ve to change the file LiteTouch.wsf in the folder E:\DeploymentShare\Scripts (in my environment!)
Search for the text “Lite Touche Installation” and replace this with your own text. For example: “Running: Deploy Microsoft Windows 7″. Save the file and update your deploymentshare. Import the new WIM file into Windows Deployment Services (WDS).
When you receive the following error in Exchange 2010 when opening the Outlook Web App properties in the Exchange Management Console:
An IIS directory entry couldn’t be created. The error message is Access is denied.
Solution: Make sure that the group Exchange Trusted subsystem is member of local administrator group on all the Exchange 2007 servers.
Today I’ve migrated my Exchange 2007 environment to Exchange 2010. After installing Exchange 2010, creating some mailboxdatabases, moving the arbitration mailboxes, I wasn’t able to delete the default created mailboxdatabase from the Exchange 2010 environment. The command failed with the following error:
Remove-MailboxDatabase -Identity “Mailbox Database 0075281871″
This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes or arbitration mailboxes. To get a list of all mailboxes in this databa
se, run the command Get-Mailbox -Database <Database ID>. To get a list of all arbitration mailboxes in this database, run th
e command Get-Mailbox -Database <Database ID> -Arbitration. Before you can remove this mailbox database, you must disable, m
ove, or remove user mailboxes and move arbitration mailboxes.
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (Mailbox Database 0075281871:DatabaseIdParameter) [Remove-MailboxDatabase],
AssociatedUserMailboxExistException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : 68BDB73C,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.RemoveMailboxDatabase
When I create an overview of all the arbitration mailboxes, they are already succesfully moved to a new created mailboxdatabase. Why I’m getting this error…?? There’s another default created mailbox, called: Discovery Search Mailbox. After moving this mailbox to another mailboxdatabase, I wass able to delete succesfully the default created mailboxdata from my Exchange 2010 environment.
When you’re deploying a machine using MDT, every time you run the deployment wizard, you’ve to fill in user credentials fore authentication with the deployment share. You can change this by editing the file bootstrap.ini.
1.) Open the DeploymentWorkbench
2.) Right click the MDT Deployment Share (E:\DeploymentShare in my environment)
3.) Open the second tab Rules
4.) Click Edit Bootstrap.ini
5.) Default the file looks like picture 6
6.) Add the following rules to the textfile:
UserID=Administrator
UserDomain=WIN7.LOCAL (your domain)
UserPassword=Pa$$w0rd (your administrator password)
KeyboardLocale=en-US
SkipBDDWelcome=YES
7.) Don’t forget to update the deployment share
8.) Right click the MDT Deployment Share (E:\DeploymentShare in my environment), and select Update Deployment Share
9.) Assign the boot image (E:\DeploymentShare\Boot\LiteTouchPE_x86.wim) to Windows Deployment Services WDS.
Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 is available.
Download details Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 (KB979611)