Ashour's blog
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Tip of the day: isMemberOf Transpot rule is not firing
This tip is for customers running dedicated exchange and MT, though it will probably raise in hybrid...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 05/31/2017
Bad relationship meaning no Free/Busy
TL;DR – if you have a bad personal relationship then you will lose free/busy :) I’ve recently worked...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 05/27/2017
Multi threading public folder report
Have you ever run 7 TB of data resident in public folders with over 400K folders? What if you want...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 05/05/2016
Tip of the day: Where are the delivery restriction settings for resource mailboxes ?
If you moved from exchange 2010 to 2013 SP1 you will notice that you are no more able to see the...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 05/05/2016
Tip of the Day: How to force the max message size for cloud users
If you are running a hybrid setup and your company policy is forcing max message size of 10mb...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 08/28/2015
Tip of the Day: How to limit SMTP applications to send from a specific mailbox
It’s easy to allow an smtp application to send emails through your exchange servers but it’s...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 08/28/2015
Fix duplication in default folders KB3031133 & KB3069501 & kb2991934
In exchange 2013 prior to CU9, if you migrate your mailbox to exchange 2013 you might see...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 08/28/2015
The untold story of “Use serial migration to migrate public folders to Exchange 2013 from previous versions”
Today I would like to share some secrets that you have to know when you try to migrate your...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 02/11/2015
Mail Enabled Public Folders In A Hybrid Deployment: A Sad Story
The scenario that I will discuss today is not really a fancy one. The story began with...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 01/13/2015
Tip of The Day: SkyDrive SPF record
In a nutshell, if you run hybrid deployment and your MX records are still poining to on...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 10/06/2014
Global Groups & Exchange What a challenge to convert
Everything starts with the kiosks of managing exchange recipients from active directory on...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 10/06/2014
How to setup your most used templates in PowerShell_ISE
The success story for visual studio is the fact that you have tones of templates that saves your...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 07/19/2014
Tip Of The Day: Reset password Role Assignment is missing
Today I was trying to help one of my customers to grant the local support team the permission to...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 07/08/2014
Tip of The Day: System Attendant Mailbox and Exchange 2013
I thought that system attendant is part of the past till today when I had a call with one...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 07/04/2014
How to force MFCMAPI to ignore the missing of the public folder database
Over years Microsoft announced that public folders won’t be more supported and will be...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 06/20/2014
Clear OWA and Outlook 2010/2013 Auto-Complete Cache
The Auto-Complete List is a feature which displays suggestions for names and email addresses as you...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 05/25/2014
Large Tenant and PowerShell I/O timeout
So did you ever run a large office365 Tenant with million of mailboxes and you wanted to run a...
Author: A.Ashour Date: 04/30/2014