exchange 2010

Cannot Get Mail, The Connection To The Server Failed

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You have setup your account on your iphone or anroid phone and found that it authenticated successfully to your mail server but email is not pulling down and you recieve no error, or ‘can not get email’ or ‘the connection to the server failed’.

Try this, worked for me:

1) Locate the account within AD
2) Right click properties
3) Click the tab ‘Security’
4) Click the button ‘Advanced’
5) Click ‘Include inheritable permissions from this object’s server’
6) Click OK
7) Wait a few minutes
8) Try again

Migrating mailbox from Exchange 2007 SP2/SP3 to Exchange 2010 SP1

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When you attempt to migrate a mailbox stored on Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010, you receive the below errors:

Error occurred in the step: Preparing mailbox to be moved. Failed to copy basic mailbox information with error:  A duplicate mailbox was found due to problems during a Move Mailbox procedure. The duplicate mailbox has been deleted.
Try again later., error code: -1056749241

and

Error occurred in the step: Opening destination mailbox. An internal processing error due to a bad parameter has occurred.
Try restarting the Exchange System Manager or the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service, or both., error code: -1056696538

Resolution:
Logon to Exchange 2010 server and move the mailbox from there. Works without errors.

Applying bulk calendar permissions Exchange 2010

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You have multiple mailboxes and need to make a bulk change to all calendars, for example you would like for one user to be able to access all user calendars.

Microsoft have released a new tool called exfolders.exe. The download also includes a read me file with clear instructions on how to get started.

If you’re using Exchange 2007, download PFDAVADMIN. PFDAVADMIN was replacd by exfolders.exe for Exchange 2010.

DOwnload exfolders here

These files have .bad extensions. Please look for .bad files, and make sure that the content is valid.

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Computer:  Server
Source:       MSExchangeTransport
Category:  Pickup
Type:         Error
Event ID:  9010
Description: At lease one file in C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\TransportRoles\Pickup cannot be processed. These files have .bad extensions. Please look for .bad files, and make sure that the content is valid.
Explanation
This Error event indicates that one or more message files that have been classified as badmail exist in the Pickup directory or in the Replay directory. A message that is classified as badmail has serious formatting errors that prevent the Pickup directory or the Replay directory from submitting the message for delivery. Message files that are determined to be badmail are left in the Pickup directory or the Replay directory and are renamed from filename.eml to filename.bad.
 
User Action
To resolve this error, do one of the following:

If you want to discard the message files that have been classified as badmail, you can simply delete the message files from the specified location.

If you want to fix and resubmit the message files that were classified as badmail, follow these steps:

Move the message files that have been classified as badmail from the specified directory to a different location.

Change the file name extensions from .bad to .eml.

Resolve the errors in the message files.

Copy the message files back into the specified directory for delivery

More Info at: 

Understanding the Pickup and Replay Directories

Event ID 9010