Category Archives: Exchange

I have been seeing more and more issues with bad calendar items causing out of control mailbox database and transaction log growth. What I seen as a good process for attacking these issues is to use the following: Exchange User … Continue reading →

This was definitely a first for me. Hmmm, who knew that ten phones was too many? From: Microsoft Outlook Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:28 PM To: Kaufmann, Russ Subject: Error with your new mobile phone partnership Importance: High You … Continue reading →

Another interesting and fun scenario. In my last post, I discussed using PowerShell to find large calendar items. Well, it didn’t go as well as I thought. I was trying to identify the largest calendar item for users. The idea … Continue reading →

I have been seeing some scary behavior lately. The environment is Exchange Server 2010 SP1 RU5. Basically, what is happening is that a calendar item is updated too often (against Microsoft’s clear Best Practices) and becomes corrupt. The corrupt calendar … Continue reading →

I recently started getting this nice error every time that I tried to open the ECP site in my browser. I was pretty sure that it had always worked before, but this was clearly a problem now. A little testing … Continue reading →

I haven’t run into this one for a few months, but the first time I saw it, it really aggravated me. Canary? Invalid? Invalid Canary? I would really like to see an error that is meaningful and helpful, and this … Continue reading →