Exchange Server 2010

Last modified by Sebastian Marsching on 2022/05/29 12:10

Exchange Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2

In order to install Exchange you have to install the web server role and the IIS 6 meta-base compatiblity feature. If the latter is not installed, the Exchange installation utility will complain about IIS not being correctly installed.

If you are experiencing authentication problems with OWA (OWA tells you, that the username / password is wrong, although it is correct), you have to install the standard authentication feature. Although OWA is using form-based authentication and the Exchange installer does not install this feature, it is required by OWA. I found this hint here.

Recover Mailbox on Exchange Server 2010

The ideas presented here are from a blog article and they might not work. Test backup and recovery yourself before relying on any method.

In this example, the files the database is being recovered from are in c:\exrecovery. The server is called exserver, the mailbox being recovered exuser and recovered database is called RDB1. The commands have to be run within the Exchange Shell.

cd c:\exrecovery
eseutil /r E00 /i /d
New-MailboxDatabase -Recovery -Name RDB1 -Server exserver -EdbFilePath "c:\exrecovery\Mailbox Database 1882717321.edb" -LogFolderPath "c:\exrecovery"
Mount-Database RDB1
Restore-Mailbox -ID exuser -RecoveryDatabase RDB1
Dismount-Database RDB1
Remove-MailboxDatabase RDB1

Upgrading from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010

There are two excellent articles about how to upgrade from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010: