PFDAVAdmin Error

If you are seeing this error on the PFDAVAdmin Tool:
Could not expand https://localhost/exadmin/admin/mydomain.com/public%20folders/ : name cannot begin with the '0' character, hexadecimal value 0x30. Line 1, position 386'

Ensure .net framework 1.1 is installed on the workstation you are using. Dont install it on the Exchange server though.

How to rebuild the Exchange 2007 Index

From the Exchange command shell: ResetSearchIndex.ps1 [-force] -all

Exchange 2007 Cert Private Key Missing Error

Get the serial number of the cert via the certificates MMC.

Run the following command:

certutil -repairstore my “SerialNumber“

Exchange 2007 Convert a Shared Mailbox to a Regular

set-mailbox (mailboxname) -type:regular

Exchange 2007 with 2003 OWA Activesync Error 503

I was receiving this error on our front-end 2003 OWA server, which is connecting to a 2007 mailbox server and has ISA:

HTTP status code: [503]. Verify that the Exchange mailbox Server is working correctly.

I was also receiving this error:

The mailbox server does not allow "Negotiate" authentication to its [exchange] virtual directory. Exchange ActiveSync can only access the server using this authentication scheme.

Users couldnt use their iPhones to connect to Exchange. Indeed Windows authentication and basic authentication were enabled.

I tried everything and ended up rebuilding the Exchange virtual directory by doing:

remove-owavirtualdirectory -identity "server\exchange (default website)"

and recreating it:

New-OWAVirtualDirectory -OwaVersion:Exchange2003or2000 -VirtualDirectoryType Mailboxes -Name "exchange"

Boom.

Messaging Records Management (MRM) Exchange 2007 Entire Mailbox

If you are using managed folder policies and would like to apply deletion rules to folders outside of the default folders such as a user that creates a folder at the root and not in the Inbox, you may have to work with "Entire Mailbox"

I have used this setting in the past and it can cause havoc. In other words it will apply to every single folder, including calendar, contacts, etc. when you use it.

The only way to ensure that it wont apply to a specific folder is to have that managed folder part of the same policy.

So if you have Entire Mailbox selected to delete emails after 90 days, everything in Outlook older than 90 days will be deleted. If you also have a Calendar managed folder policy for 120 days as part of the same policy, which includes Entire Mailbox, the 90 day rule wont apply to Calendar. The calendar items will delete after 120 days and everything else 90 days.

Another option is to choose for the Entire Mailbox policy to only delete emails and not all items. IF you do this then it will only delete emails for the entire mailbox and not items like calendar entries, tasks, etc.

Be careful.