Configure Exchange 2010 to Reject messages with Capitalised Subjects

Upon receiving a few emails with their subjects entirely in capital letters, I wondered if I could defuse my extreme frustration at this situation using every Exchange admin’s best friend; the Transport Rule. I was able to create the following transport rule to bounce/reject all messages with only capital letters in the subject, including ignoring …

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The ActiveSyncDevice Cannot be Found–unable to delete Active Sync Devices in Exchange 2010

This error occurs when inheritable permissions are not enabled on a mailbox. You will see this error when trying to remove an ActiveSync Device: To fix this, first enable ‘Advanced Features’ in ADUC: Then open the user’s properties and browse to the Security tab. Click ‘Advanced’ and then place a check in the box labeled …

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Exchange Management Console Command Reference

Microsoft have taken a new approach with Exchange Management Console (EMC) for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Unlike Exchange 2007 (to a certain extent), almost every single management task is either a PowerShell command, or a front-end to a PowerShell command. Let’s say, for example, you want to create a new Mailbox. Easy, you say: Recipient …

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