Disable permanently Outlook Team Calendar

Outlook 2010 introduced new future called “Team Calendar”. This future might be annoying or not acceptable in certain cases and un-ticking check mark to make it not seen might not be sufficient enough. If so and you are wondering how to disable this here is the solution.

Team Calendars , star popping up from people outlook. –Reason: the
AD Attribute called “Manager” is populated see picture
When manager is listed for given user,  outlook is automatically creating calendar in this format  Team: Name of the manager Calendar inside peoples outlook see picture

 

Fire up reg edit on the problem workstation…..Drill down to fallowing directory

• [HKEY_CURRENT_USER
• Software
• Microsoft
• Office
• 14.0
• Outlook
• Options
• WunderBar

Create reg key if one does not exist “Value disablereportinglinegroupcalendar”

• This policy setting prevents Reporting Line Group Calendar from appearing in the navigation pane.
  If you enable this policy setting, Reporting Line Group Calendar will not appear in the navigation pane.
  If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, My Reporting Line Group Calendar will appear in the navigation pane.

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Respectfully,
Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)
MCITP (EMA), MCITP (SA)
MCSE 2003, M+, S+, MCDST
Security+, Project +, Server +
http://smtp25.blogspot.com/ (Blog)
http://telnet25.wordpress.com/ (Blog)

The Microsoft Exchange Replication service failed to start the TCP listener Event ID:2121

If you are getting fallowing errors Event ID:2121 , Source: MSExchangeRepl and your Exchange services are not coming up with fallowing errors…



Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeRepl
Date: 11/13/2011 5:50:17 PM
Event ID: 2121
Task Category: Service
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: MCCNPWINMBX3.smtp25.org
Description:
The Microsoft Exchange Replication service failed to start the TCP listener. Error: Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.NoSuitableServerFoundException: The Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service on server localhost did not return any suitable domain controllers.
at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.DSAccessTopologyProvider.GetConfigDCInfo(Boolean throwOnFailure)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.TopologyProvider.PopulateConfigNamingContexts()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.ADSession.GetConfigurationNamingContext()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.Recipient.ADRecipientSession.GetWellKnownExchangeGroupSid(Guid wkguid)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Directory.Recipient.ADRecipientSession.GetExchangeServersUsgSid()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Cluster.Replay.RemoteDataProvider.StartListening()
Event Xml:








Possible solution: If topology service is not able to figured out what subnet the Exchange server belong too. Simple way to check and fix this will be adding the subnet for the Mailbox server into ADSITE and services. Perform IPconfig /all on the Exchange server figure out what subnet it is sitting on and add the subnet in ADSITE and services, you will need to reboot or , restart net logon and Exchange Services.

Respectfully,
Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)
MCITP (EMA), MCITP (SA)
MCSE 2003, M+, S+, MCDST
Security+, Project +, Server +http://smtp25.blogspot.com/ (Blog)http://telnet25.wordpress.com/ (Blog)

Exchange 2010 Database Size, EDB file Path etc.….

You might wonder what is the size of  your Exchange Server databases , and their path etc. In Exchange 2010 the task is pretty real easy.

Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | select ServerName,Name,DatabaseSize,EdbFilePath,LogFolderPath

• Now here how the output would look like

• to export this into CSV file add the fallowing at the end of PS

Export-Csv c:\scripts\DBSize.csv

• Full Script would be like this

Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | select ServerName,Name,DatabaseSize,EdbFilePath,LogFolderPath | Export-Csv c:\scripts\DBSize.csv

• Finally we will plug this into PowerGUI

• Give it a name

Respectfully,
Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)
MCITP (EMA), MCITP (SA)
MCSE 2003, M+, S+, MCDST
Security+, Project +, Server +
http://smtp25.blogspot.com/ (Blog)
http://telnet25.wordpress.com/ (Blog)

Changes to the distribution list membership cannot be saved" error message when you try to remove members from an Exchange Server 2010 distribution!!!

If you are un-able to modify the membership for DL’s you own after migration to Exchange 2010 couple things you will need to do to get this working.

here is the message , you might be getting when you try to group membership within outlook.

Issue: Users no longer able to modify Distribution groups they own ( they are specified as the owner of the problem DL) , trying to add , remove users into member list within outlook generating above errors

Log on to your E210 Server , open EMS

New-RoleGroup DistributionGroupManagement -Roles "Distribution Groups"

 

Add-RoleGroupMember DistributionGroupManagement -Member dedealoc

* In my case I have converted the existed DL to “Mail Universal Distribution Group *

Related KB

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982349

 

Respectfully,
Oz Casey, Dedeal ( MVP north America)
MCITP (EMA), MCITP (SA)
MCSE 2003, M+, S+, MCDST
Security+, Project +, Server +
http://smtp25.blogspot.com/ (Blog)
http://telnet25.wordpress.com/ (Blog)