Computers only do what you tell them, right? Somebody needs to have a talk with Exchange and Outlook about how they work with resource mailboxes. Every resource mailbox I configure seems to behave differently. Here are two problems I saw this week: You don’t have appropriate permission to perform this operation. Except that you do. In this case, I had created a new resource mailbox […]
In any Exchange environment, Outlook will frequently return this error when you try to share a calendar or some other folder: Calendar sharing is not available with the following entries because of permission settings on your network: John Doe (john.doe@mydomain.com) Do you want to send them a copy of this calendar in an e-mail message instead? Yes No The problem almost never has anything to […]
I had a customer who had received a meeting invitation, but new copies of his acceptance response were appearing in his Drafts folder several times a minute. This sounds merely annoying, but if enough of these messages build up, it can cause the indexing service on your Exchange server to take 100% of available CPU cycles, and crash the entire server. The database will fail […]
Applies to Exchange 2010 SP1 RU2-5, at least. Exchange certainly has it’s quirks, doesn’t it? It’s a great product, but it’s very complex. The more you work with it, the more you unpolished surfaces you discover. If you have a large organization, you’ve probably created multiple Room and Equipment mailboxes. And some of your delegates might be getting this error when they try to edit […]