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Fix Trust Relationship if a simple Computer password reset is required

Fix Trust Relationship if a simple Computer password reset is required http://blog.blksthl.com/2013/03/18/fix-the-trust-relationship-between-this-workstation-and-the-primary-domain-failed/ This is dead simple, but if you were not aware, you do not necessarily need to rejoin the domain if the trust relationship is broken with AD.  Just resetting the password is all . Steps using Powershell: Login locally to the server Run the PowerShell command: Reset-ComputerMachinePassword -Server -Credential Restart-Computer

Migrating Public Folders Exchang 2007 to 2013

There are lots of great blogs out there on how to do the overall migration of Public folders from previous versions of Exchange to 2013, but few of them detailed how to deal with a few choice issues that I encountered in a recent migration that I performed. For a good, detailed, checklist of how to do the migration, see any of the following:     http://exchangeserverpro.com/exchange-server-2010-2013-migration-moving-public-folders/     http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2013/07/25/part-4-step-by-step-exchange-2007-to-2013-migration.aspx     http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2013/migration-deployment/migrating-public-folders-exchange-2013-part1.html My migration was for 50,000 folders, and about 130GB of data. The issues that I ran into were (but not limited to):     Needing a System Attendant mailbox on each server hosting Public Folders     Spaces at the end of the names of folders     Invalid characters in the Alias attribute, and     Invalid SMTP em