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No, I don’t know what to do with the code. No, I can’t think of a useful purpose. Yes, I still find it funny to have, and to share it with you :-)

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The best workaround for “You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange management console”

If you have installed Internet Explorer 9, and you use Exchange 2010 SP1, you may face the problem that you cannot close the Exchange Management Console (MMC). The error you get is as follows:

image thumb The best workaround for You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange management console

“You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange management console”

Enable-Archive: Mailbox x cannot be Archive enabled with Managed Folders Policy

When I tried to enable archiving for a specific user in Exchange 2010, the following error occurred:

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Microsoft Exchange Error
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Action ‘Enable Archive…’ could not be performed on object ‘Petrelli, Peter’.

Petrelli, Peter Failed
Error:
Mailbox ‘Peter.Petrelli’ cannot be Archive enabled with Managed Folders Policy. Archives are supported only with Retention Policy.

Exchange Management Console very slow at startup and when opening Configuration windows

In Exchange 2010 you may experience a less responsive Exchange Management Console (EMC). There are a few settings that may improve the speed of the EMC. Below are some actions and/or changes that you can do to resolve the issue.

List users in a domain with their creation date

A colleague recently asked me a list of all employees in our company, and their date of hire. As I work at an IT department, I do not have everyones contract. However, I do have the creation date of every account. Since we create accounts a few dates before the date of hire, I could easily create a list of accounts and creation dates in the Exchange Management Shell (Powershell):