Microsoft do’s and don’ts

Outlook 2013 doesn’t show “New” task in taskbar

It seems to be a bug in Outlook 2013: It doesn’t show the “New email” or “New …” when you right click on the taskbar.

To solve this do the following:

 

  1. Unpin the Outlook 2013 icon from the Taskbar.
  2. Exit Outlook.
  3. Delete the following registry key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Outlook\Setup
  4. Open Outlook again and re-pin the icon.

 

Exchange Mailbox sizes

To see the per user size sorted bij size:

Get-MailboxDatabase | Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort totalitemsize -desc | ft displayname, totalitemsize, itemcount

To see the database size and free space within the database:

Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | Sort-Object DatabaseSize -Descending | Format-Table Name, DatabaseSize, AvailableNewMailboxSpace