Making Hosted Exchange Mailbox Plans Bigger Than 2GB

Cam — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:29:00 GMT

Hi All,

For those of you that have customers that require mailboxes larger than 2GB or at you will have issues provisioning the mailbox plan (Hosted Email 2007 -> CreateUserPlan) with the standard HMC 4.0 environment.

To allow you create mailbox plans of a larger size you will have to remove the restrictions from the "ValidateUserPlanData_" procedure in the "Hosted Email 2007" namespace.

Note : This requires an update to the Microsoft core namespaces. I advise you only continue with this if you know your way around HMC / MPS.

To make this work you have to take the following steps;

On your provisioning server (MPS01)
Start->All Programs->Microsoft Provisioning Server->Provisioning Manager
Under "Namespaces" select "Hosted Email 2007"
In the right pane, double click on "ValidateUserPlanData_"
Click on the XML tab
To make a backup of the current namespace, select all of the text, copy it and paste it in notepad. Save that somewhere for backup purposes.
In "ValidateUserPlanData_ Properties" dialog, remove the section I have highlighted below in red.
Click the "Ok" button.
Try provisioning the user plan again.

Should it give you the same error again you may have to restart the Provisioning COM+ application (Note : This will stop provisioning temporarily so I advise you do this during your change window);

Start->Administrative Tools->Component Services
Expand Component Services->Computers->My Computer->COM+ Applications
In the right pane, right click on "Provisioning Engine" and select "Shutdown"
In the right pane, right click on "Provisioning Engine" and select "Start"

I hope this helps.

Kind Regards,

Cameron.

<procedure name="ValidateUserPlanData_" description="Validate the contents of a user plan" access="private" type="read" perfEnabled="0" saveDataForRollback="0" auditEnabled="0">
<procedureData/>
<execute namespace="Error Provider" procedure="SetError">
<when source="data" sourcePath="features/prohibitSendQuota[. > 2147483647 or . < 1000]"/>
<executeData>
<hr>0x80070057</hr><desc>The prohibitSendQuota parameter must be a positive integer between '1000' and '2,147,483,647'.</desc>
</executeData>
</execute>
<execute namespace="Error Provider" procedure="SetError">
<when source="data" sourcePath="features/mapiEnabled[.!='1' and .!='0']"/>
<executeData>
<hr>0x80070057</hr><desc>An invalid value submitted for features/mapiEnabled. Value must be a '1' or '0'.</desc>
</executeData>
</execute>
<execute namespace="Error Provider" procedure="SetError">
<when source="data" sourcePath="features/imapEnabled[.!='1' and .!='0']"/>
<executeData>
<hr>0x80070057</hr><desc>An invalid value submitted for features/imapEnabled. Value must be a '1' or '0'.</desc>
</executeData>
</execute>
<execute namespace="Error Provider" procedure="SetError">
<when source="data" sourcePath="features/popEnabled[.!='1' and .!='0']"/>
<executeData>
<hr>0x80070057</hr><desc>An invalid value submitted for features/popEnabled. Value must be a '1' or '0'.</desc>
</executeData>
</execute>
<execute namespace="Error Provider" procedure="SetError">
<when source="data" sourcePath="features/owaEnabled[.!='1' and .!='0']"/>
<executeData>
<hr>0x80070057</hr><desc>An invalid value submitted for features/owaEnabled. Value must be a '1' or '0'.</desc>
</executeData>
</execute>
</procedure>

Yet another patch that MPS has problems with

Cam — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:35:00 GMT

Just something to watch out for, The Hosted Email 2007 Provider has issues when you install .NET Framework 2.0 Security Update (KB928365). It is also a problem with .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.0.

You get errors like the following when calling Hosted Email 2007 procedures;

Unable to generate a temporary class (result=1). error CS0266: Cannot implicitly convert type
'Microsoft.Provisioning.Providers.Exchange2007Provider.Data.GetMailbox_ResponseResultImapMessagesRetrievalMimeFormat?'
to 'Microsoft.Provisioning.Providers.Exchange2007Provider.Data.GetMailbox_ResponseResultPopMessagesRetrievalMimeFormat?'.
An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)

Here is the ASP.Net forum related to it - http://forums.asp.net/p/1132849/1800690.aspx#1800690

Cam

Cameron McFie : Hosted Email 2007 Provider

Making Hosted Exchange Mailbox Plans Bigger Than 2GB

Yet another patch that MPS has problems with