Microsoft released July windows updates and a customer recently patched there servers, however the affected KB was still in the list. After a successful installation, everything seem to be okay. After the reboot, the Edge and Transport services on the HUB servers did not start automatically. Starting them worked fine but after a short while, […]
Exchange and .NET Framework, this is a common subject that comes up a lot, across many forums. Exchange in general works with “most” versions of .NET Framework, however you get releases like .NET 4.7 and now the latest one .NET 4.7.2 which is not supported on any version of Exchange and installing it can/will potentially […]
A strange one, a customer reported that her Outlook Web Access shows all email however when she launches outlook and logs in to her IMAP account, there is a big difference. One way you can try to fix this is to update the settings for the IMAP account in Outlook. To do this from within […]
In Exchange, whether it is Exchange 2010 or 2013 or even 2016, there may come a time when you are required to do an Export of Mailbox to a PST file. This can be for many reasons but sometimes you need information for a specific date Range rather than exporting the entire mailbox. In this […]
On your Exchange 2013 Server, you may be wondering where all the space is going to, many Exchange Admins are not sure where to find the culprit, so I have put together a small script to list the 4 directories as mentioned below. The Script has 5 buttons, the bottom one called Get Directory Size […]
If you are running Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016, sometimes admins make changes to groups and after the topology refresh, you login to the EAC and come across the following error when you click on the Organization Management Group and you notice you cannot perform your daily admin tasks: You can’t copy this role group […]
In your Exchange environment, whether it is Exchange 2010 or 2013, you might come across an error that when you try run any form of command, where it is to re-balance your Exchange DAG or perform any other function in the EMS, you are presented with a lot of red errors as follows: The WinRM […]
Here is a quick tip for Exchange Admins working in an Exchange 2010/2013 Coexistence Environment. When you launch the Exchange Admin Center, https://mail.domain.com/ecp and you login, you will be presented with the Exchange 2010 ECP page and not your Exchange 2013 EAC page. To get round this, you need to add a piece to the […]
In your Exchange 2013, you have setup everything and now you want to start administering your new environment, upon launching the Exchange Admin Center you enter your credentials and click login, you are then presented with the following error: As a start you reboot the server, after a reboot, same problem still applies. To start […]
In your Exchange 2010/2013 environment, you might start moving mailboxes, however when you try creating a batch and then click the new button, you come across the following error message: The reason you receiving the error message above is because your arbitration mailboxes are still located on an Exchange 2010 server and needs to be […]
As an Exchange Admin, you probably receive requests to set forwarding on a mailbox. This could be for many reasons, but somewhere down the line, you get a request to provide all forwarders for a domain or for a mailbox. To view the forwarders, you need to launch the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and run […]
In Exchange 2010 or 2013, you might have issued a renewal of your SSL certificate. In the Exchange Management Console (EMC) or the Exchange Admin Center (EAC), you assign the new services to the SSL certificate and now you want to remove the old SSL certificate, however you are presented with the error below: Solution: […]
In Exchange 2010, the following error logs quite often in the application log but no noticeable impact to users. The error in question: Exchange 2010 – Event ID 108 Outlook Web App couldn’t connect Exchange Web Services due to a configuration error. Response code = “500” The strange thing is, no follow up error is […]
In Exchange, you might have a number of accepted domains and manually editing the information can be a daunting task. The PowerShell script below updates the Name value with the new name. If you use a 3rd party provider like Ensim, they generally add a bracket () with a number behind the name and this […]
Many attempts have been there to simplify the Exchange migration process. That is why many Exchange migration solutions are there in the market. Analyzing and testing an Exchange migration solution is as tricky as performing an Exchange migration. However, it is exciting too, especially when the product is from a reputed brand. That is why […]
In any Exchange Environment, your users will create Inbox Rules on there mailboxes. For them it is like a filing system, Email X goes here and Email Y goes there. In my previous post we looked at the Rules Quota on a mailbox. If you would like to see what rules have been created on […]
As an Exchange Admin, you might have your saved list of commands you use on a daily or weekly basis. I would like to share my Top 10 list of commands used in Exchange, as some of the environments worked on are massive, these might not be your Top 10 but you can add them […]
Many organizations make use of a WildCard Certificate in their Exchange Environment. This makes sense when you have quite a number of SAN names to use. In Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2013, if you try and update the X.509 Certificate Name when using a WildCard Certificate, whether it is in the EAC or ECP, you […]
Many times the question has been asked, can I not add my Exchange 2010 Server to my Exchange 2013 DAG or my Exchange 2013 Server to my Exchange 2016 DAG. Well, the answer is No you cannot. Let me explain why. Firstly, your Exchange 2010 Servers are probably running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise […]
In Exchange, be it Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016, you might have come across back pressure alerts or where Exchange just won’t function. These include: Disk space Memory These in turn log different event logs, you might see the following Event ID’s logged in the application log: 15004 15006 If we take a […]