Exchange 2013
Exchange 2013: Unable to send email on OWA
In Exchange 2013 your users might encounter the following error when trying to reply or create a new email or choose a recipient from the address book: "Error: Your request cant be completed right now. Please try again later." On your Exchange 2013 Mailbox Server, if...
Exchange – Server Prerequisites (Applies to 2010/2013/2016) Tool
Installing Exchange with all its prerequisites can be something of a daunting task for new Exchange Administrators. I created a PowerShell script that has a tab for each version of Exchange as well as the prerequisites for PowerShell and additional software that needs...
Exchange 2010/2013/2016 – Check DAG Status with Color
When working in a large environment and checking a lot of Server Status, picking up a content index state in a failed state will take a bit longer to see than if you add color to it. I created this script so that at any given time you can see whether everything is...
Exchange – Hub Transport Queue Viewer
In Exchange you have a queue viewer to see whats going on but if you running a lot of servers you will need to open up the queue viewer on each server or connect to each one which can make it quite frustrating when you need to check whats happening on all servers. I...
Exchange 2013/2016 Readiness Tool
The Exchange 2013-2016 Readiness Tool. This tool was created to check an existing 2010 Environment and ensure that everything is up-to-date and set for the preparation of Exchange 2013/2016 that will be introduced into the environment. The ZIP file contains a PS1 file...
Office 365 – Move a cloud Exchange user back to on-premise
To move a Mailbox from Exchange Online (o365) back to Exchange On-Premise has a few steps more involved. If you try move a mailbox from o365 back to exchange on-premise using the EAC on Office 365 it will fail, more below: In this example, User5 was setup to move back...
Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) – Exchange 2013 and Office 365
The new Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) introduced in CU9 and in the newer CU's works pretty nice and streamlines the setup process. Lets take a look at running the HCW on the Exchange 2013 Server. Login to the EAC. Click on Hybrid on the left. Here you need to...
Move an On-Premise Exchange User to o365
With Exchange 2013, it is simple to move a user from on-premis to the cloud. Moving a user from the cloud back to on-premis takes a few more steps but will be discussed in a future post. To move a user to Office 365, you can do so from the O365 tab in the Exchange...
Exchange 2013 – Microsoft Exchange Replication Service restarting
Scenario: Exchange 2013 multiple databases. Replication service starts and stops constantly after reboot. After a reboot to a non-response Exchange 2013 Server, when running the Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus command was run, all DB's showed with a Service Down status,...
Exchange 2016 Preview install – Coexistence with Exchange 2013
Exchange 2016 Preview has been released. For those enthusiasts that would like to test you can download it from the Technet site: Exchange 2016 Please take note, this build is only to be installed in a lab and NOT a production environment. There are a few things...