Exchange 2016
Exchange – My top most used PowerShell commands
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...
Exchange 2016 – What is the Front End Transport Service on the Mailbox Role
In Exchange 2016, you do not have all the roles like in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013. You only have 2 roles, the Mailbox Role and the Edge Transport role. You might be wondering how mail flows within Exchange 2016. Let's take a look: The Mailbox server role...
Exchange 2016 – Installing Exchange on Server 2016
In this tutorial, we will be looking at installing Exchange 2016 CU7 on Windows Server 2016. Take note that you can install Exchange 2016 CU3 and up on Windows Server 2016. Prior versions of Exchange 2016 can be installed on Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2. We will...
Exchange 2016 – Why you cannot add an Exchange 2013 Server to an Exchange 2016 DAG
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...
Exchange 2016 – Back Pressure
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...
Exchange 2016 – Disabling vs deleting a mailbox
In Exchange, whether it is Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016, there is always some sort of confusion when it comes to deleting or disabling a user mailbox. While one will leave the account in tact and disconnect the mailbox, the other one will remove the...
Exchange 2016 – Failover Active Mailbox Database to another Server
In my previous post we looked at redistributing the active databases and copies in a DAG. Today we will be taking a look at moving an active mailbox database to another server in the DAG. We will be using the Exchange Management Shell to perform this action. Why you...
Exchange 2016 – Quickly create new internal Certificate
In any organization running Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2013, the internal certificate that is part of Exchange once you have done an installation will expire after 5 years. Sometimes Admins remove these certificates but can lead you to issues down the...
Exchange 2016 – Get mailbox count
In any organization running Exchange 2016 or legacy versions like Exchange 2010 or 2013, you may get the request to get a count of all mailboxes in the environment. This is quite easy to get when running a simple command from the Exchange Management Shell (EMS)....
Exchange 2016 – Architecture/Role Changes
As Exchange has progressed over the years, the roles have changed. Generally in larger environments you would have the Exchange 2010 roles like Mailbox and Client access each on their own servers, whether it was physical or virtual. The same would have applied to...