Exchange 2016

As many of you know, Exchange is very sensitive when it comes to domain controllers and Active Directory Sites and Services. The above set of errors/warnings were happening on 1 server and the error does throw you off a bit, where it says that the Audit Security...

As many of you know, DAG seeding can fail for a few reasons, namely: Networking issues Resource issues (CPU/RAM) Disk space issues Anti-virus (exclusions missing) And many more..... Today we had a strange one though, some databases seeded fine but the rest were...

Since CU13 for Exchange 2016 there has been no need to run the PrepareAD command. Running upgrades are pretty simple, provided you have an account that has the correct permissions. This is a common problem where upgrades don't want to run because of permissions. The...

There are a number of errors that can appear when you doing mailbox moves. The normal ones is when they stall because the catalog cannot keep up or you hit a threshold but in this case, moving from one server to another one just fails. To find the error, you need to...

I created a few more videos on YouTube for Exchange 2016, here they are: https://wwwyoutu.be/iC9MTzsB630 https://wwwyoutu.be/olaSW3CJKEk https://wwwyoutu.be/v5v8H2SP1QY https://wwwyoutu.be/0nLlbABhD9E

In Exchange 2016 and 2019 you have an option to view your queues with Queue Viewer from the Exchange Toolbox as shown below: What I have noticed with the new Cumulative Updates (CU) in both Exchange 2019 and Exchange 2016 is they get stuck loading each time the Queue...

As you know, October 13 2020 is approaching fast and the support for Exchange 2010 is ending. For those who are still on legacy, remember Windows 2008 R2 is not getting many or any updates anymore so you at a risk with that operating system. If you want to move to...

In Exchange 2010/2016, you might come across a strange error as shown below when sending email: Failed to process message due to a permanent exception with message Invalid named property Solution: To fix this problem, you need to move the mailbox to another store with...

Exchange Admins don't always like patching and they say, well it's working so why fix something that ain't broken. Well, if you are on a CU earlier than CU15, you should really consider upgrading. CU14 and CU15 have a number of fixes in them but not only that, you...