Exchange 2016
Exchange 2016:- Security update (KB4540123) fails to install.
At a client recently we had an Exchange 2016 Server that would not install the March 2020 Security update. The setup would start and then end with the error below after a few minutes: Error 1642 generally implies that it cannot find the version installed. Even though...
Exchange 2016:- Installation and configuration YouTube Video Series
In this series of videos, we take a look at building your Exchange 2016 environment from scratch. This includes: Building your domain and forest.Joining your machine to the domain.Installing the prerequisites for ExchangeInstalling Exchange 2016 using the...
Exchange 2010/2016: DAG member showing as down in Failover Cluster Manager
In Exchange whether it is Exchange 2010 or 2016 or maybe even 2019, when you setup a Database Availability Group (DAG) requires Failover Cluster Manager to be installed and when the DAG is formed you can see it in Failover Cluster Manager. In normal circumstances your...
Exchange 2016:- The WinRM client received an HTTP status code of 403 from the remote WS-Management service.
In Exchange 2016, you may have come across WinRM errors, today we had a strange one, error 403. This error showed up on the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) as you can see below: First thing to check is the proxy settings on the server. If you head to IE and check the...
Exchange 2016:- CU14 failure on Mailbox role while creating virtual directories
Like every other day, running Exchange Setups is pretty straight forward, however not so straight forward when the server blue screens on you and you end up with a setup that crashed half way. In my case I got an error on Step 7 of 9 on the Mailbox role: Client Access...
Exchange 2019:- Disable Outlook Web Access (OWA) attachment downloads
If you work or manage clients in organizations that handle sensitive information like banks as an example, they might have a requirement to not allow users to download OWA attachments. You can set this company wide or you can create a new mailbox policy and assign it...
Exchange 2016/2019:- Event ID 2005, Microsoft Exchange Server Auth Certificate
At a client they wanted to deploy an add-in from OWA and the Exchange Admin Center and it just wouldn't give me the option to download and when trying from the OWA you just get a blank page. Upon further investigation, we checked the event logs and were presented with...
Exchange 2019:- Youtube video series
I have started with a video series on YouTube as some people like blog posts and others prefer seeing it in realtime. The series will grow but in the meantime you can start taking a look. Changing Cypher Suites on Exchange with IIS Crypto 3.0:...
Exchange Admin Center:- Checking the commands run when navigating the links
In one of my training sessions, I showed the teams that the Exchange Admin Center basically is PowerShell with a nice interface. In Exchange 2010, the logging is automatically captured but in Exchange 2016 and 2019, you need to first open the window for it to capture....
Exchange 2016:- Upgrade from the command line.
With Exchange 2013/2016 or 2019, installing updates from the command line is simple and pretty much the same. You will use the same command as per below to do the upgrade: .\Setup.exe /Mode:Upgrade /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms What you will notice is just the...