Exchange 2016
Exchange 2019:- Convert distribution group to Shared Mailbox
There comes a time where you need to remove a distribution group but keep its email address but to avoid any kind of bounces, you need to ensure you have the X500 address ready to add to the mailbox or shared mailbox. Let's launch the Exchange Management Shell (EMS)...
Exchange 2016:- Quickly Recover an Exchange Server from AD
In your environment, you might have that day when you need to perform a recovery of an Exchange Server as a windows update broke exchange or the underlying storage crashed and you need to recover as the OS won't boot. What ever the case, it is not a difficult task,...
Exchange 2016 CU13 Upgrade error:- Quickly fix the upgrade error to proceed with the upgrade.
Exchange 2016 CU upgrades don't always go according to plan. In this scenario, one of my servers just wouldn't upgrade but the rest did without error. The upgrade runs like normal from the CLI but fails with the below error: "Cannot start service...
Exchange 2016:- Routing folder filling up C:\ Drive
Recently on 2 of my machines, I started noticing the C:\ space drop quickly over a week. Running my script (ClearLogs) removes about 30-40GB but on this 600GB drive, pretty much 500GB has been eaten up. Checking through each folder, I came across this folder in the...
Exchange 2016:- Upgrade to CU13 using the command line.
Exchange 2016 CU13 introduced a few more fixes and is advisable to upgrade to it. The upgrades are generally seemless and we normally do them from command line, just easier than a GUI upgrade 🙂 Firstly, you need to ensure the following is done before hand: Reboot...
Exchange 2016/2019 Coexistence HTTP 500 Error on ECP
Ever reboot your servers and when you login, all looks good on the surface but when you try and do stuff well it doesn't actually work? In this scenario exactly that. Running coexistence with Exchange 2016 and 2019 and after a reboot, all seemed good. Exchange...
Installing Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 into the same environment
Head over to my page on Experts Exchange to view the article in detail: https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/33593/Installing-Exchange-2016-and-Exchange-2019-into-the-same-environment.html
Exchange 2010:- Error 0xe0434f4d (unknown error) when checking DAG status
Running the command Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus * on an Exchange 2010 Server that has Exchange 2016 in the environment, returns all the database copies for every version but today Exchange 2010 gave a weird error: A server-side administrative operation has failed....
Exchange 2016 – Event ID 74
In Exchange, the above event seems to log from what we have picked up when working in the Exchange Management Shell, however we cannot find what is triggering it or what the fix is. We have not only seen it here but also on Exchange 2013 and 2019. A query was sent to...
Exchange 2010/2016:- Coexistence errors
In Exchange 2010 when you running in coexistence with a newer version, you might encounter the following error logged in the event log constantly: This error is logged because the CAS server does not have its correct URL's set, you can refer to the link below for...