Exchange 2019
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 2019:- CU3 with installation account?
In my previous blog post I noted that after upgrading to CU3 that my account was part of all the groups but could not run any commands besides a few. Removing the account from org management made no difference. Today, I re-ran the CU3 upgrade and all succeeded,...
Exchange 2019:- QuickRef link incorrect?
Today I was trying out the different cmdlets and thought I would try QuickRef to see what they mention. The command to check this is as follows: QuickRef But it ended up taking me to the Exchange 2013 page and not 2019. It seems the team need to update the link,...
Exchange 2019:- Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus commands missing.
Today I started up my lab and first thing that I check is the Database availability group (DAG), but when I tried to run the command, it wouldn't pipe to complete it and I was presented with this error: In the Exchange Management Shell, I then ran the command below to...
Exchange 2019:- Upgrade to CU3 using the command line.
As with my previous blog post where we upgraded to CU2, in this example we will run the same command from an elevated command prompt to update to CU3. As we are upgrading from CU2, we do not need to run the PrepareAD command, if you want to read more about CU3, head...
Exchange 2019:- Update to .NET Framework 4.8
If you want to upgrade from .NET Framework 4.7.2 to .NET Framework 4.8, you can if you are running CU2 for Exchange 2019 or higher. You can look at the Microsoft Support Matrix to see what is supported but here is a snippet from the Microsoft Site: Download the...
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)...