What is the best way to get information about the mailbox database size? Why would you need to know the database size and white space of a database? What is the white space in a mailbox database? In this article, you will learn step by step how to retrieve the information. First, it’s essential to […]
Before updating the Exchange Server, it is recommended to put the Exchange Server in maintenance mode. We can put the Exchange Server in maintenance mode with some PowerShell commands. In this article, we have two Exchange Servers. The names of the Exchange Servers are EX01 and EX02. We will place Exchange Server EX01 in maintenance […]
Problem Active Directory is built on LDAP, I’ve known this for a long time, but other than it’s a directory protocol that’s about all I did know. Like any directory, if you want information when you query the directory it returns a result. The problem is that information is sent in ‘cleartext’, which is not ideal. […]
You want to find on-premises IP addresses that use Exchange SMTP relay for sending mail. Why do you want to have that information? Most commonly, that’s when you want to decommission an Exchange Server, and you like to confirm that there is no mail flow running over the SMTP relay. If everything is set up, […]
Fig: Unified Messaging Call flow (Exchange 2016 & Skype For Business Integration) Though we can use unified messaging role for multiple features related to enterprise voice, most organizations make use of it for voice mail and call routing. UM role helps in putting the voice messages and email messages into a common mailbox that can be […]
The key to protecting your Lync environment from any sort of failure is to ensure that you are backing up the Lync Server properly. The backup process for Microsoft Lync Server 2010 (and 2013) is much simpler than earlier versions of Lync Server. All the settings and configuration you need to backup Lync are now contained in […]
This article is for you if your Exchange servers are filling up their C: drive even though you configured different drives for the mailbox databases and transaction logs. Symptoms for Exchange 2016 C: drive use C: drive used space increases 20-100 GB per month Exchange 2016 Server or 2019 or 2013 Exchange mail flow services […]
[Symptom] ====================== Generally, a user can use “New-MailboxFolder” command to create mailbox folder for his own mailbox successfully. See the following example: The above command creates a new folder named “PersonalFAQ” in the mailbox of Administrator. However, this command cannot be used to create folders on other user’s mailbox although the full access […]