When you first install Exchange, you will notice that by default the database that is created doesn’t have a friendly name. The database is also created in the default install location of Exchange. The odds are you’ll want to rename the database, and best practices say you should split out the .edb and log files […]
You can use Azure Active Directory Connect (AADC) to synchronize one or more on-premises Active Directories to Azure Active Directory. Once additional directories are added to AADC, it may not be obvious how to remove a directory. Here’s how to do it. First, let’s look at our example which syncs two directories, theguillets.com and contoso.com to the same AAD […]
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 a specific switch: New-MoveRequest “User” -DoNotPreserveMailboxSignature -TargetDatabase Store1 Once the […]
Yesterday when building topology and then publish it based on my servers who is running Windows server 2016, and the Preview of the S4B-2019. I get this error when trying to verify topology. Does not matter if I choose Standard edition with one frontend server or if I have Enterprise ed with 3 servers and […]
One of the significant enhancements delivered in today’s Skype for Business Server 2019 CU1 is the new “Modern Administration Control Panel” or MACP. This is a new HTML5-based admin interface, which shares a particular visual familiarity with the SfB Online and Microsoft Teams Admin Centres – and does so without requiring Silverlight. Thankfully it still […]
Last month we saw an interim hotfix that took SfB 2019 Server from its initial “dot-zero” release to 7.0.2046.116, and this July update (officially CU1) is the one we’ve all been holding out for, updating *everything* on my SE Front-End as well as adding some long-awaited functionality. The new build number is 7.0.2046.123. What’s Fixed? […]
A couple of days ago I got a Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine, which is an all-in-one device with an access point, 4-port switch, and a security gateway. After the basic setup, I wanted to connect my Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine USG to an Azure VPN Gateway (Azure Virtual Gateway), using Site-to-Site VPN. In this blog […]
In this blog, I will review the configuration needed in order to activate Kerberos authentication with Exchange 2019 servers. General Kerberos authentication for Exchange’s is not configured by default when using a commonly shared namespace for more than one Exchange server. The reason is that the shared namespace URL, for example, mail.contoso.com is not “attached” to a […]