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 MSExchangeServicehost……” When I went to check the Exchange Services, some of them […]
In this post I want to explain how to configure your Exchange 2016 address book environment for multiple tenants. The goal is to host multiple groups of people (let’s call them customer groups) and give them their own address book environment. It is important that these customer groups don’t see each other because this might […]
** Have created a small script for Exchange 2010 to help clean out the IIS Log files, you can find the link to the gallery at the end of the article** **Update** Tested the script on Exchange Server 2019 Public Preview and it clears the logs without any error. In your Exchange 2013/2016 and now […]
When accessing ECP or OWA on your Exchange server you will be the below Server Error saying that No Suitable Directory Servers Found in Site and connected Sites. On the Event Viewer you will get the error 0x80040a02 (DSC_E_NO_SUITABLE_CDC). The below solution if for Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013. Open the Domain’s Group Policy […]
In Office 365 & Microsoft Exchange, by default, your resource mailbox won’t show your Meeting Subject. Instead, it replaces this with your organizer’s name. This occurs for privacy reasons, but it’s only the default. Most organizations opt to see meeting subjects instead. Consider the following: A Resource mailbox is configured to AutoAccept in an Microsoft Exchange Server or Office 365 environment. You send a […]
The Outlook Calendar fully integrates with email, contacts, and other features. This integration makes the Calendar component one of the most popular features of Outlook. In this article, we will guide you through the use of the Calendars various functions. In addition, we’ll introduce you to calendar improvements that are specifically targeted to make your […]
Scenario: You wish to see how many remote mailboxes have the correct email domain configured for their remote routing address (TargetAddress). You want to perform a AD PowerShell query for speed. Scriptlet: Get-ADuser -filter {TargetAddress -like “*.mail.onmicrosoft.com”} | Select Name, TargetAddress OR you just want a count: (Get-ADuser -filter {TargetAddress -like “*.mail.onmicrosoft.com”} | Select Name, […]
Scenario: You want to use Get-ADUser to find all Exchange mailboxes in your environment. Scriptlet: Running the following will provide you with the detail: #First, lets store some results into $1 for every mailbox $1 = Get-ADUser -filter {HomeMDB -ne ‘$null’} -Properties MailNickName, HomeMDB, DisplayName| Select MailNickName, HomeMDB, DisplayName #Now its time to play with […]