Scenario: You are going to install the latest CU for Exchange, but you want to check the AD Schema levels to see if they need to be upgraded before the CU install Command Line: Using CMD line, run the following: (Everything in bold needs to be edited to reflect your Exchange organization OR your domain) […]
Create distribution list with no members. Emails sent to this DL will go into blackhole and won’t NDR. Exchange silently deletes them.
Scenario: Import pst into a mailbox Note: Must have mailbox export/import permissions to be able to do this. targetrootfolder is good if you are importing multiple psts into the mailbox. This way content is not merged under existing folders. From Powershell, type: New-MailboxImportRequest -Mailbox newmbox -filepath \serverpstfilesnewmbox.pst-BadItemLimit 50 -T argetRootFolder “Mailbox -newmbox”
Scenario: When you are trying to remove an Exchange Database, you receive the following error below. This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, public folder mailboxes or arbitration mailboxes. To get a list of all mailboxes in this database, run the command Get-Mailbox -Database <Database ID>. To get a list […]
Scenario: When you attempt to run Get-MailboxDatabase -includePreExchange2013, you get the following error: The Exchange server for the database object ‘DB11’ wasn’t found in Active directory Domain Services. The object may be corrupted. You then discovered the mailbox server that used to host the database no longer exists in your organization and was forcibly removed via ADSIEdit. […]
Scenario: When offboarding a mailbox, you receive the following error: “You cannot migrate mailbox off of Office365 while the mailbox has a connected account enabled.” Solution: You will have to remove the subscription before offboarding the mailbox. First, check the subscription to make sure its not anything that’s going to affect the user: get-subscription –mailbox […]
Scenario: After the installation of additional Exchange 2013 servers, we noticed that Outlook Anywhere is broke in our Exchange 2010 environment. The Exchange 2013 environment and mailboxes are unaffected by the connection problems, but the Exchange 2010 mailboxes cannot use Outlook Anywhere. Ex2010 mailboxes have to make a connection directly to the CAS Array or connect […]
Scenario: After introducing additional Exchange On-Premises servers, we noticed that Autodiscover stopped working for our Exchange Online Hybrid mailboxes that were on computers internal to the domain. Using the ‘Test E-mail AutoConfiguration’ feature in Outlook, it would fail after the SCP/DNS autodiscover lookup. Reason: Outlook has an Autodiscover Redirect limit of 8-10 responses. Being we had more than 10 servers in our Exchange […]