If you are finding that some contacts are not appearing in the GAL then confirm that they are mail contacts and not created using AD. Contacts created using AD Users and Computers are not recognized by Exchange. To work out if your contacts have been created using AD tools or Exchange, run the below command […]
With the attack on RDP getting more and more each day, many Admins are forced to use remote tools to get onto servers. Managing your exchange 2019 server or legacy servers does not require you to login to the desktop, you can use remote PowerShell and because the Exchange Admin Center is web based, it […]
Recently on 2 of my machines, I started noticing the C:\ space drop quickly over a week. Running my script (ClearLogs) removes about 30-40GB but on this 600GB drive, pretty much 500GB has been eaten up. Checking through each folder, I came across this folder in the following location: C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\TransportRoles\Logs\Mailbox\Routing It has over […]
Quick tip: In your organization, you get a call from a departmental managers secretary to advise he/she forget to set there Out of Office and have requested you to do so. To set it, quickly launch the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and run the following command: Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity User1 -AutoReplyState Enabled -InternalMessage “Playing golf with […]
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 […]