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 […]
Scenario: After mailbox categories have mysteriously disappeared, you want to verify that the categories are not hanging around in the backend of your mailbox. The concern is that you re-add the categories and if they mysteriously show up, it would create a headache to clean it up. Solution: The categories that is used throughout the […]
Configure bulk Exchange 2013 servers for Unified Messaging and Unified Messaging Call Router Settings. Set the UMService and UMCallRouterSettings for the servers: Get-UMService | where {$_.identity -like ‘MBXSVR*’} | Set-UMService -DialPlans dialplan1 -UMStartupMode “dual”Get-UMCallRouterSettings | where {$_.identity -like ‘MBXSVR*’} | Set-UMCallRouterSettings -DialPlans dialplan1 -UMStartupMode “dual” Configure the Exchange Certificate for the UM and UMCallRouter srevices. […]
NOTE – This post applies to Exchange Distribution Groups and Mail-Enabled Security Groups To add an additional owner to a group that you own After logging in to the Outlook Web App (OWA), select Settings > Options > groups > distribution groups I own Double click on the group to manage and click ownership In […]
Scenario: Integrate Exchange 2013 OWA and LYNC together. The steps are from the Exchange perspective Steps: 1. Configure Partner Applications with Exchange and Lync: “C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Scripts\Configure-EnterprisePartnerApplication.ps1 -AuthMetaDataUrl ‘https://atl-cs-001.litwareinc.com/metadata/json/1’ -ApplicationType Lync” 2. Configure OWA Virtual Directories to enable Instant Messaging and to assign OCS as the Instant Messaging Type. Note: InstantMesaging should be enabled but […]
Scenario: When attempting to add your first server to a new DAG, you may receive the following error: A server-side database availability group administrative operation failed. Error The operation failed. CreateCluster errors may result from incorrectly configured static addresses. Error: The computer account ‘DAG1’ could not be validated. Access was denied. Check that the current […]
After an outage or maintenance to the Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2013, or Exchange 2016Mailbox servers in a Database Availability Group you may find that the mailbox databases are no longer balanced across all of the DAG members. For example after applying updates to DAG members you may see that all of the mailbox databases are active on a single DAG member. […]