Category: Exchange Server

You want to find on-premises IP addresses that use Exchange SMTP relay for sending mail. Why do you want to have that information? Most commonly, that’s when you want to decommission an Exchange Server, and you like to confirm that there is no mail flow running over the SMTP relay. If everything is set up, […]
Fig: Unified Messaging Call flow (Exchange 2016 & Skype For Business Integration) Though we can use unified messaging role for multiple features related to enterprise voice, most organizations make use of it for voice mail and call routing. UM role helps in putting the voice messages and email messages into a common mailbox that can be […]
This article is for you if your Exchange servers are filling up their C: drive even though you configured different drives for the mailbox databases and transaction logs. Symptoms for Exchange 2016 C: drive use C: drive used space increases 20-100 GB per month Exchange 2016 Server or 2019 or 2013 Exchange mail flow services […]
[Symptom] ====================== Generally, a user can use “New-MailboxFolder” command to create mailbox folder for his own mailbox successfully. See the following example:   The above command creates a new folder named “PersonalFAQ” in the mailbox of Administrator.   However, this command cannot be used to create folders on other user’s mailbox although the full access […]
SCRIPT DOWNLOAD: emmexdagmodule.1.0.6 Whether the purpose is to install CU updates or just rebooting the server, some steps should be followed to place Exchange server Node (DAG Mode Only) in maintenance mode. These steps will ensure that your Exchange Server 2019 won’t accept move request or failover requests. Table of Contents Overview Things to consider […]
As an Exchange Admin or IT Admin, you are familiar with the OWA (Outlook on the Web) login page: You can change text on this page and in this article, I want to show you where you can modify the text next to where it says “sign in”. First of all, you need to head […]
Defragmentation is a process, on any data type source, to clean all unused storage from the database. In Microsoft Exchange Server and other Microsoft products, the databases increase in size with increased demand. However, if some data is deleted from the databases, the storage is not reclaimed. So, it would be good for the actual […]
In this post, we’ll set out to answer the question of whether or not you should delete the self signed SSL certificate on Exchange 2013/2016 that is installed when you install Exchange. Exchange Default Certificates First, we’ll do some investigation on what certificates are installed by default with Exchange. In this test lab, we have […]
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