In Exchange, whether it is Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016 or Exchange 2019, you may come across the request to set an Out off Office (OOF or OOO) for users. Generally when you set OOF for a user, they can do this from Outlook directly but there may come Read more…
In Exchange, you may notice that when you try and book a meeting room, you cannot go higher than 180 days. This is by default. To change this, you can run a simple PowerShell command and increase the value, take note you cannot go higher than 1080 days. The command Read more…
In Exchange 2016 or even Exchange 2019, when you run cmdlets like Get-TransportServer you will receive a nice yellow warning to use the newer cmdlets. So Get-TransportServer has changed to Get-TransportService. If you head over to the event logs, the application log, you will notice that if you have a Read more…
If you have backups in Exchange, you know that you can go to the backup and recover items, either by creating a recoverable mailbox database or performing item level restore to a mailbox or PST file. In Exchange 2016, can also be Exchange 2019 or Exchange 2013, you can run Read more…
Mailbox migrations in an Organization are part of many Exchange Admins duties, this can be to a newer version of Exchange or simply migrating off a large database to smaller ones. If you are looking after a big organization and need to monitor migrations, PowerShell is not always easy for Read more…
Quick tip for the day. Ever wanted to remove an alias from a Distribution Group and wondered how to do this with the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). It is pretty simple, you run the following command below: Set-distributiongroup GroupEmailAddress –EmailAddresses @{remove=’AliasAddress’} Replace the “GroupEmailAddress” with the Primary SMTP address and Read more…
In the world we live in today, information is vital and having your email open for everyone to view is also not such a good thing. In Exchange you have the option to set a timeout value so that if you are in-active for a certain period then the OWA Read more…
I have a strange problem in my lab where my main account is part of the org admin group however I cannot run half the commands, I thought I would reset everything with the commands below but have not seen any change. Still cannot do much. However in my Exchange Read more…
Here is a quick tip for checking the last backup on an Exchange database using the Exchange Management Shell (EMS): Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | FT name, Last* Simple enough and there you have the information. Hope it helps.
Ever had it where you want to remove a database and it just doesn’t work? Well this happened this morning. I got a weird error saying that the database is in a backup status? Well it wasn’t but here is the error: This is a lab so no backups are Read more…