Exchange 2016 PowerShell
Exchange 2016/2019:- Monitor mailbox moves and show the output in a Grid
As Exchange Admins, dealing with mailbox moves is something we do all the time. Checking the status of these moves is done in PowerShell but why not have the ability to view it in a Grid output using a simple script? I have created a script with the columns I thought...
Exchange 2019:- Find which ActiveSync Policy is assigned to all mailboxes
For many organizations, ActiveSync plays a big part in terms of communication where end users either have email on company owned devices or personal devices. Policies can be applied to certain users, for example, Executives or Senior Management may have a different...
Exchange 2019:- Enable message copy on Shared Mailbox.
Shared mailboxes in Office 365 and Exchange 2016 or Exchange 2019 are rather common. You may have end users that can "Send on behalf" or "Send As" the mailbox. A common query that comes up often when a user sends an email is that the Sent Items folder is blank and IT...
Exchange 2019:- PowerShell commands not showing entire output list.
In my previous article, we looked at configuring our TLSReceiveDomainSecureList and if you have one or two domains listed, you can view them easily, however if you have multiple items, the first few are shown and then you have .... at the end. What am I talking about?...
Exchange 2019:- SMTP responding with wrong certificate.
In Exchange 2016 or 2019, you have the ability to accept TLS connections on a receive connector from a particular set of IP Addresses or single IP and have it use an SSL certificate. What I have seen happen is that receive connectors are not configured correctly in a...
Exchange 2019:- Set TLS Certificate name on your receive connector.
In Exchange 2019, same with Exchange 2016, you have your standard receive connectors that comes with Exchange once installed. To recap, here is the list: Default <ServerName>Client Proxy <ServerName>Default Frontend <ServerName>Outbound Proxy...
Exchange 2016:- Mailbox isn’t unique on database
Deleting mailboxes or recovering deleted mailboxes are something that Exchange Admins do often. For a refresher, the disconnected mailboxes will show up 24 hours after they have been removed and you can run a script to identify the disabled ones as below (script from...
Exchange 2013/2016/2019:- Bulk set OOF for multiple users with different messages.
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...
Exchange 2013/2016/2019:- Increase calendar booking window from 180 to a higher value.
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 to...
Exchange 2016:- Event ID 2004 – MSExchange Management Application
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,...