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 Mobile device policy than what end users have. Read more…
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? Take a Read more…
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 sense, Read more…
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 Frontend <ServerName> Client Frontend <ServerName> As advised by Microsoft and other MVP’s, you shouldn’t remove Read more…
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 docs.microsoft.com) $dbs = Get-MailboxDatabase $dbs | 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…
Here is a quick PowerShell tip for viewing the status of database seeding. Sometimes you might have a seed running from a PowerShell window and then when you check the green progress bar is no longer visible as you might have had a refresh on domain controllers or you have Read more…
In Exchange 2016, there are a couple of cmdlets you can run to check that you servers are in a healthy state. In 1x example, you could run the following command to check the Outlook Web Services: Test-OutlookWebServices If you want to specify a specific server then you can run 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…
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…