Set Exchange resource mailbox to send auto decline for double booking. This is a topic that always seems to come up from the helpdesk team , in this post i will configure a resource mailbox to auto decline when there is a double booking. In this post i will use the Exchange Powershell to configure…
Latest Exchange 2016 CU 6 released in June 2017 The Latest Cumulative Update for Exchange 2016 and now available for download. The latest releases includes fixes and issues reported as well as updated functionality. Updated functionality in Cumulative Update 6 With CU 6 the Exchange team added two highly anticipated features; Sent Items Behavior Control…
Removing Exchange 2013 Client Access Server In this post i will look at removing Exchange 2013 Client access Server from the current Exchange Organization. As this is not the last Exchange Server in the Organization and removing this server will be very straight forward. To start the process we can verify if this server is…
Decommissioning Exchange 2013 Mailbox Server In this post i will go through the steps used to remove an Exchange 2013 Mailbox Server from the Exchange Organization. Before we can start with the uninstall of Exchange we first need to verify that the server we want to decommission does not have any “System Mailboxes” or “User…
Setup can’t continue with the uninstall because the RFExchConn (2236) has o pen files. Close the process, and then restart Setup. During the uninstall process i was presented with the following error message. To try and resolve this , lets have a look at the log which was been generated . looking at the…
Exchange Mailbox has “Empty HomeMDB attribute” After doing an Mailbox Move one of Mailboxes ran into an issue where it lots its “HomeMDB” attribute. How do we resolve this ? There is a quick and easy fix to resolve this , to start we need to open “ADSI Edit” . Select “Default naming context” Once…
Error Removing Mailbox Database: This Mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes. When you try and remove an “Exchange Mailbox Database” you received the following error: “This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, public folder mailboxes or arbitration mailboxes. To get a list of all mailboxes in this database, run…
How to remove Exchange 2013 Mailbox Database using PowerShell In this post i want to share something that’s very common but i thought i’ll share some steps on removing a mailbox database. This post will focus only on doing these steps using Powershell. Firstly run the following command to get a list of all Exchange…
Create Exchange Mail Contact using Powershell How to create an Exchange Mail Contact using Powershell one liner. To create the new Mail Contact run the following in Exchange Shell. New-MailContact -Name “Lazy-Mails” -ExternalEmailAddress “LazyAdmin@Gmail.com” -OrganizationalUnit “OU=Contacts,DC=LazyAdmin,DC=com” Quick and easy . #ThatlazyAdmin
Exchange Mailbox Move Request Stuck on ‘Queued’ Recently i started doing bulk Mailbox Moves to New DB’s, during this process i found that all the new move-request jobs i started are all stuck on ‘Queued’ status. To resolve this i did the following. List all Move-Request (just to make sure they still all in…
Remove Exchange Mailbox Move-Request using PowerShell Lets look at how to remove Exchange Mailbox Move-Request with PowerShell. Get-MoveRequest This will list all current Mailbox Move-Requests InProgress and Completed. To remove run : Remove-MoveRequest -Confirm:$false Lets looks at combining the “Get” option and only show “Completed” Move-Requests and then remove the “Completed” Move-Requests. Get-MoveRequest |Where-Object…
Set Mailbox Max Send and Max Receive limits Lets have a quick look at a one liner to set user mailbox send and receive size limits in Exchange Powershell. Set-Mailbox Shaun.Hardneck -MaxReceive “15 MB” -MaxSend “15 MB” Now lets look at finding all users with “MaxSendSize” limits greater than “5 MB” Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited…