Exchange Mailbox Move Request Stuck on ‘Queued’
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Exchange Mailbox Move Request Stuck on ‘Queued’

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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
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Remove Exchange Mailbox Move-Request

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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 Receive and Send size limits Exchange PowerShell
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Set Receive and Send size limits Exchange PowerShell

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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…

Add and Remove Distribution Group Members Powershell
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Add and Remove Distribution Group Members Powershell

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Add and Remove Distribution Group Members Powershell   Lets look at some quick Powershell one liners to Remove and Add Distribution Group Members. Add DistributionGroup Member: Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity LazyAdmins -Member ShaunH Remove DistributionGroup Member: Remove-DistributionGroupMember -Identity LazyUsers -Member John.Long   Quick and Simple One liners.   #ThatLazyAdmin

Exchange 2016 message throttling settings
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Exchange 2016 message throttling settings

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View Default Exchange 2016 message throttling settings Message throttling refers to a group of limits that are set on the number of messages and connections that can be processed by an Exchange server. These limits include message processing rates, SMTP connection rates, and SMTP session timeout values. These limits work together to protect an Exchange server…

Bulk add users to Distribution Group
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Bulk add users to Distribution Group

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Bulk add users to Distribution Group I was ask recently to simplify a task for support staff to bulk add users to a distribution group. So i created the following script to add user from csv. The script will ‘prompt’ for ‘Distribution Group’ name and will add users accordingly. The script has the ‘WhatIf’ added…

Set Exhange 2010 /2013 OWA ‘LogonFormat’ using PowerShell
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Set Exhange 2010 /2013 OWA ‘LogonFormat’ using PowerShell

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Set Exhange 2010 /2013 OWA ‘LogonFormat’ using PowerShell   Quick look at the curent setting using the ‘GUI’. Exchange Admin Center – Servers – Virtual Directory select OWA virtual directory.     Now lets change the LogonFormat to ‘User name only’ using PowerShell   Set-OwaVirtualDirectory -LogonFormat ‘UserName’ -DefaultDomain ‘ThatLazyAdmin.local’ -Identity ‘LazyEX-01\owa (Default Web Site)’  …

Installing Exchange 2016
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Installing Exchange 2016

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Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 prerequisites The prerequisites that are needed to install Exchange 2016 on computers running Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 depends on which Exchange role you want to install. Read the section below that matches the role you want to install. Role: Mailbox server role. Let’s…

Get and Connect a Disconnected Mailbox Using PowerShell
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Get and Connect a Disconnected Mailbox Using PowerShell

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Get and Connect a Disconnected Mailbox Using PowerShell   To quickly find all disconnected Mailboxes in your Exchange environment launch EMC and run the following one liner. Get-MailboxStatistics -Server ThaLazyExMBX01| where { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | select DisplayName,MailboxGuid,Database,DisconnectDate The Results will look as follow: Now that we have the results lets refine the search…

Exchange 2010 Mail User still Associated with a Move Request
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Exchange 2010 Mail User still Associated with a Move Request

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Exchange 2010 Mail User still Associated with a Move Request Mail User Object in Exchange still showing as if it is listed to a Move Request To verify if we have any Move requests currently in progress or completed we can start by Opening the Exchange Shell. Once the EMS is open type the following…

Exchange 2010 MessageTrackingLog: Failed to write log..Error Access Denied
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Exchange 2010 MessageTrackingLog: Failed to write log..Error Access Denied

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Exchange 2010 MessageTrackingLog: Error Access Denied Message Tracking in Exchange 2010 Stopped and you received the following Error in EventViewer. “MessageTrackingLogs: Failed to write logs because of the error: Access to the path ‘MSGTRK20170329-8.LOG’ is denied..” Let’s Start by reviewing the Current configuration for Message Tracking. Get-TranSportServer |ft Name,MessageTrackingLogEnabled,MessageTrackingLogPath,MessageTrackingLogMaxAge,MessageTrackingLogMaxDirectorySize, MessageTrackingLogMaxFileSize,MessageTrackingLogSubjectLoggingEnabled Now that you have your…

Exchange Deployment Assistant Quick Overview
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Exchange Deployment Assistant Quick Overview

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Exchange Deployment Assistant Quick Overview Exchange deployment tool creates a custom step by step checklist to help you deploy Exchange in different types of scenarios. The tool can be found Here. Click on Launch the Deployment Assistant. From the next screen you will have 3 different options to choose from On-Premises ,Hybrid ,Cloud Only. Details…