Configure Exchange 2010 Client Access Name Space. In this post, I will look at how to configure the internal and external name spaces for the client access service in Exchange 2010. To get started with the configuration we need to make sure of the name space design once this has been decided on then the…
How to Transfer FSMO Roles In this quick and short but powerful post, I will look how to transfer FSMO roles from one server to another. I will be doing this using CMD as well as PowerShell. To get start CMD needs to be run as Administrator and the following cmdlet can be used. Ntdsutil.exe…
How to find FSMO Roles Holder Active Directory In this post, I will look at two ways you can find out which Domain Controller holds the FSMO Roles. The first option is to use CMD and run it as Administrator, then run the following cmdlet. NETDOM /Query FSMO Now let’s go ahead and get the…
Create GPO to Enable RDP on Servers and Create new GPO Link using PowerShell In this pot, I will look at a basic Group Policy configuration to enable Remote Desktop on servers in a particular Organizational Unit. I will also showcase how to link a GPO to a different OU using Windows PowerShell. To get…
Error Connecting to Exchange Online PowerShell with MFA enabled. When you try to connect to Exchange Online using PowerShell you receive the following error. The Cause for this is: This issue occurs if either an internal firewall or the Windows Remote Management service has not been started. Solution is: To resolve this issue, check whether…
How to Enable Mailbox Auditing in Office 365 By Default, mailbox auditing is not enabled in Office 365, mailbox auditing can be turned on for log in to mailbox access by owner, delegates, and administrators. After mailbox auditing is enabled some actions performed by administrators and delegates on a mailbox is audited by default. To log…
Search and Delete specific email for all or specific users using PowerShell. In many cases an Exchange Administrator will get a request to delete an email which was sent to a specific user or to multiple users. Exchange allows us to do this with a feature called search-mailbox, this feature can be used to…
How to create a new MobileDeviceMailboxPolicy in Exchange 2016. (also known as ActiveSync Policy) In this post I will create a new Mobile Device Mailbox policy and assign to the sales users, these users are on the road daily and they are in locations where mobile reception is not always the best and the…
How to restore deleted Office 365 Groups By default deleted Microsoft Office 365 groups are retained for 30 days. The groups which was deleted within 30 days are known as “soft-delete“, and can be restored using powershell. Powershell can also be used to permanently delete these groups if an admin does not want to…
How to find all LinkedMailboxes and convert them to UserMailboxes. In this post I will look at how to find all LinkedMailboxes in the Exchange environment and then converting them to UserMailboxes. What is a LinkedMailbox? A linked mailbox is a mailbox associated with an external account. The resource forest scenario is an…
Microsoft Exchange Error: ResourceDelegates can only be enabled on resource mailboxes. During the process of adding additional Room Mailbox resource delegates, I received the following error: Resource Delegates can only be enabled on resource mailboxes. This is an pretty straight forward error to resolve, in the current environment where I am facing this error…
Room Mailbox in Office 365 not Showing Details in Calendar. In this post I will demonstrate how to change the default calendar view of a “Room Mailbox” and include the “Subject” . By default the “Room” Mailbox in Office 365 only shows you the “Busy” Status. “A room mailbox is a resource mailbox…