Exchange Server Tip : (Quickly Starts All Services) As an Exchange Administrator we all too aware of the starting of services once a server has been restarted. To assist you can use PowerShell and start all services by running the following: Get-Service *MSExchange* |Start-Service -Verbose To verify that all services has been started, run the…
MRS Proxy Connection Failed – Exchange Online After installing new Exchange Servers and you try and start a new migration batch to Exchange Online you receive the following Error. “MRS Proxy Error ‘The connection to the server could not be completed” To resolve the issue, let’s look at if MRS Proxy is enabled on the…
Exchange 2016 Uninstall Fails on Mailbox Server Role: Client Access Service Recently I battled with this headache of an Uninstall of an Exchange 2016 server. In the Exchange Install Logs this is the error that you are seeing. ERROR ( message:Cannot find GLOBAL MODULE object with identifier “exppw:) To resolve this error, you can follow…
Exchange Transport Service Fails to Start After moving the Exchange Queue Database, the Transport service fails to start and you receive the following error in Event viewer. To resolve this error, we need to make sure that the folder where the new Queue DB is located has the correct permissions. The folder for the queue…
Exchange Transport is rejecting submissions because the available disk space has dropped below the configured threshold. Microsoft Exchange Server makes use of back pressure monitor systems to prevent Exchange Server from being overwhelmed by the volume of incoming messages. What is Back pressure? Back pressure is a system resource monitoring feature of the Microsoft Exchange…
Apply Exchange 2013/2016 License Key using PowerShell. Let’s first have a look at what the current license status is by running the following. Get-ExchangeServer EX16 | Format-Table Edition,*Trial* As we can see from the below image, the server has not been licensed yet and is still running as a Trial. To set the license key,…
How to get Exchange Active Mailboxes Let’s looks at how you can get a list of Exchange Active Mailboxes using the Exchange Shell. The following cmdlet can be used. The following script with run through all the mailboxes in the Exchange Organization and provide a list of Active Mailboxes, however this is not a refined…
Export Exchange 2013 Certificate using PowerShell In this post, I will look at how to export an Exchange 2013 certificate with private key using PowerShell and how to verify if the certificate has the private key after export. A certificate can be exported from the exchange server as a simple backup method or to import…
How to Reseed a “Failed And Suspended” Mailbox Database Copy. Updating, also known as seeding, is the process in which a copy of a mailbox database is added to another Mailbox server in a database availability group (DAG). The newly added copy becomes the baseline database for the passive copy into which log files copied…
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…