Exchange 2013 – Page 2

Removing Exchange 2013 Mailbox Server from Exchange Organization

Bylazy-admin July 2, 2017

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…

Exchange 2013 Uninstall Failed : Setup can’t continue with the uninstall because the RFExchConn (2236) has o pen files.

Bylazy-admin July 2, 2017

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”

Bylazy-admin June 29, 2017June 29, 2017

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

Bylazy-admin June 29, 2017June 29, 2017

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…

Remove-Mailbox Database Exchange 2013

Bylazy-admin June 29, 2017June 29, 2017

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

Bylazy-admin June 27, 2017June 29, 2017

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’

Bylazy-admin June 27, 2017June 29, 2017

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

Bylazy-admin June 21, 2017June 29, 2017

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…

Add and Remove Distribution Group Members Powershell

Bylazy-admin June 13, 2017June 29, 2017

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

Bylazy-admin May 8, 2017

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

Bylazy-admin May 2, 2017

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…

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Bulk export Mailbox to .PST using PowerShell

Bylazy-admin May 1, 2017

Bulk export Mailbox to .PST using PowerShell I recently received a request to bulk export mailboxes to .pst , to help mysef i have created this small script to import from csv and then kick off the export request. file can be downloaded Here Code: #Created By: Shaun Hardneck #http://thatlazyadmin.com #Freebies 🙂 Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.SnapIn; Import-Csv…