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…
3 CommentsDecommissioning 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…
5 CommentsSetup 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…
Leave a CommentExchange 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…
Leave a CommentError 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…
Leave a CommentHow 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…
Leave a CommentCreate 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.
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New-MailContact -Name "Lazy-Mails" -ExternalEmailAddress "LazyAdmin@Gmail.com" -OrganizationalUnit "OU=Contacts,DC=LazyAdmin,DC=com" |
Quick and easy . #ThatlazyAdmin
Leave a CommentExchange 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…
1 CommentRemove Exchange Mailbox Move-Request using PowerShell Lets look at how to remove Exchange Mailbox Move-Request with PowerShell.
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Get-MoveRequest |
This will list all current Mailbox Move-Requests InProgress and Completed. To remove run :
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Remove-MoveRequest -Confirm:$false |
Lets looks at combining the “Get” option and only show “Completed” Move-Requests and then remove the “Completed” Move-Requests.
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Get-MoveRequest |Where-Object {$_.Status -eq "Completed"} |Remove-MoveRequest |
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Leave a CommentAdd and Remove Distribution Group Members Powershell Lets look at some quick Powershell one liners to Remove and Add Distribution Group Members. Add DistributionGroup Member:
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Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity LazyAdmins -Member ShaunH |
Remove DistributionGroup Member:
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Remove-DistributionGroupMember -Identity LazyUsers -Member John.Long |
Quick and Simple One liners. #ThatLazyAdmin
Leave a CommentView 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…
Leave a CommentBulk 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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