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…

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

Create Exchange 2016 DAG using PowerShell
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Create Exchange 2016 DAG using PowerShell

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Create Exchange 2016 DAG using PowerShell   What is a Database Availability Group  (DAG) ? A database availability group (DAG) is a set of up to 16 Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Mailbox servers that provide automatic database-level recovery from a database, server, or network failure. When a Mailbox server is added to a DAG, it works…

Overview of The Exchange 2016 Transport pipeline services
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Overview of The Exchange 2016 Transport pipeline services

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Overview of The Exchange 2016 Transport pipeline services: Front End Transport service on Mailbox servers   This service acts as a stateless proxy for all inbound and (optionally) outbound external SMTP traffic for the Exchange 2016 organization. The Front End Transport service doesn’t inspect message content, doesn’t communicate with the Mailbox Transport service, and doesn’t queue any…

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…

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…

Prepare Active Directory and Domains for Exchange 2016
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Prepare Active Directory and Domains for Exchange 2016

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Prepare Active Directory and domains for Exchange 2016 The first step in getting your organization ready for Exchange 2016 is to extend the Active Directory schema. Exchange stores a lot of information in Active Directory but before it can do that, it needs to add and update classes, attributes, and other items. If you’re curious…

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…

KEMP – Free Load Balancer
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KEMP – Free Load Balancer

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Free Load Balancer from KEMP Since the introduction of #Exchange 2010 Microsoft no longer recommend the use of “Windows Load balancer” for #Exchange. KEMP Provide an excellent alternative with great additional features. The Free version of #KEMP Load Balancer come with the following features. KEMP Technologies free LoadMaster Application Load Balancer is a fully featured…