Antivirus exclusions for Exchange 2016 servers In this post, we will look at the Antivirus exclusions for Windows in order to run a successful Exchange 2016 environment. It is not uncommon to run antivirus programs on your Exchange 2016 servers, however if the configuration is not done correctly it could have some negative effects on…
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…
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 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…
INTRODUCTION This article describes how to use Exchange Online PowerShell to set Exchange Online mailbox sizes and limits in the Microsoft Office 365 environment. To set mailbox size limits for Exchange Online mailboxes, use one of the following methods. Set mailbox size limits for a single user Connect to Exchange Online by using remote…
Insufficient access rights to perform the operation, when executing cmdlet Enable-RemoteMailbox. Use the Enable-RemoteMailbox cmdlet to create a mailbox in the cloud-based service for an existing user in the on-premises Active Directory. During an installation and configuration of Exchange 2016 with Hybrid deployment, I come across the below Error message when running the cmdlet “Enable-RemoteMailbox“….
Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption In this post, I will look at configuring message encryption in Office 365. What is message encryption? Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption is an extra add-on online service build on Microsoft Azure Right Management (Azure RMS), By enabling Azure RMS administrators can configure message encryption by configuring exchange online…
Exchange PowerShell Script to Bulk create Room Mailbox Databases In this post I will show case a script I have created to Bulk create Room Mailboxes, this script was created to assist a customer to quickly create new Room Mailboxes for their new Offices. The script will perform the following. Creates new Room…
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…
What is Backscatter messages in Exchange Online Protection? It’s the automated bounce messages which is sent by mail servers usually due to incoming spam. Because Exchange Online Protection is a spam filtering service , messages sent to suspicious and non-existing recipients are rejected. When this process happens Exchange Online Protection generates a NDR (…