Assign Office 365 Licenses using Active Directory Groups
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Assign Office 365 Licenses using Active Directory Groups

Assign Office 365 Licenses with Active Directory Groups In this post I will walk through the options of  assigning Office 365 Licenses based on Active Directory Group membership. Microsoft has recently released the new feature in Azure Active Directory which allows you to apply Azure licenses as well as Office 365 licenses based on group…

Create New Exchange 2016 Mailbox Database using PowerShell
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Create New Exchange 2016 Mailbox Database using PowerShell

New Mailbox Database using PowerShell In this post I will create a new Mailbox Database for Exchange 2016 using PowerShell. Available Syntax for the cmdlet “New-MailboxDatabase” New-MailboxDatabase -Name -Server [-AutoDagExcludeFromMonitoring <$true | $false>] [-IsExcludedFromInitialProvisioning ] [-IsExcludedFromProvisioning <$true | $false>] [-IsSuspendedFromProvisioning <$true | $false>] [-OfflineAddressBook ] [-PublicFolderDatabase ] [-Confirm []] [-DomainController ] [-EdbFilePath ] [-LogFolderPath ]…

How to recover deleted email using VEEAM for Office 365
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How to recover deleted email using VEEAM for Office 365

Recover Deleted Items using VEEAM for Microsoft Office 365 In todays post I will go through the options of recover a deleted item using VEEAM Backup for Microsoft Office 365. To get started we need to open the VEEAM Backup Console and then Click on the Explore Option. Select from which restore point you want…

Exchange Resource Mailbox not sending auto decline for double booking.
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Exchange Resource Mailbox not sending auto decline for double booking.

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…

Slow SMTP Relay Exchange 2010 – “MaxAcknowledgementDelay”
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Slow SMTP Relay Exchange 2010 – “MaxAcknowledgementDelay”

Slow SMTP Relay for Applications using Exchange 2010 Receive Connectors.   In this post we will look at the default “SMTP Delay” for messages received from a system that don’t support shadow redundancy. By default, Receive connectors delay acknowledgement up to 30 seconds. For more information, see “Delayed Acknowledgement” in Understanding Shadow Redundancy. To view the…

Exchange 2016 CU 6 Released
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Exchange 2016 CU 6 Released

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 from Exchange Organization
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Removing Exchange 2013 Client Access Server from Exchange Organization

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…

Removing Exchange 2013 Mailbox Server from Exchange Organization
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Removing Exchange 2013 Mailbox Server from Exchange Organization

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

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”
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Exchange Mailbox has “Empty HomeMDB attribute”

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
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Error Removing Mailbox Database

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…