Streamlining High Volume Email Management in Microsoft 365 with PowerShell I developed the HVEAccountManager.ps1 script to streamline the administration of High Volume Email (HVE) accounts in Microsoft Exchange Online. This script harnesses the capabilities of automation to ease this process, offering a straightforward and effective tool for HVE account management. It exemplifies how automation can…
Leave a CommentEnsuring Microsoft Defender for Identity Deployment Success with Test-MdiReadiness.ps1 In the world of cybersecurity, preparation is key. This is especially true when deploying sophisticated protection tools like Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI), which safeguards your organization against advanced threats and insider actions. To ensure a smooth and effective deployment, leveraging the Test-MdiReadiness.ps1 script is a…
Leave a CommentHow to verify if Mailbox Auditing is enabled by Default on your Office 365 Tenant Started from January 2019, Microsoft turned on mailbox auditing by default for all Microsoft 365 organizations. This means that the certain actions like the following will be logged and can be viewed in the mailbox audit log. Mailbox owner Delegates…
Leave a CommentChange the default location for Exchange 2016 Queue Database The default location for the Exchange Queue Database is in the Exchange install directory under TransportRoles. The location of the queue database and the queue database transaction logs is controlled by keys in the %ExchangeInstallPath%Bin\EdgeTransport.exe.config XML application configuration file. This file is associated with the Exchange Transport service.…
2 CommentsExchange Transport Service Fails to Start After moving the Exchange Queue Database, the Transport service fails to start and you receive the following error in Event viewer. To resolve this error, we need to make sure that the folder where the new Queue DB is located has the correct permissions. The folder for the queue…
Leave a CommentExchange Transport is rejecting submissions because the available disk space has dropped below the configured threshold. Microsoft Exchange Server makes use of back pressure monitor systems to prevent Exchange Server from being overwhelmed by the volume of incoming messages. What is Back pressure? Back pressure is a system resource monitoring feature of the Microsoft Exchange…
1 CommentHow to get Exchange Active Mailboxes Let’s looks at how you can get a list of Exchange Active Mailboxes using the Exchange Shell. The following cmdlet can be used. The following script with run through all the mailboxes in the Exchange Organization and provide a list of Active Mailboxes, however this is not a refined…
Leave a CommentUpdate to scalability guidance for Exchange 2016 The Microsoft Exchange Team has recently announced an update to their scalability guidance for Exchange 2016. Effective immediately, the maximum recommended memory for deployments for Exchange 2016 has changed from 96 GB to 192 GB. These changes are noted in the Exchange 2016 Sizing Guidance as well as…
Leave a CommentMicrosoft Exchange 2013 – 2016 September 2017 Update Microsoft made the latest CU (cumulative Updates) available for both Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016. These updates include fixes which was reported by customers as well as includes security updates. During a previous post from Microsoft, they have informed customers that a minimum Active Directory forest functional…
Leave a CommentAntivirus 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…
1 CommentExport 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…
Leave a CommentSearch 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…
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