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…
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“….
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 ]…
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…
Where to find Email headers in Outlook for Mac ? This post is to serve as a guide on where to find the “Email Header” options in Outlook for Mac. This option is called “View Source” on Outlook for Mac 2016. To find the email headers in Outlook for Mac is pretty straight forward and…
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…
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: 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…
How 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…
Create 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. New-MailContact -Name “Lazy-Mails” -ExternalEmailAddress “LazyAdmin@Gmail.com” -OrganizationalUnit “OU=Contacts,DC=LazyAdmin,DC=com” Quick and easy . #ThatlazyAdmin