Recently I had an issue where users could not download the offline address book using any version of outlook. The error users report is Task ‘email’ reported error (0x80190194) : ‘The operation failed There are many blog posts on the net that give different fixes for this error but in my case the problem still… Read More
When moving mailboxes between databases you sometimes experience the moves completing with a warning. The warning may be that post move cleanup could not be completed on the source mailbox database. This means that you will see disconnected mailboxes in EMC even though the users mailbox is live on the other database. In this circumstance… Read More
Administrators can set user’s OOO notifications directly from EMS by using the following command Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration <alias> -AutoReplyState enabled -ExternalAudience all -InternalMessage <Message to internal senders> -ExternalMessage <Message to external senders>
Email transmissions between companies sometimes need to be encrypted in transit. In order for this encryption to work across links both exchange servers must have a valid and trusted SSL certificate. If using Internal CA certificates, both exchange servers must have the each others Root CA cert and any Intermediates installed locally in the relevant… Read More
When performing mailbox moves sometimes they complete with warnings. When you interrogate the move log you may find that the move was successful but the request failed to clean up the source database. Microsoft say they resolved this in Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3 but I have seen this happen in later releases SP3 CU5 and… Read More
I had one request from a customer recently that asked if it was possible to email users before the their active directory passwords expire as it was causing issues with remote users. I created a PowerShell script which I added as a scheduled task on one domain controller that runs once a day. The script… Read More
I had a request from a customer the other week asking if it is possible to grant all users read only permission to each other’s calendars in Exchange 2013. The only way to achieve this in bulk is using Exchange Management Shell. Below is the script I created to filter out distribution, room and discovery… Read More
Performing an unattended installation of Exchange 2013 is pretty simple. This is useful if you want to install exchange using custom settings such as renaming the default database or placing the database or log files on separate drives etc. From the installation media folder open command prompt and use the following command line switches to… Read More
To install Exchange Server 2013 requires certain roles and features. These can be automatically installed via the GUI install of Exchange Server, however it is more efficient to install these via PowerShell Powershell Command Install-WindowsFeature AS-HTTP-Activation, Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface, RSAT-Clustering-Mgmt, RSAT-Clustering-PowerShell, Web-Mgmt-Console, WAS-Process-Model, Web-Asp-Net45, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Http-Redirect, Web-Http-Tracing,… Read More