Exchange 2016 – WinRM connection fails when opening Exchange Management Shell
While opening the Exchange Management Shell on an Exchange 2016 server it failed to connect to any of the servers in the environment, giving the following error: Connecting to remote server xxx.mydomain.com failed with the following error message : The…
Exchange 2016 – Error 500 when running Hybrid wizard
While trying to run the Hybrid wizard in Exchange 2016 (the link at the bottom left of the Exchange Admin Centre) I get a HTTP 500 error after logging in with my Office 365 credentials: It may be just coincidence…
Exchange 2016 – error 5506 when installing cumulative update
While installing Cumulative Update 14 (CU14) on one of my Exchange 2016 servers it failed at step 10 (Mailbox role: Transport service) with the following error: An unexpected error occurred while modifying the forms authentication settings for path /LM/W3SVC/1. The…
Exchange Server 2016 CU readiness checks error
I have downloaded the latest cumulative update (CU14) for Exchange Server 2016 and while running the setup (elevated) I receive several errors in the readiness checks. These include: The mailbox server role isn’t installed on this computer and various others about…
Exchange 2016 – Event ID 6027 FIPFS
In a new Exchange 2016 environment I can see Event ID 6027 being logged quite frequently in the Application Event Log: MS Filtering Engine Update process was unsuccessful to download the engine update for Microsoft from Primary Update Path. Update…
Exchange 2016 – move log files to another drive
I have just built a new Exchange 2016 server and the boot drive is starting to fill up quite quickly. A lot of this is down to logging so I’m going to move the log files to another drive with…
Exchange 2016 – The Setup command may only be used inside a Describe block
While running the Exchange 2016 setup command to prepare the AD Schema I encountered the following error: The Setup command may only be used inside a Describe block. This was simply because I was running the command from a PowerShell…
Download Address Book in Outlook generates error 0x80190197
Users at a new remote site have reported that they are unable to download the offline address book (OAB) in Outlook as it generates an error: Task ‘user@domain.com’ reported error (0x80190197) : ‘An unexpected error has occurred.’ The Exchange environment…