Exchange 2016 – using maintenance mode for patching a DAG member
When patching an Exchange 2016 server that is a member of a DAG (Database Availability Group) it is best to put the server into maintenance mode before doing so. This is easily done using a few PowerShell cmdlets: Drain the…
Ignore requests for read receipts on a specific mailbox
Our ServiceDesk application collects mail from a single mailbox in our Exchange 2016 on-premise environment (servicedesk@ourdomain.com). Mail is also sent to several other mailboxes and forwarded on to the ServiceDesk mailbox (mainly for different languages). A number of users have…
Exchange 2016 – Remove a mailbox server from a DAG using PowerShell
I am working on an Exchange 2016 environment in a lab (using a SureBackup job in Veeam Backup & Replication) and not all of the servers are present in the lab. Therefore, I need to remove one of the mailbox…
Exchange 2016 – mount a mailbox database using PowerShell
Mounting a mailbox database in PowerShell is really easy, you just need to use the Mount-Database cmdlet. Here is an example: Mount-Database -Identity “UK Mailbox Database 1”
Exchange 2016 – configure InternetWebProxy and InternetWebProxyBypassList
If an Exchange 2016 server is behind a web proxy it is possible to configure this using the Set-ExchangeServer PowerShell cmdlet with the InternetWebProxy and InternetWebProxyBypassList parameters. Here is an example: Set-ExchangeServer -Identity MailServer01 -InternetWebProxy “http://192.168.0.254:8080” Set-ExchangeServer -Identity MailServer01 -InternetWebProxyBypassList…
Exchange Hybrid Wizard – The WinRM client received an HTTP status code of 502 from the remote WS-Management service
I’m running the Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) on an Exchange 2016 and receive the following message: Connecting to the remote server failed with the following error message: Connecting to remote server <servername> failed with the following error message:…
Exchange 2016 – “Application cannot be started” when running Hybrid wizard
While trying to run the Hybrid Wizard in Exchange 2016 I get a message box: Application cannot be started. Contact the application vendor. Clicking the Details button opens a log file, and this line half way down stands out to…