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”
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…