Exchange 2016 – QuorumGroup in failed state (Test-ReplicationHealth)
I have 2 x Exchange 2016 servers (running on Windows Server 2016) with a single DAG containing 2 databases. I also have a File Share Witness configured on a 3rd server running Windows Server 2016. This has been working perfectly…
Enable RecipientValidation in Exchange Organisation
I have been troubleshooting an issue where mail was reaching our Exchange servers for non-existent recipients (it passes through a Sophos UTM first). I discovered that there is a way of having Exchange validate the recipient and this is done…
Exchange Online users unable to book meeting rooms in Exchange on-premise
We have a hybrid Exchange environment and all of our meeting room calendars are hosted in Exchange 2016 on-premise. The users that we have migrated to Exchange Online are able to see the calendars in the rooms list but receive…
User can’t access mailbox after migration to Exchange Online
After migrating a user mailbox to Exchange Online (from Exchange 2016) the user could no longer access their mailbox in Outlook, it gave no error just behaved as if it was offline. I tried removing the profile and creating it…
Users have two mailboxes, one online and one on-premise
While working with an Exchange hybrid environment (Exchange 2016 on-premise and Exchange Online) it became apparent that some users had two mailboxes; one on-premise and one in Exchange Online. Their primary mailbox was in the on-premise environment, the one online…
You can’t use the domain because it’s not an accepted domain for your organization
While trying to migrate a mailbox from Exchange 2016 on-premise to Exchange Online using the New-MoveRequest cmdlet it failed and returned this message: You can’t use the domain because it’s not an accepted domain for your organization While checking 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 – 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 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…