Yesterday the new Insider Preview was released, downloaded it this morning on my one machine: So what is new in this update? WSL Improvements. General overall performance improvements. What have I noticed on this build? On a positive note, the windows store is super fast on this build. Previous builds the store was very sluggish […]
There comes a time where you need to remove a distribution group but keep its email address but to avoid any kind of bounces, you need to ensure you have the X500 address ready to add to the mailbox or shared mailbox. Let’s launch the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) on Exchange 2019 and find the […]
Excited to see what changes are in this build and how it compares to build 18970. You do need 10GB or more free space to install the update, my machine was shy of 10GB and the update wanted to install on an external device. After the clean-up and more than 15GB, the update was seamless, […]
The above Insider Preview was released today. After turning on my machine today, the previous Insider Preview which has been running great gave me a weird problem. CPU spiked to 100% and the task bar was inaccessible, meaning any icon you pressed would do nothing. Managed to get into settings and downloaded the new build […]
I have been playing around for the last couple of months/years with insider preview and I thought I would share my feedback on the last 4 builds so far and what I personally have experienced. These are the builds I will cover in this article: Build 18950 Build 18956 Build 18963 Build 18965 So you […]
In your environment, you might have that day when you need to perform a recovery of an Exchange Server as a windows update broke exchange or the underlying storage crashed and you need to recover as the OS won’t boot. What ever the case, it is not a difficult task, there a just a few […]
In the Exchange Management Shell, when running a command that you need info from another server, you might end up with the following error in red writing: [Server] Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : WinRM cannot complete the operation. Veri fy that the specified computer name is valid, that the […]
Exchange 2016 CU upgrades don’t always go according to plan. In this scenario, one of my servers just wouldn’t upgrade but the rest did without error. The upgrade runs like normal from the CLI but fails with the below error: “Cannot start service MSExchangeServicehost……” When I went to check the Exchange Services, some of them […]
Recently on 2 of my machines, I started noticing the C:\ space drop quickly over a week. Running my script (ClearLogs) removes about 30-40GB but on this 600GB drive, pretty much 500GB has been eaten up. Checking through each folder, I came across this folder in the following location: C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\TransportRoles\Logs\Mailbox\Routing It has over […]
Exchange 2016 CU13 introduced a few more fixes and is advisable to upgrade to it. The upgrades are generally seemless and we normally do them from command line, just easier than a GUI upgrade 🙂 Firstly, you need to ensure the following is done before hand: Reboot your system (a general rule of thumb before […]
