For all those wondering what an Exchange 2019 Setup looks like on Windows Server 2019 Core, here is a snippet of what I did in my lab: If you look at the setup line, you will notice that there is a switch /InstallWindowsComponents and that is exactly what it is. Instead of copying that very […]
As many of you know, DAG seeding can fail for a few reasons, namely: Networking issues Resource issues (CPU/RAM) Disk space issues Anti-virus (exclusions missing) And many more….. Today we had a strange one though, some databases seeded fine but the rest were failing with this error: Here are some of the troubleshooting steps to […]
Received a weird error this morning when trying to delete email, however it started with outlook with an error “Verifying Integrity of data” and it sat there for about 5 minutes before Outlook 2019 launched. (sorry missed the screenshot) All seemed fine until I tried to delete an email from any folder, what is strange […]
Since CU13 for Exchange 2016 there has been no need to run the PrepareAD command. Running upgrades are pretty simple, provided you have an account that has the correct permissions. This is a common problem where upgrades don’t want to run because of permissions. The command to run is as follows: .\Setup.exe /Mode:Upgrade /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms Press […]
There are a number of errors that can appear when you doing mailbox moves. The normal ones is when they stall because the catalog cannot keep up or you hit a threshold but in this case, moving from one server to another one just fails. To find the error, you need to use the following […]
I created a few more videos on YouTube for Exchange 2016, here they are:
In Exchange 2016 and 2019 you have an option to view your queues with Queue Viewer from the Exchange Toolbox as shown below: What I have noticed with the new Cumulative Updates (CU) in both Exchange 2019 and Exchange 2016 is they get stuck loading each time the Queue Viewer refreshes itself or if you […]
As you know, October 13 2020 is approaching fast and the support for Exchange 2010 is ending. For those who are still on legacy, remember Windows 2008 R2 is not getting many or any updates anymore so you at a risk with that operating system. If you want to move to Exchange 2019 you will […]
For those of you still managing an Exchange 2010 environment, you might come across the error listed below. If you head over to the Exchange Management Console (EMC), you will notice it says the server is licensed. So why are we getting this error? When you license a server, it gives you a big yellow […]
In Exchange 2010/2016, you might come across a strange error as shown below when sending email: Failed to process message due to a permanent exception with message Invalid named property Solution: To fix this problem, you need to move the mailbox to another store with a specific switch: New-MoveRequest “User” -DoNotPreserveMailboxSignature -TargetDatabase Store1 Once the […]
