Exchange 2019 – No mixing Exchange Servers in a DAG
In Exchange 2019 but in any version, you cannot mix Exchange versions so they are part of the same DAG. For example, you cannot add an Exchange 2013 server to a 2016 DAG. I...
Monthly Archive: Dec 2018
Exchange 2019 – PowerShell Commands not recognized
Strange thing how Exchange will work and after a reboot you cannot run any commands. In my previous post where we recovered the Exchange Security groups, all seemed fine until commands were run the...
Exchange 2019 – Re-create the Exchange Security Groups in AD
In Exchange, not only 2019, you might come across a problem where the security groups are corrupt or have been deleted, this can be by accident or maliciously. To fix this, you will need...
Exchange 2019 – Unified Messaging option still showing under server properties
With the announcement of Exchange 2019, Unified Messaging was said to be removed from this version. However if you look at the properties of an Exchange 2019 Server you will see an option for...
Exchange 2019 – Exchange Services won’t start after reboot
Strange one in my Azure VM, booted my domain controller and then a few minutes later I booted my Exchange 2019 VM, only to find that it won’t accept connections on RDP. Received the...
Exchange 2019 – Outlook Popup
When you install Exchange, it can be any version like 2013 or 2019, when you connect outlook to the server it works without error. However the moment you add an SSL certificate and the...
Exchange 2019 – Using the “Configure External Access Domain Wizard”
In Exchange 2019, like Exchange 2013 etc, you can use a wizard to configure all your External URL’s, take note this does not change the Internal URL or the Autodiscover URL, you can change...
Exchange 2019 – Cipher Suites
In one of my previous posts, we looked at Cipher Suites and locking down Server 2016 with Exchange 2016. In my lab, I ran the same software but this time on Server 2019 running...
Exchange 2019 – Adding outlook account couldn’t be easier..
In Exchange, adding a simple mail account would be a simple process, you enter in your information, email address and password and you confirm it and then outlook does it’s checks with autodiscover etc....
Exchange 2016:- Cipher lockdown with IISCrypto 2.0
In my Exchange lab I have been experimenting with Cipher Suite lock down and closing holes in SSL. Here are a list of items that we went through: IIS Crypto check and configure. SSL...
