As an Exchange Admin, you might have your saved list of commands you use on a daily or weekly basis. I would like to share my Top 10 list of commands used in Exchange, as some of the environments worked on are massive, these might not be your Top 10 Read more…
Many organizations make use of a WildCard Certificate in their Exchange Environment. This makes sense when you have quite a number of SAN names to use. In Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2013, if you try and update the X.509 Certificate Name when using a WildCard Certificate, whether it is in Read more…
Many times the question has been asked, can I not add my Exchange 2010 Server to my Exchange 2013 DAG or my Exchange 2013 Server to my Exchange 2016 DAG. Well, the answer is No you cannot. Let me explain why. Firstly, your Exchange 2010 Servers are probably running on Read more…
In Exchange, be it Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016, you might have come across back pressure alerts or where Exchange just won’t function. These include: Disk space Memory These in turn log different event logs, you might see the following Event ID’s logged in the application log: 15004 Read more…
This is an interesting topic. Some believe that it is best to disable IPv6 on an Exchange 2013 Server where others do not agree. The problem comes in where the tick box on the Network card is just removed and this then sends the Server into a spiral where services Read more…
In Exchange, whether it is Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016, there is always some sort of confusion when it comes to deleting or disabling a user mailbox. While one will leave the account in tact and disconnect the mailbox, the other one will remove the account and mailbox. Read more…
In your Exchange 2013 environment, you may come across the following error below when working in the EAC when you are trying to configure delegation or trying to modify user accounts: The Object <object DN> has been corrupted and is in an inconsistent state. The following validation errors happened: The Read more…
In Exchange, you are probably familiar with creating DAG’s and assigning a DAG IP. All DAG’s running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 require at least one IP address on every subnet included in the MAPI network. The IP address(es) assigned to the DAG are used by the Read more…
In my previous post we looked at redistributing the active databases and copies in a DAG. Today we will be taking a look at moving an active mailbox database to another server in the DAG. We will be using the Exchange Management Shell to perform this action. Why you may Read more…
In your Exchange 2010 environment you will need to re-balance your DAG’s after you perform maintenance or if you had a failure on a Server of if you copies moved to another server. You can manually move the databases from the Exchange Management Console but PowerShell comes to the rescue Read more…