Exchange 2016
Exchange 2016:- Find the CU installed on your server
Update: The old blog post has been updated to the following below:- I have updated the article to include a PowerShell script that will give you all the information you need displayed in a Grid. This script can be modified to add more build information which I will...
Exchange 2016 :- Prevent a server proxying CAS traffic to another server CAS Server
In this short post, we will look at preventing a CAS server from proxying traffic. Let's suppose you are migrating from Exchange 2010 to 2013 or even 2016 and you do not want your Exchange 2010 Server/s to act as a proxy target. You could run the following command to...
Exchange 2016: Something went wrong and we haven’t been able to send your message yet
As an Exchange Admin, everything is running well and you come into the office and you have a ton of calls logged by users who cannot send/forward or reply to emails on OWA. You think hard about any changes that have been made, and well, none have. You take a look at...
Exchange 2016 – OWA Mailbox Policy
This is an interesting topic. Outlook Web App Policies for Exchange 2016. This "feature" configures the ability to Allow or Block features within the default policy for all users or you can create a custom one to assign to individual mailboxes. Let's take a step back...
Exchange 2016 – Mailbox: Inbox Rules
In any Exchange Environment, your users will create Inbox Rules on there mailboxes. For them it is like a filing system, Email X goes here and Email Y goes there. In my previous post we looked at the Rules Quota on a mailbox. If you would like to see what rules have...
Exchange – My top most used PowerShell commands
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 but you can add...
Exchange 2016 – What is the Front End Transport Service on the Mailbox Role
In Exchange 2016, you do not have all the roles like in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013. You only have 2 roles, the Mailbox Role and the Edge Transport role. You might be wondering how mail flows within Exchange 2016. Let's take a look: The Mailbox server role...
Exchange 2016 – Installing Exchange on Server 2016
In this tutorial, we will be looking at installing Exchange 2016 CU7 on Windows Server 2016. Take note that you can install Exchange 2016 CU3 and up on Windows Server 2016. Prior versions of Exchange 2016 can be installed on Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2. We will...
Exchange 2016 – Why you cannot add an Exchange 2013 Server to an Exchange 2016 DAG
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...
Exchange 2016 – Back Pressure
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...