Exchange 2016
Exchange 2016 – Blank ECP/EAC Page
Scenario: Exchange 2016 ECP/EAC Page is blank after logging in and the Exchange Management Shell giving errors when opening. Recently we upgraded our Exchange 2016 Lab Server to CU7 from CU6. The installation ran fine, it did do an Organizational Prepare on Step 1 and...
Exchange 2016 – Check mailbox creation date
There may come a time when you have been requested to provide HR or your manager a list of mailboxes and their creation dates. This is a simple task to do, lets jump right to it. Firstly, launch the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and enter in the following command:...
Exchange 2016 – Upgrade to CU6
Microsoft released Exchange Server 2016 CU6 a few days ago. In this tutorial we will go through the steps of running the upgrade. For a list of fixes etc. you can refer to the link below: Technet Blog Take note that there is a Schema update in this CU. Let's proceed.....
Exchange 2016 – Event ID 12017, MSExchangeFrontEndTransport & MSExchangeTransport
Exchange 2016 Certificate Expiry In this article we cover the following: Exchange Certificate that is about to expire. Exchange 2016 Certificate that is expiring or has expired: On your Exchange 2016 Server you might see the following errors to say that a certificate...
Exchange 2016 – Event 1023,Perflib
In your Exchange 2016 environment you might come across the following event ID constantly logged in the application log, EventID 1023,Perflib: "Windows cannot load the extensible counter DLL MSExchangeIS. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the...
Exchange 2016 (Coexistence) – The EHLO options for the client proxy target did not match
In this tutorial we will look at an error logged on 1 of our Test Lab Exchange 2016 Servers. We are currently running coexistence with Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013. In the application log in Event Viewer the following Event ID was logged: The IP address listed is...
Exchange 2016 – Server Health Monitor
In Exchange 2016 (and 2013) you can check the health of your server. If you run the following command: Get-Serverhealth -Identity <ServerName> You will get a long list of information. To narrow this down to UnHealthy Alerts, you can run the following command:...
Exchange 2016 – EventID 642 (ESE)
While Exchange 2016 is still "New", there are some warnings or errors you may encounter but they are not actually a problem on the server. Let's look at the example below: You might think the above warning is telling you something is wrong with the database, actually...
Exchange 2016 – DAG Activation Preference Change
Microsoft released this new "Feature" called "PreferenceMoveFrequency" in Exchange 2016 CU2 - What does this mean for you as an Admin? Previously once you did maintenance on your Mailbox Server you would need to run "RedistributeActiveDatabases.ps1" script to balance...
Exchange 2016 – MSExchange UnifiedPolicyFileSync
For those who have installed Exchange 2016, you might come across some errors or warnings not seen in previous versions of Exchange. To give you an example, MSExchange UnifiedPolicyFileSync warning that keeps getting logged in the application log: Is there a solution?...