Exchange 2016
Exchange Admin Center:- Checking the commands run when navigating the links
In one of my training sessions, I showed the teams that the Exchange Admin Center basically is PowerShell with a nice interface. In Exchange 2010, the logging is automatically captured but in Exchange 2016 and 2019, you need to first open the window for it to capture....
Exchange 2016:- Upgrade from the command line.
With Exchange 2013/2016 or 2019, installing updates from the command line is simple and pretty much the same. You will use the same command as per below to do the upgrade: .\Setup.exe /Mode:Upgrade /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms What you will notice is just the...
Exchange 2019:- Convert distribution group to Shared Mailbox
There comes a time where you need to remove a distribution group but keep its email address but to avoid any kind of bounces, you need to ensure you have the X500 address ready to add to the mailbox or shared mailbox. Let's launch the Exchange Management Shell (EMS)...
Exchange 2016:- Quickly Recover an Exchange Server from AD
In your environment, you might have that day when you need to perform a recovery of an Exchange Server as a windows update broke exchange or the underlying storage crashed and you need to recover as the OS won't boot. What ever the case, it is not a difficult task,...
Exchange 2016 CU13 Upgrade error:- Quickly fix the upgrade error to proceed with the upgrade.
Exchange 2016 CU upgrades don't always go according to plan. In this scenario, one of my servers just wouldn't upgrade but the rest did without error. The upgrade runs like normal from the CLI but fails with the below error: "Cannot start service...
Exchange 2016:- Routing folder filling up C:\ Drive
Recently on 2 of my machines, I started noticing the C:\ space drop quickly over a week. Running my script (ClearLogs) removes about 30-40GB but on this 600GB drive, pretty much 500GB has been eaten up. Checking through each folder, I came across this folder in the...
Exchange 2016:- Upgrade to CU13 using the command line.
Exchange 2016 CU13 introduced a few more fixes and is advisable to upgrade to it. The upgrades are generally seemless and we normally do them from command line, just easier than a GUI upgrade 🙂 Firstly, you need to ensure the following is done before hand: Reboot...
Exchange 2016/2019 Coexistence HTTP 500 Error on ECP
Ever reboot your servers and when you login, all looks good on the surface but when you try and do stuff well it doesn't actually work? In this scenario exactly that. Running coexistence with Exchange 2016 and 2019 and after a reboot, all seemed good. Exchange...
Installing Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 into the same environment
Head over to my page on Experts Exchange to view the article in detail: https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/33593/Installing-Exchange-2016-and-Exchange-2019-into-the-same-environment.html
Exchange 2010:- Error 0xe0434f4d (unknown error) when checking DAG status
Running the command Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus * on an Exchange 2010 Server that has Exchange 2016 in the environment, returns all the database copies for every version but today Exchange 2010 gave a weird error: A server-side administrative operation has failed....