I created a few more videos on YouTube for Exchange 2016, here they are: Advertisements

In Exchange 2016 and 2019 you have an option to view your queues with Queue Viewer from the Exchange Toolbox as shown below: What I have noticed with the new Cumulative Updates (CU) in both Exchange 2019 and Exchange 2016 is they get stuck loading each time the Queue Viewer refreshes itself or if you […]

As you know, October 13 2020 is approaching fast and the support for Exchange 2010 is ending. For those who are still on legacy, remember Windows 2008 R2 is not getting many or any updates anymore so you at a risk with that operating system. If you want to move to Exchange 2019 you will […]

For those of you still managing an Exchange 2010 environment, you might come across the error listed below. If you head over to the Exchange Management Console (EMC), you will notice it says the server is licensed. So why are we getting this error? When you license a server, it gives you a big yellow […]

In Exchange 2010/2016, you might come across a strange error as shown below when sending email: Failed to process message due to a permanent exception with message Invalid named property Solution: To fix this problem, you need to move the mailbox to another store with a specific switch: New-MoveRequest “User” -DoNotPreserveMailboxSignature -TargetDatabase Store1 Once the […]

After rebooting a server we found the following error in the event logs along with whole stack of others: Right, so the Microsoft Exchange RPC Client Access would not start. To fix this error, you can do the following: Locate the Remote Procedure call (RPC) Locator service and set it to automatic and then start […]

Exchange Admins don’t always like patching and they say, well it’s working so why fix something that ain’t broken. Well, if you are on a CU earlier than CU15, you should really consider upgrading. CU14 and CU15 have a number of fixes in them but not only that, you need to apply the security patches […]

At a client recently we had an Exchange 2016 Server that would not install the March 2020 Security update. The setup would start and then end with the error below after a few minutes: Error 1642 generally implies that it cannot find the version installed. Even though we had Exchange 2016 CU15 installed (as per […]

In this series of videos, we take a look at building your Exchange 2016 environment from scratch. This includes: Building your domain and forest. Joining your machine to the domain. Installing the prerequisites for Exchange Installing Exchange 2016 using the GUI Installing Exchange 2016 using unattended mode. What will follow in the series is: Creating […]

As part of the migration to Exchange 2016 you might have to recover an Exchange 2010 member server or both if you have storage corruption or the VM’s OS has simply become unusable. Recovery is done and when you try add the member server/s back to the Database Availability Group (DAG), you presented with a […]