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When configuring Exchange it’s important to have your external and internal url’s correctly configured. Otherwise you are running into errors like those : Configuring those url’s isn’t that difficult, you just want to make sure you configure all the URL’s and have an appopiate SSL cert. After importing the right SSL you can use a […]
Before you remove the installation of an old Exchange Server (2007/2010) you may want to make sure that there is no SMTP procotol activity anymore. (For example multi functional printers who still have the old IP adres or something like that) First enable protocol logging on the Receiver Connectors, use therefore the following command : […]
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Many times I’ve ran into the following error : (Error : unsufficient access rights to perform the operation) while moving Lync users of moving mailboxes in Exchange. This is due to the following : Include inheritable permissions MUST BE ENABLED. (Also for other tasks) When this is one or a couple of users this is […]
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Moving mailboxes from one database/server to another is fairly easy. I prefer to use the shell interface but you can also use the GUI. The following commands are handy : New-MoveRequest -Identity <mailbox> –TargetDatabase <targetdatabase> (This commands moves one specified mailbox to another database) You can also use to move mailboxes from one database to […]
This is how to move the Exchange Catalog files to a different drive : Open the exchange management shell and execute the following command
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Set-MailboxDatabase -Identity databasename -IndexEnabled $false |
Stop the Microsoft Exchange Search Indexer service You can move your old files to the new directory, in my case the files were in the following dir […]
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Customers are asking me for advice for new Exchange installations and migrations. Until Microsoft releases a rollup (Exchange 2007) or new servicepack (Exchange 2010) it’s not possible to do co-existence migration from 2007/2010 to 2013. My advice is to wait or migrate to 2010. The only solution now is to export/import using a big bang […]
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While moving some mailboxes I got the following error :
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Active Directory operation failed on servername.domainname.local. This error is not retriable. Additional information: Insufficient access rights to perform the operation. Active directory response: 00002098: SecErr: DSID-03150BB9, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data 0 The user has insufficient access rights. Exchange Management Shell command attempted: ‘domainname.local/Users/User Name’ | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase ‘User Mailbox Database’ |
I found out the error was because inheritable permissions was not turned on for this specific user. (In this case this user was a member of the domain admin usergroup). This is how you can fix this problem : Open dsa.msc (make sure advanced […]
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Today I was testing Outlook with a new Exchange server config and I received the following error : I knew I correctly imported the new SSL certifcate because I tested OWA before Outlook and that was working fine. The solution was simple. You must specify in Exchange which Exchange services (for example SMTP, IIS, POP, […]
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Today I installed a Exchange 2010 CAS cluster using (Windows) NLB. After some final preparation I followed Microsoft best practices for creating a CAS cluster. (Microsoft recommends creating a CAS cluster also when you’re only using one CAS cluster). This is how you can do that :
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New-ClientAccessArray -Name <NameOfArray> -Fqdn <NLB Name> |
Exchange asked for your site name, you […]
When migrating to a new (version of) Exchange this is how you can synchronize the Public Folders : Start the exchange management shell and execute the following code :
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C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts> .\AddReplicaToPFRecursive.ps1 -Server "Exchange 2007 PF server name" -TopPublicFolder "\" -ServerToAdd "Exchange 2010 PF Server Name" |
You should be able to do this using the Exchange Management Console but this often doesn’t work. After executing the above script you should be […]
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A customer of mine ran into a problem while migrating from Exchange 2007 to 2010. They didn’t receive any internal email. Here are the properties of the default receive connector : That’s the problem. Make sure you enable Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Exchange server authentication. When you enable Exchange Server authentication you have to […]
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While attending Tech Ed 2012 EMEA I spoke with some people @ the Veeam booth. They showed me a beta version of the Veeam Explorer for Exchange. I was very enthusiastic about it and after a few week of holiday I finally had some time to do a review for myself. What does Veeam Explorer […]
I ran into a problem while granting one or more permissions on a mailbox :
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The object 'domain.domain/Microsoft Exchange Hosted Organizations/HostedORG/User′ must be within the read scope before and after.. |
Because it’s an Exchange 2010 SP2 multi tenant hosted environment there is no management console, so I figured out how to fix this using powershell in combination with an Multi tenant environment. Start the Exchange 2010 management shell with the […]
This is how you can easily redirect users from webmail.company.com to webmail.company.com/owa. Without the solution : Copy this file to the inetpub\wwwroot and rename it to default.htm Now al users will automatically be redirected to /owa […]
Ofcourse you also now the telnet commands to test a smtp server. But what when you know someone who doesn’t ? I found this nifty little program on the internet : Just fill in the appropriate data and hit send. Fill in the server configuration you want to use or test Mirror here […]
On this site https://www.digicert.com/easy-csr/exchange2010.htm you can easily create a powershell command for a Exchange 2010 certifcate request (CSR). Just fill in the appropriate names and the powershell command will be created. For the command name I always use the name of the Exchange receive connector. Maybe you have a good alternative or script to create […]
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You can easily check if you have an open relay with websites like http://www.mxtoolbox.com/, https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com and http://www.checkor.com/ When you found out that they say that you have an open relay you can double check that with the following command :
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Get-ReceiveConnector | Get-ADPermission | where {($_.ExtendedRights -like “*SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient*”)} | where {$_.User -like ‘*anonymous*’} | ft identity,user,extendedrights |
Then use the following command to close the anonymous relay :
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Get-ReceiveConnector “YourReceiveConnectorName” | Remove-ADPermission -User “NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON” -ExtendedRights “ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient” |
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This weekend I upgraded a Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 Multi tenant environment to SP2. I received the following error : The solution was to start Exchange 2010 SP 2 in unattended mode with the following parameters : Use the Upgrade and the /hosting mode! […]
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Today I ran into some problems while upgrading Exchange 2010 SP 1 multi tenant to SP 2. The error was “Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the TevoSource <> process has open files. After some investigating I found that the Appasure Replay agent was causing some interference. Stopping the service (and killing the proces […]
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Today I again received a question regarding Android phones who refuse to synchronize the calendar items. (Email etc is no problem, it’s only the calendar function). I found the following solution : Go to instellingen (settings) applications toepassingen beheren Alles Agenda opslag Gegevens wissen When you synchronize again the problem should be fixed. […]
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