There are numerous outstanding scripts, tools and resources located in the TechNet Gallery. In addition to MVPs and community members adding scripts, Microsoft also adds official contributions. For example, this is where you are downloading the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator and Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator.
Since adding PowerShell scripts to this blog is no… Read the rest “TechNet Gallery Resources”
When migrating mailboxes from on-premises Exchange to Office 365, we can run into the error where the migration fails with an error stating that the target mailbox doesn’t have an SMTP proxy matching the Microsoft Online Routing Domain.
This can happen due to a number of causes. For example the mailbox is managed by an Email Address Policy (EAP) that was not updated with the online routing domain.… Read the rest “Office 365 Mailbox Migration – Target Mailbox Doesn’t Have An SMTP Proxy Matching”
It is possible to configure a “static” IP on your Azure IAAS VMs. This is something that we looked at in a previous post. One thing worth pointing out is that there is a little wrinkle with the current implementation, and you may run into unexpected results.
Static IP assignment in Azure VMs is not the same as configuring a typical static IP for a server in your on-pre… Read the rest “AzureVM Static IP Does Not Persist”
When creating a new Database Availability Group, there was a bit of rude shock when the installation failed. This customer had deployed multiple Exchange 2010 DAGs over the lifespan of the product, yet their latest build ran into an issue. They were able to create the DAG, but when adding the first mailbox server to the DAG, the operation failed.
This was not due to an underlying issue where the W… Read the rest “Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer – You Must Provide A Value For This Property”
Azure now offers the capability to configure static IPs onto IAAS VMs. Static IP assignment in Azure VMs is not the same as configuring a typical static IP for a server in your on-premises network. When you statically assign an IP address to the Azure VM, it is not entered into the VMs machine’s TCP/IP configuration property sheet. Rather a reservation is created, so that DHCP ha… Read the rest “How To Set Static IP On Azure VM”
The Exchange 2016 preview is now available for download!
Note that the downloaded file is Exchange2016-x64-preview.exe and the build of Exchange is 15.0.1.0225.017.
At this time there are already some resources available to you – see below for details.
TechNet has some pre-release documentation available. If you have feedback, we'… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 Preview Now Available”
In an Exchange 2010 SP3 Hybrid deployment with Office 365, a client noted that they were unable to send email from their Office 365 mailbox to an on-premises mailboxes. The user in Office 365 received an undeliverable message stating that Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups and the email address wasn’t found at the destination domain. That was not the case as there certainly was … Read the rest “Delivery Failed From Office 365 Mailbox To On-Premises Exchange Mailbox”
Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect) was released today along with Azure Active Directory Connect Health (AAD Connect health). AAD Connect continues to drive the investments that are made to assist with on-boarding to Microsoft Azure and Office. The intent is that AAD Connect will replace DirSync and AAD Sync, and add multiple new capabilities.
The RTM build of AAD Connec… Read the rest “PSA – AAD Connect Released Also AAD Connect Health Released”
What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom?
Is it as Miles Kington said, “Knowledge is knowing the tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in your fruit salad”. Or is knowledge learning by your experience, and wisdom is learning through other people’s experiences? Let’s make this post use the second option, and discuss what was observed on an recent(ish) trip.
The crux of this tale i… Read the rest “Case Of the Disappearing GUI”
After upgrading an Exchange 2013 CU8 lab to CU9, the Set-Mailbox cmdlet did not present the expected options to configure sent items for shared mailboxes.
The MessageCopyForSentAsEnabled and MessageCopyForSendOnBehalfEnabled parameters as discussed on the EHLO blog were missing.
This was a little puzzling as this was an expected feature of Exchange 2013 CU9. None of the issue… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU9 MessageCopyForSentAsEnabled Missing”