Exchange 2016

This is a tale of when a “quick” review of CAS namespaces quickly went off at a tangent.  When working with the messaging administrator, let’s call him “Mike” to protect the innocent, he showed me the below for his Exchange 2013 server.  He was quite happy with the config, but that bubble was about to be popped.  Note that the ShowMailboxVirtualDirectories parameter has been added to allow us to se… Read the rest “Setting Backend Exchange 2013 / 2016 Virtual Directory”

Back with Exchange 2010 SP1 a feature was added so that mailbox which were delegated Full Mailbox access to other mailboxes would automatically have the additional mailbox made accessible in Outlook.  As an example Debora was granted Full Mailbox access to the mailbox called Postmaster.  With no additional configuration, in Debora’s Outlook client (2007 and up) the Postmaster mailbox would automat… Read the rest “Exchange Autodiscover – How Delegate Mailboxes Are Returned”

Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 search is again a huge improvement and work area in the same vein as the search improvements in Exchange 2007 compared to Exchange 2003.  Exchange Search is important for many reasons.  Users running Outlook in online mode will leverage the Exchange search service, as will those on OWA.  Administrators performing discovery searches will also be using Exchange Search… Read the rest “Troubleshooting Exchange 2013 and 2016 Search”