Items specifically related to Exchange 2019
After seeing multiple comments on this topic internally and on the TechNet forums, it is worth reiterating the requirements for the Visual C++ Runtime.
Exchange requires the installation of the Visual C++ Runtime if it was not already installed. Note that there is a different requirement for the Exchange Edge role. Edge requires Visual C++ Runtime 2012.
This addition of the Visual C++ Runtime was … Read the rest “Exchange Visual C++ Runtime Reminder”
While operating in an Exchange hybrid model, users expect to see a consistent GAL no matter if they or other people to be contacted are on-premises or in Exchange Online. In order for the Exchange on-premises servers to be able to build up a complete GAL there needs to be at least some mailbox information added to the AD user object. If Exchange Online mailboxes are added by simply assigning an … Read the rest “Automating Enable-Remote Mailbox”
This is one of those ye olde issues that keep coming back up in Exchange. Have you every removed a mailbox, re-created it with the exact same SMTP address and then some people complain that they cannot send to the mailbox?
This can happen in a few circumstances. For example if the Exchange administrator has an “oops” and accidently deletes the account. If they do not use the AD DS recycle bin f… Read the rest “Unable to Reply to Old Emails Due to legacyExchangeDN”
Exchange 2013 introduced the Managed Availability feature to provide a very capable automated monitoring and management framework. Managed Availability allows Exchange to self diagnose and to self correct issues without having to escalate to a carbon life based unit for every issue. Whilst Managed Availability may still have to page humans, the frequency is certainly reduced compared to Exchange… Read the rest “Quick Tip: What Restarts Has Managed Availability Issued”
This post was promoted from the draft bin to production after a customer visit a couple of weeks ago. When onsite we were looking at how the environment was configured. The admins had written a series of scripts to determine the environment state which was excellent to see! One thing that they had assumed though was that the ServerName attribute on a mailbox was where the database was currently … Read the rest “Exchange ServerName Points To Wrong Or Decommissioned Server”
The syntax to install Exchange Cumulative Updates (CU) via the command line is pretty straight forward. However there are some common themes that still pop up in the TechNet forums, cases and customers that I speak with. So I wanted to discuss some of the issues that can and will arise. There are a range of issues in here from:
Mailstorm.exe was a utility to send multiple test emails to validate and test Exchange in the 5.5 timeframe, and was used on some of the Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courses.
The utility is no longer used since relied upon a local Outlook install, and my fuzzy brain recalls issues with moving to "current" versions of Outlook such as Office XP.
This is no great loss as it is easy to send test … Read the rest “Quick Tip – Sending Multiple Test Emails Using PowerShell (AKA Mailstorm)”