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If you work with Exchange you know that there is no way to search for email alias using the console. That can be very frustrating when you need to assign an alias to someone and Exchange Online tells you it is already in use. (We have the instructions for How Read more…
If you are able th launch the Exchange Management Console (EMC) but see the following error when you attempt to expand a segment, we have the solution: “The following error occurred while attempting to connect to the specified Exchange server ‘http://server.domain; The Attempt to connect to http://server.domain/PowerShell using “Kerberos” authentication Read more…
If your on-premise Exchange environment is in hybrid mode with Office 365 Hosted Exchange, you may find that email sent from mailboxes created onprem to mailboxes created in O365 Hosted Exchange is not received. The issue is that your on-prem Exchange is unaware of the cloud created mailboxes. The solution Read more…
If you want to retain control over what your staff can install you will need to disable the GET ADD-INS button in Outlook. Unfortunately there is no ready made GPO toggle GET ADD-INS off. To give you a false sense of security, there is a setting in the Office 365 Read more…
If you have a UCC certificate with multiple server names in the SUBJECT ALTERNATIVE NAMES and you want to apply that certificate to more than one server, you cannot do it through the Exchange Management Console GUI. If you try to IMPORT the certificate that was created from a Certificate Read more…
If you have an Office365 account, you likely know that you have 50GB worth of storage space. However, it is not obvious how much of that 50GB limit you are currently using. Questions like: ‘How large is all of my email’, ‘How much space do I have left in my Read more…
UPDATE: Mar 26, 2020 for Exchange ONLINE instructions we have How To Export All Email Addresses and Alias to A File From Office365 Exchange Online HERE. If you have ever been asked who has a particular email alias on an Exchange server, you know you in for trouble because the Read more…
If you are like most companies, when staff leave you delete their email accounts but you likely don’t give much thought to the Distribution Lists that they used. After a few years you can have quite a few unused Distribution Lists which does not do anyone good so you should Read more…
If you are using Exchange Management Shell (PowerShell) and need to change the ActiveSync Policy for people in a specific OU using a wildcard (i.e. you want to effect the ActiveSync policy for all users in the ABCDEFG OU you can use a script like this: Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Read more…
If you need to apply a particular ActiveSync policy to only a particular Distribution Group you can run (and modify) the following script. # Put members of the Dist Group into a dynamic array $allMembers = Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity ‘<DISTRIBUTION GROUP NAME HERE>‘ # Loop through each person in the allMembers array foreach ($member Read more…
To see the Detailed Properties of an Exchange Send Connector you can use a simple Exchange Management Shell command: Get-SendConnector | list
In a word, no. I have spent several days trying to find a clear answer the to this question in white papers, blogs and even MS Partner Support. I think Microsoft will offer this service in the not so distant future because it just makes sense to. Using the Office 365 Feedback link Read more…
If you want to know who REALLY sent you an email and not what Outlook is reporting who sent you an email, you just need to check what Outlook actually received in its header. The header contains all kinds of useful tech bits and is often modified by systems that Read more…
This is an easy one if you pay attention to the details in the error: Summary: 1 item(s). 0 succeeded, 1 failed. Elapsed time: 00:00:00 Dan Tican\IEM/1026121420 CFNetwork/609 Darwin/13.0.0 Failed Error: The ActiveSyncDevice MY DOMAIN/Ian – Users/Dan/ExchangeActiveSyncDevices/iPhone§78D33F828A7549BF95E4FE cannot be found. Click here for help… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).aspx?v=14.3.123.3&t=exchgf1&e=ms.exch.err.Ex0FBD0C Exchange Management Shell command attempted: Read more…
This was a frustrating error that, if I had slowed down for 2 minutes, would have been easy for me to figure out what was wrong. The issue was that the Exchange Power Shell – Management Shell cmdlets was not in the location Exchange expected sooooo, I had to run the Read more…
Well this was a minor annoyance I could have done without. Fortunately the solution is very simple. If you are trying to SHARE a Calendar in Outlook and you receive the dreaded: Calendar sharing is not available with the following entries because of permission settings on your network Read more…