Issue We get the following message after assigning the license to a synchronized user in new Office 365 Tenant and it gets stuck there. This can happen when migrating from on-premise Exchange to newly created Office 365 and we use AD Connect to sync AD accounts to office 365. This can happen due to some... Continue Reading →
How To Get A list Of All Mounted Databases on Exchange Server
In a DAG Environment, where you have got multiple exchange servers in a DAG it's important to know the exact number of databases on each server to make sure no server has more load than the other and all databases are equally balanced across the servers in DAG. Following command will give you the number... Continue Reading →
Generating a Report of Mailboxes Who Have Crossed Quota Threshold
Recently, I have got a request to send a copy of all users who are reaching or at or above mailbox quota threshold to one of the Administrators. By default, quota threshold limit notifications are sent to users themselves only. Even if an Exchange Transport rule is set up for this, it won't work. Following... Continue Reading →
Email Forwarding Report
Recently, I worked on getting a report of all users who have Email forwarding enabled. Users can have forwarding enabled at their mailbox level and / or mailbox rules. Forwarding Enabled on Mailbox Level: Get-Mailbox -Organizationalunit "OU Path" | where {$_.ForwardingAddress -ne $null} | ft -wrap -autosize Name, ForwardingAddress, DeliverToMailboxAndForward Forwarding Set up using Mailbox... Continue Reading →
Blocked Active Sync Device
I have recently come across an issue where a device status was Blocked. It was Allowed from Exchange Online portal but after refreshing it, it goes back to the Blocked state. I ran the following command on exchange power shell to find out the device ID of the device that was in Blocked status. Make... Continue Reading →
Mystery Of Some UserA Emails Being Sent to UserB As Well
I have across an issue recently where I spent quite some time to figure out the cause. Few emails destined to UserA were also being delivered to UserB. If it was a forwarding, all emails would get forwarded but in this case it was few emails only and it was random. I made sure that... Continue Reading →
External Email Sent To Distribution Group With External Recipients Are Flagged As Spam Or Being Discarded
Issue Recently, I have come across an issue where external emails sent to a distribution group were being discarded for members which were external recipients. Emails to internal recipient members were being delivered successfully. For e.g. consider a client with domain @xyz.com having a distribution group called Sales@xyz.com with two members. John@xyz.com and vendor@gmail.com. When... Continue Reading →
Exchange 2016 Add-Ins: Unable to get from Office Store
I have recently come across an issue where users were unable to add Sales force Add-in using OWA 2016. When they tried to add an Add-in using Manage Add-in section on OWA using an option to get an app from Office store, they would get the following error. Most likely it's because of your firewall... Continue Reading →
View Lync Enabled Mailboxes Only
You want to get a list of mailboxes that have Lync enabled. When Lync is enabled for a mailbox, you get an additional address type i.e. SIP in the email properties of a mailbox. Following command will list all users along with their SIP addresses and if Lync is not enabled, SIP address would be... Continue Reading →
Steps to take prior to Installing Cumulative Update for Exchange 2010/2013/2016
I have come across the following issue post cumulative update for Exchange servers several times hence decided to share this with everyone. Web.config is a file that contains client specific limits for OWA, EWS , and Active Sync. When a cumulative update is installed, the web config file is overwritten and the limits that you... Continue Reading →
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