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 →

10th May 2020 0

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 →

7th Apr 2020 0

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 →

31st Mar 2020 0

Get Members of Nested Distribution Groups

I recently came up with a request to get a list of all members of a distribution group which can easily be done using Power shell. Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "testgroup@xyz.com" This will output all members of the group including other groups. Other groups have nested groups as well so it would be cumbersome process to get... Continue Reading →

11th Mar 2020 12

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 →

9th Mar 2020 0

Taking Ownership of Office 365 Tenant

Let's assume that you have got a client named XYZ Services (xyzServices.com) that you need to set up an Office 365 tenant for. As per the client, they have never used Office 365 services before, they have been on some On-Prem Exchange. When creating a new tenant, you are required to enter the Tenant name... Continue Reading →

21st Jan 2020 0

Mailbox and Distribution Access Permissions

There have been many instances where we get a request to find out which mailboxes if any does a specific mailbox has access to and what's the access level. And also to find out out which distribution group(s) is user member of. It's not easy to get this manually by checking the properties of each... Continue Reading →

20th Jan 2020 0

Exchange Online: Viewing / Changing Calendar permissions for All Users

I come across this request a lot i.e. to view or change calendar permissions for all mailboxes. For e.g. UserA would like to have Publishing Editor rights on all mailboxes or UserA needs to be removed as publishing editor access off all mailboxes. Let’s assume that there are 100+ users to apply this to so... Continue Reading →

2nd Jan 2020 0

Citrix Studio: Cannot Communicate with the Database

I have recently came across an issue where I got the below error message upon launching Citrix Studio. Cause: Normally, you would just check if the database server is online and there is no connectivity issue between that and Citrix delivery controller. But most of the times that’s not the cause of the issue. In... Continue Reading →

19th Dec 2019 1

Citrix 7.15 Desktops spans across multiple Monitors

Recently, I came across an issue where whenever users launched a desktop off their citrix, it would launch it across multiple monitors instead of giving user an option if they want to view it in full screen or span to multiple monitors. This can be fixed using GUI or making a change to the web.config... Continue Reading →

25th Nov 2019 0

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