Copy Active Directory Group Membership Script The following Script Copies members from one Active Directory Group to another Active Directory Group. To start the Script run: .\CopyGroupMembership.ps1 You will be prompted to enter the Group whose membership you need to copy. The you will be prompted to add the group name where you want to…
Leave a CommentHow to enable Active Directory recycle bin In this post we will look at two ways of how to enable Active Directory recycle bin. The first option will be via the GUI and second using PowerShell. Open Server Manager then click on Tool >> Active Directory Administrative Centre. From the Administrative Centre on the left-hand…
Leave a CommentSetupExchange 2016 Installation Fails on Windows Server 2016 When you try to Install Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016 you receive the following Error Message. This computer requires the update described in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article KB3206632. Resolution: We need to install the following update which can be downloaded from here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4004227/windows-10-update-kb3206632 Or visit the…
Leave a CommentHow to Transfer FSMO Roles In this quick and short but powerful post, I will look how to transfer FSMO roles from one server to another. I will be doing this using CMD as well as PowerShell. To get start CMD needs to be run as Administrator and the following cmdlet can be used.
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Ntdsutil.exe |
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Leave a CommentHow to find FSMO Roles Holder Active Directory In this post, I will look at two ways you can find out which Domain Controller holds the FSMO Roles. The first option is to use CMD and run it as Administrator, then run the following cmdlet.
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NETDOM /Query FSMO |
Now let’s go ahead and get the same information…
Leave a Comment“Fail” LED=550 5.7.136 RESOLVER.RST.SenderNotAuthenticatedForRecipient; authentication required; Delivery restriction check failed because the sender was not authenticated when sending to this recipient. In this post i will go over the option of removing the setting “Require that all senders are authenticated“. In Exchange 2013 this can be removed by logging into the Admin Console > Recipients…
Leave a CommentAssign Office 365 Licenses with Active Directory Groups In this post I will walk through the options of assigning Office 365 Licenses based on Active Directory Group membership. Microsoft has recently released the new feature in Azure Active Directory which allows you to apply Azure licenses as well as Office 365 licenses based on group…
Leave a CommentNew Mailbox Database using PowerShell In this post I will create a new Mailbox Database for Exchange 2016 using PowerShell. Available Syntax for the cmdlet “New-MailboxDatabase”
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New-MailboxDatabase -Name -Server [-AutoDagExcludeFromMonitoring <$true | $false>] [-IsExcludedFromInitialProvisioning ] [-IsExcludedFromProvisioning <$true | $false>] [-IsSuspendedFromProvisioning <$true | $false>] [-OfflineAddressBook ] [-PublicFolderDatabase ] [-Confirm []] [-DomainController ] [-EdbFilePath ] [-LogFolderPath ] [-MailboxProvisioningAttributes ] [-SkipDatabaseLogFolderCreation ] [-WhatIf []] [] |
To get started we need to launch the Exchange PowerShell console and the run the following cmdlet.
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New-MailboxDatabase -Name "DB1" -Server ThatLazyEX-02 -EdbFilePath D:\DB\DB1.edb -LogFolderPath D:\Logs\ |
Next is to mount the newly created DB.
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Mount-Database DB1 |
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1 CommentRecover Deleted Items using VEEAM for Microsoft Office 365 In todays post I will go through the options of recover a deleted item using VEEAM Backup for Microsoft Office 365. To get started we need to open the VEEAM Backup Console and then Click on the Explore Option. Select from which restore point you want…
Leave a CommentLatest Exchange 2016 CU 6 released in June 2017 The Latest Cumulative Update for Exchange 2016 and now available for download. The latest releases includes fixes and issues reported as well as updated functionality. Updated functionality in Cumulative Update 6 With CU 6 the Exchange team added two highly anticipated features; Sent Items Behavior Control…
Leave a CommentError Removing Mailbox Database: This Mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes. When you try and remove an “Exchange Mailbox Database” you received the following error: “This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, public folder mailboxes or arbitration mailboxes. To get a list of all mailboxes in this database, run…
Leave a CommentHow to remove Exchange 2013 Mailbox Database using PowerShell In this post i want to share something that’s very common but i thought i’ll share some steps on removing a mailbox database. This post will focus only on doing these steps using Powershell. Firstly run the following command to get a list of all Exchange…
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