Exchange DAG Witness is in Failed State. WARNING: Database availability group ‘DAG01’ witness is in a failed state. The database availability group requires the witness server to maintain quorum. Please use the Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup cmdlet to re-create the witness server and the directory. To try and resolve the issue on the DAG , lets have a…
Comments closedPowerShell Script to Bulk Disable Exchange Mailboxes. To ease some of my some of my daily activities , I have created this PowerShell script to bulk disable Exchange Mailboxes. The script can be executed from a non Exchange PowerShell Console, it will import the Exchange PowerShell cmdlets. The script imports a csv and runs the…
Comments closedEnabling Windows PowerShell v2.0 Windows Server 2012 R2 In this Post I will go through the steps of Installing PowerShell V 2.0 on windows Server 2012 R2. The following prerequisites needs to be configured before installing PowerShell V 2.0. On Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 Use the following procedures to add the…
Comments closedHow to Backup Office 365 Mailbox with VEEAM. In this post i will go through the installation and configuration of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. Veeam Backup and Replication is a well known backup and replication software commonly used to backup virtual environment like Hyper-V and VMware. About the Product Veeam Backup for Microsoft…
Comments closedSet Exchange resource mailbox to send auto decline for double booking. This is a topic that always seems to come up from the helpdesk team , in this post i will configure a resource mailbox to auto decline when there is a double booking. In this post i will use the Exchange Powershell to configure…
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 CommentRemoving Exchange 2013 Client Access Server In this post i will look at removing Exchange 2013 Client access Server from the current Exchange Organization. As this is not the last Exchange Server in the Organization and removing this server will be very straight forward. To start the process we can verify if this server is…
3 CommentsDecommissioning Exchange 2013 Mailbox Server In this post i will go through the steps used to remove an Exchange 2013 Mailbox Server from the Exchange Organization. Before we can start with the uninstall of Exchange we first need to verify that the server we want to decommission does not have any “System Mailboxes” or “User…
5 CommentsSetup can’t continue with the uninstall because the RFExchConn (2236) has o pen files. Close the process, and then restart Setup. During the uninstall process i was presented with the following error message. To try and resolve this , lets have a look at the log which was been generated . looking at the…
Leave a CommentExchange Mailbox has “Empty HomeMDB attribute” After doing an Mailbox Move one of Mailboxes ran into an issue where it lots its “HomeMDB” attribute. How do we resolve this ? There is a quick and easy fix to resolve this , to start we need to open “ADSI Edit” . Select “Default naming context” Once…
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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