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How to set Exchange Online mailbox sizes and limits in the Office 365 environment

INTRODUCTION This article describes how to use Exchange Online PowerShell to set Exchange Online mailbox sizes and limits in the Microsoft Office 365 environment. To set mailbox size limits for Exchange Online mailboxes, use one of the following methods.   Set mailbox size limits for a single user Connect to Exchange Online by using remote…

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Finding Domain Controllers with Powershell

How to Find Domain Controllers with Windows Powershell.   Get-ADDomainController Gets one or more Active Directory domain controllers based on discoverable services criteria, search parameters or by providing a domain controller identifier, such as the NetBIOS name.   In this post I will showcase how to get all the below listed information using Windows PowerShell.…

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Exchange 2016: Insufficient access rights to perform the operation. Enabling Remote Mailbox.

Insufficient access rights to perform the operation, when executing cmdlet Enable-RemoteMailbox.   Use the Enable-RemoteMailbox cmdlet to create a mailbox in the cloud-based service for an existing user in the on-premises Active Directory.   During an installation and configuration of Exchange 2016 with Hybrid deployment, I come across the below Error message when running the cmdlet “Enable-RemoteMailbox“.…

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Encrypting Email Messages in Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption   In this post, I will look at configuring message encryption in Office 365. What is message encryption? Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption is an extra add-on online service build on Microsoft Azure Right Management (Azure RMS), By enabling Azure RMS administrators can configure message encryption by configuring exchange online…

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Exchange 2016 – There is no existing permission entry found for user.

There is no existing permission entry found for user: running Set-MailboxFolderPermissions   You receive the following error when trying to run the Set-MailboxFolderPermissions in Exchange 2016 EMS.   There is no existing permission entry found for user: Su-Yu-Chan Rack  –  Nerd. + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-MailboxFolderPermission], UserNotFoundInPermissionEntryException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=THATLAZYEX-02,RequestId=365c6506-0b10-4de7-bd31-eeeec601ac4a,TimeStamp=7/26/2017 5:08:42 AM] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-UserNotFoundInPermissionEntryException]…

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Reduce Exchange 2016 Mailbox Database Size using ESEUTIL

Reduce Exchange 2016 Mailbox Database size using Eseutil.   In this post I will walk through the steps of reducing the Exchange Mailbox Database size, However the method of reducing the Mailbox Database size varies from different administrators. If you can afford to have downtime on a Mailbox Database then these steps would work for…

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Exchange 2016 – Fail to Send Email to newly created MailContact

“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…

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Create New Exchange 2016 Mailbox Database using PowerShell

New 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”

To get started we need to launch the Exchange PowerShell console and the run the following cmdlet.

Next is to mount the newly created DB.

Lets…

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Exchange DAG witness in Failed State

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…

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