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Removing Exchange 2013 Client Access Server from Exchange Organization

Removing 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…

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Removing Exchange 2013 Mailbox Server from Exchange Organization

Decommissioning 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…

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Exchange 2013 Uninstall Failed : Setup can’t continue with the uninstall because the RFExchConn (2236) has o pen files.

Setup 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…

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Exchange 2016 message throttling settings

View Default Exchange 2016 message throttling settings Message throttling refers to a group of limits that are set on the number of messages and connections that can be processed by an Exchange server. These limits include message processing rates, SMTP connection rates, and SMTP session timeout values. These limits work together to protect an Exchange server…

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Prepare Active Directory and Domains for Exchange 2016

Prepare Active Directory and domains for Exchange 2016 The first step in getting your organization ready for Exchange 2016 is to extend the Active Directory schema. Exchange stores a lot of information in Active Directory but before it can do that, it needs to add and update classes, attributes, and other items. If you’re curious…

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The-Term ‘Clean-Mailboxdatabase’ is not a recognized cmdlet,function, script Exchange 2013

Clean MailboxDatabase Command no longer Valid on #Exchange 2013

Command has  been decommissioned for Exchange 2013 and replaced with Update-StoreMailboxState http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj860462(v=exchg.150).aspx Update-StoreMailboxState require the GUID of a mailbox to execute so it usually easier to run in combination with Get-MailboxStatistics like the example below Get-MailboxStatistics -Database MDB02 | ForEach { Update-StoreMailboxState -Database $_.Database -Identity $_.MailboxGuid…

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