Recently a customer contacted me with an issue with one of their mail-enabled Security Groups. They were trying to set both the MemberJoin and MemberDepart settings to Closed per best practices. Well it turns out that the ‘Closed’ setting is actually a default for mail-enabled Security Groups. PowerShell options are available for changing these values…
Category: Exchange 2016
The move object info message is too large. Current size 17,592,186,042,368 MB limit 480 MB
THAT message. Yes THAT message. I received this for a bunch of mailboxes I was moving From Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016. The complete error is confounding and does not make much sense: So what is the solution? The error’s solution is rather simple. There is an existing move request for the mailbox being moved….
Outlook 2016 and Exchange 2010 Public Folder Woes
Upon finishing my last project and stopping to take a look back at the past year or so I’ve realized that most (90%+) involved Office 365. Quite a dramatic change from my previous rate of around 50%. I have worked on a couple of migrations over the past year that revealed that Outlook 2016 is…
Get-Help and Exchange 2016
** Note ** Wanted to make something clear – this is an issue with Windows and PowerShell, Exchange 2016 is not the root cause of this issue. Now on to the article! A few weeks ago I ran a poll on this and it seems that a fair number of you depend on Get-Help for…
Exchange 2013 / 2016 Prerequisite scripts – .NET Update
After running my updated Exchange 2013 and 2016 scripts I noticed that .NET was tripping on itself during the install of either the prerequisites or post hotfixes. So, I decided to completely re-write those sections for .NET 4.6.1 and 4.6.2. I also cleared out .NET 4.5.2 as this one will be deprecated soon. Windows 2008…
Pagefile For Exchange 2013 / 2016 – Single Server
Memory Management and the newest versions of Exchange. Any Exchange Server needs to have an appropriately sized Pagefile in order for the server to perform optimally. Microsoft has a series of Best Practices around the configuration of Windows Server for Exchange. Let’s start with the basics of the Pagefile on an Exchange server: The Pagefile…
Office 365 Distribution Group Cleanup
This script is in its infancy and I am releasing it as a 1.0 script. It is heavily based of my Exchange 2010 and 2013/2016 version of my Distribution Group Cleanup script. The script performs the same actions as my other scripts. The main difference is that this one requires more reconfiguration on your part,…
Cleaning Up Those Pesky Distribution Lists
In the past I wrote a script that would cleanup Distribution Lists in Exchange 2010. My original post can be found HERE. In the newest version I’ve changed the ‘Get-TransportServer’ and replaced it with ‘Get-TransportService’ as Microsoft has deprecated ‘Get-TransportServer’ in Exchange 2013/2016. I’ve also cleaned up the code, put more comments in and added…
IMAP4 / POP3 Considerations for Legacy Server Migrations
I commonly rely on my customer to at least provide me with a heads up when there are applications or users or devices that are integrated into Exchange. Bu integrated I mean relaying email messages or using protocols like POP and IMAP. This has led to successful migrations from legacy Exchange versions to Exchange 2013….
Updated URL Script to version 1.2
After performing a few more upgrades and lab configurations I decided that my URL script needed a few fixes. Please go to my link provided below for the download. The URL script will run on Exchange 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016. There are three version specific menus. One menu for Exchange 2007, one for Exchange…
