In this quick PowerShell post I will cover a quick way to get a handle on corrupt content indexes for your databases. In Exchange the content index is created by the Exchange Search processes for each database in your DAG. When the index is corrupt it is possible that clients will suffer delays or not…
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Quick PowerShell Stuff 13
After a long hiatus, I will be writing a few more quick PowerShell articles that I hope will prove helpful to my readers. For this 13th installment, I am going to cover how to quickly check your databases (in a DAG) to make sure the database copy that is mounted is has an activation preference…
Active Directory Health Check & Office 365
AD Health Checks, they’re not just for your on-premises infrastructure any more. These checks are becoming more and more important as companies are federating to various cloud vendors (Office 365, AWS, etc). These connections require what you might call ‘pre-flight’ and ‘post-flight’ checks. These checks are important because they usually provide a dual function for…
Exchange in The Cloud, No Not that Cloud! (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this series I covered the various options that Microsoft supports for Exchange in Azure. This second and final part will cover load balancing, transport for Exchange in Azure, networking options, backups and other options beyond Azure and some miscellaneous notes on Exchange in Azure. Load Balancers As with any Exchange 2013…
Exchange in The Cloud, No Not that Cloud! (Part 1)
With Ignite wrapping up a month ago, Microsoft released some information on the Future of Exchange not only concerning a new version but also with tieing it more to the cloud. Previously Microsoft revealed that Azure can be utilized for you File Share Witness (FSW) for Exchange and now you can now install Exchange in…
Exchange 2007 Migration – Windows 2003 and Certificate Hotfixes
Over the past 5 years I have performed many migrations from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2013. I’ve seen many of the issues that can occur such as misconfigured URLs for Legacy and ActiveSync coexistence. Recently I had another issue come up with a migration from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013. The problem…
Office 365: 550 5.7.64 TenantAttribution; Relay Access Denied
Any migration, in this case a mail migration to Office 365, will have bumps along the road that will lead to fixes and a better understanding of the underlying subsystem. Without stating the obvious, mail flow is perhaps the most important part of a messaging system. Any interruption, planned or not planned, can cause pain…
Exchange Health Check – Event Logs
Most companies I work with have some sort of monitoring software in place for their enterprise applications like Exchange. They might use SCOM or Splunk! or Netwrix to provide an insight into their servers health at any given moment. For an Exchange consultant these tool can provide some instant ‘health status’ information on the servers,…
On-Premises Arbitration Mailboxes and Cloud Archives
An interesting thing happened the other day. I had a client who was proceeding down the normal Hybrid deployment path. Exchange 2010 / SP3 / UR4 and just installed DirSync. However, they were now having production issues with their Exchange on-premises environment. The Transport Service on several Hub Transport servers were shutting down with multiple…
The Good, The Bad and the Cloud: Notes from an On-Premises Engineer
As a long time IT consultant/engineer, my primary work experience over the past 20 years has been with on-premises Exchange, Active Directory, Windows and Lync/OCS. However, with Microsoft and other hosted providers pushing more companies to go ‘cloud’ I thought I would give my perspective as a long time on-premises engineer. What I find fascinating…
