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Upgrading Exchange Server 2013 Servers to Service Pack 1
With the release of Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 organizations can begin to plan the upgrade of their existing Exchange 2013 servers. Before proceeding I encourage you to review the release...
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External Mail Flow Not Working After Exchange Server 2013 SP1 Upgrade
After an upgrade to Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 you may discover that external email flow has stopped working. If your inbound email is via a smart host you may notice queuing of mail on that...
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Exchange Server 2010 Support for Windows Server 2012 R2
With the release of Exchange Server 2010 SP3 Update Rollup 5 we now have support for running Exchange Server 2010 in Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory environments. To be clear, this means that...
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Exchange Server 2013 Transport Services Won’t Start After Service Pack 1 Upgrade
Customers have reported issues with Exchange Server 2013 Transport services not starting after the upgrade to Service Pack 1. You can see some of the reports in the comments of the Service Pack 1...
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Exchange Server 2013 Management Tools Missing
After installing Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 on a new server you may find that the Exchange Management Shell icon is not present on the Start screen. In comparison, a server installed with...
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PowerShell Script to Check Active Directory System Requirements
The system requirements for Exchange Server 2013 include the following for Active Directory: Forest and domain functional level of Windows Server 2003 or higher (up to Windows Server 2012 R2 is...
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PowerShell Script to Audit Exchange Server Database Storage Quotas
When planning an Exchange migration I like to review the storage quotas configured on the existing databases. This ensures that new databases are configured with at least the same quota level and not...
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PowerShell Script to Generate Exchange Server SSL Certificate Report
In Exchange Server 2007 the Get-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet only allowed us to view the local server’s certificates. But in Exchange Server 2010 Get-ExchangeCertificate has a -Server parameter that...
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Google Apps vs Microsoft Office 365
As regular visitors would already know I mostly write technical articles here on Exchange Server Pro and tend to stay away from writing content that might be considered to be “sales and marketing”...
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Exchange Server 2013 Planning and Discovery – Client Versions
Exchange Server 2013 supports the following minimum versions of Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Entourage for Mac: Outlook 2013 (15.0.4420.1017) Outlook 2010 Service Pack 1 with the Outlook 2010...
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MEC 2014 Here We Come!
In a few days from now Exchange folks from all over the world will get together in Austin, Texas for the Microsoft Exchange Conference. I’ll be there, soaking up in the information in the sessions and...
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Microsoft Exchange Conference 2014 Roundup
The 2014 Microsoft Exchange Conference has come to a close. Three days of announcements and technical deep dives is an exhausting experience but every attendee I’ve spoken to has agreed that it is...
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PowerShell Script: IIS Log File Cleanup and Archive
Exchange servers can accumulate a lot of IIS log files over time. Some administrators configure IIS to store logs on a different disk to avoid problems, while others just wait for free disk space...
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Configuring Mailbox Sent Items Behaviour for Delegates and Shared Mailboxes
Exchange Server 2010 provides the capability to control where sent items are stored when they are sent by a delegate of a shared mailbox. This is useful for ensuring the copies of emails sent using...
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PowerShell Script: Audit Mailbox Sent Items Configurations
If you’ve deployed mailbox sent items configurations in your organization, and are planning to upgrade to Exchange Server 2013 (which does not currently support mailbox sent items configurations like...
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Tracking Mailbox Owner Deletes Using Mailbox Audit Logging
I’ve had some questions from readers asking whether it is possible to tell when a mailbox user has deleted items from their own mailbox. This question seems to come from those very special support...
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Output a List of In-Policy Users for a Resource Mailbox Using PowerShell
Ricky asks: How do you export a copy of the list of users in the resource in policy tab? What Ricky is referring to are calendar processing settings, often used on room and equipment mailboxes, that...
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Logging Client IP Address in IIS When Using Load Balancing with Source NAT
A common load balancer configuration for Exchange Server scenarios involves using source NAT. Although some load balancing terminology differs from vendor to vendor, for the context of this article...
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Why Did My Database Failover to the Wrong Server?
I’ve received a number of questions lately from people who are concerned about database failover behaviour in their Exchange Server environment. The scenario is usually that a failure has occurred, and...
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Block External Emails for an Exchange Server 2013 Mailbox
A reader asks whether it is possible to block external emails sent to an Exchange Server 2013 mailbox user. Here are two ways to achieve this. I will use one of my mailbox users Alex Heyne for these...
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