Hello all.

I have a happily migrated Exchange 2013 server to Office 365. It has been working fine for many months. I have left the server in place with DirSync in order to use the hybrid functionality. My question is what can I do with the existing on premises mailboxes now in order to save space? I can’t seem to find any answers to the question on how to just decommission/delete the old mailbox data left over. I want to reclaim all the space used up by the EDB’s on the servers now that everything is up in the cloud.

Thanks for any help on the subject.

Hi All,

Its more important to me, please some one help me on this.

We are planning install Exchange 2013 MultiRole server on VMware.

I am using Ex2013 Calc for sizing the hardware. I have the Physical server Core Details and SPECInt2006 rate value of the server. 

I have gone trough the below article it says if we going to deploy exchange server in Virtual then we must use the below formula to calculate the CPU and enter core and SPECInt2006 value on Input Page.  is this correct?

if its is correct then what is the purpose of the Role Requirements Results Pane page.Here below i have taken some example of Serve core and SPECInt2006 Value. It shows if i give the Physical server(VM Host) Core and SPECInt value in Input page it give me the Output on  recommended Number of Core per server is 6 and all looks good.

If i follow the formula then it shows very worse. Please let me know what data i have give in input page (Real Host Core and SPECInt value or I have to use the below formula and give the input).

Please don't share any article i have gone trough many articles....

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2009/11/09/3408737.aspx

X/(N*Y) = per virtual processor SPECInt2006 Rate value

Where X is the SPECInt2006 rate value for the hypervisor host server 
Where N = the number of physical cores in the hypervisor host 
Where Y = 1 if you will be deploying 1:1 virtual processor-to-physical processor on the hypervisor host 
Where Y = 2 if you will be deploying up to 2:1 virtual processor-to-physical processor on the hypervisor host

Input Page

Regards, Balgates

We have to migrate Mailbox in a Cross Forest environment (from Exchange 2007 SP3-RU10 to Exchange 2013).For Account coesistence we already migrate Users/Group via ADMT, excluding Exchange Attribute.

The steps are:

• Enable-MailUser
• Prepare-MoveRequest.Ps1
• New-MoveRequest.

Before to Upgrade to CU6, the migrations steps described above worked fine (Exchange Server 2013 SP1 (alias CU4))

After ugrading we alway get the following error running New-MoveRequest:

New-MoveRequest -Identity "02909" -Remotelegacy -RemoteCredential $RemoteCredentials

-TargetDeliverydomain "old.mycompany.com" -TargetDatabase MBOX2A -RemoteGlobalCatalog "odl_dc.mycompany.local"

–DomainController “new_dc.newdomain.int”-verbose

New-MoveRequest -Identity "user200" -Remotelegacy -RemoteCredential $RemoteCredentials

-TargetDeliverydomain "new.mycompany.com" -TargetDatabase MBOX2A

-RemoteGlobalCatalog "old_dc.mycompany.local" -verbose

Recipient '4309a8a0-9edf-4ad1-991b-89d8d75a1c28' isn't a mailbox.

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [New-MoveRequest], RemotePermanentException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=mailbox1,RequestId=f3bd2350-a9dc-49d1-8cf6-f5564a47bd26,

      TimeStamp=17/11/2014 01:45:59]

      [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-RemotePermanentException]

            17FEEA0A,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.NewMoveRequest

   + PSComputerName       : mailcas1.newdomain.int

I have found the below article which is the exact issue that I am having.

https://support.software.dell.com/migration-manager-for-exchange/kb/133684

Is there anyway to get HotFix on this problem. I cannot wait two months fo CU7.

In addition downgrade (e.g. Uninstall CU6 and re-installa SP1) is quite complicate and hard.

hello fellow readers,

we have an Exchange 2007 (latest needed Patchlevel) / Exchange 2013 CU6 Environment and are now having trouble migrating user mailboxes from the Ex2007 mailbox server to the new Ex2013 server.

migration of the first boxes before applying CU6 went fine and smooth, but now all mailbox moves are stuck with the status "Qeued".

a ps command "get-moverequeststatistics karl.treiber" brings the following

Postfach 'Karl Treiber' wird zurzeit nicht verschoben.    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (karl.treiber:MoveRequestIdParameter) [Get-MoveRequestStatistics], Mana   gementObjectNotFoundException    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=SERVERNAME,RequestId=bf51511d-c7b8-4b39-ad60-caa71015cc6c,TimeStamp=10.11.2014 11   :27:29] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-ManagementObjectNotFoundException] 9B1AC428,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Recipien  tTasks.GetMoveRequestStatistics    + PSComputerName        : SERVERNAME.DOMAIN.local

i'm guessing that this is correct, as the migration hasn't started yet. in somehow similar threads people suggest putting the BadItemLimit higher, so i tried running ps command "set-moverequest karl.treiber -baditemlimit 9999" bringing the following

ARNUNG: Wenn ein Element nicht aus der Quelldatenbank gelesen oder in die Zieldatenbank geschrieben werden kann, wird
es als beschädigt betrachtet. Wenn Sie für 'BadItemLimit' einen anderen Wert als Null angeben, fordern Sie an, dass
Exchange diese Elemente nicht in das Zielpostfach kopiert. Nach Abschluss der Verschiebung sind diese beschädigten
Elemente nicht im Zielpostfach verfügbar.
Der Vorgang konnte nicht ausgeführt werden, weil keine Objekte des Typs
'Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService.TransactionalRequestJob' auf 'DC.DOMAIN.local' gefunden wurden.
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-MoveRequest], ManagementObjectNotFoundException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=SERVERNAME,RequestId=ab82c24b-7914-4382-8de2-34462d4993b3,TimeStamp=10.11.2014 11
   :38:01] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-ManagementObjectNotFoundException] 285DB966,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Recipien
  tTasks.SetMoveRequest+ PSComputerName        : SERVERNAME.DOMAIN.local

my guess is, that something is missing in AD - but what? DC replication is checked and working as normal. i looked up the AD object of the user, searchung for Exchange values, finding some connecting to mailbox moves, but none similar to "Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService.TransactionalRequestJob".

everything worked in CU5 -> after updating to CU6 we had serious issues with mailbox databases in dirty shutdown and called MS or help. as mentioned here this was a known error and they gave us the hotfix for that. the hotfix seemed to be so "hot" that it fixed the database problem but brought new ones, as the fix seems to not check Exchange installation path, assuming its always c:\Program Files\... (which it is not in our case).

here they suggest to run "setup /preparedomain" again, but i am worried about possible new problems.

has anyone suggestions what to check?

Team,

In my exchange 2013 console I am getting 1 in  Bad copy count status coloumn please advice. While running the mailbox database copy status command it is showing copy queue length and replay queue length zero. Please advice how to get it back to normal. What remedy need to be done.

I'm attempting to upgrade Exchange 2013 and am seeing the following error message. I've been unable to get past it and haven't found any helpful information in my research on what to do. Thoughts?

Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Unattended Setup
Languages
Mailbox role: Transport service
Client Access role: Front End Transport service
Mailbox role: Client Access service
Mailbox role: Unified Messaging service
Mailbox role: Mailbox service
Management tools
Client Access role: Client Access Front End service

Performing Microsoft Exchange Server Prerequisite Check

    Configuring Prerequisites                                                                         FAILED
     The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
          if (Get-Service WinMgmt* | ?{$_.Name -eq 'WinMgmt'})
          {
            Set-Service WinMgmt -StartupType Automatic
            Start-SetupService -ServiceName WinMgmt
          }
        " was run: "Service 'Windows Management Instrumentation (WinMgmt)' cannot be configured due to the following err
or: Access is denied".

    Prerequisite Analysis                                                                             COMPLETED

The Exchange Server setup operation didn't complete. More details can be found in ExchangeSetup.log located in the
<SystemDrive>:\ExchangeSetupLogs folder.

Hi Everyone,

   We are required to migrate FROM the cloud TO an on-premise Exchange 2013 server.  We set up a trial of Office365 and linked our test domain to that account.  The test domain mimics our current domain, but ends in .net instead of .org. We set up a test Exchange 2013 server with a few database servers.  Internally, we can connect without issue (Outlook).  We mapped our test CAS to face the Internet, and can access what we need without issue.  We also set up the Hybrid configuration on both the Exchange 2013 and Office365 servers.  We have validated that DirSync works, and migration can occur up to the cloud and back down to the on-premise server.

Now, here is the issue:

We have our DNS records still pointing to Office365, so when we add an Office365 mailbox to Outlook (internal to the network or outside the network) we see absolutely no issues.  We migrated a mailbox today to our on-premise server, but upon doing so, can no longer connect to, or add, that mailbox to Outlook.  When we put this integration in to effect for production, we want to be able to migrate mailboxes on-premise from the cloud, and we want to make sure users can still access their mailboxes.  This also goes for distribution groups, conference rooms, etc.

I see that most suggestions say to change your DNS record to point to the on-premise Exchange server, which is great, but after doing so Office365 accounts experience the same issue as above.  We NEED to make sure that when we batch migrate, the users DO NOT lose connectivity to their accounts.  We need both Office365 accounts and Exchange on-premise accounts are accessible internally and externally.  As an extra tid-bit, we HAVE configured Outlook Anywhere on Exchange 2013, but see no difference. 

Any thoughts on this?  Office365 and Exchange 2013 see eachother and recognize that the hybrid environment is set up good, but it appears we are missing some configurations.  Currently, we have a CNAME record points our autodiscover to autodiscover.outlook.com.

Any help would be MUCH appreciated.  Thanks!

Dan

HI all,

I tried to deploy Exchange 2013 with a Exchange 2007 environment but unable to get it to work.  I tried everything but no help so I decided to uninstall and reinstall Exchange 2013.  However, the uninstallation is failed and now I can reinstall and uninstall.  When I try to uninstall from Control Panel, I will get the following error:

Error

An incomplete installation was detected.  Run setup to complete Exchange installation.

When I run Setup, I receive the following error:

Error

Setup previously failed while performing the "Uninstall".  You can't resume setup by performing the action "Install".

Please assist.  Thanks in advance!

Scenario:

suddnely i noticed some room mailboxes are not available in exchange server, but im sure they were there nearly a month before.

I used "search-adminauditlog" PS cmdlet with various parameters such as "set-mailbox","remove-mailbox","disable-mailbox" but no where i can find the audit logs specific to those lost mailboxes.

Search-AdminAuditLog -Cmdlets disable-mailbox -StartDate 08/01/2014 -EndDate 11/04/2014 >mailboxaudit_disablemailbox.txt

I beleive the AD account of those room mailboxes were deleted by someone which has indeed deleted the mailboxes from exchange server too, this is the reason why I cant see any audit report for those mailbox's in while im running the above PS cmdlets.

anyone have experienced the same issue and anymore ideas to identify what went wrong with those mailboxes? 

Hi,

We currently have Domain Controller (DC) 2003 and exchange 2003. We need to upgrade DC to 2012 server standard and exchange 2013 standard by using CodeTwo Exchange Migration.

Can we install Server 2012 to current DC 2003 machine? Can we do the same for exchange 2003 as installing exchange 2013 on top of 2003? Is it work as software version upgrade?

Advantage: Server name and static IP not change 

Or

Install new Server 2012 machine and Migrate Active Directory (AD) from server 2003 to server 2012. While this process running, will our exchange 2003 still working?

After successfull of AD migration to 2012, Do we need to migrate Exchange 2013 right away? Thanks

Regards,

Truc

In Exchange 2010 server, we have setup a policy under "Default Archive and Retention Policy" as all messages under "Inbox", "Sent Items" and "Deleted Items" will be Permanently Delete after X months.

However, one of our client found that some of the email messages was still found under his "Deleted Items". All other email messages under her outlook client (2010) were successfully deleted according to the policy.

Is there any reason for this exception?

Thank you

Mailbox role

Error:
The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
            if ($RoleCustomerFeedbackEnabled -ne $null)
            {
              $organizationConfig = get-OrganizationConfig;
              if ($organizationConfig.CustomerFeedbackEnabled -ne $False)
              {
                Set-ExchangeServer -Identity $RoleFqdnOrName -CustomerFeedbackEnabled $RoleCustomerFeedbackEnabled;
              }
            }
          " was run: "Property CustomerFeedbackEnabled can't be set on this object because it requires the object to have version 0.1 (8.0.535.0) or later. The object's current version is 0.0 (6.5.6500.0).".

Team,

I have a shared mailbox and I want to provide Read only access to other users on  the shared mailbox inbox folder so that they can only Read mails and cannot delete the mails in side inbox folder. How can I achieve by doing from Power shell command and what is the procedure.

Hi,

We are currently exploring full envelope journaling service using Exchange 2013 with Sharepoint 2013 eDiscovery suite for ALL internal and external messages for a largish enterprise ~40K mailboxes and need to accurately plan storage for the dedicated Journal servers; we have used the standard messagestats powershell script to get send / receive and average message size and have some valid metrics to utilize however there is next to no actual guidance on how to plan storage for journaling published?

My question concerns which metric to use - unique send and receive OR total send / receive figures; I have reached out to some of my default Microsoft contacts and dug into how FE Journaling works under the hood and my understanding is that it is total send / receive for every message would be more valid to plan against?

Any guidance would be great!

Sorry for posting this under Exchange 2013 I couldn't find an Exch 2007 area... but it does apply

Been working on our upgrade / migration to Exchange 2013 and all of a sudden I see I am 4 rollups behind on exchange 2007
- Rollup 11 - cant remove last PF after Exch 2013 migration
- Rollup 12 - vulnerability patch
- Rollup 13 - Allow Exch 2013 edge to subscribe to Exch 2007 Hub
- Rollup 14 - Daylight Savings time updates for Exch 2007 SP3

Are these updates cumulative, will applying 14 take care of them all?
or do I need to run through all of them?

Thanks!
Tom

Hello,

A few weeks ago, we ran the necessary /prepareschema /preparead /preparealldomains commands to get our Exhange 2010 Org ready to install Exchange 2013 SP1.  When we tried installing the first server today, we get an error:

[11/14/2014 23:42:02.0466] [1] [REQUIRED] The local domain needs to be updated. You must be a member of the 'Domain Admins' group and 'Organization Management' role group, or 'Enterprise Admins' group to continue.

We verified the ObjectVersion of both the Forest (15844) and Domain (13236), and it appears to be consistent with what you would expect for 2013 SP1.

Anybody have any ideas what could be wrong?

Thanks.

Hi Guys,

I got this error message keeps popping up in the event viewer like every minute.. i have no clue what is this error message is for. can anyone give me some idea or point me to the right direction

Exchange 2013 running 2 node DAG. the error message is found on the passive node.

"The Microsoft Exchange Migration Workflow service terminated unexpectedly.  It has done this 1 time(s).  The following corrective action will be taken in 5000 milliseconds: Restart the service."

Thanks

I have a bare metal domain controller/DNS server. (Server 2012)

I also have an Exchange server running in a VM, which is joined to the domain. (also Server 2012)

I installed Active Directory Domain Services, so that the Exchange server can write to AD, and then it asked to promote the server to a Domain Controller.

In addition to the pre-reqs, does the Exchange server require the DNS server role?