System Administration
Dear Friends,I would like to know the pre-installation process for a new branch of any office let's say a college, what are the parameters and requirement do i need to fullfill before to set up the...
View ArticleIssue Installing Exchange 2013 CU1: Mailbox role:Mailbox service
I receive this error when Installing Cumulative Update 1. Error: The following error was generated when "$error.Clear(); if ($RoleIsDatacenter -ne $true) { if...
View ArticleCannot open mailbox ... cn=Microsoft System Attendant
Hello,I've recently introduced an Exchange Server 2013 in a single Exchange 2007 Server environment.While most things seem to work out of the box, I have some issues:When I use the...
View ArticleNamespace: migrating from 2007 and 2013 environment to new 2013 CU7
Hi everyone,I have a single Exchange 2007 VM as well as 4 x Exchange 2013 SP1 servers in a single organisation. Exchange 2013 SP1 servers are also VM's, with 2 x CAS and 2 x MBX and a single DAG. All...
View ArticleAutodiscover problems after migration
I'm having autodiscover issues with the new Exchange 2013 server. I rechecked the authentication and its fine. I rechecked my certificate with SAL and it has autodiscover.mydomain.com in it. Services...
View ArticleThe Exchange Server is in an inconsistent state.
The Exchange Server is in an inconsistent state. Only disaster recovery moide is available. Please use Setup /m:RecoverServer to recover this Exchange server.
View ArticleCan I Install Rollup updates right after applying Exchange 2010 SP3 ?
We are planning to upgrade Exchange 2010 to SP3 with latest rollup updates. We have 3 HUB/CAS servers and 3 mailbox servers in a DAG. We are not quite confident if we can install Rollup updates right...
View ArticleMailbox Role: Mailbox Service
I am trying to reinstall exchange 2013 and I have been getting the errors below in the exchange setup log. I have been going through a lot of knowledge bases and the suggestions hasn't been...
View ArticleExchange 2007 to 2013 Public Folder Migration test user doesn't connect to...
The basic symptom is this: The PF migration appears to work perfectly but when trying to assign a user to test the new folders it still attempts to connect to the old folders even though the users's...
View ArticleCAS ARRAY fail-over and emails stuck
Dear all, for some reasons we are in Exchange Server Coexistance mode that is 1 Exchange 2003 Server and 2. Exchange 2010 servers. We have CAS array(node-1 And Node-2) and DAG in place , but the...
View ArticleMail server not working after moving the server
This weekend we moved our mail server. After many troubles with copying we managed to get it running on the new host (ESXi5.5).For the mail server we opened ports 80, 443, 135 and 25. All dns records...
View ArticleExchange 2013 on-premises doesn't see Exchange Online profile pictures
Hello!We are on an hybrid deployment with some users on Exchange 2013 on-premises and others on Exchange Online (Office 365 E3 plan). We have enabled photo sync (PhotosEnabled attribute) in the...
View ArticlePassive server database still failed and suspended after seeding
Hi,I have a 2 exchange 2013 servers in windows 2012 OS both servers are configured with DAG one is active and the other one is passive I moved the 5 databases in other drive and it was successful but...
View ArticleDeploying only the CAS role for SMTP relay purposes
Hi Everyone,I'm hoping others on this forum have some thoughts on whether it is worthwhile deploying only the Exchange 2013 CAS role for the purposes of SMTP relay.When using Exchange Online, most...
View Article550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for
I'm getting this error and can not receive email from anywhere. However I can send email OK. Its the receiving part.I uninstalled the old exchange and put this into production and now can't receive...
View ArticleConsolidating Exchange Users from one Exchanger server to another
I'm consolidating users from companyA to companyB. CompanyA will keep it's domain name and be added as an Accepted Domain in companyB's exchange environment. CompanyA has autodiscover and webmail DNS...
View ArticleMigrate from 2007 to 2013 with no external access to legacy environment
Hi,We're in the process of planning a migration to Exchange 2013 from a legacy 2007 system that currently has no external access for security reasons. The new system will allow ActiveSync connections...
View ArticleHybrid - An IIS directory entry couldn't be created. The error message is The...
Hi everyone, I am currently experiencing issues when running the HCW, which throws the following error at the very end:[02/06/2015 15:09:21] INFO : Task='Configure MRS Proxy Settings'...
View ArticleExchange 2013 Hybrid setup & DNS
Greetings! We currently have an Exchange 2010 on prem environment and I have been tasked with getting us into a hybrid state with O365. We already have the tenet portions set up, AD Sync working,...
View ArticleImpact of enabling Calendar Repair Assistant on Exchange 2010 mailbox server
We have a couple of iPhone users reported they were having calendar items disappear from their calendars. Many suggest to enable Calendar Repair Assistant for those users on mailbox servers. We are...
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