When configuring Exchange it’s important to have your external and internal url’s correctly configured. Otherwise you are running into errors like those : Configuring those url’s isn’t that difficult, you just want to make sure you configure all the URL’s and have an appopiate SSL cert. After importing the rightRead More →
Before you remove the installation of an old Exchange Server (2007/2010) you may want to make sure that there is no SMTP procotol activity anymore. (For example multi functional printers who still have the old IP adres or something like that) First enable protocol logging on the Receiver Connectors, useRead More →
Many times I’ve ran into the following error : (Error : unsufficient access rights to perform the operation) while moving Lync users of moving mailboxes in Exchange. This is due to the following : Include inheritable permissions MUST BE ENABLED. (Also for other tasks) When this is one or aRead More →
Moving mailboxes from one database/server to another is fairly easy. I prefer to use the shell interface but you can also use the GUI. The following commands are handy : New-MoveRequest -Identity <mailbox> –TargetDatabase <targetdatabase> (This commands moves one specified mailbox to another database) You can also use to moveRead More →
This is how to move the Exchange Catalog files to a different drive : Open the exchange management shell and execute the following command Set-MailboxDatabase -Identity databasename -IndexEnabled $false Stop the Microsoft Exchange Search Indexer service You can move your old files to the new directory, inRead More →
Customers are asking me for advice for new Exchange installations and migrations. Until Microsoft releases a rollup (Exchange 2007) or new servicepack (Exchange 2010) it’s not possible to do co-existence migration from 2007/2010 to 2013. My advice is to wait or migrate to 2010. The only solution now is toRead More →
While moving some mailboxes I got the following error : Active Directory operation failed on servername.domainname.local. This error is not retriable. Additional information: Insufficient access rights to perform the operation. Active directory response: 00002098: SecErr: DSID-03150BB9, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data 0 The user has insufficient access rights. Exchange Management ShellRead More →
Today I was testing Outlook with a new Exchange server config and I received the following error : I knew I correctly imported the new SSL certifcate because I tested OWA before Outlook and that was working fine. The solution was simple. You must specify in Exchange which Exchange services Read More →
Today I installed a Exchange 2010 CAS cluster using (Windows) NLB. After some final preparation I followed Microsoft best practices for creating a CAS cluster. (Microsoft recommends creating a CAS cluster also when you’re only using one CAS cluster). This is how you can do that : New-ClientAccessArray -Name <NameOfArray>Read More →
When migrating to a new (version of) Exchange this is how you can synchronize the Public Folders : Start the exchange management shell and execute the following code : C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts> .\AddReplicaToPFRecursive.ps1 -Server "Exchange 2007 PF server name" -TopPublicFolder "\" -ServerToAdd "Exchange 2010 PF Server Name" You should beRead More →