For a customer I ran into a strange problem. While doing a cross forest mailbox migration I noticed that mails were queuing up and were not delivered. It took some troubleshooting untill I found the solution. First I noticed that newly created users received email for several domains without anyRead More →
Today I tried to move a database to a different drive and I ran into the following problem : After some investigation I noticed a large amount of log files. After enabling circular logging and dismount and mounting the database everything went fine! Disable circular logging afterwards and make sureRead More →
This is how to create a split SMTP domain using Exchange 2003 and another SMTP program like Exchange, Zimbra or something like that. Step 1. Make sure you’re MX-record is already point to your Exchange 2003 mailserver and that part is working. Step 2. Add the new domain name toRead More →
View Full Album A follower of my blog asked me how to publish Activesync using TMG. I thought I already write a blogpost about it, but couldn’t find it. So I wrote another post. See the screendumps for some explanation. In my case I had to adjust (enable) basic authenticationRead More →
In my previous post you can read how easily it is to use the EMC to administer your Office365 account. Now you can imagine how easily it could be to migrate Exchange mailboxes from your on premises Exchange Server to Office365 or the other way around! This is how youRead More →
Nowadays more and more people are migrating from Exchange to Office365/Exchange Online or are using a Hybrid solution. Many people don’t know that they can use the Exchange 2010 Management Console to control their Office365 settings and users. This is how you can link your Office365 environment to the EMC.Read More →
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 →
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 →