Usually my posts are all about server related topics. But from time to time some Outlook issues appear on my desk, too. They are not always easy to identify. (Server issue or client issue?) Therefore I’ll write a little post today about corrupt Outlook calendar entries and how I fixed it. A few days ago, […]

29/09/2017

drago

MS Exchange

If you’re administrating an Exchange organisation there are different ways to do it. The simple way is to use the webbrowser for the ECP. But what about PowerShell? The most common ways are to connect remotley to the Exchange server and then start the Exchange Management Shell or to use the Import-PSSession cmdlet to use […]

Earlier this month I had to make some cleanups in a customer’s Exchange infrastructure. On one side, I had to identify empty Distribution Groups and on the other side I had to clean up unused Mobile Devices (Active Sync) partnerships. The Exchange Organization contains more than 5’000 warm Body (User) Mailboxes from which almost everyone has […]

I recently had a problem with an Exchange Online tenant. There was an external mail contact which was previously synchronised from Active Directory to Exchange Online. So I had deleted the on-premise active directory mail contact but it still existed in Exchange Online. When I tried to delete the contact it gave the following errror message.   […]

You can check in a very easy Way all of your Exchange Virtual Directories by using my Script I share with you in this Post. It shows you in a simple way all current Vdir’s on your local Server or all Servers of your Exchange Organisation. During the Script you will be asked if you […]

To create Mail Address Policies on Exchange I prefer to use PowerShell. If you go this Way, there are some small Showstopper you have to know about it. For example how to Manage Resources and the internal Domain? Then also witch Format to use for the Mail Policies? I made a short Script to create […]

How to create fast and clean a new Exchange DAG? – Use PowerShell! Since the last Versions of Exchange we don’t need to configure a dedicated Network Adapter. More about that you can find here. I wrote a small simple Script to create a DAG with two Exchange server. To download the Script just go […]

Deploying a new Exchange Server infrastructure is never been so Standarted like today with Exchange 2016. In this Post it is not the question HOW to install Exchange, it is about how to Plan it. Microsoft recommends to use Building Blocks. The Perimeter for one Building block are: Number of Mailboxes 3000 Number of max. […]

13/06/2017

drago

MS Exchange

Creating SSL Certificate Requests needs a lot of Time, how to create a Request without IIS I wrote here in my Blog already with this Entry (Create Certificate Request without IIS (ADFS3.0)) But even here you need a lot of time, so the Solution is – PowerShell! Reinout Segers wrote a fantastic Script how to […]

I was asked from a small Business Company to create an easy way for the Administration, to create default Email for new Employees. Admin Team had no expirience with PowerShell but the Text was random only Usernames and Phonenumbers Were Variable. For that I wrote a small Powershell Script which opens a Windows where you […]