During a recent update to Exchange 2016 CU9, I encountered the following error whilst trying to recreate one of the secondary OWA sites that I have running. The command being executed was: New-OwaVirtualDirectory -Server $ServerName -WebsiteName “EAC_Secondary” | Out-Null The error I was getting: An error occurred while creating the IIS virtual directory ‘IIS://exch04.domain.local/W3SVC/3/ROOT/owa’ on
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Test-ActiveSyncConnectivity – 403 Forbidden at ‘Issue an HTTP OPTIONS command’
I have spent some time troubleshooting an alert from SCOM that ActiveSync was not working on all Exchange 2010 servers in an environment. The environment is currently in co-existence with Exchange 2016, with all client access services already pointed to 2016. Running the Test-ActiveSyncConnectivity cmdlet returned the following result: Test-ActiveSyncConnectivity -TrustAnySSLCertificate:$true | fl … ClientAccessServer
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Exchange: Checking the CAS and MBX servers used in an EWS Request
Recently I have been working on an issue where EWS requests sent to an Exchange environment were not working with the expected Exchange Version. The environment was in transition so was running both Exchange 2016 and 2010. All mailboxes involved in the request were hosted on 2016 and the CAS services had already been cut
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Setting Max Concurrent Mailbox Moves on all CAS Servers
Have been working on a migration of a whole load of mailboxes. One of the first things I came across is the pre-defined limit on the number of concurrent mailbox moves that can be completed on a CAS server in an Exchange environment. I knew that our environment could handle a few more moves than
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Redirect Website Root to /Exchange & Correct Protocols
Just been working on a way around one of life’s annoyances. To get to an OWA 2003 site on a Windows SBS 2003 box, I have to remember to put in https:// and remember to put /exchange at the end. It annoys me having to remember, I often forget the protocol and it wastes my time. Today
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Exchange 2007 SP3: Exchange Server Setup encountered and Error.
Not the most useful error message that you will ever see. Combine this with a lack of information in the Exchange Setup Log and in the Event Viewer you have a small mystery. However, the answer is probably really simple: Check you have met the pre-requisites for the setup to run. Member of Enterprise Administrators
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Exchange 2010: No In-Place Upgrade
Really disappointed to have just found out that an in-place upgrade is not available when migrating from Exchange 2007 to 2010. Totally understand why this is the case though. Database schema changes and the lack of storage groups in 2010 being the root cause. Not great news for the smaller places which probably haven’t got
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Could not access OWA using HTTPS – Error 404
Symptoms here are: Unable to access OWA Outlook 2007 reports that it is unable to change any Out Of Office settings; server unavailable. The enviroment: Microsoft Exchange 2007 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008. One other symptom, which I don’t know if this resolved or something else did, is that the Free/Busy information was not
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Outlook Send/Receive 0x8004010f
Been having this problem on all machines which use Cached Exchange Mode at work. Was really beginning to get annoying as any of the suggestions that I found on the MSExchange Team blog did not seem to work. For reference, the site is was on is: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/04/19/437902.aspx After a while of head scratching and null
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Convert Legacy Mailbox to User Mailbox
Just had to convert a load of Legacy Mailboxes created accidentally by a colleague who forgot to use the new Exchange 2007 console to create their mailboxes. Had about 350 new users so dong it manually wasn’t really an option! Using the power of pipes in Exchange 2007 Shell you can run the following command
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