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 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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