Exchange Mailbox Moves: ‘FailedOther’ Stops at 95%
Dec05

Exchange Mailbox Moves: ‘FailedOther’ Stops at 95%

KB ID 0001376 Problem If you don’t see this happen at least once in a migration I would be surprised! StatusDetail: FailedOther PercentComplete: 95%   Solution  You can remove the move request and start it again, with both a BadItemLimit and AcceptLargeDataLoss flag, (these might seem scary, but I’ve migrated many thousands of mailboxes, and never seen a problem.) But the mailbox is massive and it had been moving for...

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Exchange: Apply Email Address Policy to All Distribution Groups
Nov01

Exchange: Apply Email Address Policy to All Distribution Groups

KB ID 0001361 Problem While doing a migration I needed to update all of a clients ‘Distribution’ groups with an additional mail domain. This is not normally a problem we can do that with an Email address policy, well yes you can if all the groups have ‘update email addresses based on policy’ ticked, (which is the default!) However this client  had done everything manually. So that wasn’t an option....

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MRS Proxy Error ‘The connection to the server could not be completed’
Oct31

MRS Proxy Error ‘The connection to the server could not be completed’

KB ID 0001358 Problem When attempting a cross forest mailbox migration, When specifying the ‘Remote MRS Proxy Server address’ you get the following error; error the connection to the server ‘server-fqdn’ could not be completed Solution Note: For Office 365 Environments see below. This tripped me up for quite a while, (it kept saying access denied). I’d tested this previously and everything was working....

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Exchange ‘Cross Forest’ Mail Migrations
Oct26

Exchange ‘Cross Forest’ Mail Migrations

KB ID 0001356 Problem PeteNetLive is full of Exchange Migration walkthroughs, going all the way back to Exchange 2003. But what if you are migrating to another forest? Well for small migrations you can of course export mail from the old Exchange Server, and them import it into the new mailbox in the new domain/forest (usually via .PST files). I’ll provide links at the bottom of the page, if that’s what you would prefer to...

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Microsoft Exchange –  Forwarding Mail To External Email Addresses
Oct05

Microsoft Exchange – Forwarding Mail To External Email Addresses

KB ID 0001350  Problem Note: Below I’m using Exchange 2016, but the same approach will work for previous versions. There are a load of reasons why you might want to do this, but before you go off in this direction consider why you are doing this in the first place. For example, if the user requesting this does not need an Exchange mailbox, i.e. because they only use their Gmail account then it’s probably a better idea to...

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Exchange Bulk Export / Import Mail Contacts
Sep22

Exchange Bulk Export / Import Mail Contacts

KB ID 0001349  Problem I had to do this today and realised, it’s been so long since I did it last, I’d forgotten how to do it. Before we go forward, please be clear, I’m talking about MAIL CONTACTS, these are Active Directory Objects that have an Email address, but DO NOT have a mailbox in your Exchange Organisation, and DO NOT have an Active Directory User. I point this out because you can have MAIL USERS that have...

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Exchange 2016 – Cannot Create a ‘Frontend Transport Receive Connector’
Jul23

Exchange 2016 – Cannot Create a ‘Frontend Transport Receive Connector’

KB ID 0001333  Problem When trying to enable an IP to ‘Relay’ though my Exchange server, I found I was unable to select ‘Frontend TransportConnector’. Solution Apparently this is a a bug first seen in CU2, the only current fix is to either create the connector as a Hub Transport connector, then convert it using PowerShell, or create the connector in the Exchange Management Shell, which is what I did....

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Exchange – Slow Mailbox Migration?
Jul13

Exchange – Slow Mailbox Migration?

KB ID 0001327  Problem I had a problem recently during an Exchange 2007 to 2013 migration, (client can’t support 2016 yet!) Where the mailbox migrations were taking ages.  Solution 1. Disable Microsoft Replication Service Throttling On the ‘Target’ server > Open ‘regedit’ > Navigate to; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\MSExchange ResourceHealth Locate the MRS REG_DWORD Value and...

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Exchange AutoDiscover Errors – Creating an AutoDiscover SRV Record
Jul12

Exchange AutoDiscover Errors – Creating an AutoDiscover SRV Record

KB ID 0001184 Problem Ages ago I wrote the following article; Outlook Error “The name of the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site.” You used to see this error a lot if your internal, and external domain names were different, and the ‘public’ domain name was on the certificate, in those cases I’d also setup split DNS like so; Windows – Setting Up Split DNS But you can simply create a...

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Mailbox Move Error ‘Active Directory property ‎’homeMDB‎‘ is not writeable’
Jul11

Mailbox Move Error ‘Active Directory property ‎’homeMDB‎‘ is not writeable’

KB ID 0001326  Problem I was migrating some mailboxes form Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 today, when once again this happened; Error: MigrationPermanentException: Active Directory property ‎’homeMDB‎’ is not writeable on recipient ‎’petenetlive.com/Migration/Users/Pete.Long’. –> Active Directory property ‎’homeMDB‎‘ is not writeable on recipient Solution I can’t believe there’s no fix for this yet! This is being caused...

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