Exchange 2013 / 2016 / 2019 Default Receive Connector Settings
May27

Exchange 2013 / 2016 / 2019 Default Receive Connector Settings

Default Receive Connectors KB ID 0001314  Problem Out of the box, Exchange 2016 (&2013) has five receive connectors. Three for the frontend transport service and two for the mailbox transport service. Front End Transport Service: Does not alter, inspect, or queue mail. It is the first port of call for ALL mail coming into (and out of) the Exchange organisation. This service creates THREE receive connectors All are bound to 0.0.0.0...

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How To Install Exchange 2016 (Greenfield Site) – Part 3
Apr18

How To Install Exchange 2016 (Greenfield Site) – Part 3

KB ID 0001303 Problem In Part-One we covered Exchange Pre-Install Tasks, in Part-Two we installed Exchange 2016, but it still won’t be working properly, so we need to carry out a few Post-Install Tasks. Solution Install Exchange 2016 Product Key Log into Exchange Admin Center > Servers > Servers > Select the Server > Enter Product Key. Manually enter your product key > Save. Heed the warning > OK. Open an...

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How To Install Exchange 2016 (Greenfield Site) – Part 2
Apr17

How To Install Exchange 2016 (Greenfield Site) – Part 2

KB ID 0001302 Problem Back in Part-One, we looked at all the things to consider before you start to install Exchange 2016. Now we will start installing software, and getting to a point where we can configure Exchange 2016 and carry out some post deployment. Solution Your forest functional level needs to be at ‘Windows Server 2008’ before you can install Exchange 2016. The server you intend to deploy Exchange on, needs to...

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How To Install Exchange 2016 (Greenfield Site) – Part 1
Apr17

How To Install Exchange 2016 (Greenfield Site) – Part 1

KB ID 0001301  Problem As the title implies, this article assumes you do not already have Exchange of any flavour in your organisation. If you do and you simply want to migrate to Exchange 2016, then this is NOT the article you want, instead head to the following link; Migration From Exchange 2010/2007 to Exchange 2016 (& 2013) Solution Now before you sit at the keyboard there are a few things to consider; Media: At the time of...

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Exchange 2016 / 2019 Adding a New Email Domain
Apr04

Exchange 2016 / 2019 Adding a New Email Domain

KB ID 0001297 Problem On EE this morning someone asked this question and I realised I’ve never written it up. So If you want to add a new domain to an already working Exchange deployment how do you do it? Solution Firstly, you need to have purchased the new domain name, and have the DNS records setup properly  for the new domain name. See the following article; Setting up the Correct DNS Records for your Web or Mail Server Add...

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Users Cannot Access Public Folders Post Migration (Exchange 2016)
Mar29

Users Cannot Access Public Folders Post Migration (Exchange 2016)

KB ID 0001295  Problem This post comes form my colleague Andrew Dorrian, he usually follows my migrating public folders article. Recently after a couple of Exchange 2016 migrations he has seen a problem where the public folders are visible in the Exchange Admin Console, but the users can’t access them. Solution Open ADSIedit.msc and connect to the ‘Configuration’ context. Navigate to; CN=Services > CN=Microsoft...

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OWA 2016 – Change Login From Domain\Username to Username
Nov07

OWA 2016 – Change Login From Domain\Username to Username

KB ID 0001254  Problem Out of the box, if you want to log into Outlook Web App, you need to use the Domain\Username format, like so; Seeing as how Microsoft are making a big song and dance about using UPN’s to log into Office 365, I thought they might have changed from the NT4 way of doing things, but hey what do I know? As we all know users are stupid, Domain\Username is up there with string theory and quantum mechanics. So how...

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Outlook Web App :-( Something Went Wrong
Oct28

Outlook Web App :-( Something Went Wrong

KB ID 0001252  Problem I tried to get access to OWA on my Exchange 2016 server, and was greeted with this; 🙁 Something Went Wrong We’re having trouble getting to your mailbox right now.Please refresh the page or try again later Solution I’ve pointed it out on the image above, but it’s easy to miss, look at the time stamp on the error, and compare it to the correct time. The two are not the same. This is a known...

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Exchange – Event ID 205 and Event ID 16025
Oct27

Exchange – Event ID 205 and Event ID 16025

KB ID 0001251  Problem At a client this week, they were having a LOT of mail flow problems. Looking at the queue viewer, I could see that all their mail was sat in queues waiting to go into their mails stores. There was a queue for each mail store, and the error on each was “451 4.4.0 DNS query failed Exchange Server error in message queue”. Looking in the Application log it was full of Event ID 205, and 16025 Errors...

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Exchange – Test User Extest Isn’t Available
Aug16

Exchange – Test User Extest Isn’t Available

KB ID 0001230  Problem While troubleshooting some connectivity issues I used the Test-EcpConnectivity commandlet and got the following error; Test user ‘extest_bebc4142688e4’ isn’t accessible so this cmdlet  wont be able to test Client Access Server connectivity Solution To enable the test user you need to run a script, and you will find it in the script directory in the Exchange setup media . Locate and run the...

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