Upgrade Server 2012 (In Place)
Upgrade Server 2012 KB ID 0001802 Server 2012 End Of Life Windows Server 2012 (and Windows Server 2012 R2) will go end of life on October 10th 2023. Start planning to migrate your productions workloads off this platform as soon as you can. I’ve mentioned before on the site, I’m not a fan of ‘in place’ upgrades, you get to migrate all the ‘broken bits’ (that you didn’t realise were broken), and...
Outlook OAB download fails with 0x80004005 and/or 0x8004010F
KB ID 0000035 Problem 0x8004010F is caused by client not being able to see the Offline Address Book. 0x8004010F Error With Exchange 2013/2016/2019 Firstly make sure your autodiscover is correct, on the Exchange server open the Exchange management shell, and issue the following command. Get-clientAccessServer | fl Name,AutoDiscoverServiceInternalUri If you need to fix/change it, use the following syntax. Set-ClientAccessServer...
Group Won’t Accept Mail From ‘Outside’
KB ID 0001771 Problem Exchange has been this way for a long time here’s me explaining this very problem with older versions of Exchange. If you create a ‘Group’, be that a Distribution Group, or a ‘Microsoft 365′ Group, the default setting is to NOT ALLOW mail from anyone outside your organisation. If you attempt to send mail to that group you will see errors like these; Errors; 550 5.7.133...
Can you Use ‘Let’s Encrypt’ on Hybrid Exchange?
KB ID 0001770 Problem A few months ago I wrote an article about getting free exchange certificates with Lets ‘Encrypt’. And that still works peachy, I implemented it on my test Exchange 2019 server (in Hybrid mode) and all appeared well. Some time later, (remember this is my test network so it’s not in production.) I noticed that mail was not getting forwarded from O365 to the on premises Exchange server. I’ve...
Exchange Y2KK Bug
KB ID 0001769 Y2KK Problem Over the last couple of days the Exchange forums have been alight with the Y2KK bug, typically it affects Exchange 2016 and 2019 (though the chatter is, it actually effects any Exchange versions whose update version begins with 22… This is fine below, (it begins with 21..) Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Forefront.Filtering.Management.Powershell Get-EngineUpdateInformation Y2KK Symptoms Emails No Longer Being...
Exchange 2000 / 2003 – Exporting Mail to .pst files with ExMerge
KB ID 0000091 Problem ExMerge has been around for a long time, its used (as the name implies) to merge pst files into existing mailbox’s. However its also a great tool to export/backup users mail box’s if you’re doing a migration, or if you have got your “Disaster Recovery” hat on. The following is a run through of how to export from a mail store to pst files – Note on a live system this can take...