Exchange ECP HTTP 500 Error
KB ID 0001756 Problem This infuriatingly happens to me a lot! Every time the fix is the same, (but is a little impractical). Essentially you attempt to log in to ECP (Exchange Admin Center), you a prompted for your credentials, then you just get a ‘500 Error”. The website cannot display the page HTTP 500 Most likely causes: •The website is under maintenance. •The website has a programming error. What you can try: ...
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...
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...
Exchange 2013 – ‘Internet Explorer has stopped working’
KB ID 0000776 Problem When using the Exchange Admin Center with Exchange 2013, on a Server Running Internet Explorer Version 10, you see the following error (particularly when working on the recipients > mailboxes tab! Problem Details Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: IEXPLORE.EXE Application Version: 10.0.9200.16384 Application Timestamp: 50107ee0 Fault Module Name: msvcrt.dll Fault Module Version:...
Exchange – Change OWA Login to Username Only
KB ID 0000861 Problem The procedure for changing the user login process from domainnameusername to just username, is a little different with Exchange 2013. Solution 1. Connect to the Exchange admin center > Servers > Virtual Directories > Select OWA > Edit. 2. Authentication > Select ‘User name only’ > Browse and select the domain > Save. 3. At the warning click OK > Windows Key+R > cmd {enter}...