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....
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...
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....
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...
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...