Hi Guy,

Live exchange 2016 server needs to be updated from CU2 to Cu8  and has been running without any issues  (4.7.1) Currently getting an error in a bmr'ed test environment when trying to go through the above update process - server is in maintenance mode but still noticed all exchange services running.  Also noticed none of the other (think there are 4) system mailboxes show up when searching in ECP but the accounts are disabled in AD. Exchange transition was from 2010 - 2016.

Any ideas about this, could I just remove the mailbox. Note: the guid is not showing up in Get-Mailbox -Arbitration


 Error:
The following error was generated when "$error.Clear();
            $mailboxId = "SystemMailbox{D0E409A0-AF9B-4720-92FE-AAC869B0D201}";
            Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info ("Retrieving users with LastName=$mailboxId.");
            $arbUser = @(Get-User -Filter {LastName -eq $mailboxId} -IgnoreDefaultScope -ResultSize 1);
            if ($arbUser.Length -eq 0)
            {
                Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info ("Retrieving arbitration users with LastName=$mailboxId.");
                $arbUser = @(Get-User -Arbitration -Filter {LastName -eq $mailboxId} -IgnoreDefaultScope -ResultSize 1);
            }

            if ($arbUser.Length -eq 0)
            {
                Write-ExchangeSetupLog -Info ("Installing user account with Name=$mailboxId and LastName=$mailboxId.");
                Install-UserAccount -Name $mailboxId -LastName …

Dear Experts, I could not delete the message in Exchange 2016 like before.

Here is the screenshot, yellow square is the user mailbox, blue square is the distribution mailbox. So what are the differences between DROP and SEND in Agent tab?


The second screenshot was the result after issued command to delete, it said success but the message was still in the recipient's mailbox


Can you please suggest? Many thanks!

Getting a lot of undeliverable email notifications -

Reported error: 550 5.4.355 Remote server returned recipient domain does not exist -> 553 #5.1.8 Domain of sender address <xx@xxxx.org> does not exist

This started yesterday around 8am that it was reported we couldn't send or receive any email.  Both inbound, outbound and internal email was no longer working.

I restarted the server a few times and exchange services and found that the Microsoft Exchange Transport service was stuck in a "Starting" state but would never start.  Through research I found some suggestions about renaming the que directory at C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\TransportRoles\data\Queue and allowing exchange to re-create it.  

I found the mail.que file to be around 15gb if I remember correctly.  I was able to kill the process, rename the folder and exchange recreated it and mail started flowing again for awhile then stopped again.  This process was repeated several times as I continued to troubleshoot the issue.

Eventually, after almost 12 hours of suffering with this I ran this script:
Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | Select-Object Name,@{N="DatabaseSize GB";E={"$([math]::round($_.DatabaseSize.Tobytes() /1Gb, 2)) GB"}},AvailableNewMailboxSpace | Sort-Object Name | fl

The result was something similar to this:
Name                     : Mailbox Database ####
DatabaseSize GB          : 539.01 GB
AvailableNewMailboxSpace : 21 mb

Interestingly it's odd to me that the databasezize in GB is 540 (and doesn't seem to ever grow).  The drive exchange resides on has 383GB free space.

Anyway, I watched this for awhile and saw the availablenewmailboxspace continue to shrink and …

Currently we are using AD on Windows server 2016 and Exchange Server 2016. We want to add Microsoft office online exchange 365 as a load balancer in DAG. It is possible?

User can’t remember Gmail password BUT has the account working on a laptop

Eventually that laptop will die

Is it possible to add a forward all email to another address in the mean time to be covered for that eventuality ?

* totally impossible to retrieve password - we have tried everything !

Forward possible to a new gmail account and we will store password this time - it’s  possible ? Without knowing password ?

Thanks !

Hi guys,

I got a pop3 email in mac outlook. I want to transfer all emails to a office365 outlook profile in my Mac computer. I recently migrated from pop3 to office365. So doing this transfer to have my old emails in office365.

So in outlook, I got both profiles now. Old pop3 email and office365 Email. I can drag and drop each folder email. But there are many sub folders in inbox, which will
Be difficult to crate all folders in new office365 inbox and then doing drag and drop each folder.

Is there any other way to do it in a better way.

Hi Experts ,

I have 2 Exchange servers , both running Exchange 2013 in the same domain.
1st Server is Srv3 which was the first Server setup and running Exchange 2013, the 2nd Server is Srv6 this is the 2nd Server running Exchange 2013.
I want to decommission Srv3 and make Srv6 my main and only exchange server.
I have moved my mailboxes across to Srv6 and have purchased a comodo payed cert and this is also installed on Srv6.
Srv3 has a self signed cert installed.
I am looking for some help on decommissioning Srv3 and making Srv6 my primary and only exchange Server.
if I turn off Srv3. I can access my Mailboxes and I can sent mail as now going trough Srv6, but can't receive mail or get to my e-mail remotely (owa).
if I try and setup the receive connector on Srv6 to be the same as Srv3 but  it won't let me.
Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated
Thank you.

Hi,

I have set up a new BigCommerce store, which is live and operating fine. However, I am having trouble setting up the third party email on the clients domain name and email hosting.

Mail can be sent from the domains webmail but can't be received. I am getting this message when sending to:

all relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts

Any help would be appreciated.

Configure Exchange 2013  autodiscover and Web Services

I would like to know if I will have to configure Autodiscover  URL on each CAS server or just one of the CAS servers.
I also want to know if other Web services URLS such  ECP,OWA,OAB,ACTIVESYNC,OutlookAnyWhere,etc.... will have to be configured on each CAS Server

Thank you.