Hi

We have 2010 exch currently and would like to upgrade to 2013.

before proceeding I have a question about exch 2003.

when exch 2003 was removed and decommissioned its not entirely gone yet we still see exch 2003 exists in organisation and we want to total remove this now.

can you please assist or suggest something please. thank you.

p.s. we currently decommissioning exch 2007 as well.

regards

KB

We have exchange 2010 environment with 5500 users. there are few users who never user mail system. hence we looking for generating a inactive user report.

Want to know how we can generate this ?

Hello,

I have been unable to locate information regarding how the EDB handles deleted files.  I am able to recover deleted emails from the EDB; however, there are numerous emails that I know have been deleted, that were not recovered during the recovery process. Is this because the EDB dumps deleted emails once it reaches a certain amount of entries?  Or is it more likely the deleted items are corrupted and thus not recoverable?  Thank you for your time and I look forward to your responses.  The product in question is Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

Recently I upgrade my Exchange to 2013, and I didn’t find forwarding in EAC. Am I missing something?

Hello,

I'm struggeling with a problem. I've a clean installed exchange 2013 on a windows 2012 server. The DC is on a separate server. But I can't send a mail from Outlook and the recieve connector is correctly configured. There are no error's and mail in the queue Even sending a mail from the OWA ends in the Drafts folder from that user.

Can somebody help me with this?

Thanks Michel

This can be considered as security flaw??

I think this description from MS Website is not enought clear and I realized that I have it as true on my server since its the 'default'.

"The AnonymousFeaturesEnabled parameter specifies whether you want to allow Outlook Web App users that are logged on anonymously to access specific features. For example, if this value is set to $true, users logged on using anonymous authentication can view and change meeting content. This parameter is set to $true by default."


http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123515(v=exchg.150).aspx

I am attempting to move 600 Mailboxes from my Exchange 2010 SP3 environment over to my Exchange 2013 environment all in all everything is going smooth Exchange is functioning properly. 

I have successfully moved half of my users in which I found a problem with 2 accounts. The move status shows "FailedOther" at 95% complete. I have been searching the google for 2 days now and I have not found a solution to this problem. The user account still shows that is on our old Exchange 2010 server. I have attempted to force restart the move but that fails and it says at FailedOther. 

Has anyone seen this problem before? My Environment is as follows

1 Server Mailbox server EMS - Mail box roles -  Specs 8 Procs, 14 GB of RAM running on a VM Server 2012 DC

1 Server Cas server - Client access server -  4 Procs, 12 GB Ram running on a VM Server 2012 DC

Exchange 2013 CU1 and all accumulative updates since CU1 release. 

I read some where this was because I didn't have enough resources for the move which I then bumped up the server to the current specs and rebooted the VM. I restarted the move with 

Get-MoveRequest | where{$_.Status -eq "FailedOther"} | Resume-MoveRequest

Do I need to remove this move request and start from the beginning or should this command work? 

Hi,

I was trying to use the website 'https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com' to test my AutoDiscover but after some results I realized that it returns the field 'X-FEServer' with the internal hostname of one of my server (we have 02 working in a Cluster/DAG).

>>>> There is a way to avoid the servername disclosure?

Hello,

I am somewhat new to Exchange.  We are running Exchange 2010 and our office software has the capability to export both out Customer and Supplier contact list.  I typically export these once a week to 'Public Folders' for others to use.  The problem is when I do this, on the Outlook Tab the use as address check box needs to be checked after every update.  Is there a way that I can have Exchange point to these lists to eliminate the user from having to go and check off the use as email address list.  Seems trivial, but it does get old.

I hope I explained this with enough detail.

thanks

On both of our Exchange 2013 servers we seem to have an issue that after installing any sort of Windows Updates and subsequently restarting, upon the restart a large number of the Exchange services that are set to Automatic startup do not actually start. Sometimes we catch this and end up starting them one by one, other times, they may sit for a day and it's not until something else fails (like a backup) that alerts us to the fact they haven't started.

We are seeing this in the event logs:

A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service to connect.

The Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service failed to start due to the following error: 
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

Everything else seems to depend on that service and doesn't end up starting.

Question is why is that service timing out?

We are running Exchange 2013 Standard CU2, OS is Windows Server 2012.

I have a couple questions about offline DB defragging using eseutil /d.

I am about to perform a migration from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 hybrid on-prem/cloud where the mailboxes will be hosted on premises and the archive mailbox will be hosted in the cloud. As part of this migration, we will be migrating the mailboxes from 2007 to a "temporary" database, then importing PST's (currently housed in a third party archive solution) into the archive mailbox. THEN migrating that archive mailbox to Office365 off-premises. Then running managedfolderassistant with the desired retention tags to "clean up" the mailbox. Then eventually moving the mailbox in to another database, where it will ultimately reside

Long story short, the "temporary" database will need to grow and shrink beyond the point where normal online defrag will suffice.I will run eseutil /d on the temp database once all users have been moved off of it. I just need to verify that when running the offline degrag, that it will clean out ALL contents of he database, all deleted items folder, dumpster, deleted mailboxes, etc. I will have litigationholdenabled=true on all these mailboxes. Should I just delete the database and recreate it, rather than deal with eseutil /d. Let me know what you think of this proposed process...

Hi all,

We currently have an exchange 2010 / 2013 coexistence environment. Only a couple of test mailboxes have been migrated to exchange 2013 mailbox servers.

We recently implemented MVP Paul Cunningham's exchange server health script which has picked up on the queue count for a couple of our 2013 MBX servers being high.

On investigation, there were quite a few emails in the shadow queues:

Identity                   DeliveryType Status MessageCount Velocity RiskLevel
--------                   ------------ ------ ------------ -------- ---------
MBX4\Submission            Undefined    Ready  0            0        Normal
MBX4\Shadow\79002          ShadowRed... Ready  42           0        Normal
MBX4\Shadow\79003          ShadowRed... Ready  49           0        Normal
MBX4\Shadow\79004          ShadowRed... Ready  35           0        Normal
MBX4\Shadow\79005          ShadowRed... Ready  37           0        Normal
MBX4\Shadow\79006          ShadowRed... Ready  44           0        Normal
MBX4\Shadow\79007          ShadowRed... Ready  48           0        Normal
MBX4\Shadow\79008          ShadowRed... Ready  37           0        Normal
MBX4\Shadow\79009          ShadowRed... Ready  42           0        Normal
MBX4\Shadow\79010          ShadowRed... Ready  46           0        Normal
MBX4\Shadow\79011          ShadowRed... Ready  32           0        Normal
MBX4\Shadow\79012          ShadowRed... Ready  42           0        Normal

When I run a Get-Message on one of those queues, all of the messages are the Health Mailbox emails. Here is the result of one of the messages:

RunspaceId                      : cb1cc417-e6ff-437a-a32b-6b360524a69e
Subject                         : MBTSubmission/StoreDriverSubmission/0000004b-0000-0000-0000-0000b48e019b-MapiSubmitLA
                                  MProbe
InternetMessageId               : <0053effd240747d89411122e1248e5ae@MBX9.domain>
FromAddress                     : HealthMailboxb063161aea0544769382ad988d2f71c1@domain
Status                          : Ready
Size                            : 9.007 KB (9,223 bytes)
MessageSourceName               : SMTP:Default MBX4
SourceIP                        : 10.10.xxx.xxx
SCL                             : -1
DateReceived                    : 1/01/2014 12:19:39 PM
ExpirationTime                  : 3/01/2014 12:19:39 PM
LastError                       :
RetryCount                      : 0
Recipients                      :
ComponentLatency                :
MessageLatency                  : 1.23:01:48.3921070
DeferReason                     : None
LockReason                      :
Priority                        : Normal
ExternalDirectoryOrganizationId : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Directionality                  : Originating
MessageIdentity                 : MBX4\Shadow\79002\11557756993546
Queue                           : MBX4\Shadow\79002
Identity                        : MBX4\Shadow\79002\11557756993546
IsValid                         : True
ObjectState                     : New

Any ideas why the messages are note being removed from the shadow queue or where to start with troubleshooting?

Hello,

after successful PF migration, Ex2010 to Ex2013 I could see everything working from Outlook.

Anyway, I wanted at the very end to compare folder statistics and permissions against legacy settings.

Unfortunately, at about 600 folders I could get error:

The security principal specified is already on the permission set.

I've checked one of affected folders via Outlook / Folder Permissions and could see doubled entries for same identity (imagine, two times the same account with the same Owner permissions) I've tried to delete it ;) but the result is that folder lost completely the permissions and I can NOT change it over shell, ECP or Outlook anymore even I was the former owner.

So, is there something like ExFolders so I could reset the ACL on the affected folder ? It is quite urgent for me as I need to decide if I should do rollback or keep it as it is risking some future issues ... 

Thanks

Peter

PeBe

Hey people,

I have 3 2013 Servers

Server 1 CAS

Server 2 & 3 MBX

having a bit of trouble here - everything was working fine after migration (about 6months ago), and now mac users can't access e-mail.

 If I try to access EWS page (https://webmail.domain.co.ao/EWS/exchange.asmx) , i get

Service


You have created a service.

To test this service, you will need to create a client and use it to call the service. You can do this using the svcutil.exe tool from the command line with the following syntax:

svcutil.exe https://SERVER2.domain.int:444/EWS/Services.wsdl

If I try to access the autodiscover webpage, i get

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<Autodiscover xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/responseschema/2006">-<Response>-<Error Id="1286627925" Time="17:58:59.7730521"><ErrorCode>600</ErrorCode><Message>Invalid Request</Message><DebugData/></Error></Response></Autodiscover>

When testing outlook web services, i get the following error

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Test-OutlookWebServices

Source                              ServiceEndpoint                     Scenario                       Result  Latency
                                                                                                                  (MS)
------                              ---------------                     --------                       ------  -------
SERVER2.domain.int               webmail.domain.co.ao                 Autodiscover: Outlook Provider Failure      64
SERVER2.domain.int                                                   Exchange Web Services          Skipped       0
SERVER2.domain.int                                                   Availability Service           Skipped       0
SERVER2.domain.int                                                   Offline Address Book           Skipped       0

if i run

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory | fl
Creating a new session for implicit remoting of "Get-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory" command...


RunspaceId                      : 9f23dad1-7806-42a6-8545-89b66847a359
Name                            : Autodiscover (Default Web Site)
InternalAuthenticationMethods   : {Basic, Ntlm, WindowsIntegrated, WSSecurity, OAuth}
ExternalAuthenticationMethods   : {Basic, Ntlm, WindowsIntegrated, WSSecurity, OAuth}
LiveIdNegotiateAuthentication   : False
WSSecurityAuthentication        : True
LiveIdBasicAuthentication       : False
BasicAuthentication             : True
DigestAuthentication            : False
WindowsAuthentication           : True
OAuthAuthentication             : True
AdfsAuthentication              : False
MetabasePath                    : IIS://SERVER1.domain.int/W3SVC/1/ROOT/Autodiscover
Path                            : C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\FrontEnd\HttpProxy\Autodiscover
ExtendedProtectionTokenChecking : None
ExtendedProtectionFlags         : {}
ExtendedProtectionSPNList       : {}
AdminDisplayVersion             : Version 15.0 (Build 775.38)
Server                          : SERVER1
InternalUrl                     : https://webmail.domain.co.ao/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml
ExternalUrl                     : https://webmail.domain.co.ao/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml
AdminDisplayName                :
ExchangeVersion                 : 0.10 (14.0.100.0)
DistinguishedName               : CN=Autodiscover (Default Web
                                  Site),CN=HTTP,CN=Protocols,CN=SERVER1A,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative
                                  Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=DOMAIN,CN=Microsoft
                                  Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=domain,DC=int
Identity                        : SERVERONE\Autodiscover (Default Web Site)
Guid                            : fbed978f-7442-46ac-bb3c-53d9d7995507
ObjectCategory                  : domain.int/Configuration/Schema/ms-Exch-Auto-Discover-Virtual-Directory
ObjectClass                     : {top, msExchVirtualDirectory, msExchAutoDiscoverVirtualDirectory}
WhenChanged                     : 12/19/2013 10:30:26 AM
WhenCreated                     : 12/19/2013 10:30:26 AM
WhenChangedUTC                  : 12/19/2013 9:30:26 AM
WhenCreatedUTC                  : 12/19/2013 9:30:26 AM
OrganizationId                  :
OriginatingServer               : DC2.domain.int
IsValid                         : True
ObjectState                     : Changed

and run

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory | fl


RunspaceId                      : 9f23dad1-7806-42a6-8545-89b66847a359
CertificateAuthentication       :
InternalNLBBypassUrl            :
GzipLevel                       : High
MRSProxyEnabled                 : False
Name                            : EWS (Default Web Site)
InternalAuthenticationMethods   : {Basic, Digest}
ExternalAuthenticationMethods   : {Basic, Digest}
LiveIdNegotiateAuthentication   :
WSSecurityAuthentication        : False
LiveIdBasicAuthentication       : False
BasicAuthentication             : True
DigestAuthentication            : True
WindowsAuthentication           : False
OAuthAuthentication             : False
AdfsAuthentication              : False
MetabasePath                    : IIS://SERVER1.domain.int/W3SVC/1/ROOT/EWS
Path                            : C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\FrontEnd\HttpProxy\EWS
ExtendedProtectionTokenChecking : None
ExtendedProtectionFlags         : {}
ExtendedProtectionSPNList       : {}
AdminDisplayVersion             : Version 15.0 (Build 775.38)
Server                          : SERVER1
InternalUrl                     : https://webmail.domain.co.ao/EWS/exchange.asmx
ExternalUrl                     : https://webmail.domain.co.ao/EWS/exchange.asmx
AdminDisplayName                :
ExchangeVersion                 : 0.10 (14.0.100.0)
DistinguishedName               : CN=EWS (Default Web Site),CN=HTTP,CN=Protocols,CN=SERVRE1,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange
                                  Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative
                                  Groups,CN=DOMAINL,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=domainl,DC=int
Identity                        : SERVER1\EWS (Default Web Site)
Guid                            : cbdd447b-54f8-4bba-9834-6c28b807711e
ObjectCategory                  : domain.int/Configuration/Schema/ms-Exch-Web-Services-Virtual-Directory
ObjectClass                     : {top, msExchVirtualDirectory, msExchWebServicesVirtualDirectory}
WhenChanged                     : 12/19/2013 9:31:11 AM
WhenCreated                     : 12/19/2013 9:31:11 AM
WhenChangedUTC                  : 12/19/2013 8:31:11 AM
WhenCreatedUTC                  : 12/19/2013 8:31:11 AM
OrganizationId                  :
OriginatingServer               : DC2.domain.int
IsValid                         : True
ObjectState                     : Changed

Summarizing:

webmail.domain.co.ao maps to server1

Autodiscover and exchange web services point out to server1 (CAS), but when openning the respective webpages, the result is an error.

I have already deleted and recreated the autodiscover and EWS virtual directories but with no success.

Help anyone?

Many thanks,

Andrey

Hi,

I have installed Exchange Server 2013 on the 2012 Server successfully. The Exchange server is joined to a domain and logged in as domain administrator. I can login to Exchange Admin Center configured and OWA with no problem. I have configured the Exchange Server with multiple mailboxes and everything works fine.

When I launch Exchange Management Shell, it fails to connect to Exchange Server 2013 and following error message is given.

VERBOSE: Connecting to EXCHANGE2013.testlab1.local.

New-PSSession : [exchange2013.testlab1.local] Connecting to remote server exchange2013.testlab1.local failed with thefollowing error message : The WinRM client cannot process the request. The WinRM client tried to use Kerberos uthentication mechanism, but the destination computer (EXCHANGE2013.testlab1.local:80) returned an 'access denied' error.

Change the configuration to allow Kerberos authentication mechanism to be used or specify one of the authentication mechanisms supported by the server. To use Kerberos, specify the local computer name as the remote destination. Also verify that the client computer and the destination computer are joined to a domain. To use Basic, specify the local computer name as the remote destination, specify Basic authentication and provide user name and password. Possible authentication mechanisms reported by server: For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.

At line:1 char:1

+ New-PSSession -ConnectionURI "$connectionUri" -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Excha ...

I looked through many topics and follow many suggestions, but no luck so far.

I am learning about Exchange 2013 and had the following questions I was hoping someone could help with.

Scenario:

Two DAGs split over two sites. Each site is Active/Active. Each site has its own CAS array with 2 Exchange 2010 CAS servers sitting behind it.

1.When we introduce Exchange 2013, can we add Exchange 2013 CAS servers to the existing array or should these be kept seperate?

2. Can we add Exchange 2013 databases (i.e. those held on 2010 mailbox servers) to the existing DAG's, or must we build new ones?

3. We have applications such as Blackberry that use MAPI to connect to the existing 2010 CAS array. If a BlackBerry user on a BES that also holds Exchange 2010 mailbox users gets moved to a 2013 database. Do we need to move him to a BES servers that is specifically configured to use RPC/HTTPS? There is no way a 2013 CAS can be configured to accept MAPI for 'legacy' applications?

Hi

I am trying to install Exchange 2013 CU 3. We currently have CU 2 installed. During preparing the organization i get the error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

I googled this and some posts suggest its a dodgy exchange federation relationship. We don't have any or have it enabled.

Any ideas please?

Thanks

[01/05/2014 13:05:49.0656] [2] Group CN=Managed Availability Servers,OU=Microsoft Exchange Security Groups,OU=IT System,OU=Groups & Other Accounts,DC=domain,DC=local already exists.
[01/05/2014 13:05:49.0718] [2] [ERROR] Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
[01/05/2014 13:05:49.0718] [2] [WARNING] An unexpected error has occurred and a Watson dump is being generated: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
[01/05/2014 13:05:50.0591] [1] The following 1 error(s) occurred during task execution:
[01/05/2014 13:05:50.0591] [1] 0.  ErrorRecord: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
[01/05/2014 13:05:50.0591] [1] 0.  ErrorRecord: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.InitializeExchangeUniversalGroups.CreateOrMoveEWPGroup(ADGroup ewp, ADOrganizationalUnit usgContainer)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.InitializeExchangeUniversalGroups.InternalProcessRecord()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.<ProcessRecord>b__8()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Core.LatencyTrackerExtension.StartAndEndInternalTracking(LatencyTracker latencyTracker, String groupName, String funcName, Boolean logDetailsAlways, Action action)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Core.CmdletLatencyTracker.StartAndEndInternalTracking(Guid cmdletUniqueId, String groupName, String funcName, Boolean logDetailsAlways, Action action)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.<ProcessRecord>b__7()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Core.LatencyTrackerExtension.StartAndEndInternalTracking(LatencyTracker latencyTracker, String groupName, String funcName, Boolean logDetailsAlways, Action action)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Core.CmdletLatencyTracker.StartAndEndInternalTracking(Guid cmdletUniqueId, String groupName, String funcName, Boolean logDetailsAlways, Action action)
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.ProcessRecord()
   at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessor.ProcessRecord()
[01/05/2014 13:05:50.0607] [1] [ERROR] The following error was generated when "$error.Clear(); 
	initialize-ExchangeUniversalGroups -DomainController $RoleDomainController -ActiveDirectorySplitPermissions $RoleActiveDirectorySplitPermissions" was run: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object.".
[01/05/2014 13:05:50.0607] [1] [ERROR] Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
[01/05/2014 13:05:50.0622] [1] [ERROR-REFERENCE] Id=443949901 Component=
[01/05/2014 13:05:50.0622] [1] Setup is stopping now because of one or more critical errors.
[01/05/2014 13:05:50.0622] [1] Finished executing component tasks.
[01/05/2014 13:05:50.0638] [1] Ending processing Install-ExchangeOrganization

All,

It all started when I was trying to enable OutlookAnywhere on a new HUB/CAS server that I installed. However, it failed with:

["Error: Web object 'IIS://myserver.mydomain.com/W3SVC/1/ROOT" can't be found.  Access denied]

I believe I know the cause. Sometime during my SP3 and Rollup KB2866475 update, a new set of special Exchange security groups were created. E.g

"Delegated Setup" and a new one call "Delegated Setup1" was created at some stage during the upgrade.

"Exchange Servers" and a new one "Exchange Servers1"

"Exchange Trusted Subsystem" and new one "Exchange Trusted Subsystem1"

etc etc.

Memberships are now mixed between both old group names and new group names. I believe the resolution is get Exchange to look at one set of groups as I think different servers are looking to different sets of groups to determine its permissions.

Can anyone advise where in Exchange or ADSI edit I might be able to make the corrections?

Geoff.