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Database Availability Groups – Storage Swing Migrations
In some circumstances it becomes necessary to migrate users quickly between servers within Database Availability Groups. In some instances move mailbox is not an option. When storage can be...
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Office 365: Manage Office 365 features when Outlook Web Access is disabled on...
When accounts are provisioned in Office 365, there are certain self-service features that end users have access to without administrator interaction. For example, when logging in and selecting Office...
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Cluster Network Thresholds – A Good Read
Recently I was re-reading a blog post from 2012 about on Tuning Failover Cluster Network Thresholds that was posted by Elden Christensen, a Principal PM on the Windows Failover Cluster team. I think...
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Office 365: Why do my distribution group names change?
I recently worked with a customer that was utilizing directory synchronization to create distribution groups in their on-premises active directory and have them mail enabled within Office 365. They...
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Office 365: More options button missing when configuring migration batch
In Office 365 mailboxes are migrated to the service by configuring a migration batch. When establishing the move configuration settings a “More Options” button was present. The “More Options” button...
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Exchange 2010 / 2013: What constitutes a failure of the replication network…
In both Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013, customers can deploy one or more replication networks in a database availability group (DAG). There can be many reasons for using a replication network, but in...
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Office 365: Mail to deleted mail enabled user accounts results in NDR
Customers may have users with a security principal within their domain that do not have a mailbox hosted within their messaging solution. In this event customers choose to mail enable the user...
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Office 365: Add an embedded link to an object in Outlook Web Access
Outlook Web Access offers the ability for users to add hyper links to certain objects within a message. Commonly this feature is utilize when converting a text statement to a particular URL. To...
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Part 10: Datacenter Activation Coordination – My nodes not invalid!
The Start-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup cmdlet is used to restore failed nodes in a Database Availability Group (DAG) by joining the evicted nodes back to the existing cluster. When a node joins a cluster...
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Exchange and Office 365: Mail Forwarding
Exchange Server and Office 365 offer many different options for forwarding messages to different recipients. Some of these options exist for users and others are for administrators. Administrators can...
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Exchange 2013 / Exchange 2010: Database availability groups with shared...
Although Exchange no longer uses shared storage, it can be deployed in clustered environments where shared storage is used. The storage is not actually shared between nodes as was the case with...
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Exchange 2010 / 2013 – PAM and the Cluster Core Resources
At any given time, in every database availability group (DAG), there is one member that is responsible for the coordination of database actions across the DAG. This member is known as the Primary...
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Exchange 2013: In place upgrade places components in an offline state.
In Exchange 2013 we introduced the concept of server component states. This allows administrators a great deal of flexibility to control a server’s ability to service certain requests either partially...
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Outlook: SMTP Address displayed in profile does not change when the users...
In recent weeks I have had the chance to work with several customers on an inquiry regarding the SMTP address displayed in an Outlook profile. Let us take a look at an example. In Exchange 2013 a user...
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Office 365: Large item migration limits did not apply…
Administrators of Office 365 may have been pleasantly surprised to hear that the large item migration limit for hybrid mailbox moves has increased. Administrators may now migrate messages up to 150...
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Exchange 2010 / Exchange 2013: Attempting to mount a new database results...
In Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 the process of mounting a database has changed since Exchange 2007. In versions prior to Exchange 2010 the Information Store process on a server was solely...
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Exchange / Office 365: Have a centralized mailbox for application processing...
Customers may implement CRM applications that track customer interactions. In some instances the CRM applications are configured to archive and record email transactions that are sent to and from...
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Office 365: Directory synchronization and object attributes…
For many Office 365 customers directory synchronization is the primary method of populating their Office 365 tenant with users, groups, and contacts. The directory synchronization process allows for...
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Office 365: Move requests return status of Completed with Errors.
When migrating mailboxes to Office 365 administrators have the opportunity to have the move batch immediately completed or manually complete the batch at a later time. The move to Office 365 for the...
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Office 365: Determine accounts that have forwarding enabled.
A common question that has come up through support is how can administrators determine if forwarding has been enabled on an account. There are three main methods to enable forwarding on a mailbox: The...
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