exchangehttps://evotec.xyz/tags/exchange/index.atom.xml2023-12-03T16:32:13.0000000ZEvotec Main WebsiteSyncing Global Address List (GAL) to personal contacts and between Office 365 tenants with PowerShellhttps://evotec.xyz/blog/syncing-global-address-list-gal-to-personal-contacts-and-between-office-365-tenants-with-powershell2023-12-03T16:32:13.0000000ZHey there! Today, I wanted to introduce you to one of the small but excellent module I’ve created called the O365Synchronizer. This module focuses on synchronizing contacts and users. If you’ve ever been tasked with synchronizing Global Address Lists (GAL) across different Office 365 tenants or just wanted to sync GAL with user mailboxes so they can access contacts directly on their phones, this tool is for you.Sending email as an alias (proxy address) with Office 365https://evotec.xyz/blog/sending-email-as-an-alias-proxy-address-with-office-3652021-04-20T10:19:21.0000000ZSending emails in Microsoft Exchange world using an alias for an account has always been a pain. It required working with workarounds such as setting up Shared Mailbox or Distribution Groups and using SendAs permissions. For years admins around the world were asking Microsoft to change this, and finally, in April 2021, they did! It’s a new feature of Office 365, and it requires action from Office 365 Administrator.Creating Visual Indicators for spoofed / external emails with PowerShellhttps://evotec.xyz/blog/creating-visual-indicators-for-spoofed-external-emails-with-powershell2019-03-30T22:28:27.0000000ZI’ve been managing mail service for users for a lot of years now. I don’t do it daily but I’ve spent my fair share of time analyzing spam emails. Mail vendors are doing what they can fighting spam, but it’s not easy. Each month, each year spam is getting more sophisticated. Spam emails either look like a legit email, or worse someone is targeting your company trying to get them to transfer money into a wrong account. While most of those end up in spam, there are those that come thru. It’s even worse if the company you work with has not implemented SPF or their SPF is configured to soft fail which can’t be treated as spam.Changing Exchange folder permissions in multilanguage Office 365 tenantshttps://evotec.xyz/blog/powershell-changing-exchange-folder-permissions-in-multilanguage-office-365-tenants2019-03-22T18:58:49.0000000ZOne of the tasks I often get when setting up new Office 365 tenant or installing Exchange Servers is to change the visibility of Room Mailboxes or in some cases even standard users. There’s nothing hard about it, and there are plenty of articles about it. It’s just three simple steps.How to find different server types in Active Directory with PowerShellhttps://evotec.xyz/blog/how-to-find-different-server-types-in-active-directory-with-powershell2019-02-06T18:25:30.0000000ZWorking as a freelancer is a great thing if you can handle it. Each day, each week something new happens and a new problem shows up on my doorstep. It also means it’s almost never boring at your job and you get to play with new stuff. But there’s one drawback to this. You’re often thrown at the problem, told to fix it but often that’s about as much information as you get. It wasn’t very different today. I was told to switch Office 365 from ADFS to Password Synchronization. While reasons for this are not really important, the important question here is what is the name of AD Connect server that’s responsible for this configuration?Office 365 – Report containing User Information and Mailbox Usagehttps://evotec.xyz/blog/office-365-report-containing-user-information-and-mailbox-usage2019-01-29T15:30:04.0000000ZWorking with Office 365 is my bread and butter in the last few months. I’m a System Architect and I am dropped in multiple projects, both new and old, to fix certain aspect and get out before anyone sees me. One of the common tasks I get is to provide some data about users stored in Office 365.Outlook – The primary account cannot be removed unless it is the only account in the profilehttps://evotec.xyz/blog/outlook-the-primary-account-cannot-be-removed-unless-it-is-the-only-account-in-the-profile2018-11-23T22:39:44.0000000ZLast few months I’m responsible for the migration of Office 365 to Office 365. While doing so, we came into a situation where users have their old mailbox as Primary Account and new Mailbox as their secondary account. This is a quite common scenario that people are running into and something that is expected. Usually, my recommendation is: Please create a new profile for user and topic is closed. It’s also quite easy to achieve this in an automated way where you delete all profiles and Outlook just goes with autodiscovery adding new account as required. That’s how I have always done this till now. My Client has gone thru setting up 1000+ users with their second account in Outlook and deleting a whole profile, recreating would cause lots of downloading of emails from Office 365 that my Client wanted to avoid.Microsoft Exchange – 420 4.2.0 Recipient deferred because there is no Mdbhttps://evotec.xyz/blog/microsoft-exchange-420-4-2-0-recipient-deferred-because-there-is-no-mdb2018-11-14T20:41:07.0000000ZLast few weeks I’m responsible for migrating from Office 365 to Office 365. Part of this migration process is to set up new Exchange 2016 server that will work as relay instead of using IIS server. I’ve setup hybrid, added accepted domains, prepared connectors, but there’s one thing missing. Any time an email is sent via relay to a user that exists on Office 365 and at the same time exists in Active Directory email never gets there.PSBlackListChecker – Notifications to Microsoft Teams, Slack of Blacklisted IPshttps://evotec.xyz/blog/psblacklistchecker-notifications-to-microsoft-teams-slack-of-blacklisted-ips2018-11-02T21:46:18.0000000ZIf this is the first time you’re reading about this module, it’s simple PowerShell module that allows you to verify…PSWinDocumentation – Export to Word, Excel, SQL of AD, AWS, Exchange, O365 Exchange, O365 Azure ADhttps://evotec.xyz/blog/pswindocumentation-export-to-word-excel-sql-of-ad-aws-exchange-o365-exchange-o365-azure-ad2018-09-23T20:39:26.0000000ZToday I’m pushing forward with PSWinDocumentation project. I’ve fixed some bugs but I also added a couple of new features. I did lie a bit in the first sentence because this time it’s not all me. I got help from Mateusz Niemczyk who is a certified AWS engineer working for Euvic with me on some projects. If you’ve not yet guessed where I got him involved from the introduction – yes we’re adding basic AWS data support to PSWinDocumentation. But that’s not all…No account settings were returned from the Autodiscover response – Microsoft Exchange 2016https://evotec.xyz/blog/no-account-settings-were-returned-from-the-autodiscover-response-microsoft-exchange-20162018-08-16T19:07:01.0000000ZRecently one of our users reported that after name change she can’t login to Outlook anymore. She can only work…Microsoft Exchange Approval Assistant – Your message couldn’t be delivered because delivery to this address is restricted to authenticated sendershttps://evotec.xyz/blog/microsoft-exchange-approval-assistant-your-message-couldnt-be-delivered-because-delivery-to-this-address-is-restricted-to-authenticated-senders2018-08-16T11:53:44.0000000ZWhile not being able to accept or deny messages in hybrid scenario was solved in earlier post, now that people could approve…Not able to accept or deny messages sent to group in Exchange Hybrid Scenariohttps://evotec.xyz/blog/not-able-to-accept-or-deny-messages-sent-to-group-in-exchange-hybrid-scenario2018-08-13T21:27:53.0000000ZOne of the functionalities in Microsoft Exchange for Distribution Groups (or mail-enabled groups for that matter) is ability to setup…Monitoring BlackLists with PowerShell modulehttps://evotec.xyz/blog/monitoring-blacklists-with-powershell-module2018-04-29T20:29:02.0000000ZI’ve been Exchange Administrator for a longer part of my IT life. As any mail admin (not just Microsoft Exchange) will…Office 365 – onmicrosoft.com address missing from user synchronized from Active Directoryhttps://evotec.xyz/blog/office-365-onmicrosoft-com-address-missing-user-synchronized-active-directory2018-01-17T22:31:02.0000000ZOnmicrosoft.com address is standard email address used by Office 365. While usually Clients tend to use their own domains onmicrosoft.com…Upgrading Exchange 2010 SP3 to Rollup Update 18 fails with blank webpagehttps://evotec.xyz/blog/upgrading-exchange-2013-sp3-rollup-update-18-fails-blank-webpage2017-07-12T20:51:53.0000000ZUpgrading Exchange 2010 SP3 to Rollup Update 18 is fairly smooth process. This rollup update is part of standard Windows Update…Microsoft Exchange – OU picker is empty when creating new userhttps://evotec.xyz/blog/microsoft-exchange-ou-picker-empty-creating-new-user2016-11-01T11:24:27.0000000ZWe’ve migrated one of our Clients fairly early but recently we got complain that when new user is created from…Office 365 – A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name UserPrincipalName on New-Mailboxhttps://evotec.xyz/blog/office-365-parameter-cannot-found-matches-parameter-name-userprincipalname-new-mailbox2016-07-28T11:42:49.0000000ZMigrating companies from On-Premise setups of Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2013 to cloud Exchange on Office 365 often requires some…Exchange 2013 – Health Mailbox has been corruptedhttps://evotec.xyz/blog/exchange-2013-health-mailbox-has-been-corrupted2016-03-01T12:06:32.0000000ZHealth checking your Exchange Environment is important task for any administrator. Specially for that there are special Health Mailboxes created…GFI MailEssentials 20 – How to count licenses for users?https://evotec.xyz/blog/gfi-mail-essentials-20-how-to-count-licenses-for-users2016-02-29T12:42:56.0000000ZRecently one of our Clients bought 750 licenses for GFI MailEssentials 20. As GFI on their websites claims that only…Get-AdPermission – The operation couldn’t be performed because object couldn’t be foundhttps://evotec.xyz/blog/get-adpermission-the-operation-couldnt-be-performed-because-object2016-02-25T19:50:34.0000000ZDuring our recent creation of Relay Receive Connector on Exchange 2013 we’ve encountered an error: The operation couldn’t be performed because object. Since time…Microsoft Exchange – Set Address Book Policy to multiple users based on group membershiphttps://evotec.xyz/blog/microsoft-exchange-set-address-book-policy-to-multiple-users-based-on-group-membership2016-01-28T10:33:05.0000000ZOne of the common tasks of Exchange Administrator is to add Exchange Address Book Policy to a user. Depending on needs…GFI MailEssentials 20 installation stuck on Administrators email addresshttps://evotec.xyz/blog/gfi-mailessentials-20-installation-stuck-on-administrators-email-address2016-01-18T09:34:04.0000000ZDuring installation of GFI MailEssentials 20 installation doesn’t go pass entering an Administrator’s email. Pressing NEXT doesn’t do anything and Administrator…Microsoft Exchange – Connecting to remote server failed with the following error messagehttps://evotec.xyz/blog/microsoft-exchange-connecting-to-remote-server-failed-with-the-following-error-message2015-11-26T17:47:09.0000000ZConnecting to Microsoft Exchange via PowerShell is a standard administrative tasks since Exchange 2007 was released. It’s available in all…PowerShell – How to find users without default quota set on Microsoft Exchangehttps://evotec.xyz/blog/powershell-how-to-find-users-without-default-quota-set-on-microsoft-exchange2015-11-19T23:14:05.0000000ZDuring Exchange 2010 times for one of our Clients some users had special quota set for multiple users that was different…Exchange 2013 – Exchange Management Shell (EMS) loading very slowhttps://evotec.xyz/blog/exchange-exchange-management-shell-loading-very-slow2015-10-22T12:06:43.0000000ZAs you grow more experienced with Exchange (2007 / 2010 / 2013 or 2016) you get to the point where you…Exchange 2016 – Microsoft has released RTM version of Exchangehttps://evotec.xyz/blog/exchange-2016-microsoft-has-released-rtm-version-of-exchange2015-10-02T07:00:53.0000000ZNearly 3 years after Exchange 2013 was released, new Exchange 2016 is out in the open in Ready To Manufacturing state (RTM). Microsoft Exchange 2016 can be downloaded straight from [Microsoft servers](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downloa...Exchange 2013 Upgrade – Service ‘WMSVC’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this serverhttps://evotec.xyz/blog/exchange-2013-upgrade-service-wmsvc-failed-to-reach-status-running-on-this-server2015-09-15T17:04:16.0000000ZOne of the quarterly tasks that every Exchange administrator should do is to install new Cumulative Update for their Exchange…Exchange 2013 integration with SharePoint doesn’t workhttps://evotec.xyz/blog/exchange-2013-integration-with-sharepoint-doesnt-work2015-06-14T12:27:50.0000000ZThe steps to integrate new Microsoft Exchange 2013 with SharePoint 2013 are fairly simple. You just need to follow Microsoft Configure…Microsoft Exchange – Meeting requests keeps updating not invited personhttps://evotec.xyz/blog/meeting-requests-keeps-updating-not-invited-person-to-the-meeting2015-03-04T11:08:00.0000000ZOne of our clients received an recurring meeting request in Outlook 2010 via Microsoft Exchange 2007, which he then auto forwarded thru…