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Web Management Service will not start and causes Exchange update to fail
Today I had an Exchange update issue that I’d previously never encountered before. Exchange 2013 CU10 update failed saying the Web Management Service could not be started. Attempts to manually start...
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Beware effects to Exchange of setting Primary Group in AD
Overview: Here’s a quick one regarding an issue I came across not too long ago with a customer. The issue was that members of distribution lists were not getting emails addressed to it. Issue: Consider...
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Remember the basics when working with Dynamic Distribution Groups (I didn’t)
Overview: I recently had a customer come to me with a simple issue of mail not being received in his Exchange 2013 environment when sending to a Dynamic Distribution Group he had just created. Well it...
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The Importance of Updated Domain Controllers When Deploying Exchange
Overview Much is made about a healthy Active Directory environment being a prerequisite for a healthy Exchange deployment. This can be especially challenging when there are separate teams managing AD...
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Emails from scanner to Exchange 2013 being sent as separate attachment
Scenario After switching from hosted email to Exchange 2013 on-premises, a customer noticed that when using scan-to-email functionality the .PDF files it created were not showing up as expected....
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Exchange Shell errors after incorrectly modifying IIS
Scenario Customer stated that after replacing a certificate for their Exchange 2013 server they were unable to access Exchange Management Shell. The following error was displayed in Exchange Management...
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Failures when proxying HTTP requests from Exchange 2013 to a previous...
Overview I’ve seen this issue a few times over the past months & most recently this past week with a customer. Luckily there’s a fairly simple fix to the issue published by Microsoft, but realizing...
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Web Management Service will not start and causes Exchange update to fail
Today I had an Exchange update issue that I’d previously never encountered before. Exchange 2013 CU10 update failed saying the Web Management Service could not be started. Attempts to manually start...
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Beware effects to Exchange of setting Primary Group in AD
Overview: Here’s a quick one regarding an issue I came across not too long ago with a customer. The issue was that members of distribution lists were not getting emails addressed to it. Issue: Consider...
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Remember the basics when working with Dynamic Distribution Groups (I didn’t)
Overview: I recently had a customer come to me with a simple issue of mail not being received in his Exchange 2013 environment when sending to a Dynamic Distribution Group he had just created. Well it...
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The Importance of Updated Domain Controllers When Deploying Exchange
Overview Much is made about a healthy Active Directory environment being a prerequisite for a healthy Exchange deployment. This can be especially challenging when there are separate teams managing AD...
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Emails from scanner to Exchange 2013 being sent as separate attachment
Scenario After switching from hosted email to Exchange 2013 on-premises, a customer noticed that when using scan-to-email functionality the .PDF files it created were not showing up as expected....
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Exchange Shell errors after incorrectly modifying IIS
Scenario Customer stated that after replacing a certificate for their Exchange 2013 server they were unable to access Exchange Management Shell. The following error was displayed in Exchange Management...
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Failures when proxying HTTP requests from Exchange 2013 to a previous...
Overview I’ve seen this issue a few times over the past months & most recently this past week with a customer. Luckily there’s a fairly simple fix to the issue published by Microsoft, but realizing...
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Web Management Service will not start and causes Exchange update to fail
Today I had an Exchange update issue that I’d previously never encountered before. Exchange 2013 CU10 update failed saying the Web Management Service could not be started. Attempts to manually start...
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Mailbox Anchoring affecting new deployments & upgrades
Update2 (March 1st 2016): Microsoft has released the following blog post which states this behavior will be reverted/absent in 2013 CU12 and RTM/CU1 versionf of Exchange 2016 Remote PowerShell Proxying...
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Quick method to determine installed version of .NET Framework
Due to recent issues with unsupported versions of .NET being installed on Exchange servers, as well as the fact that Exchange Server requires specific versions of .NET to be installed (Exchange Server...
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NIC DNS Registration and Exchange Servers
Symptom I recently worked with a customer who had introduced an Exchange 2013 Server into an existing Exchange 2007 environment. The issue was the 2013 Server was unable to send email anywhere; neither...
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Unable to Recreate Exchange Virtual Directory
Issue A customer of mine recently had an issue where their Exchange 2013 OWA Virtual Directory was missing in IIS. When attempting to recreate the vDir we encountered the below error message: “An error...
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Windows Updates on Domain Controllers cause Exchange login issues
Overview Over the span of the last 3 weeks, I’ve encountered five different customers experiencing this issue. Through my own lab testing and working with Microsoft Premier Support, we were able to...
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