I have installed exchange 2016 in coexistence with the exchange 2010 SP3 with 3 servers in DAG. After all the test and everything is working fine. all of a sudden i see the ECP is not working. i have tried all the possible troubleshooting steps but no luck, even microsoft pro support didnt help in resolving the issue. So we decided to uninstall the Excahnge 2016 and reinstall from Scratch.

Can i know what are the steps to be followed for the clean uninstallation in coexistence environment of exchange 2016.

My worry is how can i remove the arbitration mailboxes of exchange 2016 before uninstalling, is it possible to disable them and uninstall the exchange, is it a best practice it will allow to do it. or do i need to move them to exchange 2010. it is necessary.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

There are no mailboxes migrated or the mail flow is not cutover to exchange 2016. the exchange 2016 is setup with DAG and sitting ideal.

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Old FSW caused an error and failed over the cluster. Event I.D. 1564

September 25, 2017, 4:30 pm

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I've seen a lot of topics on Event ID 1564, however mine is a little different.

About 1 month ago we switched File Share Witness Server and Share to another server. Updated the information in EMC - new server name and new share path. Everything working fine This morning came in and found the DB's have failed over to other node. Event log shows this:

Event 1564

File share witness resource 'File Share Witness (\\OLD_FSW.company.net\DAG01.company.net)' failed to arbitrate for the file share '\\NEW_FSW.company.net\DAG01.company.net'. Please ensure that file share '\\NEW_FSW.company.net\DAG01.company.net' exists and is accessible by the cluster.

Why is the OLD_FSW even showing up? And why is the OLD_FSW trying to access the NEW_FSW ????

Thanks

-C-

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Mailbox Move fails - Report shows exceed size while mailbox is below size!

September 25, 2019, 11:18 am

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Moving a mailbox from 2010 to 2016

Report says mailbox is 1 GB (although yes there is a custom quota of 400 MB)

But on powershell from both 2010/2016 - the mailbox size is UNDER 400 MB - what gives?

On Exch2010:

ItemCount               : 9920
StorageLimitStatus      : BelowLimit
TotalDeletedItemSize    : 109.9 MB (115,187,847 bytes)
TotalItemSize           : 305.1 MB(319,951,811 bytes)

On Exch2016:
AssociatedItemCount                            : 46
DeletedItemCount                               : 594
ItemCount                                      : 9920
TotalDeletedItemSize                           : 109.9 MB (115,187,847 bytes)
TotalItemSize                                  : 305.1 MB (319,951,811 bytes)

-C-

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Unable to migrate user from exchange 2010 to exchange online

October 3, 2019, 4:56 am

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I am trying to migrate user mailboxes from exchange 2010 to office 365 but getting the below error every-time:

ErrorSummary">Error: The job encountered too many transient failures (61) and is quitting. The most common failure is TimeoutErrorTransientException/TimeoutException with the hit count 44. --> The call to 'https://hybrid.domain.com/EWS/mrsproxy.svc' timed out.

TooManyTransientFailureRetriesPermanentException/TimeoutErrorTransientException/TimeoutException: Error: The job encountered too many transient failures (61) and is quitting. The most common failure is TimeoutErrorTransientException/TimeoutException with the hit count 44. --> The call to 'https://hybrid.domain.com/EWS/mrsproxy.svc' timed out. Error details: The open operation did not complete within the allotted timeout of 00:00:50. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout. --> The open operation did not complete within the allotted timeout of 00:00:50. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout

FailureCode">-2146233088</I32>

---------------------------------------------------------------------

What I did so far: checked the MRS proxy in all the CAS servers and it is turned on. then tried to modify the web.config file and made the dataimport time to 50 minutes but it did not work.

Tried to move the sameuser mailbox to another database inexchange 2010 and it also did not help

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log entries referring to legacy Exchange

October 4, 2019, 1:29 am

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While troubleshooting Outlook synchronisation, we looked at RPC Client Access logs.

We noticed several entries pointing to a long gone legacy Exchange server and to several long gone users/recipients.

Example log entries:

#Fields: date-time,session-id,seq-number,client-name,organization-info,client-software,client-software-version,client-mode,client-ip,server-ip,protocol,application-id,operation,rpc-status,processing-time,operation-specific,failures

2019-10-04T06:11:44.670Z,10817,94,/o=Stad Ieper/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=[censoredexistingrecipient]a86,,OUTLOOK.EXE,15.0.5125.1000,Cached,,,ncacn_ip_tcp,,DelegateLogon,0,00:00:00.0312500,"Logon: Delegate, /o=Stad Ieper/ou=First Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=sec10in database Mailbox Database A-D last mounted on IEPMAIL.ieper.be at 29/09/2019 16:56:31, currently Mounted; LogonId: 5",

2019-10-04T06:11:45.029Z,10817,156,/o=Stad Ieper/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=[censoredexistingrecipient]a86,,OUTLOOK.EXE,15.0.5125.1000,Cached,,,ncacn_ip_tcp,,DelegateLogon,0,00:00:00.0468750,"Logon: Delegate, /o=Stad Ieper/ou=First Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=Inf01in database Mailbox Database E-N last mounted on IEPMAIL.ieper.be at 29/09/2019 16:56:31, currently Mounted; LogonId: 9",

Exchange First Administrative Group (referring to legacy Exchange) can still be found in ADSI Edit; but obviously does nog contain any servers or users anymore.

Recipients like sec10 and Inf01 don't exist (neither mailbox nor AD user).

But somehow some kind of Delegate logon entry is generated related to existing recipients (censored in above log entries). Those events happen quiet frequently, several hundred times a day.

Where do they come from and why are they generated ?

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Exchange 2010 issues

October 4, 2019, 11:14 am

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Hello,

Just started at my new company and one of the first things on my to do list is get us to exchange 2016. Well we are currently on Exchange 2010 CU8. They are change adverse and want me to test updating to Sp3 and Rollup 11. So they asked if I can install it on one of the CAS servers and let it bake for a week.

How long can it go having two different Rollup versions? I have 2 cas servers on each cost and 3 mailbox servers on each cost. I would only be updating 2 CAS's on the east coast for now, then a week from now do the rest of the environment.

Thoughts?

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Internal email bouncebacks. Exchange 2010.

September 12, 2019, 1:48 pm

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One user at the domain I manage get random bouncebacks when sending to internal email addresses. Not sure how to deal with this as it is totally random.

In this example only one internal user bounced.

Here is the bounceback message:

Diagnostic information for administrators:

Generating server: HG-EX-01.contoso.local

IMCEAEX-_O=HW-NHS_OU=EXCHANGE+20ADMINISTRATIVE+20GROUP+20+28FYDIBOHF23SPDLT+29_CN=RECIPIENTS_CN=Barbara+20Becerra65a@domain.us Remote Server returned '550 5.1.11 RESOLVER.ADR.ExRecipNotFound; Recipient not found by Exchange Legacy encapsulated email address lookup'

Original message headers:

Received: from HG-EX-01.contoso.local (192.168.xxx.31) by HG-EX-01.contoso.local

 (192.168.xxx.31) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2,

 cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384_P256) id 15.1.845.34; Thu, 12

 Sep 2019 12:35:26 -0700

Received: from HG-EX-01.contoso.local ([fe80::146f:9222:11f:5e88]) by

 HG-EX-01.contoso.local ([fe80::146f:9222:11f:5e88%13]) with mapi id

 15.01.0845.039; Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:35:26 -0700

Content-Type: application/ms-tnef; name="winmail.dat"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary

From: Malorie McCurdy <Malorie@domain.us>

To: Kelly VanHoorebeke <Kelly@domain.us>

CC: "barbara@domain.us"

        <IMCEAEX-_O=HW-NHS_OU=EXCHANGE+20ADMINISTRATIVE+20GROUP+20+28FYDIBOHF23SPDLT+29_CN=RECIPIENTS_CN=Barbara+20Becerra65a@domain.us>

Subject: FW: Allied International Expenses

Thread-Topic: Allied International Expenses

Thread-Index: AQHVaOo29sQazJhKc0SUk69YimSGx6cnA6NggAADVR+AAVvyxv///zvg

Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:35:26 -0700

Message-ID: <fd1d4f75cf40478ba070fe2a6306489e@domain.us>

References: <51104b528c5346d0a5a9f6c00ee7e05e@domain.us>,<323d391d4ebc4303ba6eaa714afe1aae@domain.us>,<95b96db71e004a8c9a5b0a0551578d65@domain.us>

<c9757b1a99a04e77ad214b6892218af6@domain.us>

In-Reply-To: <c9757b1a99a04e77ad214b6892218af6@domain.us>

Accept-Language: en-US

Content-Language: en-US

X-MS-Has-Attach: yes

X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: <fd1d4f75cf40478ba070fe2a6306489e@domain.us>

MIME-Version: 1.0

X-Originating-IP: [192.168.xxx.90]

Return-Path:Malorie@domain.us

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Delete all emails but not account Exchange 2010

October 21, 2010, 7:56 am

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Hello,
We are migrating from GroupWise to Exchange 2010 using Quest Migrator. We would like to do a practice run to make sure that the day of conversion will go smoothly. However we would like to be able to delete all mail migrated in the practice conversion so we do not have duplicate emails.

Is there a way to delete all emails on an Exchange 2010 server without deleting user mailboxes?

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Restoring Exchange ( DAG ) Databases on Alternative Standalone Server

October 6, 2019, 10:30 am

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Hi All,

Current Version Of Exchange is SP3 with RU 20.

We have DAG with 2 Mailbox ( MB1 =5 Active DBs & 5 Passive DBs and MB2=5 Active DBs & 5 Passive DBs ) Servers, 2 CAS Servers and 2 Hub Transport Servers. Management asked me to setup the Exchange Setup at Isolated Network on a Single Alternative Standalone Server for Emergency purpose. Management does not need Site Resiliency or DR Site but they need to restore the all Databases on a Single Server. We've been taking MS Exchange Databases Backup through VERITAS and the Backup type is MS Exchange.

I restored an Active Directory in isolated network on Server1 and another one server need to be setup for exchange. I have installed new Exchange Server with MB, CAS and HUB on Server2. I made a connectivity between isolated and production ( VERITAS Net Backup ) network to restore the databases. I was trying to restore the exchange databases from backup server to Server2 and it was not restoring getting some error. Then newly I took the production exchange DBs backup as MS-Windows backup type and restoring on Server2. Before restoring on Server2 I have created 10 Databases ( On the Database properties I have clicked “This database can be overwritten by a restore ”) and LOGs Volumes in similar fashion of Production. And I stopped Information Store Service on Server2 and executing restoration from Backup Server to overwrite. The Databases are overwritten & restored but the catalog files are restoring separately.

After the restoration I cannot mount the databases and noticed through ESEUTIL that those Databases status are Dirty Shutdown mode.

Can we mount the databases by restoring .edb files as a MS-Windows Restore?

Can we restore the databases from DAG Mailbox Servers to Single Standalone Server ?

Appreciated, for youradvises and help to setup our exchange environment in isolated network.

Thank You in Advance.

Regards,Ali

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EXCHANGE 2010 HYBRID SERVERS UPGRADE

September 20, 2019, 4:20 am

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Dear All,

Currently we have Hybrid Exchange Organization running on Windows 2008R2 with Exchange 2010 SP3 with latest RU.

Now due to EOSL of Windows 2008R2, we need to upgrade Hybrid Exchange 2010 running on Windows 2008R2 to Exchange 2010 on Windows 2012.

Can someone shed some light on it.

Any help really appreciated.

Regards

Anand Sunka

Thanks & Regards Anand Sunka MCSA+CCNA+MCTS

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Exchange 2010 - TLS 1.0

September 17, 2019, 6:20 am

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We plan to migrate from Exchange 2010 to O365 in January. We currently have two Exchange 2010 servers (server 1 = mailbox & hub transport, server 2 = cas). The plan is to install an on-prem Exchange 2019 server, migrate to O365 Hybrid and decommission the two old Exchange 2010 servers.

The company has a new requirement to become fully PCI compliant within the next month. However, we are currently failing our PCI scan due to OWA/Active Sync using TLS v1.0. We have applied the latest patches to the Exchange servers and disabled TLS 1.0 as per below:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Exchange-Team-Blog/Exchange-Server-TLS-guidance-Part-3-Turning-Off-TLS-1-0-1-1/ba-p/607898

Unfortunately by doing so this broke 'Out Of Office' and 'Free/Busy time' so we had to re-enable TLS 1.0. From what i have read so far this appears to be a known issue and i suspect Microsoft will not be putting any resources into fixing this given Exchange 2010 will become EOL come 31st January.

Disabling OWA/Active Sync for everybody isnt an option and we are not in a position to migrate to O365 yet. Any suggestions on a way forward?

Is it possible to link on-prem Exchange to O365 and move/proxy OWA/ActiveSync through office.com/O365?

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Exchange Management Console broken since Win10 1903?

July 1, 2019, 9:38 pm

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Double click on a users mailbox crashes the MMC.

System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException

bei Microsoft.ManagementConsole.Internal.SnapInMessagePumpProxy.OnThreadException(Object sender, ThreadExceptionEventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Application.ThreadContext.OnThreadException(Exception t)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProcException(Exception e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
bei System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.CallWindowProc(IntPtr wndProc, IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam)
bei System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.DefWndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ListView.WmMouseDown(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
bei System.Windows.Forms.ListView.WndProc(Message& m)
bei Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemManager.WinForms.DataListView.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

any ideas ?

Happens on all our admins.

Server itself has all the latest update rollups (28...)

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Add a domain to an Exchange organization and unification of forests

October 8, 2019, 7:23 am

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Hi,

A customer of mine has the following scenario:

A forest called DomainA, with a Domain called DomainA.

Another forest called DomainB with a Domain called DomainB.

In DomainA, there is an Exchange organization which provides email to DomainA users. The mail addresses of users of domaina are in the form user@maildomaina.com

In DomainB, there is another Exchange organization which provides email to DomainB users. The mail addresses of users of domainb are in the form user@maildomainb.com

Now, the customer ask me that I project two possible modifications to this scenario.

First: users of DomainB will have from now on mail address in the form of user@mailnewdomain.com. When they send mail to somebody, this has to be the address to use. But they have to be able to receive all mail delivered to their former mailboxes (user@maildomainb.com) into the new mailboxes. From DNS perspective I know it is as simple as keeping the MX records. But my doubt is from the exchange perspective.

Second possibility: bring all domainb users to another domainc domain under domaina forest, and let Exchange of domaina manage the mailboxes of user@mailnewdomainb.com (whose users and group objects would be ADMT migrated to domainc domain) as well as the delivery of mail sent to user@maildomainb.com.

I think the first scenario is much simpler and easy than the second. I don't even know if the second scenario is possible. But I need some guidance to afford any of them, because I haven't done anything like this with Exchange ever, and I am not sure about the procedures, consequences, and so on.

Domains are Windows 2008 R2 and Exchange are both Exchange 2010 SP3.

Thanks

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How do I list all the Mailbox Calendars that are NOT set to AvailabilityOnly (Free/Busy)?

September 9, 2019, 4:48 am

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Hi,

We're in the process of migrating users from Exchange 2010 to Office 365 and have found that once a user is migrated, they cannot see the calendar of the users that aren't migrated. This is because the "Default" permission on the non-migrated calendar is NOT set to "AvailabilityOnly" (which, I believe, would allow migrated users to view the calendar free/busy info).

I'm hoping I can run a command that will show me all the calendars on-prem that are NOT set to AvailabilityOnly, and then I can run this command on that list:

Set-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity "user@domain.com:\Calendar" -User default -AccessRights AvailabilityOnly

*** Note: I only want to run this on the calendars that are not already amended, as some may already have their default settings higher.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks,
Peter

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Room mailbox - Whole day grayed out

October 9, 2019, 1:09 am

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Hi everyone,

I got 3 room mailboxes(hosted on Exchange 2010) for room booking and they are on the same timezone. However, all the timings are grayed out for the 1st and 3rd room.

I logged into ECP, access the 2 rooms, changed the timezone and save but it didnt help.

Any suggestion or tip to fix this issue?

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exchange 2010 - Retention policy

October 8, 2019, 3:18 pm

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Exchange 2010 environment,

A user is not having any retention policy under message record management in properties, it shows blank. In such case, what would be the retention policy?

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Exchange 2010 SP3 Management Shell stopped working with Windows 10 1709 update

November 14, 2017, 12:58 pm

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The tool worked fine until this update was installed. I am now getting this error when I launch the shell:

GetComputerSite : Exception calling "GetComputerSite" with "0" argument(s): "Configuration system failed to initialize"
At C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\bin\ConnectFunctions.ps1:164 char:92
+     $localSite=[System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.ActiveDirectorySite]::GetComputerSite <<<< ()
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException

FindAll : The following exception was thrown when trying to enumerate the collection: "Configuration system failed to i
nitialize".
At C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\bin\ConnectFunctions.ps1:253 char:17
+     $search.FindAll <<<< ()
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], ExtendedTypeSystemException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ExceptionInGetEnumerator

ToString : You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
At C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\bin\ConnectFunctions.ps1:146 char:33
+                 $siteName = $siteDN.ToString <<<< ().SubString(3).Split(",")[0]
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (ToString:String) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull

WARNING: No Exchange servers are available in the Active Directory site . Connecting to an Exchange server in another
Active Directory site.
Failed to connect to an Exchange server in the current site.
Enter the server FQDN where you want to connect.:

Does anyone know what can be done to rectify this? We are running a hybrid deployment with Exchange 2010 SP3 and O365 and I would like to keep using the tool on my desktop computer.

Note the Management Console appears to be working fine.

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Exchange 2016 uninstallation in coexistence with the Exchange 2010 sp3

October 2, 2019, 6:14 am

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Hi,

Can i know what are the steps to be followed for the clean uninstallation in coexistence environment of exchange 2016.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

There are no mailboxes migrated or the mail flow is not cutover to exchange 2016. the exchange 2016 is setup with DAG and sitting ideal.

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Remote backup of a mailbox using Mailbox Export Request Command not working

October 10, 2019, 1:03 am

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Hello Everyone

We have Exchange 2010/Exchange 2013 in hybrid environment.

Previously I used to take remote backup of specific mailbox using
New-MailboxExportRequest command without any issues.

However in the past few days, whenever I run this command, the backup status stays in queued state and never gets completed.

Even after hours, it stays in queued state and backup does not start at all. Ultimately all I can do is cancel it.

Request help to resolve this issue.

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