[Exchange] RE: Earthlink Contact?

[Michael B. Smith]

What are you suggesting doesn’t work?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 10:30 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Earthlink Contact?

So half way through typing that I edited out part of what I said, and may have 
not been clear after that.

When they do the lookup on the IP address, they are looking at the source of 
the connection.


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 9:53 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Earthlink Contact?

They are looking for fully circular DNS and I am surprised you are not having 
trouble with other large ISP’s.

Circular DNS is defined as:
HELO Mailout.yourdomain.com from 192.168.10.1
A record for Mailout.yourdomain.com must be 192.168.10.1
192.168.10.1 must resolve to mailout.yourdomain.com

You are connecting from two different IP’s with two different connections, so 
you can’t meet the above. I don’t know how you do that. But the check I 
describe is widely in use. I don’t think it is an RFC but have never checked.


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Mayo, Bill
Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 4:46 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Earthlink Contact?

My attempts at postmas...@earthlink.net<mailto:postmas...@earthlink.net> and 
trou...@earthlink.net<mailto:trou...@earthlink.net> did not work, so I tried 
the Twitter route. It took a while, but I did ultimately get a response today 
where they gave me a phone number to call. So, thanks to Michael and everyone 
else that responded. That said, based on the conversation that I had, I would 
appreciate a reality check.

We have 2 different ISPs and load balance outbound SMTP connections, as well as 
inbound DNS queries. So, we basically have 2 different IP’s that are used at 
the edge. We have an MX record that points to the domain name. DNS lookups to 
that domain name will return one of the 2 IP’s. Both of those IP’s will reverse 
lookup to the domain name. The HELO/EHLO greeting from the server gives the 
same domain name as the MX record. Additionally, we have an SPF record that 
indicates both of those IP’s.  What Earthlink seems to be initially suggesting 
is that they are doing an A record lookup of the domain name and comparing that 
to the connecting IP address (which seems contrary to the error message). In 
our setup, this will not always be a match. I can understand that they would do 
a reverse DNS on the IP to make sure it matches the HELO/EHLO greeting, and I 
can understand that they might also do an SPF and/or MX lookup to make sure 
that matches. I don’t understand doing a forward lookup and comparing that to 
the IP, since I don’t think that having multiple A records for a given domain 
name is particularly uncommon. Is what they are suggesting a legitimate issue?

Bill Mayo

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2018 10:49 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Earthlink Contact?

Twitter shame them. @Earthlink and @weCareEarthlink

And yes, I’m completely serious.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Mayo, Bill
Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 10:16 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Earthlink Contact?


We are having emails sent to Earthlink being intermittently rejected with the 
reason “550 ERROR: No or mismatched reverse DNS (PTR) entries”. We have done 
quite a bit of troubleshooting on this, and the problem does not appear to be 
on our end. I actually have logs that show 2 consecutive messages where the 
first one is accepted and the second one rejected. I also see “421 Load too 
high” messages in the log from Earthlink when these happen.

I am trying to figure out how to contact Earthlink to get some assistance, but 
am striking out with how to contact them. The have a special page if you are 
getting a “blocked by EarthLink” response, but that doesn’t apply here. There 
contact page has chat support that requires you to provide an Earthlink 
account. Does anybody know how to get in touch with someone at Earthlink that 
could actually help with this problem?



Bill Mayo

[Exchange] RE: Earthlink Contact?

[Michael B. Smith]

What I think you have described is perfectly legal.

Let’s put some fake data to it, since we obviously aren’t talking about 
pittcountync.gov.

ISP1 egress IP = 10.1.1.1
ISP2 egress IP = 10.2.2.2

rDNS ISP1 egress IP:
   10.1.1.1 PTR mail.example.com
rDNS ISP2 egress IP:
10.2.2.2 PTR mail.example.com

Exchange HELO/EHLO header = mail.example.com

example.com zone:
mail A 10.1.1.1
mail A 10.2.2.2

Network flow:
<> --> <> --> <> --> 
<>

This is a completely valid configuration.


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Mayo, Bill
Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 8:45 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Earthlink Contact?

I told Earthlink that we had 2 different IP’s for the mail server, and that we 
had seen rejections from both. He asked for the first IP, which I gave him. He 
then went to mxtoolbox.com and looked up the domain name. It returned a 
different IP than the one I gave him and he suggested that was an issue. I told 
him that was the other IP and that they were load-balanced; that at any given 
time an A record lookup would return one or the other. That said, the reverse 
DNS (PTR) record for each of the IP’s is correct. He told me that he didn’t 
know what load balancing meant and that he would have to talk to someone else 
to see what could be done.

I am happy to admit I might have some misunderstandings about DNS, but I don’t 
think that having multiple A records for a given domain name is unusual. I 
therefore assume they wouldn’t actually try to confirm legitimacy by doing an A 
lookup and comparing that to the IP. I do want to be clear that he didn’t 
explicitly say that was the problem. I did try to point out that their error 
message complained about a missing or mismatched PTR record, and I believe that 
is all correct.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2018 7:08 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Earthlink Contact?

I’m sorry, I can’t follow your logic. It seems to fall apart in the sentence 
beginning “What EarthLink seems…” Could you be a bit more concrete please?

In general, I agree with Micheal – you shouldn’t have a PTR mismatch, but 
that’s not what I get out of your explanation.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Mayo, Bill
Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 4:46 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Earthlink Contact?

My attempts at postmas...@earthlink.net<mailto:postmas...@earthlink.net> and 
trou...@earthlink.net<mailto:trou...@earthlink.net> did not work, so I tried 
the Twitter route. It took a while, but I did ultimately get a response today 
where they gave me a phone number to call. So, thanks to Michael and everyone 
else that responded. That said, based on the conversation that I had, I would 
appreciate a reality check.

We have 2 different ISPs and load balance outbound SMTP connections, as well as 
inbound DNS queries. So, we basically have 2 different IP’s that are used at 
the edge. We have an MX record that points to the domain name. DNS lookups to 
that domain name will return one of the 2 IP’s. Both of those IP’s will reverse 
lookup to the domain name. The HELO/EHLO greeting from the server gives the 
same domain name as the MX record. Additionally, we have an SPF record that 
indicates both of those IP’s.  What Earthlink seems to be initially suggesting 
is that they are doing an A record lookup of the domain name and comparing that 
to the connecting IP address (which seems contrary to the error message). In 
our setup, this will not always be a match. I can understand that they would do 
a reverse DNS on the IP to make sure it matches the HELO/EHLO greeting, and I 
can understand that they might also do an SPF and/or MX lookup to make sure 
that matches. I don’t understand doing a forward lookup and comparing that to 
the IP, since I don’t think that having multiple A records for a given domain 
name is particularly uncommon. Is what they are suggesting a legitimate issue?

Bill Mayo

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2018 10:49 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Earthlink Contact?

Twitter shame them. @Earthlink and @weCareEarthlink

And yes, I’m completely serious.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Mayo, Bill
Sent: Friday, Februar

RE: [Exchange] Staging an Exchange 2013 server

[Michael B. Smith]

It depends on how long you want it to stay out-of-production.

If it’s just for a single reboot, then you specify /DoNotStartTransport on the 
setup command line (can’t be done from the GUI).

If it’s for a longer period of time, you put it in a pin-point site along with 
a DC in that same pin-point site.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of John Matteson
Sent: Monday, February 5, 2018 4:50 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] Staging an Exchange 2013 server

Question for the group mind.

I want to stage a new build Exchange 2013 server. Is there a way of doing the 
install in such a way that the server does not try to participate in 
Autodiscover or WebMail until the server is actually brought online for 
production use?

Thanks.

John M.

RE: [Exchange] RE: Earthlink Contact?

[Michael B. Smith]

Yep. I even get responses on twitter from customer support people when I’m not 
looking for support – just out for a normal rant. ☺

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Andrew S. Baker
Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 11:22 AM
To: Exchange
Subject: Re: [Exchange] RE: Earthlink Contact?

The people on social media are more worried about the visibility of the issue, 
given its publicity...


Regards,

 ASB


On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Steve Ens 
<stevey...@gmail.com<mailto:stevey...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I find it interesting that when you email a company about an issue it can take 
forever to get a response (never mind a phone message), but when you tweet 
something, you most often get instant response time.

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 9:55 AM Michael B. Smith 
<mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
Twitter shame them. @Earthlink and @weCareEarthlink

And yes, I’m completely serious.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] 
On Behalf Of Mayo, Bill
Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 10:16 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Earthlink Contact?


We are having emails sent to Earthlink being intermittently rejected with the 
reason “550 ERROR: No or mismatched reverse DNS (PTR) entries”. We have done 
quite a bit of troubleshooting on this, and the problem does not appear to be 
on our end. I actually have logs that show 2 consecutive messages where the 
first one is accepted and the second one rejected. I also see “421 Load too 
high” messages in the log from Earthlink when these happen.

I am trying to figure out how to contact Earthlink to get some assistance, but 
am striking out with how to contact them. The have a special page if you are 
getting a “blocked by EarthLink” response, but that doesn’t apply here. There 
contact page has chat support that requires you to provide an Earthlink 
account. Does anybody know how to get in touch with someone at Earthlink that 
could actually help with this problem?



Bill Mayo

[https://my-email-signature.link/signature.gif?u=162639=17239149=fd81fe876cebbf6eb30f82e72abeadae4aae81a41be3595e0c76ca7a30994025]

[Exchange] RE: Earthlink Contact?

[Michael B. Smith]

Twitter shame them. @Earthlink and @weCareEarthlink

And yes, I’m completely serious.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Mayo, Bill
Sent: Friday, February 2, 2018 10:16 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] Earthlink Contact?


We are having emails sent to Earthlink being intermittently rejected with the 
reason “550 ERROR: No or mismatched reverse DNS (PTR) entries”. We have done 
quite a bit of troubleshooting on this, and the problem does not appear to be 
on our end. I actually have logs that show 2 consecutive messages where the 
first one is accepted and the second one rejected. I also see “421 Load too 
high” messages in the log from Earthlink when these happen.

I am trying to figure out how to contact Earthlink to get some assistance, but 
am striking out with how to contact them. The have a special page if you are 
getting a “blocked by EarthLink” response, but that doesn’t apply here. There 
contact page has chat support that requires you to provide an Earthlink 
account. Does anybody know how to get in touch with someone at Earthlink that 
could actually help with this problem?



Bill Mayo

RE: [Exchange] Shared Group Mailboxes migrating to EXO

[Michael B. Smith]

I understand.

However, without knowing “why” I can’t give you suggestions as to “why not”.

If management wants to use something “because it’s there”; there is no 
effective way to fight that decision.

The only generic reason I can think of is “client support”. If you aren’t using 
Office 2016 c2r, you will find that your client applications don’t have full 
support for all functionality.

I think your best bet for real-world documentation is “Office 365 for IT Pros” 
written by a few friends of mine. It’ll give you the good, bad, and support 
points. https://practical365.com/


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Alice Goodman
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 9:25 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Shared Group Mailboxes migrating to EXO

I don’t want to switch.. some manager who drank the MS Kool Aide does.. I am 
looking for ammo to fight the decision…

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 4:31 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [SPAM] RE: [Exchange] Shared Group Mailboxes migrating to EXO
Importance: Low

You can still ask questions here. ☺

There is a very large FB group that does Office 365.

There are several TechNet forums that do Office 365.

The real question is WHY do you want to switch? Teams and groups may offer 
benefits – but only if you are going to change processes to take advantage of 
those benefits.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Alice Goodman
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 6:59 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Shared Group Mailboxes migrating to EXO

To continue the prior thread… So where are folks getting their information?  
For example, I just had a meeting where the new manager is telling me not to 
migrate shared mailboxes to Office 365 as we move to EXO. She wants to move to 
Groups and Teams.  I almost had a cow.  But where can I find out best practices 
for this so I can come back with some information?  I want to migrate users AND 
their shared mailboxes and once established, they can go at it and do what they 
want.. but leaving shared mailboxes behind in Exchange 2010 is making a TON of 
work for me.  I have to add each user to now have “send on behalf of” to each 
shared group mailbox as “Send As” does not work consistently across on-prem to 
EXO.

So asking.. AND I changed the Subject. :)

Thanks,
Alice

RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

[Michael B. Smith]

Oh they know. They discuss it as an opportunity. They are counting on continued 
growth, at least for the next several years, close to the last 5 years.

Call me a luddite, but I don’t think so…

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of William Robbins
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 12:55 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Has this list died?

You'll give Microsoft a sad.  ;)


- WJR

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 4:47 AM, Michael B. Smith 
<mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
Not even close.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] 
On Behalf Of William Robbins
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 12:13 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Has this list died?

I just assumed everyone had migrated to the "cloud."  :P


- WJR

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Michael B. Smith 
<mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
Most of my clients these days contact me to do CU updates, .NET updates, and 
version migrations. That’s pretty much it. Exchange is rock-solid when properly 
configured.

(And I was teasing about twitter.) ☺

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] 
On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 5:09 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

Touché.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 3:36 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

Not if they are set up properly in the first place (and properly maintained).

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 2:19 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

DAGs and CAAs don’t go down, do they?  :-P

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Steve Ens
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:41 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Has this list died?

You would end up being more efficient in your questions...besides how can you 
ask a question on email if your email is down?! ;-)

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 12:39 PM Maglinger, Paul 
<pmaglin...@scvl.com<mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com>> wrote:
I was being facetious.  Like any of us could pose a problem or a solution using 
only 280 characters.  Some of us have that in their signature line alone.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] 
On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:22 PM

To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

So what happens after the first message or two on twitter?

You move to email where you aren’t subject to message-size limitations.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 1:06 PM

To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

Maybe we should start using Twitter, or is that passé now?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Link
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:08 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Has this list died?

The irony is that Paul wouldn't know that he might've been unsubbed from the NT 
list if it weren't for the inactivity of the Exchange list...

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Michael B. Smith 
<mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
No, it’s moderately active.

However, if it gets two bounces in a row, for whatever reason, it bumps you 
off. (I think it’s two, Rod would have to verify.)

You can resubscribe here: 
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/newsletter/email-lists-2/

Also, Rod would you tell us the membership for the Exchange and NTSys

RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

[Michael B. Smith]

Not even close.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of William Robbins
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 12:13 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Has this list died?

I just assumed everyone had migrated to the "cloud."  :P


- WJR

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Michael B. Smith 
<mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
Most of my clients these days contact me to do CU updates, .NET updates, and 
version migrations. That’s pretty much it. Exchange is rock-solid when properly 
configured.

(And I was teasing about twitter.) ☺

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] 
On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 5:09 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

Touché.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 3:36 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

Not if they are set up properly in the first place (and properly maintained).

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 2:19 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

DAGs and CAAs don’t go down, do they?  :-P

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Steve Ens
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:41 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Has this list died?

You would end up being more efficient in your questions...besides how can you 
ask a question on email if your email is down?! ;-)

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 12:39 PM Maglinger, Paul 
<pmaglin...@scvl.com<mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com>> wrote:
I was being facetious.  Like any of us could pose a problem or a solution using 
only 280 characters.  Some of us have that in their signature line alone.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] 
On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:22 PM

To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

So what happens after the first message or two on twitter?

You move to email where you aren’t subject to message-size limitations.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 1:06 PM

To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

Maybe we should start using Twitter, or is that passé now?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Link
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:08 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Has this list died?

The irony is that Paul wouldn't know that he might've been unsubbed from the NT 
list if it weren't for the inactivity of the Exchange list...

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Michael B. Smith 
<mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
No, it’s moderately active.

However, if it gets two bounces in a row, for whatever reason, it bumps you 
off. (I think it’s two, Rod would have to verify.)

You can resubscribe here: 
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/newsletter/email-lists-2/

Also, Rod would you tell us the membership for the Exchange and NTSysadm lists?

Thanks.

Regards,
Michael B.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] 
On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:24 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

What I haven’t been seeing lately is anything on the Windows NT list, or 
whatever it’s called now.  Does it bump you off if you haven’t posted in a 
awhile?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January

RE: [Exchange] Shared Group Mailboxes migrating to EXO

[Michael B. Smith]

You can still ask questions here. ☺

There is a very large FB group that does Office 365.

There are several TechNet forums that do Office 365.

The real question is WHY do you want to switch? Teams and groups may offer 
benefits – but only if you are going to change processes to take advantage of 
those benefits.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Alice Goodman
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 6:59 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Shared Group Mailboxes migrating to EXO

To continue the prior thread… So where are folks getting their information?  
For example, I just had a meeting where the new manager is telling me not to 
migrate shared mailboxes to Office 365 as we move to EXO. She wants to move to 
Groups and Teams.  I almost had a cow.  But where can I find out best practices 
for this so I can come back with some information?  I want to migrate users AND 
their shared mailboxes and once established, they can go at it and do what they 
want.. but leaving shared mailboxes behind in Exchange 2010 is making a TON of 
work for me.  I have to add each user to now have “send on behalf of” to each 
shared group mailbox as “Send As” does not work consistently across on-prem to 
EXO.

So asking.. AND I changed the Subject. :)

Thanks,
Alice

RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

[Michael B. Smith]

Most of my clients these days contact me to do CU updates, .NET updates, and 
version migrations. That’s pretty much it. Exchange is rock-solid when properly 
configured.

(And I was teasing about twitter.) ☺

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 5:09 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

Touché.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 3:36 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

Not if they are set up properly in the first place (and properly maintained).

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 2:19 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

DAGs and CAAs don’t go down, do they?  :-P

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Steve Ens
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:41 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Has this list died?

You would end up being more efficient in your questions...besides how can you 
ask a question on email if your email is down?! ;-)

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 12:39 PM Maglinger, Paul 
<pmaglin...@scvl.com<mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com>> wrote:
I was being facetious.  Like any of us could pose a problem or a solution using 
only 280 characters.  Some of us have that in their signature line alone.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] 
On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:22 PM

To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

So what happens after the first message or two on twitter?

You move to email where you aren’t subject to message-size limitations.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 1:06 PM

To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

Maybe we should start using Twitter, or is that passé now?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Link
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:08 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Has this list died?

The irony is that Paul wouldn't know that he might've been unsubbed from the NT 
list if it weren't for the inactivity of the Exchange list...

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Michael B. Smith 
<mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
No, it’s moderately active.

However, if it gets two bounces in a row, for whatever reason, it bumps you 
off. (I think it’s two, Rod would have to verify.)

You can resubscribe here: 
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/newsletter/email-lists-2/

Also, Rod would you tell us the membership for the Exchange and NTSysadm lists?

Thanks.

Regards,
Michael B.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] 
On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:24 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

What I haven’t been seeing lately is anything on the Windows NT list, or 
whatever it’s called now.  Does it bump you off if you haven’t posted in a 
awhile?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 7:54 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>' 
<exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

I’m still here, lurking, but still here.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of 
john.matte...@gmail.com<mailto:john.matte...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 3:12 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Has this list died?

It’s been almost three weeks since someone posted here.

Anyone still here?

RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

[Michael B. Smith]

I taught ITIL for a while.

Just asking for a "CMDB book" is kinda like asking for a piece of paper. There 
are lots and lots of pieces of paper, but you probably need a specific piece of 
paper for a specific need.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of john.matte...@gmail.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 5:03 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

Yeah, I posted about CMDB books. Moving into a new area of expertise, sorta.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 8:53 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

There was a posting on Friday, from you I think, asking about CMDB books.

I wouldn't say it's dead, but the volume is certainly quite minimal these days.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of 
john.matte...@gmail.com<mailto:john.matte...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 4:12 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Has this list died?

It's been almost three weeks since someone posted here.

Anyone still here?

RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

[Michael B. Smith]

Not if they are set up properly in the first place (and properly maintained).

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 2:19 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

DAGs and CAAs don’t go down, do they?  :-P

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Steve Ens
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:41 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Has this list died?

You would end up being more efficient in your questions...besides how can you 
ask a question on email if your email is down?! ;-)

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 12:39 PM Maglinger, Paul 
<pmaglin...@scvl.com<mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com>> wrote:
I was being facetious.  Like any of us could pose a problem or a solution using 
only 280 characters.  Some of us have that in their signature line alone.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] 
On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:22 PM

To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

So what happens after the first message or two on twitter?

You move to email where you aren’t subject to message-size limitations.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 1:06 PM

To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

Maybe we should start using Twitter, or is that passé now?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Link
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:08 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Has this list died?

The irony is that Paul wouldn't know that he might've been unsubbed from the NT 
list if it weren't for the inactivity of the Exchange list...

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Michael B. Smith 
<mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
No, it’s moderately active.

However, if it gets two bounces in a row, for whatever reason, it bumps you 
off. (I think it’s two, Rod would have to verify.)

You can resubscribe here: 
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/newsletter/email-lists-2/

Also, Rod would you tell us the membership for the Exchange and NTSysadm lists?

Thanks.

Regards,
Michael B.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] 
On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:24 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

What I haven’t been seeing lately is anything on the Windows NT list, or 
whatever it’s called now.  Does it bump you off if you haven’t posted in a 
awhile?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 7:54 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>' 
<exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

I’m still here, lurking, but still here.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of 
john.matte...@gmail.com<mailto:john.matte...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 3:12 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Has this list died?

It’s been almost three weeks since someone posted here.

Anyone still here?

RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

[Michael B. Smith]

So what happens after the first message or two on twitter?

You move to email where you aren’t subject to message-size limitations.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 1:06 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

Maybe we should start using Twitter, or is that passé now?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Link
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:08 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Has this list died?

The irony is that Paul wouldn't know that he might've been unsubbed from the NT 
list if it weren't for the inactivity of the Exchange list...

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Michael B. Smith 
<mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
No, it’s moderately active.

However, if it gets two bounces in a row, for whatever reason, it bumps you 
off. (I think it’s two, Rod would have to verify.)

You can resubscribe here: 
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/newsletter/email-lists-2/

Also, Rod would you tell us the membership for the Exchange and NTSysadm lists?

Thanks.

Regards,
Michael B.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] 
On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:24 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

What I haven’t been seeing lately is anything on the Windows NT list, or 
whatever it’s called now.  Does it bump you off if you haven’t posted in a 
awhile?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 7:54 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>' 
<exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

I’m still here, lurking, but still here.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of 
john.matte...@gmail.com<mailto:john.matte...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 3:12 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Has this list died?

It’s been almost three weeks since someone posted here.

Anyone still here?

RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

[Michael B. Smith]

Hah :)

For me it's all about having a single repository.

Search email? Search Skype? Search Teams? Search WhatsApp? Search Telegram? 
Search g+? Search Slack? ...and the list goes on.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:01 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

You prefer email? Not shocking at all.  :)

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:52 AM
To: Trent, Rod <rod.tr...@knect365.com<mailto:rod.tr...@knect365.com>>; 
exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

Thanks Rod.

So, the quietness is due to a relatively small number of subscribers. No one 
"pushes" the lists (nor am I suggesting that Rod or his company should) the way 
that Sunbelt used to. There was a HUGE fall off when the lists moved to 
myITforum (again no fault of Rod's), and the rest is just folks moving to using 
other means of support (and moving to other jobs). I personally still prefer 
email. A lot of people don't.

From: Trent, Rod [mailto:rod.tr...@knect365.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:42 AM
To: Michael B. Smith; 
exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

The lists are setup to alert the administrators when there have been too many 
bounces. They check the logs to see what the issues are and remove those where 
the accounts no longer exist.  However, if the bounces are due to domain 
misconfigurations or email accounts that are unavailable for a long time, 
they'll remove those, too. The email lists have a limit as to how many messages 
it can retain without choking the server. If a domain becomes misconfigured or 
a server goes offline, the bounces can effectively take down the entire email 
list service. So, there's a lot of monitoring and administration that has to go 
on to ensure they keep humming along.

That said, here's the current subscriber counts for both lists...

Exchange: 344
NTSysAdm: 539



From: Michael B. Smith<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:35 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Cc: Trent, Rod<mailto:rod.tr...@knect365.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

No, it's moderately active.

However, if it gets two bounces in a row, for whatever reason, it bumps you 
off. (I think it's two, Rod would have to verify.)

You can resubscribe here: 
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/newsletter/email-lists-2/

Also, Rod would you tell us the membership for the Exchange and NTSysadm lists?

Thanks.

Regards,
Michael B.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:24 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

What I haven't been seeing lately is anything on the Windows NT list, or 
whatever it's called now.  Does it bump you off if you haven't posted in a 
awhile?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 7:54 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com' 
<exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

I'm still here, lurking, but still here.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of 
john.matte...@gmail.com<mailto:john.matte...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 3:12 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Has this list died?

It's been almost three weeks since someone posted here.

Anyone still here?

RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

[Michael B. Smith]

No, it's moderately active.

However, if it gets two bounces in a row, for whatever reason, it bumps you 
off. (I think it's two, Rod would have to verify.)

You can resubscribe here: 
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/newsletter/email-lists-2/

Also, Rod would you tell us the membership for the Exchange and NTSysadm lists?

Thanks.

Regards,
Michael B.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:24 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

What I haven't been seeing lately is anything on the Windows NT list, or 
whatever it's called now.  Does it bump you off if you haven't posted in a 
awhile?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 7:54 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com' 
>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

I'm still here, lurking, but still here.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of 
john.matte...@gmail.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 3:12 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] Has this list died?

It's been almost three weeks since someone posted here.

Anyone still here?

RE: [Exchange] Has this list died?

[Michael B. Smith]

There was a posting on Friday, from you I think, asking about CMDB books.

I wouldn't say it's dead, but the volume is certainly quite minimal these days.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of john.matte...@gmail.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 4:12 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] Has this list died?

It's been almost three weeks since someone posted here.

Anyone still here?

[Exchange] New blog post: #MSExchange 2017 CU8 Issue Occurs In Hybrid Mode #Office365

[Michael B. Smith]

New blog post: New blog post: #MSExchange 2016 CU8 Issue Occurs In Hybrid Mode 
#Office365
http://www.essential.exchange/2018/01/05/exchange-2016-cu8-issue-occurs-in-hybrid-mode/

[Exchange] New blog post: Windows Speculative Execution Client/Server Patches/Mitigations/Detection Summary

[Michael B. Smith]

New blog post: #Windows Speculative Execution Client/Server 
Patches/Mitigations/Detection Summary
http://www.essential.exchange/2018/01/04/windows-speculative-execution-client-server-patches-mitigations-detection-summary/

Not intended to be comprehensive, but as of the morning of 4-January, all the 
worthwhile information I can find published by Microsoft on the Speculative 
Execution issue...

[Exchange] RE: Happy New Year!

[Michael B. Smith]

Wow. So I sent this on Sunday. Little bit of list downtime I'd guess...

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2017 8:52 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! TO you and to all your family, friends, and people you care 
about.

[Exchange] Happy New Year!

[Michael B. Smith]

Happy New Year! TO you and to all your family, friends, and people you care 
about.

[Exchange] New Blog Post: Display All Forwarding Information for Mailboxes in Exchange On-Premises and Office 365

[Michael B. Smith]

New Blog Post: Display All Forwarding Information for Mailboxes in #MSExchange 
On-Premises and #Office365
http://www.essential.exchange/2017/12/22/display-all-forwarding-information-for-mailboxes-in-exchange-on-premises-and-office-365/
Complementing the MSFT post of today: 
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2017/12/22/the-many-ways-to-block-automatic-email-forwarding-in-exchange-online/

[Exchange] RE: New blog post: December 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates

[Michael B. Smith]

I've already flagged those to the exchange team for update.

It's documented in the Microsoft blog post linked to in my blog post.

What, you don't trust me? :)

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2017/12/19/released-december-2017-quarterly-exchange-updates/

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 3:11 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: New blog post: December 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates

No mention of the framework update in either the release notes or system 
requirements...
Do you know where that is documented?

Thanks for the update,
jlc

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 11:37 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] New blog post: December 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates

New blog post: December 2017 Quarterly #MSExchange Updates
http://www.essential.exchange/2017/12/19/december-2017-quarterly-exchange-updates/
Twitter: @EssentialExch

[Exchange] New blog post: December 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates

[Michael B. Smith]

New blog post: December 2017 Quarterly #MSExchange Updates
http://www.essential.exchange/2017/12/19/december-2017-quarterly-exchange-updates/
Twitter: @EssentialExch

[Exchange] New blog post: Display Special Permissions for Mailboxes in Exchange On-premises and in Office 365

[Michael B. Smith]

New blog post: Display Special Permissions for Mailboxes in Exchange 
On-premises and in Office 365
http://www.essential.exchange/2017/12/19/display-special-permissions-for-mailboxes-in-exchange-on-premises-and-in-office-365/
Twitter: @EssentialExch

As I write in the first line of the blog post - you need this script, even if 
you don't know you need it. :)

[Exchange] AADConnect Update

[Michael B. Smith]

This is cross-posted to the exchange list and the ntsysadmin list.

If you are running hybrid with Azure or Office 365, you need to update 
AADConnect.

See: 
https://dirteam.com/sander/2017/12/13/azure-ad-connect-version-1-1-654-0-addresses-a-critical-security-vulnerability/

If you want to understand the vulnerability better, see:

http://www.essential.exchange/2008/10/22/admincount-adminsdholder-sdprop-and-you/

[Exchange] RE: Exchange 2010 Service pack after SP3?

[Michael B. Smith]

Just to add, the most recent update did include a timezone update.

But Exchange 2010... it's dead, Jim!

You should be moving to Exchange 2016 pronto or to Office 365.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Liby Philip Mathew
Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 2:16 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Exchange 2010 Service pack after SP3?

Thank you.

Regards
Liby





-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Simon Butler
Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 9:48 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Exchange 2010 Service pack after SP3?

No.
Exchange 2010 is already in to extended support - has been since 13th Jan 2015. 
There are just over two years left until it is out of support completely (14th 
Jan 2020).
Therefore the only updates are for security issues.

Simon.



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Behalf Of Liby Philip Mathew
Sent: 06 December 2017 06:31
To: Admin Issues (exchange@lists.myitforum.com) 
Subject: [Exchange] Exchange 2010 Service pack after SP3?

Hi,
Just a quick question.  Any more service pack is expected for Exchange 2010 
after SP3?

Regards
Liby


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[Exchange] RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete cache

[Michael B. Smith]

yes

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Sent: Friday, December 1, 2017 11:49 AM
To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com; exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete 
cache

Ok, so if I run a batch/script to rename the file, Outlook creates a new one.  
User gets upset because they’ve lost all their entries.  I go back, delete the 
newly created one, rename the old one back to .dat, and Outlook uses it next 
time it starts?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Friday, December 1, 2017 7:21 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>; 
ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete cache

Without restarting Outlook? That would require testing.

But yes, when Outlook restarts it will.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Sent: Friday, December 1, 2017 9:34 AM
To: ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com>
Cc: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete 
cache

Guys, I am 100% completely onboard with you.  I don’t want to do this, but I’ve 
been directed to, and they’re not listening to reason.  So, does anyone know of 
a way to do this, without opening Outlook.  If I just rename/delete the 
original file, will Outlook recreate it automatically the first time the user 
sends a new e-mail?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jack Kramer
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 1:50 PM
To: <ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com>> 
<ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com>>
Cc: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete cache

Oh, if he clears everyone’s autocomplete cache I’d put money on it being open 
carry versus concealed...

Jack Kramer, Senior Consultant
Small Type Computing - www.smalltype.net<http://www.smalltype.net>
W: 855-765-8973 x101 - C: 248-635-4955

On Nov 30, 2017, at 2:48 PM, Webster 
<webs...@carlwebster.com<mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com>> wrote:

Be glad CA is not a concealed carry state!


Webster

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 10:05 AM
To: 'NT System Admin Issues Discussion list' 
<ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com>>; 
exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [NTSysADM] Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete cache

Recently, we did a cleanup of proxy addresses that were no longer needed.  
Unfortunately, this has caused an issue with our users, as some of their 
autocomplete entries are using the old, now gone, proxy addresses.  I’ve been 
directed to clear everyone’s autocomplete cache.  I found a quick and easy 
command to do this, but it opens Outlook in order to perform the clean.  
(outlook.exe /CleanAutoCompleteCache).  Having Outlook open spontaneously, or a 
second instance opening, would be very disconcerting and worrisome for our 
users, so I’d like to find a way to clean the cache, without opening Outlook.  
Does anyone have a method?

For the most part, all users are using Outlook 2016, but there are a few 2013, 
and 2010.

Thanks,

Joe Heaton
Information Technology Operations Branch
Data and Technology Division
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife
1700 9th Street, 3rd Floor
Sacramento, CA  95811
Desk:  916-323-1284

[Exchange] RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete cache

[Michael B. Smith]

That doesn’t deal with the physical file we have been discussing. But it does 
do everything else.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Friday, December 1, 2017 11:16 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete 
cache

What’s wrong with this?

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Clearing-AutoComplete-and-92b8d32a

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2017 10:01 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>; 
ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete 
cache

So perhaps a run once log off script for the user……

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Friday, December 1, 2017 10:21 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>; 
ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete 
cache

Without restarting Outlook? That would require testing.

But yes, when Outlook restarts it will.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
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Cc: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete 
cache

Guys, I am 100% completely onboard with you.  I don’t want to do this, but I’ve 
been directed to, and they’re not listening to reason.  So, does anyone know of 
a way to do this, without opening Outlook.  If I just rename/delete the 
original file, will Outlook recreate it automatically the first time the user 
sends a new e-mail?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Jack Kramer
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 1:50 PM
To: <ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com>> 
<ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com>>
Cc: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete cache

Oh, if he clears everyone’s autocomplete cache I’d put money on it being open 
carry versus concealed...

Jack Kramer, Senior Consultant
Small Type Computing - www.smalltype.net<http://www.smalltype.net>
W: 855-765-8973 x101 - C: 248-635-4955

On Nov 30, 2017, at 2:48 PM, Webster 
<webs...@carlwebster.com<mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com>> wrote:

Be glad CA is not a concealed carry state!


Webster

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 10:05 AM
To: 'NT System Admin Issues Discussion list' 
<ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:ntsys...@lists.myitforum.com>>; 
exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [NTSysADM] Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete cache

Recently, we did a cleanup of proxy addresses that were no longer needed.  
Unfortunately, this has caused an issue with our users, as some of their 
autocomplete entries are using the old, now gone, proxy addresses.  I’ve been 
directed to clear everyone’s autocomplete cache.  I found a quick and easy 
command to do this, but it opens Outlook in order to perform the clean.  
(outlook.exe /CleanAutoCompleteCache).  Having Outlook open spontaneously, or a 
second instance opening, would be very disconcerting and worrisome for our 
users, so I’d like to find a way to clean the cache, without opening Outlook.  
Does anyone have a method?

For the most part, all users are using Outlook 2016, but there are a few 2013, 
and 2010.

Thanks,

Joe Heaton
Information Technology Operations Branch
Data and Technology Division
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife
1700 9th Street, 3rd Floor
Sacramento, CA  95811
Desk:  916-323-1284

[Exchange] RE: Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete cache

[Michael B. Smith]

I'm inclined to agree with the "fire and pitchforks".

You'd be better off to rename it.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:47 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete cache

That is their address book..in their minds.  There will be fire and pitch forks.

I believe you can just delete the files that start with 'stream_autocomplete in 
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\RoamCache

Test that, and wait for someone else to say I am crazy, or not.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:05 AM
To: 'NT System Admin Issues Discussion list' 
>; 
exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] Crosspost: clearing the autocomplete cache

Recently, we did a cleanup of proxy addresses that were no longer needed.  
Unfortunately, this has caused an issue with our users, as some of their 
autocomplete entries are using the old, now gone, proxy addresses.  I've been 
directed to clear everyone's autocomplete cache.  I found a quick and easy 
command to do this, but it opens Outlook in order to perform the clean.  
(outlook.exe /CleanAutoCompleteCache).  Having Outlook open spontaneously, or a 
second instance opening, would be very disconcerting and worrisome for our 
users, so I'd like to find a way to clean the cache, without opening Outlook.  
Does anyone have a method?

For the most part, all users are using Outlook 2016, but there are a few 2013, 
and 2010.

Thanks,

Joe Heaton
Information Technology Operations Branch
Data and Technology Division
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife
1700 9th Street, 3rd Floor
Sacramento, CA  95811
Desk:  916-323-1284

[Exchange] RE: SBS2011 Exchange 2010 databases not showing MOVE LOCAL ability

[Michael B. Smith]

It reclaims whitespace just fine.

It doesn't RELEASE whitespace. :-)

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Orlebeck, Geoffrey
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 3:55 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: SBS2011 Exchange 2010 databases not showing MOVE LOCAL 
ability

Remember Exchange doesn't reclaim whitespace on the underlying disk. If you 
have a 100GB database file (MBD1), move 50GB to another database file (MBD2), 
the original (MBD1) will not shrink on the disk. It just won't claim anymore 
disk space until it's utilized all the available whitespace within the database 
file.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Calvin McLennan
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 12:35 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: SBS2011 Exchange 2010 databases not showing MOVE LOCAL 
ability

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Excellent!  that works!  Since it stays in replication mode until the move 
request has been cleared - I expect that means that the space on the original 
database never gets cleared either until the clear of the move request occurs???

I so hope that brings back a lot more space!

Thanks Jim!

Cal

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: November 29, 2017 3:10 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: SBS2011 Exchange 2010 databases not showing MOVE LOCAL 
ability

You probably just need to clear the old move request from the original move.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__technet.microsoft.com_en-2Dus_library_dd351276-2528v-3Dexchg.141-2529.aspx-3Ff-3D255-26MSPPError-3D-2D2147217396=DwIFAg=GtV7VYka8XzFJya76SH24R7OU_QKFTyBlklHoDMCjFY=WF1NZuUqAd1bRIxLFT_0wz8npqTRKjPr3_qzGO_dTx_Q3Taym2JWM42n-cKyG-6W=fSLgnE0acgiTTvjtKM9Jm6IPEB95qYGPMuIk9bCovqg=rRrwAcLNzE5XR7Y2VbtQw_L2RqGhnezMzyycBGVkrao=


-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Calvin McLennan
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 2:31 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] SBS2011 Exchange 2010 databases not showing MOVE LOCAL 
ability

A client that I have managed for years - on SBS2011 - I had created a couple of 
extra databases for Exchange that I would move old accounts to in order to try 
and reduce the size of the main database, speed things up, etc.  These added 
databases are on different drives as well if that will matter.

Now - on the original database the MOVE LOCAL option is there for any account 
in that database - but for the accounts showing as attached to the added 
databases that MOVE LOCAL function is not available.

What I was hoping to do was to be able to move the account back or to another 
database - but that feature seems gone when you add a database.

Ideas anyone???

Thanks

Cal






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[Exchange] RE: Outlook rules errors

[Michael B. Smith]

You have two hyphens in front of WarningAction instead of one.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 4:50 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Outlook rules errors

Thanks Joseph.
I tried using the try/catch but not getting anywhere.  I'm wondering if it's 
because it's not an error per se, but a warning.
The complete response I'm getting back is:

"WARNING: The Inbox rule "[Apply to all messages]" contains errors. To resolve 
the error, please edit the rule or re-create it."

So I took your idea, did a little Googling and finally came up with this:

try
{
foreach ($i in (Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited)) {Get-InboxRule -Mailbox 
$i.DistinguishedName --WarningAction Stop}
}
catch
{
Write-Host ('{0} has an error.' -f $_.Identity)
}

But when I run it I get this:

A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'Stop'.
+ CategoryInfo  : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-InboxRule], 
ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Get-InboxRule

>From what I've read WarningAction uses the same options as ErrorAction. 

Paul

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2017 3:31 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com' <exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Outlook rules errors

Sorry,
I am 100% confident on this one. The indeterminate behavior results from myriad 
of error handling practices possible. The default preference and its implicit 
behavior, all pet peeves of mine.

When writing a binary cmdlet, you can opt to throw an error which can be 
terminating if desired (by invoking the cmdlet with -ErrorActoin Stop) or you 
can throw a terminating error you can't catch.

When processing in a pipeline, I assure you the data is processed record by 
record as it is retrieved, trust me.

If you **don't** want the pipeline to terminate, then state so:

get-Mailbox ... -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Some-OtherCmdlet ...

However, using try catch in the pipeline is possible, the syntax is just awful 
to look at.
For example:

Get-ChildItem c:\ |%{
Write-Host $_.FullName
try
{
throw 'Some error'
}
catch
{
Write-Host ('Caught an error: {0}, but continuing anyway...' -f 
$_.Exception.Message) -ForegroundColor Red
}

$_
} |%{
Write-Host ('And here we are again: {0}...' -f $_.FullName) 
-ForegroundColor Green }

Back to my point about the pipeline and accumulation, since I know you also 
develop, you are familiar with what some language's call generators or 
iterators (think c# yield return).

Type the following:
Get-ChildItem c:\ -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue You see 
results immediately and they stream consecutively until finished.

Now try this:
foreach ($i in (Get-ChildItem c:\ -Force -Recurse -ErrorAction 
SilentlyContinue))
{
$i
}
Notice the long wait before the first result?

Hth,
jlc

> -Original Message-
> From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com
> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:46 PM
> To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
> Subject: [Exchange] RE: Outlook rules errors
> 
> I gotta jump in here:
> 
> >> By invoking Get-Mailbox outside the pipeline the way you are, all 
> >> the
> objects are
> >> accumulated in memory, then fed to the body one at a time.
> >> That doesn't scale in large environments, but if this runs already 
> >> you are
> obviously ok.
> 
> In my experience, exactly the opposite is true.
> 
> For example, if you've got 50,000 mailboxes and you are trying to use 
> a pipeline with them, my experience says that exactly zero percent of 
> the time will that pipeline complete without an error.
> 
> 100% of the time you'll get "steppable pipeline already in use" or a 
> similar error indicating that there were buffer collisions.
> 
> P.S. - Another way to handle the OP's issue is with redirecting the 
> warning stream.
> 
> https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2014/03/30/underst
> an ding-streams-redirection-and-write-host-in-powershell/
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com
> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale
> Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 3:30 PM
> To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
> Subject: [Exchange] RE: Outlook rules errors
> 
> Sure,
> $i references a mailbox. That has the offending owner of the invalid rule.
> 
> Here is a rule I require all code I work with to follow, otherwise 

[Exchange] RE: Outlook rules errors

[Michael B. Smith]

I gotta jump in here:

>> By invoking Get-Mailbox outside the pipeline the way you are, all the 
>> objects are
>> accumulated in memory, then fed to the body one at a time.
>> That doesn't scale in large environments, but if this runs already you are 
>> obviously ok.

In my experience, exactly the opposite is true.

For example, if you've got 50,000 mailboxes and you are trying to use a 
pipeline with them, my experience says that exactly zero percent of the time 
will that pipeline complete without an error.

100% of the time you'll get "steppable pipeline already in use" or a similar 
error indicating that there were buffer collisions.

P.S. - Another way to handle the OP's issue is with redirecting the warning 
stream.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2014/03/30/understanding-streams-redirection-and-write-host-in-powershell/

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale
Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 3:30 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Outlook rules errors

Sure,
$i references a mailbox. That has the offending owner of the invalid rule.

Here is a rule I require all code I work with to follow, otherwise it gets 
filed in G:)
Always use `Set-StrictMode -Version Latest`
For every cmdlet that exposes it, use the -ErrorLevel parameter and either 
try/catch it or ignore it (for the rare cases that might make sense).

So in your case, wrap the body in a try catch and report the offender, for 
example:
try
{
Get-InboxRule... -ErrorAction Stop
}
catch
{
Write-Host ('{0} has an error.' -f $_.Identity)
}

A note about pipelines, while writing programs with a pipeline is 
programmatically gruesome, you can rationalize it in some cases with Powershell.
By invoking Get-Mailbox outside the pipeline the way you are, all the objects 
are accumulated in memory, then fed to the body one at a time.
That doesn't scale in large environments, but if this runs already you are 
obviously ok.

hth,
jlc

> -Original Message-
> From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com
> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
> Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 1:04 PM
> To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
> Subject: [Exchange] Outlook rules errors
> 
>  I'm using the following Powershell script to search for users that are using
> rules to either forward or redirect email outside of the company:
> # foreach ($i in (Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited)) {Get-InboxRule -
> Mailbox $i.DistinguishedName | where {$_.ForwardTo} | fl
> MailboxOwnerID,Name,ForwardTo >> C:\downloads\ForwardRules.txt }
> 
> While it runs this script I get a lot of warnings of "The Inbox rule
> "Blahblahblah" contains errors.  To resolve the error, please edit the rule or
> re-create it."
> 
> Very informative. not.  I have no idea which mailbox to look at.  Is there a
> way to refine the script, or is there another script that can be run that 
> will tell
> me who has rules that have problems?
> 
> Everything that I've found online talks about going into Outlook.  I haven't
> found anything using PowerShell.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> 

RE: [Exchange] KB4011196 breaks Out 'n About!

[Michael B. Smith]

This turns out to be a big problem

All of the Outlook patches from Tuesday designed to address this:


https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-11774

have the potential to break add-ins. Microsoft is aware.

These are:

  https://support.microsoft.com/help/4011196 (Outlook 2010)
  https://support.microsoft.com/help/4011178 (Outlook 2013)
  https://support.microsoft.com/help/4011162 (Outlook 2016)

Test carefully before you roll these out!

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Ferrel, Patrick
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 11:36 AM
To: exchange@lists.myITforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] KB4011196 breaks Out 'n About!

Hello all,

I've been banging my head against the wall all morning trying to figure out why 
the Out 'n About! add-in isn't working for some users.  It turns out just 
released patches break it.  Uninstalling KB4011196 fixed it for us but YMMV.

https://intelligentconcepts.com/microsofts-october-security-updates-breaks-outn-about-for-outlook-status-board-view-kb4011196-kb2553338-andor-kb2837599/


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[Exchange] New blog post: iOS 11.0.1 released – EAS on iOS Fixed

[Michael B. Smith]

New blog post: iOS 11.0.1 released – EAS on iOS Fixed #MSExchange
http://www.essential.exchange/2017/09/26/ios-11-0-1-released-eas-on-ios-fixed/

[Exchange] RE: 2016 conversation view

[Michael B. Smith]

Turn off what? Conversation view? It's a registry setting, but I don't think 
there is a GP for it.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 12:57 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] 2016 conversation view


We are getting bit by emails being put in the wrong conversation.  Google tells 
me we are not alone.  I am not seeing a way to programmatically turn it off for 
everyone, especially in OWA. Hopefully I missed it and someone will correct me.

RE: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

[Michael B. Smith]

They are in the process of deploying the “drop to http/1.1” fix across the 
service. Most of north America is done, but not all. And it’ll take a couple 
weeks to deploy across the world.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Brett Whatley
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 6:41 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

Guess this affects O365.


Known Issue: Email access in iOS 11
MC119954

Published Date: Sep 20
Category: Prevent or Fix Issues

When do I need to take action by?
Action required by: Sep 20

How does this impact me?

How does this affect me?: Due to an incompatibility in the new release of iOS, 
users of the built-in Apple Mail app in iOS 11 may be unable to sync their 
Office 365 mailbox or login to their accounts. iOS 9 or 10 users are not 
affected.

What do I need to do to fix this?: Microsoft and Apple are working to resolve 
this issue and will post more information to the article, below, when it 
becomes available.

In the meantime, we recommend you download the free Outlook for iOS client, 
available in the App Store. Alternatively, you can avoid updating to iOS 11 
until the issue has been fixed.

Please click Additional Information to learn more.


Additional information: 
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4043473/you-can-t-send-or-reply-from-outlook-com-office-365-or-exchange-2016-i

Direct link: 
https://portal.office.com/AdminPortal/home?switchtomodern=true#/MessageCenter?id=MC119954
(Disclaimer- You will need global admin group access to view Message center)


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: September 19, 2017 8:54 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

Could be as simple has having some kind of different load balancing system in 
front of their Exchange.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Senter, John
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 8:40 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

How is O365 not affected by this?  Are they not running server 2016 or did they 
step the cipher down to HTTP/1.1?

We were putting our Exch 2016 servers in production tonight, but are holding 
off for a week because we did not feel comfortable doing the OS reg hack the 
same day the servers were going in.  Like to test even the simplest changes 
before going live.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 4:22 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

Item 1 - no

Item 2 and 3 - yes

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Brett Whatley
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 3:57 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: Re: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

Is 365 affected?

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[Exchange] RE: September 2017 Quarterly #MSExchange Updates

[Michael B. Smith]

That's a great question!

I'm going to say "yes". But I've asked for verification.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Senter, John
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 7:56 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: September 2017 Quarterly #MSExchange Updates

So I do not see anything in the release notes that it includes the security fix 
KB4036108.  Is that in this CU?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 4:30 PM
Subject: [Exchange] September 2017 Quarterly #MSExchange Updates

New blog post: September 2017 Quarterly #MSExchange Updates

http://www.essential.exchange/2017/09/19/september-2017-quarterly-exchange-updates/

MSExchangeTeam post: 
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2017/09/19/released-september-2017-quarterly-exchange-updates/

[Exchange] September 2017 Quarterly #MSExchange Updates

[Michael B. Smith]

New blog post: September 2017 Quarterly #MSExchange Updates

http://www.essential.exchange/2017/09/19/september-2017-quarterly-exchange-updates/

MSExchangeTeam post: 
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2017/09/19/released-september-2017-quarterly-exchange-updates/

RE: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

[Michael B. Smith]

I have asked that question of the product team and not received a response.

(Initially I just asked “is the service affected?” and got the response “no”. 
After years of talking to those folks I’ve learned to ask the direct question 
first and go for details later…)

I will say that on the patchmanagement list, one gentleman who was running the 
iOS beta wrote that there was “sometimes” a problem with O365, but it could 
usually be fixed by resending the message a few minutes later. Which sounds to 
me like multiple web farms not configured the same way. But I have no concrete 
data to support my guess.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Senter, John
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 8:40 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

How is O365 not affected by this?  Are they not running server 2016 or did they 
step the cipher down to HTTP/1.1?

We were putting our Exch 2016 servers in production tonight, but are holding 
off for a week because we did not feel comfortable doing the OS reg hack the 
same day the servers were going in.  Like to test even the simplest changes 
before going live.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 4:22 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

Item 1 - no

Item 2 and 3 - yes

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Brett Whatley
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 3:57 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: Re: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

Is 365 affected?

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From: mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>
Sent: September 18, 2017 3:56 PM
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Subject: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...


Yes, it’ll jack up wherever the external connection is. Since 2016 proxies to 
2010 in your case, the 2016’s are acting as CAS frontends and will cause the 
problem.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Senter, John
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 3:39 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

Will this only affect mailboxes on Exch 2016 or will it also affect users that 
are on Exch 2010 with 2016 in front?  We are about to place 2016 in front of 
2010 to start the migration process and need to know if that is going to jack 
up the users still on Exch 2010.


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 3:07 PM
Subject: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

Further information on [1], as Microsoft and Apple release additional details.

[1] This only occurs when Exchange Server 2016 is installed on Windows Server 
2016. It actually will impact any web app on Windows Server 2016 to which an 
iOS 11 device attempts to connect. The issue occurs because iOS 11 improperly 
negotiates a HTTP/2 TLS connection, an

RE: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

[Michael B. Smith]

Item 1 - no

Item 2 and 3 - yes

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Brett Whatley
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 3:57 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: Re: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

Is 365 affected?

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From: mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>
Sent: September 18, 2017 3:56 PM
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Reply to: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...


Yes, it’ll jack up wherever the external connection is. Since 2016 proxies to 
2010 in your case, the 2016’s are acting as CAS frontends and will cause the 
problem.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Senter, John
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 3:39 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

Will this only affect mailboxes on Exch 2016 or will it also affect users that 
are on Exch 2010 with 2016 in front?  We are about to place 2016 in front of 
2010 to start the migration process and need to know if that is going to jack 
up the users still on Exch 2010.


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 3:07 PM
Subject: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

Further information on [1], as Microsoft and Apple release additional details.

[1] This only occurs when Exchange Server 2016 is installed on Windows Server 
2016. It actually will impact any web app on Windows Server 2016 to which an 
iOS 11 device attempts to connect. The issue occurs because iOS 11 improperly 
negotiates a HTTP/2 TLS connection, and HTTP/2 is the default on Windows Server 
2016 and iOS 11.

While this is not an Exchange issue per se, Exchange is the application most 
likely to be affected. Microsoft offers a workaround, described in this 
article, by disabling HTTP/2 thus forcing a fallback to HTTP/1.1:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4032720/how-to-deploy-custom-cipher-suite-ordering-in-windows-server-2016

(If you find the article title to be irrelevant – well, so do I.)

And a new item:

[3] Yammer and Dynamics CRM apps have not yet been updated for iOS 11. There 
are a wide variety of Intune changes/impacts with iOS 11:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/intunesupport/2017/09/12/support-tip-intune-support-for-ios-11/

Perhaps the two things most notable to your users: [3a] An updated Company 
Portal and Managed Browser are required for iOS 11, and [3b] Drag-and-drop (a 
new feature of iOS 11) is disabled when a device is enrolled with Intune.

From: Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 2:22 PM
Subject: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

And that may not be a good thing in all cases…

Known issues to be aware of:

[1] Exchange ActiveSync is broken under certain configurations. Apple is aware 
of the issue and pursuing a fix.

[2] The default picture format for iPhones 7/8/X is changing. As a Microsoft 
employee wrote earlier today:

The new photo and video formats result in files about 1/2 size of the old JPEG 
and video formats, while having better quality. The problem is that new files 
will likely not open properly outside of your phone until everything that you 
use to work with photos 

[Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

[Michael B. Smith]

Yes, it'll jack up wherever the external connection is. Since 2016 proxies to 
2010 in your case, the 2016's are acting as CAS frontends and will cause the 
problem.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Senter, John
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 3:39 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

Will this only affect mailboxes on Exch 2016 or will it also affect users that 
are on Exch 2010 with 2016 in front?  We are about to place 2016 in front of 
2010 to start the migration process and need to know if that is going to jack 
up the users still on Exch 2010.


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 3:07 PM
Subject: [Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

Further information on [1], as Microsoft and Apple release additional details.

[1] This only occurs when Exchange Server 2016 is installed on Windows Server 
2016. It actually will impact any web app on Windows Server 2016 to which an 
iOS 11 device attempts to connect. The issue occurs because iOS 11 improperly 
negotiates a HTTP/2 TLS connection, and HTTP/2 is the default on Windows Server 
2016 and iOS 11.

While this is not an Exchange issue per se, Exchange is the application most 
likely to be affected. Microsoft offers a workaround, described in this 
article, by disabling HTTP/2 thus forcing a fallback to HTTP/1.1:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4032720/how-to-deploy-custom-cipher-suite-ordering-in-windows-server-2016

(If you find the article title to be irrelevant - well, so do I.)

And a new item:

[3] Yammer and Dynamics CRM apps have not yet been updated for iOS 11. There 
are a wide variety of Intune changes/impacts with iOS 11:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/intunesupport/2017/09/12/support-tip-intune-support-for-ios-11/

Perhaps the two things most notable to your users: [3a] An updated Company 
Portal and Managed Browser are required for iOS 11, and [3b] Drag-and-drop (a 
new feature of iOS 11) is disabled when a device is enrolled with Intune.

From: Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 2:22 PM
Subject: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

And that may not be a good thing in all cases...

Known issues to be aware of:

[1] Exchange ActiveSync is broken under certain configurations. Apple is aware 
of the issue and pursuing a fix.

[2] The default picture format for iPhones 7/8/X is changing. As a Microsoft 
employee wrote earlier today:

The new photo and video formats result in files about 1/2 size of the old JPEG 
and video formats, while having better quality. The problem is that new files 
will likely not open properly outside of your phone until everything that you 
use to work with photos updates to work with new HEIF formats.

To check if your iOS 11 phone uses the new format, go to Settings > Camera > 
Formats. "High Efficiency" is new and "Most Compatible" is the old / current.

I do not suggest to just turn this off; hey - getting files half the size is 
super cool. Just realize that if you use the photos outside of your phone that 
there might be temporary issues with viewing.

Windows and OneDrive do not yet support the new formats.

h/t ninob

You may wish to suggest to your user communities that they delay upgrades 
because of the EAS issue.

[Exchange] RE: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

[Michael B. Smith]

Further information on [1], as Microsoft and Apple release additional details.

[1] This only occurs when Exchange Server 2016 is installed on Windows Server 
2016. It actually will impact any web app on Windows Server 2016 to which an 
iOS 11 device attempts to connect. The issue occurs because iOS 11 improperly 
negotiates a HTTP/2 TLS connection, and HTTP/2 is the default on Windows Server 
2016 and iOS 11.

While this is not an Exchange issue per se, Exchange is the application most 
likely to be affected. Microsoft offers a workaround, described in this 
article, by disabling HTTP/2 thus forcing a fallback to HTTP/1.1:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4032720/how-to-deploy-custom-cipher-suite-ordering-in-windows-server-2016

(If you find the article title to be irrelevant - well, so do I.)

And a new item:

[3] Yammer and Dynamics CRM apps have not yet been updated for iOS 11. There 
are a wide variety of Intune changes/impacts with iOS 11:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/intunesupport/2017/09/12/support-tip-intune-support-for-ios-11/

Perhaps the two things most notable to your users: [3a] An updated Company 
Portal and Managed Browser are required for iOS 11, and [3b] Drag-and-drop (a 
new feature of iOS 11) is disabled when a device is enrolled with Intune.

From: Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 2:22 PM
Subject: iOS 11 is scheduled for release tomorrow...

And that may not be a good thing in all cases...

Known issues to be aware of:

[1] Exchange ActiveSync is broken under certain configurations. Apple is aware 
of the issue and pursuing a fix.

[2] The default picture format for iPhones 7/8/X is changing. As a Microsoft 
employee wrote earlier today:

The new photo and video formats result in files about 1/2 size of the old JPEG 
and video formats, while having better quality. The problem is that new files 
will likely not open properly outside of your phone until everything that you 
use to work with photos updates to work with new HEIF formats.

To check if your iOS 11 phone uses the new format, go to Settings > Camera > 
Formats. "High Efficiency" is new and "Most Compatible" is the old / current.

I do not suggest to just turn this off; hey - getting files half the size is 
super cool. Just realize that if you use the photos outside of your phone that 
there might be temporary issues with viewing.

Windows and OneDrive do not yet support the new formats.

h/t ninob

You may wish to suggest to your user communities that they delay upgrades 
because of the EAS issue.

RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

[Michael B. Smith]

I didn’t realize they were using EWS. If so, I would’ve recommended 
ApplicationImpersonation instead of ‘Receive As’.

Regardless, I’m glad you got it solved.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 5:01 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

Looks like we might have gotten it resolved.  I guess I fussed enough about 
granting permissions on each individual mailbox they came up with giving the 
account ApplicationImpersonation role.  Why they didn’t come up with this to 
begin with is beyond me.

Paul

From: Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 8:35 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

Michael – As long as the door is open…
Doing what you suggested now allows me to run some reports, such as 
“Attachments by file size”.  However if I try to run a “Folder Message Count 
and Size” it comes back with “No Data Available”.  ManageEngine’s solution is 
to grant the Exchange Reporter’s account full access permissions on every 
mailbox.  I could easily do that with a PowerShell script, but that also means 
that we have to remember to do that as we add new mailboxes to the server.  The 
Exchange Reporter doesn’t seem to acknowledge inherited permissions – they have 
to be granted on a per-mailbox basis.  Do you have another silver bullet to 
address this?

Paul

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 6:15 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

Actually, this is pretty easy to automate:

$user = ‘michael.smith’  ## the reporting user
$databases = @( Get-MailboxDatabase )
foreach( $database in $databases )
{
   $dn = $database.DistinguishedName
   Add-ADPermission -Identity $dn -user $user -AccessRights 
ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights "Receive As"
}


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 6:14 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

Let me give you a suggestion. Using adsiedit.msc, on each DATABASE, set the 
reporting user to have Receive-As as an extended right on the database.

If you have a lot of databases, this can still be a little painful, but much 
less than setting it for each user.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 4:13 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

Quest has Exchange Manager which we have.  It does provide some reporting of 
what you’re looking for and you should be able to download it for a trial 
period to see what it does.  I haven’t played a great deal with that part of it 
though.  We were looking at it to gain insight into what our users were keeping 
in their mailbox (attachments mainly) and on that piece Quest needs to do more 
work.  Specifically it appears that in order to get that drill down into a 
mailbox it’s not enough to have inherited permissions by an account, you have 
to give that account rights to each mailbox individually – which is tedious 
time consuming.  I’ve opened communications with them to work through this but 
haven’t set up the time to do so yet.  That is my major gripe with it.

Paul

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of John Matteson
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 1:40 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Management report application / script

I'm looking for an application or powershell script that can provide a set of 
performance/management reports. What I'm looking for, ideally, is transit time 
mailbox to mailbox for messages of various sizes and from user to internet 
gateway, again for messages of various sizes. If it can work using tracking 
logs only, that would be great.

I know Quest had a package like this at one time.

Any pointers would be great.

Thanks.

John M.

[Exchange] RE: KB4036108 on Exchange 2016 CU6 issue

[Michael B. Smith]

Please keep us (well, at least me) informed. I'm quite curious.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Senter, John
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 10:17 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: KB4036108 on Exchange 2016 CU6 issue

So applied this to 7 servers and one failed.  Now the Exchange services are all 
failing.  I have opened a case with MS to figure out what is going on and why 
the failed patch did not back out the changes correctly.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 7:31 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: KB4036108 on Exchange 2016 CU6 issue

Thanks for this.

I've reported it, but since CU7 is coming soon, I really don't expect action on 
it.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Senter, John
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 11:13 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] KB4036108 on Exchange 2016 CU6 issue

Just a heads up on what I have found while applying this security fix on 
Exchange 2016 CU6.  After installing and rebooting I found that the Content 
Index State was failed on all the DB's on a server.  When I did ran this 
command:
   Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus -Server $server | fl name,*index*
It showed that service "Microsoft Exchange Search Host Controller" was not 
running.  Looking at that service it was set to disabled, but the servers that 
had not been patched showed it automatic and running.  So I set this back to 
automatic and started it.  After a few mins the indexes went back to healthy 
and I was able to move the DB's back to mounted state.

Doing some searching it looks like other CU's have done this in the past.  Also 
found that this service was also set to disabled by the patch so it needs to be 
set back to automatic.
   Tracing Service for Search in Exchange

Looks like MS has a bug in the installer that it does not set the state back to 
the correct setting after the patch is applied.

js

[Exchange] RE: KB4036108 on Exchange 2016 CU6 issue

[Michael B. Smith]

Thanks for this.

I've reported it, but since CU7 is coming soon, I really don't expect action on 
it.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Senter, John
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 11:13 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] KB4036108 on Exchange 2016 CU6 issue

Just a heads up on what I have found while applying this security fix on 
Exchange 2016 CU6.  After installing and rebooting I found that the Content 
Index State was failed on all the DB's on a server.  When I did ran this 
command:
   Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus -Server $server | fl name,*index*
It showed that service "Microsoft Exchange Search Host Controller" was not 
running.  Looking at that service it was set to disabled, but the servers that 
had not been patched showed it automatic and running.  So I set this back to 
automatic and started it.  After a few mins the indexes went back to healthy 
and I was able to move the DB's back to mounted state.

Doing some searching it looks like other CU's have done this in the past.  Also 
found that this service was also set to disabled by the patch so it needs to be 
set back to automatic.
   Tracing Service for Search in Exchange

Looks like MS has a bug in the installer that it does not set the state back to 
the correct setting after the patch is applied.

js

RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

[Michael B. Smith]

It’s been this way all the way back to Exchange 5.0. ☺ (Maybe 4.0, but I 
started with 5.0.)

Just back in the day, you used vbscript or ldp.exe.

Beer. Just keep pouring.

☺

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 3:46 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

Michael, thank you.  I’ve had been fighting with Manage Engine over this to the 
point that I gave up.
How’d you know?
Also, how many beers does that make that I owe you?  ☺

Paul

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 6:15 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

Actually, this is pretty easy to automate:

$user = ‘michael.smith’  ## the reporting user
$databases = @( Get-MailboxDatabase )
foreach( $database in $databases )
{
   $dn = $database.DistinguishedName
   Add-ADPermission -Identity $dn -user $user -AccessRights 
ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights "Receive As"
}


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 6:14 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

Let me give you a suggestion. Using adsiedit.msc, on each DATABASE, set the 
reporting user to have Receive-As as an extended right on the database.

If you have a lot of databases, this can still be a little painful, but much 
less than setting it for each user.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 4:13 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

Quest has Exchange Manager which we have.  It does provide some reporting of 
what you’re looking for and you should be able to download it for a trial 
period to see what it does.  I haven’t played a great deal with that part of it 
though.  We were looking at it to gain insight into what our users were keeping 
in their mailbox (attachments mainly) and on that piece Quest needs to do more 
work.  Specifically it appears that in order to get that drill down into a 
mailbox it’s not enough to have inherited permissions by an account, you have 
to give that account rights to each mailbox individually – which is tedious 
time consuming.  I’ve opened communications with them to work through this but 
haven’t set up the time to do so yet.  That is my major gripe with it.

Paul

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of John Matteson
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 1:40 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Management report application / script

I'm looking for an application or powershell script that can provide a set of 
performance/management reports. What I'm looking for, ideally, is transit time 
mailbox to mailbox for messages of various sizes and from user to internet 
gateway, again for messages of various sizes. If it can work using tracking 
logs only, that would be great.

I know Quest had a package like this at one time.

Any pointers would be great.

Thanks.

John M.

RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

[Michael B. Smith]

Actually, this is pretty easy to automate:

$user = ‘michael.smith’  ## the reporting user
$databases = @( Get-MailboxDatabase )
foreach( $database in $databases )
{
   $dn = $database.DistinguishedName
   Add-ADPermission -Identity $dn -user $user -AccessRights 
ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights "Receive As"
}


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 6:14 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

Let me give you a suggestion. Using adsiedit.msc, on each DATABASE, set the 
reporting user to have Receive-As as an extended right on the database.

If you have a lot of databases, this can still be a little painful, but much 
less than setting it for each user.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 4:13 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

Quest has Exchange Manager which we have.  It does provide some reporting of 
what you’re looking for and you should be able to download it for a trial 
period to see what it does.  I haven’t played a great deal with that part of it 
though.  We were looking at it to gain insight into what our users were keeping 
in their mailbox (attachments mainly) and on that piece Quest needs to do more 
work.  Specifically it appears that in order to get that drill down into a 
mailbox it’s not enough to have inherited permissions by an account, you have 
to give that account rights to each mailbox individually – which is tedious 
time consuming.  I’ve opened communications with them to work through this but 
haven’t set up the time to do so yet.  That is my major gripe with it.

Paul

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of John Matteson
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 1:40 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Management report application / script

I'm looking for an application or powershell script that can provide a set of 
performance/management reports. What I'm looking for, ideally, is transit time 
mailbox to mailbox for messages of various sizes and from user to internet 
gateway, again for messages of various sizes. If it can work using tracking 
logs only, that would be great.

I know Quest had a package like this at one time.

Any pointers would be great.

Thanks.

John M.

RE: [Exchange] Management report application / script

[Michael B. Smith]

There are a number of these on the scripting gallery (for free).

NetWrix also has a pretty nice set. PromoDag is the go-to set of reports. 
EnowSoftware has a good set (disclaimer: I know several folks who work there).

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of John Matteson
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 2:40 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] Management report application / script

I'm looking for an application or powershell script that can provide a set of 
performance/management reports. What I'm looking for, ideally, is transit time 
mailbox to mailbox for messages of various sizes and from user to internet 
gateway, again for messages of various sizes. If it can work using tracking 
logs only, that would be great.

I know Quest had a package like this at one time.

Any pointers would be great.

Thanks.

John M.

[Exchange] "install office 2016" button missing

[Michael B. Smith]

Lots of folks are reporting that the "Install Office 2016" button is missing 
from the Office 365 Portal today.

The workaround is to use this URL:
https://portal.office.com/OLS/MySoftware.aspx

[Exchange] RE: Security Groups and '-Automapping'

[Michael B. Smith]

No, it hasn't changed.

Some folks, indeed, use this as a method to selectively disable automapping.

If you do not want this behavior, then use something like: 
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Granting-Mailbox-Full-02566894

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Orlebeck, Geoffrey
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 4:37 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] Security Groups and '-Automapping'

We're running Exchange 2010, and from my research neither Exchange 2010 nor 
2013 support automapping when granting a security group 'FullAccess' access 
rights.

I cannot find anything about Exchange 2016. Can anyone confirm if Exchange 2016 
supports this? Or is the only way to iterate over the group members and assign 
FullAccess/Automapping to individuals?

Thank you.
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RE: [Exchange] logs not truncating on certian stores

[Michael B. Smith]

Are those particular databases lagged?

Does replication show normal for all databases?

Have you examined the ESE and Backup messages in the event log immediately 
after the backup completes?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of J- P
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 11:05 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [Exchange] logs not truncating on certian stores


all stores on one disk- 150GB+ free



Jean-Paul Natola



From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com 
> on 
behalf of Todd >
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 8:46 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [Exchange] logs not truncating on certian stores

Check that you are not short on disk space for the drives  whose stores are not 
backing up

Sent from my iPad

On Aug 16, 2017, at 7:03 PM, J- P 
> wrote:

Hi all,



I have a 2013 exchange server, that suddenly stopped truncating the logs on of 
the 4 mail stores after backup- I don't want to manually purge them , however 
another few days of this and I will be out of space.



What can cause certain stores NOT to truncate while others do?



TIA

[Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name incorrect

[Michael B. Smith]

After just a little back and forth, we were able to nail this down pretty 
easily.

...and here is the answer.

>From Get-OutlookProvider we have (selected fields):

CertPrincipalName: msstd:telstarcaa.scvl.com
Server   :
TTL  : 1
OutlookProviderFlags : None
Name : EXPR

And from Dump-CasInformation.ps1 we have (OutlookAnywhere selected fields):

Server  : TELSTAR1
Identity: TELSTAR1\Rpc (Default Web Site)
MetabasePath: IIS://TELSTAR1.scvl.com/W3SVC/1/ROOT/Rpc
SSLOffloading   : False
ExternalHostname: telstar.scvl.com
IISAuthenticationMethods: {Basic}


The OutlookAnywhere ExternalHostname should be changed to telstarcaa.scvl.com 
and the OutlookProvider EXPR CertPrincipalName should be set to null.

The reason why the configuration was working is because the OutlookProvider 
EXPR configuration overrides the OutlookAnywhere configuration. However, best 
practice says NEVER to modify the OutlookAnywhere EXPR configuration EXCEPT 
when you have a wild-card certificate.

Voilà.

Or Viola, if you are southern, as I am. :)


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2017 6:17 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Please send (off list if you prefer) a complete "Get-OutlookProvider | 
format-list *".

Save the attached file as Get-ServiceConnectionPoint.ps1, run in an elevated 
PowerShell session:

   .\Get-ServiceConnectionPoint.ps1 -Verbose

Please send me all the output, including the verbose output.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2017 12:19 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

When I use aka.ms/exrca it comes back with this in the results:

EXPR
telstar.scvl.com
https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/Exchange.asmxhttps://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx%3c/ASUrl>>
https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/Exchange.asmxhttps://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx%3c/OOFUrl>>
https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/OAB/a49ee13a-fc45-432e-9bfc-5ba79242dd72/https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/OAB/a49ee13a-fc45-432e-9bfc-5ba79242dd72/%3c/OABUrl>>
https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/UM2007Legacy.asmxhttps://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/UM2007Legacy.asmx%3c/UMUrl>>
0
0
0
On
Basic
msstd:telstarcaa.scvl.com
https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/Exchange.asmxhttps://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx%3c/EwsUrl>>
https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/ecp/https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/ecp/%3c/EcpUrl>>
?p=customize/voicemail.aspxexsvurl=1
?p=personalsettings/EmailSubscriptions.slabexsvurl=1
PersonalSettings/DeliveryReport.aspx?exsvurl=1IsOWA=IsOWAMsgID=MsgIDMbx=Mbx
?p=organize/retentionpolicytags.slabexsvurl=1
?p=sms/textmessaging.slabexsvurl=1



And the entry for the  is incorrect.  However when I run

#Get-OutlookProvider -Identity EXPR | fl

that section is blank.

I found something that said if it wasn't blank to run

#Set-OutlookProvider -id EXPR -server $null

I'm not sure if running it would fix it or not.  Also not sure it should be 
null.


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 4:55 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Does it happen with aka.ms/exrca ?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 4:15 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect


Okay, that made a difference.  It's showing all 10 servers and not the 2 ghost 
servers.  I'm still seeing the old server when I test e-mail autoconfiguration. 
 See screenshot.



[cid:image001.png@01D31502.5AA3ABB0]



Paul



-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 7:57 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect



Duh



My bad. Yes, specify -allServers



-Original Message-

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforu

[Exchange] RE: Sander de Wit...

[Michael B. Smith]

Sorry. Wrong list. Ignore it.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2017 5:32 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] Sander de Wit...

How did he figure out the API that isn't documented? :)

[Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name incorrect

[Michael B. Smith]

Please send (off list if you prefer) a complete "Get-OutlookProvider | 
format-list *".

Save the attached file as Get-ServiceConnectionPoint.ps1, run in an elevated 
PowerShell session:

   .\Get-ServiceConnectionPoint.ps1 -Verbose

Please send me all the output, including the verbose output.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2017 12:19 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

When I use aka.ms/exrca it comes back with this in the results:

EXPR
telstar.scvl.com
https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/Exchange.asmxhttps://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx%3c/ASUrl>>
https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/Exchange.asmxhttps://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx%3c/OOFUrl>>
https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/OAB/a49ee13a-fc45-432e-9bfc-5ba79242dd72/https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/OAB/a49ee13a-fc45-432e-9bfc-5ba79242dd72/%3c/OABUrl>>
https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/UM2007Legacy.asmxhttps://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/UM2007Legacy.asmx%3c/UMUrl>>
0
0
0
On
Basic
msstd:telstarcaa.scvl.com
https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/Exchange.asmxhttps://telstarcaa.scvl.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx%3c/EwsUrl>>
https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/ecp/https://telstarcaa.scvl.com/ecp/%3c/EcpUrl>>
?p=customize/voicemail.aspxexsvurl=1
?p=personalsettings/EmailSubscriptions.slabexsvurl=1
PersonalSettings/DeliveryReport.aspx?exsvurl=1IsOWA=IsOWAMsgID=MsgIDMbx=Mbx
?p=organize/retentionpolicytags.slabexsvurl=1
?p=sms/textmessaging.slabexsvurl=1



And the entry for the  is incorrect.  However when I run

#Get-OutlookProvider -Identity EXPR | fl

that section is blank.

I found something that said if it wasn't blank to run

#Set-OutlookProvider -id EXPR -server $null

I'm not sure if running it would fix it or not.  Also not sure it should be 
null.


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 4:55 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Does it happen with aka.ms/exrca ?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2017 4:15 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect


Okay, that made a difference.  It's showing all 10 servers and not the 2 ghost 
servers.  I'm still seeing the old server when I test e-mail autoconfiguration. 
 See screenshot.



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Paul



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[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 7:57 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect



Duh



My bad. Yes, specify -allServers



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[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul

Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 4:55 PM

To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'

Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect



I'm looking over your script and see at the top where if I wanted to see all 
servers that I should add an allServers parameter.

This parameter appears to be there as



[Parameter( Mandatory = $false )]

[switch] $allServers = $false



Do I need to make a change in the script?  What's odd is that it pulled down 
all the servers the very first time I ran it - now it just pulls down the 
server it runs on.





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[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith

Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 11:13 AM

To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>

Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect



Curiouser and curiouser.



Then I have no explanation. I'm sorry.



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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul

Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 12:04 PM

To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'

Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect



Nice.  All DCs came back with all of the existing Exchange serv

[Exchange] Sander de Wit...

[Michael B. Smith]

How did he figure out the API that isn't documented? :)

[Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name incorrect

[Michael B. Smith]

Duh

My bad. Yes, specify -allServers

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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 4:55 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

I'm looking over your script and see at the top where if I wanted to see all 
servers that I should add an allServers parameter.
This parameter appears to be there as

[Parameter( Mandatory = $false )]
[switch] $allServers = $false

Do I need to make a change in the script?  What's odd is that it pulled down 
all the servers the very first time I ran it - now it just pulls down the 
server it runs on.


-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 11:13 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Curiouser and curiouser.

Then I have no explanation. I'm sorry.

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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 12:04 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Nice.  All DCs came back with all of the existing Exchange servers and none of 
the "ghosts".


-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 10:42 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

IsValid means that the object passes AD validation. Whenever you assign a value 
to an object attribute in AD it goes through a validation routine based on the 
OID of the attribute type. IsValid means that all attribute values pass those 
validation routines on an object.

To answer your specific question: no.

But there is a potentially interesting experiment to try.

Let's assume you have a list, $dcs, of the fqdn's of your domain controllers.

$dcs = 'dc1.scvl.com', 'dc2.scvl.com', 'dc3.scvl.com'

foreach( $dc in $dcs )
{
"*** $dc ***"
Get-ExchangeServer -Status -DomainController $dc }

Does the output change based on the DC specified?

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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 11:07 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

I tried the script on one of the mailbox servers and it only came back with the 
server I ran it on.  For some reason when I ran your script the first time it 
came back with everything.  Since that it's only coming back with the server I 
run the script on.  And again, when I run Get-ExchangeServer on the EMS it 
comes back with all the CAS/HUB and mailbox servers and not the 2 I saw on the 
first run.

I'm intrigued by that first listing showing the decommissioned servers where 
IsValid was marked as True.  Does that give a clue where these 2 servers are 
hiding?

Paul

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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 5:10 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

That begins to sound like AD DS weirdness.

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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 5:56 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Okay, this is weird.  When I ran the script the first time there were 12 
servers listed under the ExchangeServer header - including 2 that were 
decommissioned.
Now when I run it there is only one - and it's the one I ran the script from 
and should be there but I don't see the other 9.

 
-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 4:31 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

That doesn't make any sense. That's exactly what the script does:

$parameters = @{
'Status' = $true
}

if( -not $allServers )
{
$parameters += @{ 'Identity' = $env:ComputerName }
}

$r = Get-ExchangeServer @parameters

[Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name incorrect

[Michael B. Smith]

Curiouser and curiouser.

Then I have no explanation. I'm sorry.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 12:04 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Nice.  All DCs came back with all of the existing Exchange servers and none of 
the "ghosts".


-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 10:42 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

IsValid means that the object passes AD validation. Whenever you assign a value 
to an object attribute in AD it goes through a validation routine based on the 
OID of the attribute type. IsValid means that all attribute values pass those 
validation routines on an object.

To answer your specific question: no.

But there is a potentially interesting experiment to try.

Let's assume you have a list, $dcs, of the fqdn's of your domain controllers.

$dcs = 'dc1.scvl.com', 'dc2.scvl.com', 'dc3.scvl.com'

foreach( $dc in $dcs )
{
"*** $dc ***"
Get-ExchangeServer -Status -DomainController $dc }

Does the output change based on the DC specified?

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 11:07 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

I tried the script on one of the mailbox servers and it only came back with the 
server I ran it on.  For some reason when I ran your script the first time it 
came back with everything.  Since that it's only coming back with the server I 
run the script on.  And again, when I run Get-ExchangeServer on the EMS it 
comes back with all the CAS/HUB and mailbox servers and not the 2 I saw on the 
first run.

I'm intrigued by that first listing showing the decommissioned servers where 
IsValid was marked as True.  Does that give a clue where these 2 servers are 
hiding?

Paul

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 5:10 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

That begins to sound like AD DS weirdness.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 5:56 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Okay, this is weird.  When I ran the script the first time there were 12 
servers listed under the ExchangeServer header - including 2 that were 
decommissioned.
Now when I run it there is only one - and it's the one I ran the script from 
and should be there but I don't see the other 9.

 
-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 4:31 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

That doesn't make any sense. That's exactly what the script does:

$parameters = @{
'Status' = $true
}

if( -not $allServers )
{
$parameters += @{ 'Identity' = $env:ComputerName }
}

$r = Get-ExchangeServer @parameters

$r | fl Name, Identity, Fqdn, Edition, 
Site, OrganizationalUnit, ServerRole, 
AdminDisplayVersion, ExchangeVersion, 
Static*, Current*,
Is*

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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 5:22 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

No, they do not show up.

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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 4:10 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Does "Get-ExchangeServer -Status" find the old servers? I bet it does...

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforu

[Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name incorrect

[Michael B. Smith]

IsValid means that the object passes AD validation. Whenever you assign a value 
to an object attribute in AD it goes through a validation routine based on the 
OID of the attribute type. IsValid means that all attribute values pass those 
validation routines on an object.

To answer your specific question: no.

But there is a potentially interesting experiment to try.

Let's assume you have a list, $dcs, of the fqdn's of your domain controllers.

$dcs = 'dc1.scvl.com', 'dc2.scvl.com', 'dc3.scvl.com'

foreach( $dc in $dcs )
{
"*** $dc ***"
Get-ExchangeServer -Status -DomainController $dc
}

Does the output change based on the DC specified?

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 11:07 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

I tried the script on one of the mailbox servers and it only came back with the 
server I ran it on.  For some reason when I ran your script the first time it 
came back with everything.  Since that it's only coming back with the server I 
run the script on.  And again, when I run Get-ExchangeServer on the EMS it 
comes back with all the CAS/HUB and mailbox servers and not the 2 I saw on the 
first run.

I'm intrigued by that first listing showing the decommissioned servers where 
IsValid was marked as True.  Does that give a clue where these 2 servers are 
hiding?

Paul

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 5:10 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

That begins to sound like AD DS weirdness.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 5:56 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Okay, this is weird.  When I ran the script the first time there were 12 
servers listed under the ExchangeServer header - including 2 that were 
decommissioned.
Now when I run it there is only one - and it's the one I ran the script from 
and should be there but I don't see the other 9.

 
-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 4:31 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

That doesn't make any sense. That's exactly what the script does:

$parameters = @{
'Status' = $true
}

if( -not $allServers )
{
$parameters += @{ 'Identity' = $env:ComputerName }
}

$r = Get-ExchangeServer @parameters

$r | fl Name, Identity, Fqdn, Edition, 
Site, OrganizationalUnit, ServerRole, 
AdminDisplayVersion, ExchangeVersion, 
Static*, Current*,
Is*

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 5:22 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

No, they do not show up.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 4:10 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Does "Get-ExchangeServer -Status" find the old servers? I bet it does...

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 5:00 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Interesting.  When I run your script 2 decommissioned Exchange servers show up 
under the ExchangeServer header.
When I run a Get-ExchangeServer command alone they do not.  
So what information are you pulling down that the Get-ExchangeServer alone 
isn't?
Additionally, everything listed under those 2 servers is either null or "False" 
except for "IsValid" which is "True"

Paul


-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August

[Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name incorrect

[Michael B. Smith]

That doesn't make any sense. That's exactly what the script does:

$parameters = @{
'Status' = $true
}

if( -not $allServers )
{
$parameters += @{ 'Identity' = $env:ComputerName }
}

$r = Get-ExchangeServer @parameters

$r | fl Name, Identity, Fqdn, Edition, 
Site, OrganizationalUnit, ServerRole, 
AdminDisplayVersion, ExchangeVersion, 
Static*, Current*,
Is*

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 5:22 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

No, they do not show up.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 4:10 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Does "Get-ExchangeServer -Status" find the old servers? I bet it does...

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 5:00 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Interesting.  When I run your script 2 decommissioned Exchange servers show up 
under the ExchangeServer header.
When I run a Get-ExchangeServer command alone they do not.  
So what information are you pulling down that the Get-ExchangeServer alone 
isn't?
Additionally, everything listed under those 2 servers is either null or "False" 
except for "IsValid" which is "True"

Paul


-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 3:28 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Run this. (Save as ps1, run in Exchange Management Shell, the output is rather 
voluminous, so you should probably redirect to a file.)

This should tell you where the old server name is referred to.

I haven't tested this on Exchange 2010 in a while, but I think it should still 
work.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 3:48 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Exchange 2010 SP3 UR17
When I run Test E-mail Autoconfiguration on my workstation everything looks 
good except under the Exchange HTTP protocol heading where it has the server 
name.  The server listed was one that we decommissioned a while back.  I have 
Googled and searched for where this is coming from and I can't find it.  Can 
someone tell me where this can be changed?

TIA,

Paul
 
PS - Apologies if this is a multiple post - our spam filter seems to have 
acquired a dislike for the list's messages and I'm working on that.

[Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name incorrect

[Michael B. Smith]

Does "Get-ExchangeServer -Status" find the old servers? I bet it does...

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 5:00 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Interesting.  When I run your script 2 decommissioned Exchange servers show up 
under the ExchangeServer header.
When I run a Get-ExchangeServer command alone they do not.  
So what information are you pulling down that the Get-ExchangeServer alone 
isn't?
Additionally, everything listed under those 2 servers is either null or "False" 
except for "IsValid" which is "True"

Paul


-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 3:28 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Run this. (Save as ps1, run in Exchange Management Shell, the output is rather 
voluminous, so you should probably redirect to a file.)

This should tell you where the old server name is referred to.

I haven't tested this on Exchange 2010 in a while, but I think it should still 
work.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 3:48 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Exchange 2010 SP3 UR17
When I run Test E-mail Autoconfiguration on my workstation everything looks 
good except under the Exchange HTTP protocol heading where it has the server 
name.  The server listed was one that we decommissioned a while back.  I have 
Googled and searched for where this is coming from and I can't find it.  Can 
someone tell me where this can be changed?

TIA,

Paul
 
PS - Apologies if this is a multiple post - our spam filter seems to have 
acquired a dislike for the list's messages and I'm working on that.

[Exchange] RE: Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name incorrect

[Michael B. Smith]

Run this. (Save as ps1, run in Exchange Management Shell, the output is rather 
voluminous, so you should probably redirect to a file.)

This should tell you where the old server name is referred to.

I haven't tested this on Exchange 2010 in a while, but I think it should still 
work.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 3:48 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] Test E-mail AutoConfiguration HTTP protocol server name 
incorrect

Exchange 2010 SP3 UR17
When I run Test E-mail Autoconfiguration on my workstation everything looks 
good except under the Exchange HTTP protocol heading where it has the server 
name.  The server listed was one that we decommissioned a while back.  I have 
Googled and searched for where this is coming from and I can't find it.  Can 
someone tell me where this can be changed?

TIA,

Paul
 
PS - Apologies if this is a multiple post - our spam filter seems to have 
acquired a dislike for the list's messages and I'm working on that.



##
## Dump-CasInformation.ps1
##
## Michael B. Smith
## September 8, 2014
## michael at TheEssentialExchange dot com
## http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael
##
## No warranties, express or implied. Use at your own risk.
##

## Changelog
## v1.1 - 2017-07-14
## Add allServers parameter to indicate whether all Exchange servers are listed 
or just this one
## Add check for Get-ClientAccessService cmdlet to remove warning when run on 
an Exchange 2016 server

[CmdletBinding( SupportsShouldProcess = $false, ConfirmImpact = 'None' )]

Param(
[Parameter( Mandatory = $false )]
[string] $location= "location",

[Parameter( Mandatory = $false )]
[string] $server  = $env:ComputerName,

[Parameter( Mandatory = $false )]
[switch] $allServers  = $false
)

Set-Strictmode -Version 2.0
$myVersion = 'v1.1 2017-07-14'

$startScript = Get-Date
Write-Verbose "Dump-Casinformation $myVersion script starts $( 
$startScript | Get-Date -Format u )"

$location = $location.ToUpper()

if( ( Get-Command Get-ExchangeServer -EA 0 ) -eq $null )
{
Write-Error 'This script must be executed within an Exchange 
Management Shell'
return
}

"** GLOBAL  GLOBAL  GLOBAL **" 

$cmd = 'OutlookProvider'
"*** $cmd  $cmd  $cmd ***"
$cmdStart = Get-Date
Write-Verbose "Dump-Casinformation command $cmd starts $( $cmdStart | 
Get-Date -Format u )"

$r = Get-OutlookProvider

$r | fl Name, CertPrincipalName, Server, TTL, 
OutlookProviderFlags, 
RequiredClientVersions, ExchangeVersion

$cmdEnd = Get-Date
$cmdDelta = $cmdEnd - $cmdStart
Write-Verbose "Dump-CasInformation command $cmd ends $( $cmdEnd | 
Get-Date -Format u )"
Write-Verbose "Dump-CasInformation command $cmd took $( 
$cmdDelta.TotalSeconds.ToString( 'N2' ) ) seconds"

#

$cmd = 'ExchangeServer'
"*** $cmd  $cmd  $cmd ***"
$cmdStart = Get-Date
Write-Verbose "Dump-Casinformation command $cmd starts $($cmdStart | 
Get-Date -Format u)"

$parameters = @{
'Status' = $true
}

if( -not $allServers )
{
$parameters += @{ 'Identity' = $env:ComputerName }
}

$r = Get-ExchangeServer @parameters

$r | fl Name, Identity, Fqdn, Edition, 
Site, OrganizationalUnit, ServerRole, 
AdminDisplayVersion, ExchangeVersion, 
Static*, Current*,
Is*

$cmdEnd = Get-Date
$cmdDelta = $cmdEnd - $cmdStart
Write-Verbose "Dump-CasInformation command $cmd ends $( $cmdEnd | 
Get-Date -Format u )"
Write-Verbose "Dump-CasInformation command $cmd took $( 
$cmdDelta.TotalSeconds.ToString( 'N2' ) ) seconds"

"** $location  $location  $location **"

$cmd = 'ClientAccessServer'
"*** $cmd  $cmd  $cmd ***"
$cmdStart = Get-Date
Write-Verbose "Dump-Casinformation command $cmd starts $( $cmdStart | 
Get-Date -Format u )"

if( Get-Command Get-ClientAccessService -EA 0 )
{
$r = Get-ClientAccessService -Identity $server
}
else
{
$r = Get-ClientAccessServer -Identity $server
}

$r | fl Name, Identity, Fqdn,
IsOutO

[Exchange] RE: Test email

[Michael B. Smith]

You are wrking again

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 4:06 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] Test email

Kind and gentle people - forgive me.  I'm trying to figure out why I stopped 
getting emails from the list server.

Paul

[Exchange] RE: Migration to Exchange Online & mobile devices

[Michael B. Smith]

CAS

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Damien Solodow
Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 12:03 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Migration to Exchange Online & mobile devices

Would that be the source mailbox or CAS?
And people with Android that old are SOL anyway. ;)

DAMIEN SOLODOW
IT Engineering Lead
317.447.6033 (office)
HARRISON COLLEGE

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 11:53 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Migration to Exchange Online & mobile devices

Caches are often the problem here.

After a move is complete, recycle the app pools on the source server.

##
## Restart-AllAppPools.ps1
##
## Must be run from an elevated PowerShell session
##

Import-Module WebAdministration

$appPools = dir IIS:\AppPools |? { $_.State -eq 'Started' }

foreach( $appPool in $appPools )
{
   "Restarting IIS application pool $( $appPool.Name )"
   Restart-WebAppPool $appPool.Name
}

$appPools = $null

"...done"

.uh this may not work before Windows Server 2012. I don't know. You'll have 
to test.

Also versions of Android 4.0 and before are known to have issues.



From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Damien Solodow
Sent: Monday, August 7, 2017 1:42 PM
To: Exchange@lists.myITforum.com<mailto:Exchange@lists.myITforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Migration to Exchange Online & mobile devices

Currently running a hybrid between O365 and Exchange 2010 SP3 CU18.
Generally mailbox moves from on-prem to cloud have been going smoothly, but it 
seems really hit or miss as to how it will impact any mobile devices the user 
may have synching to their mailbox.

I'm reasonably sure this is largely due to the huge variance between ActiveSync 
clients, but are there any things we can/should check to help smooth this out, 
or at least a list of clients that work better than others?

DAMIEN SOLODOW
IT Engineering Lead
317.447.6033 (office)
HARRISON COLLEGE
550 East Washington Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
www.harrison.edu<http://www.harrison.edu/>

[Exchange] RE: Migration to Exchange Online & mobile devices

[Michael B. Smith]

Caches are often the problem here.

After a move is complete, recycle the app pools on the source server.

##
## Restart-AllAppPools.ps1
##
## Must be run from an elevated PowerShell session
##

Import-Module WebAdministration

$appPools = dir IIS:\AppPools |? { $_.State -eq 'Started' }

foreach( $appPool in $appPools )
{
   "Restarting IIS application pool $( $appPool.Name )"
   Restart-WebAppPool $appPool.Name
}

$appPools = $null

"...done"

.uh this may not work before Windows Server 2012. I don't know. You'll have 
to test.

Also versions of Android 4.0 and before are known to have issues.



From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Damien Solodow
Sent: Monday, August 7, 2017 1:42 PM
To: Exchange@lists.myITforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] Migration to Exchange Online & mobile devices

Currently running a hybrid between O365 and Exchange 2010 SP3 CU18.
Generally mailbox moves from on-prem to cloud have been going smoothly, but it 
seems really hit or miss as to how it will impact any mobile devices the user 
may have synching to their mailbox.

I'm reasonably sure this is largely due to the huge variance between ActiveSync 
clients, but are there any things we can/should check to help smooth this out, 
or at least a list of clients that work better than others?

DAMIEN SOLODOW
IT Engineering Lead
317.447.6033 (office)
HARRISON COLLEGE
550 East Washington Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
www.harrison.edu

[Exchange] Certification books

[Michael B. Smith]

Microsoft Press is offering some significant discounts on a number of exam-prep 
books.

https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/promotions/save-up-to-55-on-exam-prep-books-ebooks-141071

Disclaimer: I was a collaborating author on more than one of these books.

Regards,
Michael B.
@essentialexch

RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

[Michael B. Smith]

You should have an error, or several, in the event log. I’d check it out.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of NP
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 12:09 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

I had one member in the DAG where passive copies of the DB’s were suspended.  I 
resumed sync and then all the log files cleaned themselves up on our primary 
pair of servers where the DB are active.

But I still have random db’s on my passive DAG members where everything is in 
sync but 2 db’s on one server have logs left behind and 3 db’s on the other 
have logs left behind.  (100’s of thousands)

I’m going to wait until my backup completes and see if things clean themselves 
up.  If I get a successful backup and the logs files are still there I would 
think I’d see a gap between the backup completion time and the possibly now 
orphaned log files.

I’ve already regained over 2TB of space (on each of my 4 servers), that’s how 
bad this was.

Thanks again for your help.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 7:41 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Do not, Do Not, DO NOT delete log files manually. Doing that safely is far 
beyond the kind of support I can provide here.

There are entries in the application log regarding each backup and its result. 
You should be able to find out why those two databases did not truncate.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Me
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 9:29 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Follow up.  Executed Script and 6 of my 8 DB’s cleared the log files.  Does 
that mean the other two are just lost in space and I’ll need to delete manually?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of NP
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:37 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Thanks Michael, this is great.  To answer your question this is a 4 server DAG 
and on NTFS. 2012R2 next to latest build or so of Exchange 2013

Can I run this from any server or do I need to run it on every server that 
holds an active database copy?

If I understand the script correctly it’s just faking out Exchange and making 
it think the logs have been backed up?

Will it leave any log files behind and if so I assume it’s safe to delete?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:02 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

If you have a DAG, and are on ReFS, to the best of my knowledge this is the 
only supported solution. There is a Microsoft PSS/CSS tool that they use in 
“down server” calls that does exactly this.

If you aren’t on ReFS, there are some tricks you can play. But this (IMHO) is 
far easier.

And a comment I didn’t make earlier: after you run the script(s) below, 
immediately take a full backup! You’ve lost point-in-time recovery.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:49 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Pure awesome…

I quoted that years ago when asked what I would do in the Ops situation during 
an emergency where no or minimal space was left. I said "diskshadow". They 
declined to hire me on that premise. I still believe the method is every bit as 
valid and pretty much the only solution in some bad situations.

What a blast form the past:)
jlc

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 10:32 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Note: I don’t recommend this, except in emergencies.

Note that the script below assumes your databases are on C: and that there is 
not a volume named G:. Adjust as necessary.

That being said:

   [1] create a folder named c:\bk

   

RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

[Michael B. Smith]

Do not, Do Not, DO NOT delete log files manually. Doing that safely is far 
beyond the kind of support I can provide here.

There are entries in the application log regarding each backup and its result. 
You should be able to find out why those two databases did not truncate.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Me
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 9:29 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Follow up.  Executed Script and 6 of my 8 DB’s cleared the log files.  Does 
that mean the other two are just lost in space and I’ll need to delete manually?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of NP
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:37 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Thanks Michael, this is great.  To answer your question this is a 4 server DAG 
and on NTFS. 2012R2 next to latest build or so of Exchange 2013

Can I run this from any server or do I need to run it on every server that 
holds an active database copy?

If I understand the script correctly it’s just faking out Exchange and making 
it think the logs have been backed up?

Will it leave any log files behind and if so I assume it’s safe to delete?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:02 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

If you have a DAG, and are on ReFS, to the best of my knowledge this is the 
only supported solution. There is a Microsoft PSS/CSS tool that they use in 
“down server” calls that does exactly this.

If you aren’t on ReFS, there are some tricks you can play. But this (IMHO) is 
far easier.

And a comment I didn’t make earlier: after you run the script(s) below, 
immediately take a full backup! You’ve lost point-in-time recovery.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:49 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Pure awesome…

I quoted that years ago when asked what I would do in the Ops situation during 
an emergency where no or minimal space was left. I said "diskshadow". They 
declined to hire me on that premise. I still believe the method is every bit as 
valid and pretty much the only solution in some bad situations.

What a blast form the past:)
jlc

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 10:32 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Note: I don’t recommend this, except in emergencies.

Note that the script below assumes your databases are on C: and that there is 
not a volume named G:. Adjust as necessary.

That being said:

   [1] create a folder named c:\bk

   [2] within c:\bk create a file named online-backup.cmd. Insert 
these contents:

   @echo off
exit 0

[3] within c:\bk create a file named online-backup.dsh. Insert these contents:

# Diskshadow purge script.
set context persistent
set metadata C:\bk\online-backup.cab

# verify presence of 'Microsoft Exchange Writer'
writer verify {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7}
# exclude 'Task Scheduler Writer' 2012
writer exclude {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
# exclude 'VSS Metadata Store Writer' 2012
writer exclude {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
# exclude 'Performance Counters Writer' 2012
writer exclude {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
# exclude 'System Writer' 2012
writer exclude {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
# exclude 'FRS Writer' 2012
writer exclude {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
# exclude 'SqlServerWriter' 2012
writer exclude {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
# exclude 'NTDS' 2012
writer exclude {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
# exclude 'IIS Metabase Writer' 2012
writer exclude {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
# exclude 'IIS Config Writer' 2012
writer exclude {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
# exclude 'WMI Writer' 2012
writer exclude {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
# exclude 'ASR Writer' 2012
writer exclude {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
# exclude 'BITS Writer' 2012
writer exclude {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
# exclude 'Registry Writer' 2012
writer exclude {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f848

RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

[Michael B. Smith]

Yes, it’s faking out Exchange and making Exchange think logs have been backed 
up.

Without looking at the database header and each individual DatabaseCopyStatus, 
it’s never safe to manually delete log files. You can have up to the “database 
queue depth” of log files hanging around, log files that were generated during 
the backup process, log files that have not been applied, and log files that 
have not been replicated to another host. This can add up to thousands of log 
files.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of NP
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 2:37 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Thanks Michael, this is great.  To answer your question this is a 4 server DAG 
and on NTFS. 2012R2 next to latest build or so of Exchange 2013

Can I run this from any server or do I need to run it on every server that 
holds an active database copy?

If I understand the script correctly it’s just faking out Exchange and making 
it think the logs have been backed up?

Will it leave any log files behind and if so I assume it’s safe to delete?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:02 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

If you have a DAG, and are on ReFS, to the best of my knowledge this is the 
only supported solution. There is a Microsoft PSS/CSS tool that they use in 
“down server” calls that does exactly this.

If you aren’t on ReFS, there are some tricks you can play. But this (IMHO) is 
far easier.

And a comment I didn’t make earlier: after you run the script(s) below, 
immediately take a full backup! You’ve lost point-in-time recovery.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:49 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Pure awesome…

I quoted that years ago when asked what I would do in the Ops situation during 
an emergency where no or minimal space was left. I said "diskshadow". They 
declined to hire me on that premise. I still believe the method is every bit as 
valid and pretty much the only solution in some bad situations.

What a blast form the past:)
jlc

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 10:32 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Note: I don’t recommend this, except in emergencies.

Note that the script below assumes your databases are on C: and that there is 
not a volume named G:. Adjust as necessary.

That being said:

   [1] create a folder named c:\bk

   [2] within c:\bk create a file named online-backup.cmd. Insert 
these contents:

   @echo off
exit 0

[3] within c:\bk create a file named online-backup.dsh. Insert these contents:

# Diskshadow purge script.
set context persistent
set metadata C:\bk\online-backup.cab

# verify presence of 'Microsoft Exchange Writer'
writer verify {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7}
# exclude 'Task Scheduler Writer' 2012
writer exclude {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
# exclude 'VSS Metadata Store Writer' 2012
writer exclude {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
# exclude 'Performance Counters Writer' 2012
writer exclude {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
# exclude 'System Writer' 2012
writer exclude {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
# exclude 'FRS Writer' 2012
writer exclude {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
# exclude 'SqlServerWriter' 2012
writer exclude {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
# exclude 'NTDS' 2012
writer exclude {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
# exclude 'IIS Metabase Writer' 2012
writer exclude {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
# exclude 'IIS Config Writer' 2012
writer exclude {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
# exclude 'WMI Writer' 2012
writer exclude {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
# exclude 'ASR Writer' 2012
writer exclude {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
# exclude 'BITS Writer' 2012
writer exclude {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
# exclude 'Registry Writer' 2012
writer exclude {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
# exclude 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer' 2012
writer exclude {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
# exclude 'COM+ REGDB Writer' 2012
writer exclude {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
# exclude 'MSMQ Writer (MSMQ)' 2012
writer exclude {7e47b561-971a-46e6

RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

[Michael B. Smith]

If you have a DAG, and are on ReFS, to the best of my knowledge this is the 
only supported solution. There is a Microsoft PSS/CSS tool that they use in 
“down server” calls that does exactly this.

If you aren’t on ReFS, there are some tricks you can play. But this (IMHO) is 
far easier.

And a comment I didn’t make earlier: after you run the script(s) below, 
immediately take a full backup! You’ve lost point-in-time recovery.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:49 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Pure awesome…

I quoted that years ago when asked what I would do in the Ops situation during 
an emergency where no or minimal space was left. I said "diskshadow". They 
declined to hire me on that premise. I still believe the method is every bit as 
valid and pretty much the only solution in some bad situations.

What a blast form the past:)
jlc

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 10:32 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Note: I don’t recommend this, except in emergencies.

Note that the script below assumes your databases are on C: and that there is 
not a volume named G:. Adjust as necessary.

That being said:

   [1] create a folder named c:\bk

   [2] within c:\bk create a file named online-backup.cmd. Insert 
these contents:

   @echo off
exit 0

[3] within c:\bk create a file named online-backup.dsh. Insert these contents:

# Diskshadow purge script.
set context persistent
set metadata C:\bk\online-backup.cab

# verify presence of 'Microsoft Exchange Writer'
writer verify {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7}
# exclude 'Task Scheduler Writer' 2012
writer exclude {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
# exclude 'VSS Metadata Store Writer' 2012
writer exclude {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
# exclude 'Performance Counters Writer' 2012
writer exclude {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
# exclude 'System Writer' 2012
writer exclude {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
# exclude 'FRS Writer' 2012
writer exclude {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
# exclude 'SqlServerWriter' 2012
writer exclude {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
# exclude 'NTDS' 2012
writer exclude {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
# exclude 'IIS Metabase Writer' 2012
writer exclude {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
# exclude 'IIS Config Writer' 2012
writer exclude {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
# exclude 'WMI Writer' 2012
writer exclude {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
# exclude 'ASR Writer' 2012
writer exclude {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
# exclude 'BITS Writer' 2012
writer exclude {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
# exclude 'Registry Writer' 2012
writer exclude {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
# exclude 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer' 2012
writer exclude {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
# exclude 'COM+ REGDB Writer' 2012
writer exclude {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
# exclude 'MSMQ Writer (MSMQ)' 2012
writer exclude {7e47b561-971a-46e6-96b9-696eeaa53b2a}
begin backup

add volume C: alias shadow_C

create

expose %shadow_C% G:

exec C:\bk\online-backup.cmd
end backup
delete shadows exposed G:

exit

[4] open an elevated cmd.exe prompt. Cd to c:\bk. Execute the following command:

diskshadow /s online-backup.dsh

Voila!

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 12:08 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Truncate them yourself if space is an issue before the proper backup strategy 
is in place. There are few ways to do this. Check out the eseutil docs.
From: NP
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 8:50 AM
Subject: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Apparently we had a miscommunication between departments and our backup guys 
were only doing a DB copy when backing up our 2013 DB’s so logs haven’t been 
getting trunked for months.  That equals about 2TB’s of log files.  I’m not 
sure how to dig myself out of this (if we can’t get a full backup with logs so 
they are deleted) other than maybe turning circular logging on for a short time 
and letting Exchange clean them up.  Will Exchange even clean them up or will 
we still need to manually delete?
Thanks
Niles

RE: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

[Michael B. Smith]

Note: I don’t recommend this, except in emergencies.

Note that the script below assumes your databases are on C: and that there is 
not a volume named G:. Adjust as necessary.

That being said:

   [1] create a folder named c:\bk

   [2] within c:\bk create a file named online-backup.cmd. Insert 
these contents:

   @echo off
exit 0

[3] within c:\bk create a file named online-backup.dsh. Insert these contents:

# Diskshadow purge script.
set context persistent
set metadata C:\bk\online-backup.cab

# verify presence of 'Microsoft Exchange Writer'
writer verify {76fe1ac4-15f7-4bcd-987e-8e1acb462fb7}
# exclude 'Task Scheduler Writer' 2012
writer exclude {d61d61c8-d73a-4eee-8cdd-f6f9786b7124}
# exclude 'VSS Metadata Store Writer' 2012
writer exclude {75dfb225-e2e4-4d39-9ac9-ffaff65ddf06}
# exclude 'Performance Counters Writer' 2012
writer exclude {0bada1de-01a9-4625-8278-69e735f39dd2}
# exclude 'System Writer' 2012
writer exclude {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
# exclude 'FRS Writer' 2012
writer exclude {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
# exclude 'SqlServerWriter' 2012
writer exclude {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
# exclude 'NTDS' 2012
writer exclude {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
# exclude 'IIS Metabase Writer' 2012
writer exclude {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
# exclude 'IIS Config Writer' 2012
writer exclude {2a40fd15-dfca-4aa8-a654-1f8c654603f6}
# exclude 'WMI Writer' 2012
writer exclude {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
# exclude 'ASR Writer' 2012
writer exclude {be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4}
# exclude 'BITS Writer' 2012
writer exclude {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
# exclude 'Registry Writer' 2012
writer exclude {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
# exclude 'Shadow Copy Optimization Writer' 2012
writer exclude {4dc3bdd4-ab48-4d07-adb0-3bee2926fd7f}
# exclude 'COM+ REGDB Writer' 2012
writer exclude {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
# exclude 'MSMQ Writer (MSMQ)' 2012
writer exclude {7e47b561-971a-46e6-96b9-696eeaa53b2a}
begin backup

add volume C: alias shadow_C

create

expose %shadow_C% G:

exec C:\bk\online-backup.cmd
end backup
delete shadows exposed G:

exit

[4] open an elevated cmd.exe prompt. Cd to c:\bk. Execute the following command:

diskshadow /s online-backup.dsh

Voila!

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 12:08 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?

Truncate them yourself if space is an issue before the proper backup strategy 
is in place. There are few ways to do this. Check out the eseutil docs.
From: NP
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 8:50 AM
Subject: [Exchange] Changing logging to Circular and back?
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com

Apparently we had a miscommunication between departments and our backup guys 
were only doing a DB copy when backing up our 2013 DB’s so logs haven’t been 
getting trunked for months.  That equals about 2TB’s of log files.  I’m not 
sure how to dig myself out of this (if we can’t get a full backup with logs so 
they are deleted) other than maybe turning circular logging on for a short time 
and letting Exchange clean them up.  Will Exchange even clean them up or will 
we still need to manually delete?
Thanks
Niles

RE: [Exchange] Corporate contacts to phones

[Michael B. Smith]

There are a number of solutions for this. I have no opinion (which is why I 
didn’t speak up earlier), and they have widely differing price points 
(primarily, I think, because of the hassle associated with setting up the 
solution for many end-users. In that regard, a quick reading seems to indicate 
that the codetwo solution wins.).

https://www.codetwo.com/exchange-folder-sync/
http://www.easy2sync.com/en/produkte/e2s4o_features2.php
http://www.diditbetter.com/products/add2exchange-enterprise
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.davidhodges.publicfoldersync=en

etc.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 8:07 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Corporate contacts to phones

I stand corrected, no public folders in mobile OWA or Microsoft Outlook for 
Android or NINE.  That is a bummer.

From: Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 7:56 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Corporate contacts to phones

We publish contacts like that with public folders.  Don’t have any road 
warriors but with 2016 OWA it wouldn’t be too bad.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Alice Goodman
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 4:45 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Corporate contacts to phones

Oh Good Question. I have had the same issue even with On-Prem.. how to push 
Contacts to HVAC Techs who only have phones.

Alice

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Tom Miller
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 5:24 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] Corporate contacts to phones

What do you use for pushing corporate contacts to data phones?  We have Office 
365 here and I'm looking for a way to push our corporate address book to our 
technicians' phones.  Can this be done natively via Office 365?

Skype is an option but might be overly complicated.  These are HVAC techs who 
are on the road alot and need something quick and easy.

Thank you,
Tom

[Exchange] RE: Exchange Online Archiving (EOA) question - DPT/RPT

[Michael B. Smith]

Office 365 has added a new default folder named ‘Archive’ in each primary 
mailbox. Clicking on the Archive button moves messages to that default folder. 
It does NOT move items to the “Archive mailbox”.

There were a few MVPs, including myself, that thought the creation of an 
archive mailbox was a mistake. It now appears that Microsoft is also moving in 
that direction. They expanded the maximum supported mailbox size from 10 GB, to 
25 GB, to 50 GB, to 100 GB, to 125 GB in current releases of Exchange Online 
and in Exchange 2016 on-premises. The only reason I would now provision an 
archive mailbox is, for some odd reason, you really need to have a single 
mailbox with more than 125 GB of data.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Stringham, Steven
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 5:06 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Exchange Online Archiving (EOA) question - DPT/RPT

MBS:
Can you help me out with this short, nebulous doc snippet? Does “this folder” 
mean the whole archive mailbox, or some subfolder of the archive mailbox? 
Because if it is the WHOLE archive mailbox, not a subset of it, that would 
solve my issues.  But, if it is just a subset, then that does not solve my 
concerns.

Thanks again
Steven Stringham



https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn783294(v=exchg.150).aspx


Folder name

Details

Archive

This folder is the default destination for messages archived with the Archive 
button in Outlook. The Archive feature provides a fast way for users to remove 
messages from their Inbox without deleting them.
This RPT is available only in Exchange Online.



From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 7:59 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Exchange Online Archiving (EOA) question - DPT/RPT

I had to think about this for a while.

In a word: no.

I’d forget using archives, personally. Just import those mailboxes to the cloud 
AS A DIFFERENT USER. Then put them under permanent hold. Then manage the 
original mailboxes with a DPT of 180 day permanent delete.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stringham, Steven
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 3:40 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] Exchange Online Archiving (EOA) question - DPT/RPT

I know that with on premises exchange – a DPT or RPT tag will apply both to the 
primary mailbox and to the archive.  Is this true in a hybrid environment?

Here is my issue. I have number of mailboxes that are huge (think 100g+). We 
wish to archive the contents of these mailboxes – to store like forever –to EOA 
in a hybrid environment. Then, we would like to change in the future to setup 
retention polices to remove email older than 180 days from the primary 
mailboxes for ongoing email once the migration to EOA of all that old data is 
completed..  But, we do NOT want the old messages in the EOA do be removed when 
we do this. That, we wish to just retain forever (kinda).

Does EOA have retention policies that will apply to Just the EOA archive, and 
not to the primary mailbox?





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[Exchange] RE: Exchange Online Archiving (EOA) question - DPT/RPT

[Michael B. Smith]

I had to think about this for a while.

In a word: no.

I’d forget using archives, personally. Just import those mailboxes to the cloud 
AS A DIFFERENT USER. Then put them under permanent hold. Then manage the 
original mailboxes with a DPT of 180 day permanent delete.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Stringham, Steven
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 3:40 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] Exchange Online Archiving (EOA) question - DPT/RPT

I know that with on premises exchange – a DPT or RPT tag will apply both to the 
primary mailbox and to the archive.  Is this true in a hybrid environment?

Here is my issue. I have number of mailboxes that are huge (think 100g+). We 
wish to archive the contents of these mailboxes – to store like forever –to EOA 
in a hybrid environment. Then, we would like to change in the future to setup 
retention polices to remove email older than 180 days from the primary 
mailboxes for ongoing email once the migration to EOA of all that old data is 
completed..  But, we do NOT want the old messages in the EOA do be removed when 
we do this. That, we wish to just retain forever (kinda).

Does EOA have retention policies that will apply to Just the EOA archive, and 
not to the primary mailbox?





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RE: [Exchange] Recall: multiple calendars for one account?

[Michael B. Smith]

It is to laugh! ☺

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 7:09 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Recall: multiple calendars for one account?

[outlook.office365.com] Connecting to remote 
server failed with the following error message: Access is
denied. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.

--
Espi


On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife 
> wrote:
Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife would like to recall the message, "multiple calendars 
for one account?".

[Exchange] RE: 2010 to 2016 Public Folder migration.

[Michael B. Smith]

Excellent!

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 8:00 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: 2010 to 2016 Public Folder migration.

Well, that was pretty much a non-event.  Went nice and smooth.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 11:25 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: 2010 to 2016 Public Folder migration.

You must have the hierarchy stored in at least one mailbox. That is what the 
first line represents.

Honestly, I don't think you need any of the zero size entries; but also 
honestly, I've never tried to be this granular, either.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 11:12 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: 2010 to 2016 Public Folder migration.

Do I need this first line?  Nothing in that folder ever.  Look 
okconsidering you don't know what I have? Below this is my foldersize.csv 
output. I nuked some stuff, I am unsure of \IPM_SUBTREE,"0"

\,"PFMB-Hierarchy"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Academic Services,"PFMB-Academic Services"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits,"PFMB-Building Permits"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Athletics,"PFMB-Athletics"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Crestwood,"PFMB-Crestwood"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Eastern Heights,"PFMB-Eastern Heights"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Edison,"PFMB-Edison"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\EECC-Admin,"PFMB-EECC-Admin"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Ely,"PFMB-Ely"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Elyria High,"PFMB-Elyria High"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Franklin,"PFMB-Franklin"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Jefferson,"PFMB-Jefferson"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\McKinley,"PFMB-McKinley"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Northwood,"PFMB-Northwood"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Oakwood,"PFMB-Oakwood"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Performing Arts Center,"PFMB-Performing Arts 
Center"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Prospect,"PFMB-Prospect"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Roosevelt,"PFMB-Roosevelt"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Westwood,"PFMB-Westwood"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Windsor,"PFMB-Windsor"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Bus. Services Contacts,"PFMB-Bus. Services Contacts"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Elyria High Fundraising Calendar,"PFMB-Elyria High Fundraising 
Calendar"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Elyria High Visitor Calendar,"PFMB-Elyria High Visitor Calendar"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Field Trips,"PFMB-Field Trips"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Financial Services,"PFMB-Financial Services"
\IPM_SUBTREE\IT Services,"PFMB-IT Services"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Staff,"PFMB-Staff"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Technology Lab Calendar (administration building),"PFMB-Technology 
Lab Calendar (administration building)"



FolderName,"FolderSize"
\IPM_SUBTREE,"0"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Academic Services,"5571035"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits,"0"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Athletics,"110184858"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Crestwood,"5911506"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Eastern Heights,"2645243"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Edison,"967387"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\EECC-Admin,"30052287"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Ely,"1047724"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Elyria High,"1389228411"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Franklin,"4667360"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Jefferson,"4620"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\McKinley,"2642239"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Northwood,"9139703"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Oakwood,"2897300"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Performing Arts Center,"437112733"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Prospect,"846588"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Roosevelt,"357753"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Westwood,"32362955"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Building Permits\Windsor,"1419638"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Bus. Services Contacts,"1964731"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Elyria High Fundraising Calendar,"1685107"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Elyria High Visitor Calendar,"2761807"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Field Trips,"12943127"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Financial Services,"3074831"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Internet Newsgroups,"0"
\IPM_SUBTREE\IT Services,"4462355"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Staff,"1739848"
\IPM_SUBTREE\Technology Lab Calendar (administration building),"7296542"
\NON_IPM_SUBTREE,"0"
\NON_IPM_SUBTREE\EFORMS REGISTRY,"

[Exchange] RE: Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016

[Michael B. Smith]

They don’t happen on Server 2012 R2.

It would be more proper to say that these issues are caused by interactions 
between changes that occurred with Server 2016 that Exchange 2016 does not 
properly handle at this time.

In other words, while Exchange 2016 is supported on Server 2016, there are 
known issues. And there may be some unknown issues as well.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Stringham, Steven
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 3:03 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016

To be really clear here – are this oddities of W2016 or Ex2016, even on W2012R2?



From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 4:15 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016

Ok.. I ran into two of the weirdnesses today. I mentioned weirdness earlier 
this week for this configuration…

[1] get-help doesn’t work. It spits out a couple-hundred errors and then stops. 
(This is scheduled to be fixed.)

[2] Before installing a CU, you need to reboot immediately before. And then, if 
you are in a DAG, you will be required to reboot in the middle of the 
installation of the CU and restart setup. Last I heard, this one was still 
under investigation, but actually seems to be a Windows Failover Clustering 
issue.

Just FYI.

Regards,
Michael B.



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[Exchange] RE: 2010 to 2016 Public Folder migration.

[Michael B. Smith]

Also correct.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 9:50 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: 2010 to 2016 Public Folder migration.

And to satisfy my OCD I can manually create this list to have a mailbox for 
each migrated folder?

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 9:40 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: 2010 to 2016 Public Folder migration.

Correct.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 9:23 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: 2010 to 2016 Public Folder migration.

So it makes one mailbox because I made my max size large enough for all of them 
to fit into one.

-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim 
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 9:06 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: 2010 to 2016 Public Folder migration.

Bit confused here.

Generated the FolderSize.csv.  It shows all 32 of my Public Folders.  Then 
generated PFMailbox.csv and it only shows \,"Mailbox1  Nothing beyond that, I 
expected a tree with all the PF's in it. Quadruple checked the syntax on the 
commands.

[Exchange] RE: 2010 to 2016 Public Folder migration.

[Michael B. Smith]

Correct.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 9:23 AM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: [Exchange] RE: 2010 to 2016 Public Folder migration.

So it makes one mailbox because I made my max size large enough for all of them 
to fit into one.

-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim 
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 9:06 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: 2010 to 2016 Public Folder migration.

Bit confused here.

Generated the FolderSize.csv.  It shows all 32 of my Public Folders.  Then 
generated PFMailbox.csv and it only shows \,"Mailbox1  Nothing beyond that, I 
expected a tree with all the PF's in it. Quadruple checked the syntax on the 
commands.

[Exchange] Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016

[Michael B. Smith]

Ok.. I ran into two of the weirdnesses today. I mentioned weirdness earlier 
this week for this configuration...

[1] get-help doesn't work. It spits out a couple-hundred errors and then stops. 
(This is scheduled to be fixed.)

[2] Before installing a CU, you need to reboot immediately before. And then, if 
you are in a DAG, you will be required to reboot in the middle of the 
installation of the CU and restart setup. Last I heard, this one was still 
under investigation, but actually seems to be a Windows Failover Clustering 
issue.

Just FYI.

Regards,
Michael B.

RE: [Exchange] Description of the security update for Microsoft Exchange: July 11, 2017

[Michael B. Smith]

Well, Office and Exchange are separate products, at least today. :)

Even though from an Office 365 perspective they are often bundled together.

It's a true statement about Office.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Katherine M. Moss
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 10:18 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Description of the security update for Microsoft 
Exchange: July 11, 2017

I'm an insanely heavy Twitter user (@Cambridgeport90 is my handle), so this 
rumour could have been erroneous. It did come from MyITForum, though. Hence why 
I brought it up.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 9:48 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Description of the security update for Microsoft 
Exchange: July 11, 2017

I have no inside knowledge on this topic, but Microsoft has publically stated 
that as long as there is a market for on-premises Exchange, they will continue 
to deliver it.

For large companies Office 365 is more expensive than on-premises solutions. I 
haven't figured the break-even point recently, but the last time I looked it 
was about 20 months for 2000 users.

But the real kicker is that not many features are going into on-premises 
software like Exchange and Office. It's not "cloud first" anymore (if it ever 
truly was), it's "cloud only".

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Katherine M. Moss
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 9:30 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Description of the security update for Microsoft 
Exchange: July 11, 2017

Interesting ... you wonder though just how much this is going to matter by 
2020; if Microsoft decides to go through with their threat of making Office 
useless but as a means to a subscription service ... a.k.a. Office 365 will be 
all that's left ... Updates won't matter then.

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[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 9:06 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Description of the security update for Microsoft Exchange: 
July 11, 2017

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4018588/description-of-the-security-update-for-microsoft-exchange-july-11-2017

Two XSS vulnerabilities and a redirect vulnerability.

RE: [Exchange] Description of the security update for Microsoft Exchange: July 11, 2017

[Michael B. Smith]

I have no inside knowledge on this topic, but Microsoft has publically stated 
that as long as there is a market for on-premises Exchange, they will continue 
to deliver it.

For large companies Office 365 is more expensive than on-premises solutions. I 
haven't figured the break-even point recently, but the last time I looked it 
was about 20 months for 2000 users.

But the real kicker is that not many features are going into on-premises 
software like Exchange and Office. It's not "cloud first" anymore (if it ever 
truly was), it's "cloud only".

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Katherine M. Moss
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 9:30 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Description of the security update for Microsoft 
Exchange: July 11, 2017

Interesting ... you wonder though just how much this is going to matter by 
2020; if Microsoft decides to go through with their threat of making Office 
useless but as a means to a subscription service ... a.k.a. Office 365 will be 
all that's left ... Updates won't matter then.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 9:06 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Description of the security update for Microsoft Exchange: 
July 11, 2017

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4018588/description-of-the-security-update-for-microsoft-exchange-july-11-2017

Two XSS vulnerabilities and a redirect vulnerability.

[Exchange] Description of the security update for Microsoft Exchange: July 11, 2017

[Michael B. Smith]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4018588/description-of-the-security-update-for-microsoft-exchange-july-11-2017

Two XSS vulnerabilities and a redirect vulnerability.

RE: [Exchange] Exchange 2010 to 2016 on premise - Upgrade

[Michael B. Smith]

I’ve seen a few weird problems with Server 2016. Let me just say I run my 
production servers on Server 2012 R2 and that’s what I recommend to my clients. 
But I’ve used Server 2016 and it usually works fine, but installation can be a 
hassle.

The management tools require a 64-bit Windows version whether on a client OS or 
a server OS and .NET 4.6.2.

Win7 is specifically not supported, nor is Server 2008R2 (the matching server 
release to Win7).

Client OS are Win8.1 and Win10.

Server OS are Server 2012/2012R2/2016.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Stringham, Steven
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 5:11 PM
To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com'
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Exchange 2010 to 2016 on premise - Upgrade

Thanks – I picked up his book – and am looking at it now.

Two other questions on EX 2016.


1)  Should we be considering Windows 2016 or 2012r2 for the Ex2016 servers. 
I saw notes where W2016 was a problem – and I need to be at least at CU3 of 
EX2016.  Any other issues that should make me wary?

2)  I know the admin GUI is now on a web page. What about the powershell 
tools – can this run on Win7? I am seeing notes on installing it on Win 8.1 or 
10, but not 7.





Thanks



From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2017 1:39 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Exchange 2010 to 2016 on premise - Upgrade

I think that all of us who wrote on Exchange 2013 lost money. Not that 
technical writing pays a lot, but it was a better than break-even proposition 
up until the release of Exchange 2013. I don’t think any of the “old guard” 
wrote for Exchange 2016.

The only author I see for the Exchange 2016 books that I know and trust is 
Brian Svidergol. This is completely my opinion. YMMV.


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Steve Ens
Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 3:09 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Exchange 2010 to 2016 on premise - Upgrade

2016 is much like 2013 with service packs...I run it in production and it works 
great.  Best resource is to do the migration in a test lab...hands on is the 
way I learn the best.

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 2:04 PM Stringham, Steven 
<sstring...@lrrc.com<mailto:sstring...@lrrc.com>> wrote:
We are presently on 2010.  600+ users.  We are starting to look at 2016. So, a 
couple of questions:


1)  Is 2016 ready for prime time? Are there big gotchas to be worried about?

2)  Reading list – best books/resources for study to prep for the upgrade.

Thanks
Steven Stringham




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RE: [Exchange] Exchange 2010 to 2016 on premise - Upgrade

[Michael B. Smith]

I think that all of us who wrote on Exchange 2013 lost money. Not that 
technical writing pays a lot, but it was a better than break-even proposition 
up until the release of Exchange 2013. I don’t think any of the “old guard” 
wrote for Exchange 2016.

The only author I see for the Exchange 2016 books that I know and trust is 
Brian Svidergol. This is completely my opinion. YMMV.


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Steve Ens
Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 3:09 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Exchange 2010 to 2016 on premise - Upgrade

2016 is much like 2013 with service packs...I run it in production and it works 
great.  Best resource is to do the migration in a test lab...hands on is the 
way I learn the best.

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 2:04 PM Stringham, Steven 
> wrote:
We are presently on 2010.  600+ users.  We are starting to look at 2016. So, a 
couple of questions:


1)  Is 2016 ready for prime time? Are there big gotchas to be worried about?

2)  Reading list – best books/resources for study to prep for the upgrade.

Thanks
Steven Stringham




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RE: [Exchange] recommendations for Exchange migration from Zimbra

[Michael B. Smith]

I’ve used Transend for this.

(And yes, I’m a reseller, because I’ve used the product a number of times. But 
it works well, otherwise I wouldn’t use it.)

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Katherine M. Moss
Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 2:10 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] recommendations for Exchange migration from Zimbra

Okay. How then do I keep both Zimbra and Exchange running for a while, though? 
Is that possible? I’m frankly tired of the nuke everything start over option.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael Pope
Sent: Friday, July 7, 2017 1:50 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [Exchange] recommendations for Exchange migration from Zimbra

We've done one of those migrations. We used everyone's PST files.

On Jul 7, 2017 12:03 PM, "Katherine M. Moss" 
> wrote:
Hey all,
We’re currently using Zimbra due to resource constraints; that was, until the 
other day when I was able to get a good deal  on a new server. We want to 
return to our Exchange-based roots. I’m curious what the most graceful method 
of performing a cutover would be? In other words keep Zimbra running until all 
of the issues are worked out of the Exchange deployment (we originally dumped 
it due to only one of us having issues accessing; even though all 
configurations for all of us were the ssame), aand so I need to know how to do 
that smoothly without duplicate things happening. Any recommendations? Thanks. 
Operating systems are Windows 10 builds 1607 and 1703, and Server 2016 for 
everything.

RE: [Exchange] June 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates

[Michael B. Smith]

Well, that hook is actually gone.  I can’t remember if it was removed in 2013 
or 2016 – but it was when store.exe was rewritten to have a separate process 
for each mailbox database.

Now, the ONLY mechanism to scan for viruses is via FrontEndTransport (incoming 
or outgoing email messages) and EWS (which is dreadfully slow and not suitable 
for this task).

Store.exe is now managed code – and with all the various a/v and a/m 
mitigations in managed-code, I don’t know that anyone has tried trying to 
reverse engineer hooks into the live processes.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Daniel Chenault
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 12:52 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] June 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates

Reminds me of how Trend Micro reverse-engineered store.exe to hook their AV 
product into the message stream in Exchange 5.x.

Of course now the hook into the message stream is exposed. Since 2k3 I believe.

Never did like brick-level backups; took longer and needed more storage.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 7:42 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] June 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates

Great.  Never considered they did it that way, that scares me.  Another reason 
not to do item level backups on exchange. Our awesome browser driven archive 
system will do just fine.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 8:35 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] June 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates

Backup Exec (and every backup program promising single-item restores) depend on 
non-public data – they are reverse-engineering the format of a mailbox 
database..

This is noted in the release blog.

Post release update concerning Cumulative Update 5
Several customers have reported problems with 3rd party solutions which provide 
brick level backup or single mailbox recovery as a reported feature after 
installing Cumulative Update 5. Cumulative Update 5 included an update to our 
database schema which caused some of these products to not function as they had 
previously. That change carries forward into Cumulative Update 6 as well. The 
practice of updating the database schema has long been in place with Exchange 
Server. Microsoft has urged developers to not consider the schema to be 
immutable nor to program against it. The schema is not publicly defined and is 
a structure internal to the operation of Exchange Server. Access to store level 
objects is provided through publicly documented interfaces and structures only.
The Exchange Team


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[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 8:18 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] June 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates

CU5 breaks single item restores in Backup Exec.  They are working on it.

https://vox.veritas.com/t5/Backup-Exec/Exchange-2016-CU5-Support/td-p/830356

________
From: "Michael B. Smith" <mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>>
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 7:59:34 AM
Subject: [Exchange] June 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates

Released yesterday:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2017/06/27/released-june-2017-quarterly-exchange-updates/

The blog article and the KB articles do a poor job of explaining everything 
that has changed. 2016 CU6 includes a fix for the annoying Set-Mailbox bug 
present in CU5.

However, if you do a lot mailbox moves or discovery searches, I suggest that 
you carefully test it in a lab.  The same if you intend to apply CU6 to edge 
servers. I am not aware of confirmed issues, but I’ve heard some rumbles about 
these.

[Exchange] RE: 2010-2016 coexistence for ActiveSync

[Michael B. Smith]

2016 should automatically proxy to 2010. The endpoint from the perspective of 
the device is the 2016 server, so that should indeed be what is reflected in 
the device configuration.

I would wonder about how you have the EAS vDirs configured, both for URLs and 
authentication.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 2:37 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: 2010-2016 coexistence for ActiveSync

I should add, a mailbox on the 2016 server with the temp.domain.com set up 
works just fine.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 2:20 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] 2010-2016 coexistence for ActiveSync

Pre upgrade environment.

1 2010 CAScas.domain.com
2 2010 MBX


Current environment.

1 2010 CAS
2 2010 MBX
1 2016 Exch box  temp.domain.com


So, the next step is to get the 2016 box to act as the CAS for the mailboxes on 
the 2 2010 MBX boxes for OWA and ActiveSync.  Got OWA no problem.  ActiveSync 
for Android/iPhone is not co-operating.  Looking at the above, what I am trying 
is to just manually edit the account info on the phone show the server is 
temp.domain.com

Windows Auth for Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync on the 2010 CAS.

[Exchange] June 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates

[Michael B. Smith]

Released yesterday:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2017/06/27/released-june-2017-quarterly-exchange-updates/

The blog article and the KB articles do a poor job of explaining everything 
that has changed. 2016 CU6 includes a fix for the annoying Set-Mailbox bug 
present in CU5.

However, if you do a lot mailbox moves or discovery searches, I suggest that 
you carefully test it in a lab.  The same if you intend to apply CU6 to edge 
servers. I am not aware of confirmed issues, but I've heard some rumbles about 
these.

RE: [Exchange] .NET 4.7 and Exchange 2010 on 2008 R2

[Michael B. Smith]

Officially, I can't say anything more than the EHLO post says.

However, unofficially I will tell you this: neither Exchange 2010 or Exchange 
2013 will EVER be certified on .NET 4.7, unless some company pays for it to be 
certified.

As for Exchange 2016, there are no expectations of problems, HOWEVER, it has 
not yet been certified. This is in process, but I can't give you a date (I 
don't have one -- they don't tell MVPs either, more than a day or two before 
this kind of announcement). There WERE issues with 4.6.2, which also was not 
expected, but until the .NET team released a critical update, it was not 
supported.

The Supportability Matrix is ALWAYS the public documentation of supportability. 
If a combination is NOT listed as supported -- it is not supported. This matrix 
is always updated immediately (which means within 2 business days) of a 
supportability change. The Exchange PG has promised that will always be true, 
within the foreseeable future.

-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kurt Buff
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 4:47 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] .NET 4.7 and Exchange 2010 on 2008 R2

I saw the warning from MSFT regarding not installing this on machines running 
Exchange.

I presume this goes double for E2010/2008R2, so I'm holding off on it for now.

Am I correct?

Does anyone here have insight into if/when this situation will change to allow 
the update?

Kurt

[Exchange] RE: Exchange 2013 & MRM 2.0 / Message Retention after upgrade

[Michael B. Smith]

After MSFT release OneNote, very little attention was paid to Notes in Exchange.

I’ve never seen this before, but I’ve posed your question to the MVP community 
at large to see if anyone has a comment.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Puchalski, Mark A.
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 7:50 AM
To: exchange@lists.myITforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] Exchange 2013 & MRM 2.0 / Message Retention after upgrade

At the beginning of the year, we migrated from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013.  
In 2007, we were using managed folder mailbox policies to implement a retention 
policy for all users.  Basically, we purged email from all folders after 90 
days from receipt.  Trash was purged after 30 days.  We had policies in place 
for Calendar, Notes and Tasks that we would not purge them.

Using MRM 2.0 and retention tags, we setup the same policy structure in 2013.  
The default policy tag (DPT) is set at  the 90 day purge.  Trash is set at 30 
days, and we have policies set for Calendar, Notes and Tasks with ‘unlimited’ 
retention period.  We also added the necessary registry settings to prevent 
calendar items from purging.

We found in pilot that when we applied the policies to a mailbox, it started to 
purge notes.  Since most notes were created years ago, they started 
disappearing right away.  We spent many hours troubleshooting with MS and it 
was noted that at first the Notes retention tag was applying, but then the DPT 
was applied, and that caused the notes to purge.  If we created a new Note in 
2013, it got the correct retention tag, and was not set to purge.  This was all 
viewable through MFCMAPI.  In the end, we had to manually modify all notes for 
all users to get the proper tag to apply after conversion to 2013, and then 
could apply the retention policies.

Has anyone else had this problem with a 2007 to 2013 conversion?  I am aware of 
1 other company that had this issue in a 2013 conversion.  MS has eaten up over 
120 hours on our EA support contract, so we are looking at a hefty bill.  
Initially, they were indicating that it looked like a bug, and we’d get our 
hours refunded.  However, now they’re saying they can’t repro in their lab.  
They did hours of traces, but apparently those don’t provide any useful 
information.  They wanted to try in our environment, but we had to decommission 
the 2007 servers prior to EOL in March of this year.  Basically, I’m looking 
for any additional information I can find (e.g. MS ticket numbers from others 
who have had this problem) that will assist in pushing for a bug designation, 
or at the very least, some significant relief in hours that were spent in 
troubleshooting.

Thanks.



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[Exchange] RE: 2013: Browse install paths prompt for permission to access

[Michael B. Smith]

Windows update doesn’t impact Exchange file permissions…

Check group policies to make sure they aren’t at fault.

Then check changes in permission at the root of the volume. Perhaps someone 
overrode the defaults?

Do you have the proper install media and all of the above checks look ok?

If so, I’d probably go through the “reinstall route”:

Make a server backup
Setup /prepareSchema
Setup /prepareAD
Setup /prepareAllDomains
Setup /m:upgrade
Verify operation
If necessary, roll backup

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Adrian D. Henderson
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 11:08 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] 2013: Browse install paths prompt for permission to access

Hello All,

I have been notified by a customer that their OAB stopped working recently.  
Some google and an attempt to browse to the the xml file gives me an HTTP 500 
error, some suggestions are missing authenticated users on the OAB 
folder/subfiles.  I logged on to the server and went to access the Client 
access subfolder to get to OAB and was presented with the “you need permission 
to access this folder” and hit cancel (domain admin account, enterprise admin 
and exchange org admin memberships verified.).  The same for transport roles 
folder, which I know doesn’t usually prompt as I go in here for log 
troubleshooting.  The only thing I can think of here is a possible windows 
update!?  Naturally I am completely unsure how to go about this.  I suspect PSS 
is going to have to step in.  I can’t even think we can even apply a new CU 
down the road without total failure and its way behind, I think CU5 or so.

RE: [Exchange] Exchange rule question

[Michael B. Smith]

https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/outlook/3747-outlook-auto-download-save-attachments-to-folder.html

See section named “Automatically Download Outlook Attachments To Folder With 
VBA And Rule”.

There are several ways to skin this cat. This seems the simplest.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Tom Miller
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 9:40 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Exchange rule question

I see that you can save it to a folder in the Outlook cabinet, but not a file 
system folder.

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Michael B. Smith 
<mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
Sure. You can do this with an Outlook rule.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] 
On Behalf Of Tom Miller
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 9:11 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Exchange rule question

I'm looking for a rule if this is possible:  messages with attachments would 
place the attachments in a specific file system folder via drive mapping or 
UNC.  One of our AP persons here does alot of manual saving attachments, then 
scanning.  If I would have the attachments saved to an external folder, that 
would save some time.

Thank you,
Tom

RE: [Exchange] Exchange rule question

[Michael B. Smith]

Sure. You can do this with an Outlook rule.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Tom Miller
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 9:11 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] Exchange rule question

I'm looking for a rule if this is possible:  messages with attachments would 
place the attachments in a specific file system folder via drive mapping or 
UNC.  One of our AP persons here does alot of manual saving attachments, then 
scanning.  If I would have the attachments saved to an external folder, that 
would save some time.

Thank you,
Tom

[Exchange] RE: Reporting on who has rules

[Michael B. Smith]

Also be aware that, by default, via OWA Options, people can set their 
ForwardingSmtpAddress.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Miller Bonnie L.
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 11:59 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Reporting on who has rules

Thanks so much John, I'll give this a go!

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Senter, John
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 8:33 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] RE: Reporting on who has rules

=== Find forward rules ===
$mydata = @()
foreach ($i in (Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited)) {
$Result = Get-InboxRule -Mailbox $i.DistinguishedName | where {($_.ForwardTo) 
-and ($_.ForwardTo -like "*smtp:*")}
$mydata += ($Result |  select-object -property 
@{Name="UserName";Expression={(get-user -Identity 
$_.MailboxOwnerID).displayname}},
@{Name="Rule Enabled";Expression={$_.Enabled}},
@{Name="Rule Name";Expression={$_.Name}},
@{Name="Forward To";Expression={$_.ForwardTo}},
@{Name="Description";Expression={$_.Description}})
}
$mydata | export-csv e:\Scripts\FwdRuleOutput.csv -NoTypeInformation -Force


===Find redirect rules ===
$mydata = @()
foreach ($i in (Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited)) {
$Result = Get-InboxRule -Mailbox $i.DistinguishedName | where {($_.ReDirectTo) 
-and ($_.ReDirectTo -like "*smtp:*")}
$mydata += ($Result |  select-object -property 
@{Name="UserName";Expression={(get-user -Identity 
$_.MailboxOwnerID).displayname}},
@{Name="Rule Enabled";Expression={$_.Enabled}},
@{Name="Rule Name";Expression={$_.Name}},
@{Name="Redirect To";Expression={$_.ReDirectTo}},
@{Name="Description";Expression={$_.Description}})
}
$mydata | export-csv e:\Scripts\RedirRuleOutput.csv -NoTypeInformation -Force



===Remove Inbox Rules===
Remove-InboxRule -Mailbox  -identity "" 
-force -confirm:$false

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Miller Bonnie L.
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2017 11:16 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] Reporting on who has rules

Exchange 2013, I've been asked to create a report on who has mailbox rules 
enabled that might do a redirect to an external e-mail account (due to a 
targeted phishing attack, to make sure something isn't in place that we don't 
know about).  I've never had to do anything like this before, anyone know the 
best way to go about this or what to search on to get started?

-Bonnie

RE: [Exchange] Office 365 support for Exchange

[Michael B. Smith]

I understand and agree.

Still ask for an escalation. “Asking around” isn’t a suitable or professional 
response.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Tom Miller
Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2017 10:26 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Office 365 support for Exchange

I called in the case on Monday.  I was told that he "asked around" and that a 
restore was not possible.  I find that unacceptable given what we are charged 
for business E3.  The technician even told me to get an archiving product.  
Really?!

To me the support experience was better with the "old" way and I worked with 
some skilled professionals.  This one guy I worked with this week seemed like 
he didn't even understand how Office 365 works and was very "Level I".  I also 
have no way to track cases like I used to.  I would hardly call this an 
improvement.

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Michael B. Smith 
<mich...@smithcons.com<mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
How long has the account been gone?

If it is less than 30 days, request an escalation.

Yes, the support experience is changing. I don’t have details, that’s all 
they’ve told MVPs, that “things are changing”.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com>] 
On Behalf Of Tom Miller
Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2017 9:57 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: [Exchange] Office 365 support for Exchange

Something is different with Office 365 support.  I used to be able to register 
an issue online and view ticket status and such.  Now I have to do this thing 
where I have a technician call me.  So far technicians seem to be USA based - 
perhaps a change in Microsoft's support model?

Today Microsoft told me that they cannot restore a user's e-mail account.  We 
have Office 365 E3 business.  I have had Microsoft provide e-mail restores in 
the past...so what's going on?  Anyone having the same experience?

Tom

RE: [Exchange] Office 365 support for Exchange

[Michael B. Smith]

How long has the account been gone?

If it is less than 30 days, request an escalation.

Yes, the support experience is changing. I don’t have details, that’s all 
they’ve told MVPs, that “things are changing”.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Tom Miller
Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2017 9:57 AM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] Office 365 support for Exchange

Something is different with Office 365 support.  I used to be able to register 
an issue online and view ticket status and such.  Now I have to do this thing 
where I have a technician call me.  So far technicians seem to be USA based - 
perhaps a change in Microsoft's support model?

Today Microsoft told me that they cannot restore a user's e-mail account.  We 
have Office 365 E3 business.  I have had Microsoft provide e-mail restores in 
the past...so what's going on?  Anyone having the same experience?

Tom

[Exchange] RE: OT question on auto attachment removal @ 365

[Michael B. Smith]

Not so much.

EOL doesn’t support transport agents. And probably never will.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Rick Berry
Sent: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 4:09 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [Exchange] OT question on auto attachment removal @ 365

Once upon a time, we had a customer using codetwo exch rules pro to perform a 
few bits of magic for their premise system, including the auto-pull of 
attachments to a specific email box and dropping those into a folder (where 
they got sucked into an accounting system).

That CodeTwo product doesn’t do 365.

Anyone aware of a 3rd party tool that would automate/semi-automate the saving 
of attachments to a specific email address?  Trying to avoid running Outlook + 
rules perpetually inside a VM or RDS session against that mailbox, but I’m 
struggling to google for something relevant.

Thanks in advance.

-Rick

RE: [Exchange] Weird email access/wrong mailbox.

[Michael B. Smith]

What is your reverse proxy? I’ve never seen this issue with WAP, ARR, UAG, or 
TMG….

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 2:54 PM
To: Exchange List
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Weird email access/wrong mailbox.

Much appreciated.

No Netscaler here, but we do have a reverse proxy..and it happened right when I 
switched to Forms.  I have rolled that back and am going to cross my fingers as 
a 2016 upgrade has been ordered with a new front end proxy/load balancer.


From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Tony Patton
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 10:40 AM
To: Exchange List
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Weird email access/wrong mailbox.

I found the RCA report from the issue, which had the following, and OWA is/was 
using Forms based Auth:
As the investigations continued MS and Celestix determined that their solutions 
were working exactly as designed and that the culprit was a setting on the 
Citrix Netscaler load balancer.  Citrix recommended that multiplexing was 
disabled and all agreed that there was no issue regarding authentication, all 
parties concurred that multiplexing was the cause of the issue and Microsoft 
advised that in every instance where they had seen breaches of this kind, once 
multiplexing had been disabled the issue never re-occurred:
"We have seen this with a number of other customers in the past and this has 
been conclusively shown to happen when Citrix Netscaler multiplexing is in use. 
At this point in time we do not have any data from your environment to confirm 
our suspicions but, based on your architecture and our historic experiences, 
our strong recommendation is to disable Multiplexing on the Citrix NetScaler 
-http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX124713”

The issue wasn't reported again after the NW team disabled multiplexing, but 
I've no information on whether it was at the service level or globally.

On 15 May 2017 at 19:43, Kennedy, Jim 
> wrote:
Interesting, nothing out of the ordinary in my logs. Network guy just came by, 
he had it happen to him also.  And all three were on the same weekend.  I did 
make a recent auth change from Basic to Forms about a week and a half before 
this started to make a SSO system we have work with it.

Wonder if the Proxy server is tripping over cookies or something from the Form. 
 Going to ponder it, but I may just switch it back.  This is Exch 2010 and we 
have never had this issue until now.  Same proxy server in place for several 
years….no recent updates. I missed last patch Tuesday due to vacation.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] 
On Behalf Of Tony Patton
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 1:46 PM
To: Exchange List
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Weird email access/wrong mailbox.

We had that issue early last year/late 2015 with OWA with one of our customers. 
 I can't remember off-hand, but it was something to do with multiplexing(?) 
between the Netscalar load balancers and Celestix UAG servers.

We weren't able to replicate the issue or find anything relevant in the logs on 
the Exchange servers.  The UAG servers are supported by the Security team.

I'll try and find the relevant information tomorrow when I'm back in the office.

Tony

On 15 May 2017 18:12, "Kennedy, Jim" 
> wrote:
Just got back from vacation and I have two tickets on some odd mailbox access.  
Both are phones, they would not have been on our network and would have been 
coming in from the net through our reverse proxy for OWA.

Going to just paste what they said, I have no idea where to look.

“Today while my class was watching a video I accessed my email on my phone. The 
page reloaded on its own, and I was in someone else's school email.”

“I had a very strange thing happen over the weekend to my email. I was checking 
my email through the browser on my phone and I clicked out of an email I was 
reading and back to my inbox.  When I did this I had someone else's email!! I 
tried to refresh and I didn't get my email back.”

RE: [Exchange] Weird email access/wrong mailbox.

[Michael B. Smith]

OWA on an iPhone? Painful.

I’ve not heard of this as a generic problem. And I think it would surface 
quickly.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 3:19 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Weird email access/wrong mailbox.

Using the Safari browser, straight OWA.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 3:18 PM
To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com>
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Weird email access/wrong mailbox.

Using the native clients? Or the microsoft clients for iOS?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 3:01 PM
To: Exchange List
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Weird email access/wrong mailbox.

And they are all Apple devices, Iphones and Ipads.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 2:50 PM
To: Exchange List
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Weird email access/wrong mailbox.

Interesting, nothing out of the ordinary in my logs. Network guy just came by, 
he had it happen to him also.  And all three were on the same weekend.  I did 
make a recent auth change from Basic to Forms about a week and a half before 
this started to make a SSO system we have work with it.

Wonder if the Proxy server is tripping over cookies or something from the Form. 
 Going to ponder it, but I may just switch it back.  This is Exch 2010 and we 
have never had this issue until now.  Same proxy server in place for several 
years….no recent updates. I missed last patch Tuesday due to vacation.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Tony Patton
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 1:46 PM
To: Exchange List
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Weird email access/wrong mailbox.

We had that issue early last year/late 2015 with OWA with one of our customers. 
 I can't remember off-hand, but it was something to do with multiplexing(?) 
between the Netscalar load balancers and Celestix UAG servers.

We weren't able to replicate the issue or find anything relevant in the logs on 
the Exchange servers.  The UAG servers are supported by the Security team.

I'll try and find the relevant information tomorrow when I'm back in the office.

Tony

On 15 May 2017 18:12, "Kennedy, Jim" 
<kennedy...@elyriaschools.org<mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org>> wrote:
Just got back from vacation and I have two tickets on some odd mailbox access.  
Both are phones, they would not have been on our network and would have been 
coming in from the net through our reverse proxy for OWA.

Going to just paste what they said, I have no idea where to look.

“Today while my class was watching a video I accessed my email on my phone. The 
page reloaded on its own, and I was in someone else's school email.”

“I had a very strange thing happen over the weekend to my email. I was checking 
my email through the browser on my phone and I clicked out of an email I was 
reading and back to my inbox.  When I did this I had someone else's email!! I 
tried to refresh and I didn't get my email back.”

RE: [Exchange] Weird email access/wrong mailbox.

[Michael B. Smith]

Using the native clients? Or the microsoft clients for iOS?

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On 
Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 3:01 PM
To: Exchange List
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Weird email access/wrong mailbox.

And they are all Apple devices, Iphones and Ipads.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 2:50 PM
To: Exchange List
Subject: RE: [Exchange] Weird email access/wrong mailbox.

Interesting, nothing out of the ordinary in my logs. Network guy just came by, 
he had it happen to him also.  And all three were on the same weekend.  I did 
make a recent auth change from Basic to Forms about a week and a half before 
this started to make a SSO system we have work with it.

Wonder if the Proxy server is tripping over cookies or something from the Form. 
 Going to ponder it, but I may just switch it back.  This is Exch 2010 and we 
have never had this issue until now.  Same proxy server in place for several 
years….no recent updates. I missed last patch Tuesday due to vacation.

From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com 
[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Tony Patton
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 1:46 PM
To: Exchange List
Subject: Re: [Exchange] Weird email access/wrong mailbox.

We had that issue early last year/late 2015 with OWA with one of our customers. 
 I can't remember off-hand, but it was something to do with multiplexing(?) 
between the Netscalar load balancers and Celestix UAG servers.

We weren't able to replicate the issue or find anything relevant in the logs on 
the Exchange servers.  The UAG servers are supported by the Security team.

I'll try and find the relevant information tomorrow when I'm back in the office.

Tony

On 15 May 2017 18:12, "Kennedy, Jim" 
> wrote:
Just got back from vacation and I have two tickets on some odd mailbox access.  
Both are phones, they would not have been on our network and would have been 
coming in from the net through our reverse proxy for OWA.

Going to just paste what they said, I have no idea where to look.

“Today while my class was watching a video I accessed my email on my phone. The 
page reloaded on its own, and I was in someone else's school email.”

“I had a very strange thing happen over the weekend to my email. I was checking 
my email through the browser on my phone and I clicked out of an email I was 
reading and back to my inbox.  When I did this I had someone else's email!! I 
tried to refresh and I didn't get my email back.”