How to Install Certificate in Exchange 2016

In this article, we will see how to bind the new certificate for Exchange Services in Exchange Server 2016 Open Exchange admin center, Server–> Certificates and select Server Click Import Exchange certificate Enter the Certificate’s shared path and password and Click Next Click on (+)  to Add servers Click on Finish You will see the […]

How to recreate Mailbox without deleting AD Account

If you delete the Mailbox from Exchange, it will delete AD account associated with it. So administrators will get very often confused. So we need to Run Disable-Mailbox to remove mailbox and Exchange properties which will not delete the AD Account. To remove the mailbox Run Disable-Mailbox -identity <Mailbox ID> if you run, Get-Mailbox -Identity […]

How to Install Certificate Services with SHA-256 in Server 2012 R2

In this article, How to Install Certificate Services with SHA-256 a.k.a SHA-2 in Server 2012 R2. Please refer Microsoft Article for more about SHA-256. Open Server Manager–> click on Add Roles and features Click on Next Select Role-based or feature-based installation and click on Next Click on Next Select on Active Directory Certificate Services Click on Next Click […]

Awarded as “Most Valuable Professional (MVP)” award for the year 2016

Feeling Excited to Announce that Microsoft has awarded me the “Most Valuable Professional (MVP)” award for the year 2016 in Exchange/office 365 which is a given to very limited professionals. It has been reached me on New Year Day@2016,@ Thirupati. As a IT Professional, Can’t ask better gift than this!!. I am really happy to […]

ADFS Proxy feaure in ADFSWAP Servers

How to reinstall ADFS Proxy feature in ADFSWAP Servers

Problem In ADFSWAP Servers, You will see that ADFSSVC and APPPROXYCTRL are running but APPPROXYSVC is in stopped state: In Event Viewer, You will get the below event Root Cause: The Above event is triggered when Trust relationship between ADFS and ADFS Proxy has broken. Resolution: Open PowerShell in the ADFS Proxy Server where you […]

Hub Transport Service is not starting in EDGE Server

Hub transport service is not getting started in EDGE Transport Server.Okay. let see how to resolve this issue, When I try to restart the service manually in Services.msc, I can see the events  17102 and 483 with descriptions in the Event Viewer Event ID:17102  Transport Mail Database: MSExchangeTransport has detected a critical storage error and has taken […]

Released: December 2015 Quarterly Exchange Updates

The Exchange team is announcing the availability of our latest quarterly update for Exchange Server 2013 as well as updates for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 and Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3. Cumulative Update 11 for Exchange Server 2013 and UM Language Packs are now available on the Microsoft Download Center. Cumulative Update 11 […]

SID

How to Convert SID to User Name using PowerShell

Some time we will be having requirement to convert SID to Group/User Name or Group/User Name to SID. Here I will show you simple way to do that using PowerShell. How to Convert Group/User Name to SID: Syntax: $Name = “Group or User Name”   (New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount($Name)).Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]).value Example: $Name = “Trace-Restriction”  (New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount($Name)).Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]).value How to Convert  SID to Group/User […]

Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 11 Released

Cumulative Update 11 contains the latest set of fixes and builds upon Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 10. As per Microsoft December 2015 Quarterly Exchange Update Notes, Cumulative Update 11 for Exchange Server 2013 and UM Language Packs are now available on the Microsoft Download Center. Cumulative Update 11 contains the latest set of fixes and builds […]

Exchange Server 2010 Servicepack 3 Update Rollup 12 Released

Update Rollup 12  for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 (SP3) was released on December 15, 2015. Microsoft  released Update Rollup 12 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 (KB3096066). The Exchange Server 2010 update includes a DST update as well as a collection of important fixes. From the Microsoft Exchange Team blog: This update fixes the issues that […]