Cannot open mailbox Microsoft System Attendant

Issue: When trying to migrate the mailboxes in Exchange, throws the below Error Cannot open mailbox /o=First Organization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Configuration/cn=Servers/cn=MAILBOX01/cn=Microsoft System Attendant Resolution: Ideally it happens if there is no proper Database Home MDB mapped for Microsoft System Attendant mailbox for the server. In the ADSIEDIT, Locate the following path, CN=Configuration,CN=Services,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Exchange Administrative […]

Released: March 2017 Quarterly Exchange Updates

As expected, Microsoft released March 2017 Quarterly Updates for Exchange versions on March 21, 2017..Updates are subsequently released for Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 Versions. Rollup Update 23 is the last Rollup update for Exchange 2007 SP3 which is getting retired from 11-April-2017. Rollup Update 17 is the next Rollup update […]

December 2016 Quarterly Exchange Updates

Released: December 2016 Quarterly Exchange Updates

The Exchange team is announcing the availability of our latest quarterly update for all versions of Exchange Servers. The Exchange 2010 and 2007 Updates contain daylight saving time fixes, as both of those versions of Exchange are in extended support now. A new Outlook on the web compose experience Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 4 […]

TLS Certificate in Edge Server for Hybrid Mail flow

How to change TLS Certificate in Edge Server for Hybrid Mail flow

TLS Certificate plays important role in the mail flow between On promises and Exchange online in Hybrid Setup. If the certificate is not renewed or not updated properly in the On promises Inbound/Outbound servers which are configured in the EOP, You will end of with Mail delivery issues. On-premises Mail routing will be done by […]

Released: September 2016 Quarterly Exchange Updates

Microsoft released Quarterly release for the September month-2016, Below are the important updates for Exchange. Note: This release majorly supports for Exchange 2013 and 2016. There is no Updates for Exchange 2010 in the release. Which clearly indicates that Microsoft significantly reduced investing for further developments and there will be a plan to deprecate the […]

Recovering deleted public folders in Exchange 2013

The change in the architecture of public folders has made it easier for Exchange end users to recover public folders that are mistakenly deleted. Public folders, within the deleted item retention period, are recoverable from their parent folder in Outlook. After the retention period they can still be recovered from a full back-up with the […]

DAG Network Subnets Misconfigured Error in Exchange 2016

Came across the below error while configuring Database Availability Group in Exchange 2016. which is clearly shows that there is some issues with Network Adapters configuration of MAPI and Replication networks. After going though the deep investigation found the issue and got it resolved after doing the few changes in the Replication Network adapters of […]

How to Change Authentication Method for OWA in Exchange 2016

By default, When you install Exchange 2016 the default authentication method will be Domain\ User name. wherein some of the companies they feel uncomfortable to enter Domain\User Name. Let’s  see how to change to User Name alone for authentication. Login to Exchange Admin Center,Select Server–> OWA and Click on Edit Under Authentication–> Select User name […]

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 […]

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 […]