Questions tagged [exchange-2013]
Exchange Server 2013 is the version of Microsoft Exchange that went RTM on October 11, 2012. It replaced Exchange Server 2010. Exchange Server is the email server product developed by Microsoft, and (most notably), integrates calendaring and contact management software with its email functionality.
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Good idea? Refuse incoming emails with our own domain ending? (because they must be fake)
I have a question about our Exchange Server:
Do you think it is a good idea to refuse incoming external e-mails that have our own domain in the ending?
Like external eMail from [email protected]?
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Outlook fails to connect to a load-balanced Exchange 2013 cluster through Direct Access 2012 R2
We have a load-balanced Exchange 2013 SP1 cluster, running MAPI over HTTP.
Client connectivity inside our own network works just fine, while clients connected over Direct Access does not connect. The ...
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Exchange Server Using Wrong Active Directory Site
Our Exchange 2013 server suddenly started logging errors about bad replication between sites (there should be no replication as there is no other server) as well as several other issues that appear to ...
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Office 365 - what is in the "Sensitive Word List" for spam filtering?
In Office 365 you can toggle a few settings to help with spam email filtering.
Among these is a setting to enable a "Sensitive Word List" as shown below:
The problem is...I can't find any list on ...
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How to recover data from an Exchange 2013 database after a complete Active Directory loss?
Scenario: a single Exchange 2013 server in a Windows Server 2003 AD domain; one DC malfunctioned months ago and was dismissed (without proper demotion, no less); the other DC died yesterday and there ...
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Updating to Exchange 2013 - any way to do it now?
Exchange 2013 is out, available for some epople already. Got if from the VLC Center, now trying to get an upgrade path that works for some customers.
Problem:
There is no upgrade. It is "install on ...
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Is it possible for a schema change to not replicate, and a object that uses that schema arrive at a DC?
I'm trying to understand the risk of updating the schema of a very large AD forest, where the schema has not been on every DC, and then an object that uses that schema object is replicated
An example ...
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Will a mailbox user know their mailbox has litigation hold?
Environment: Office 365 online. Version 15.1.933.16 (2016 CU4?)
We intend on placing a litigation hold on a users mailbox. Prior to placing the hold, I'd like to check if there is any way the user ...
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Exchange 2013 ECP/OWA/Outlook all failing - 503 Service Unavailable
My exchange server is really suffering at the moment. I do not know what has happened but when I connect via https (ECP/OWA) or via outlook (with in the network) I get 503 errors on ECP/OWA and ...
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Is there a way to restore deleted contacts via OWA?
Our users are on Office 365 (Exchange Online) and so I'm hoping this is applicable to those of you using Exchange 2013 as well, but I don't have a way to verify that.
I've never run into this before, ...
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Can't use UPN credentials with New-MoveRequest?
We're on a hybrid setup (Exchange 2013 on-prem), and MRSproxy is enabled and working. We want to archive our user's mailbox when they leave the company. So we want to migrate those mailbox from the ...
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Enable TLS 1.2 in Windows Server 2012 running Exchange 2013 via IIS 8.0
I got some issues getting the TLS 1.2 protocol running on one of our Windows Server 2012 machines. I checked this using ssllabs.com by Qualys and also tested with a powershell script and the linux ...
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How to determine if remote wipe succeeded?
Environment: Office 365 online. Exchange v15.1.933.16.
One of our global administrators performed a remote wipe on a mobile device via the exchange admin centre, and then 'deleted' the device from ...
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How to grant Full Access and Send on Behalf permissions in Exchange 2013?
We have migrated from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013.
We have multiple shared mailboxes and we have always granted users Full Access and Send on Behalf permission so that if a shared mailbox receives ...
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Exchange 2013 ECP unable to login
I'm so angry that it is possible to get into this situation, but here goes.
I had a perfectly operational exchange 2013 server which I was about to commission into production. Before doing so I was ...
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How can I prevent spoofed emails from outside thats using my internal accepted domain
I'm receiving spam emails sent from my own domain to my own domain. I'm using Exchange 2013.
Example:
[email protected] is being used to send spam to [email protected].
I can successfully ...
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VSS does not truncate Exchange 2013 Logs on Server 2012
I have a single exchange 2013 server on Server 2012. It is being backed up by Veeam and Veeam is utilizing VSS in its operations.
The backups are actually working fine, but at the end of backups, ...
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Outlook/BITS client can't download the OAB, returns HTTP 401
We're having difficulties with Outlook clients running in cached mode. They get stuck forever on "Offline Address Book is connecting to Microsoft Exchange".
The two Exchange servers in question are ...
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Huge mail.que file on Exchange Server 2013
I'm facing an issue with an huge mail.que file on the folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\TransportRoles\data\Queue.
One of our users created an redirect loop and the mailbox blow ...
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Server 2012 R2 Exchange 2013 Handle Leak
I have a DAG setup with Server 2012 R2 and Exchange 2013 running on three Servers plus another Server for a lagged copy.
We appear to be having a handle leak on all of the Servers, it doesn't seem to ...
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Is there a reason NOT to install the RSAT-ADDS tools on an Exchange 2013 CAS server?
I would've thought I already knew this answer. Maybe I'm just being paranoid.
I have a need to run a local script on a CAS server that would in turn utilize the Active Directory cmdlets. I need to ...
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Disable Outlook Web Access Junk filtering in Exchange 2013
By default, Outlook Web Access (OWA) in Exchange 2013 seems to move suspected junk mail to the Junk Email folder. This is undesirable behavior in most of my environments because we have Barracuda Spam ...
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How can I connect to an Exchange 2013 server with OAuth?
Our goal is to have our customers grant permission to access their email on an Exchange 2013 server with OAuth, without us having to store the customers' usernames and passwords. We already do this ...
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Where is the global address list stored in AD?
Where is the GAL actually stored in AD?
I always assumed in was inside of the GC. Is this correct? I know clients must query the GC in order to access the GAL, but is the GAL inside of the GC?
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Does OWA let users change their AD passwords once their passwords are expired?
We have a cloud active directory server which is running Exchange 2013. We have a lot of users with only exchange accounts and most of them will have their passwords expired in a few days,
I was ...
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How do public folders work in Exchange 2013?
I'm studying and testing Exchange 2013, and I'm quite happy to see someone at Microsoft finally decided to move away from the old PF database management and replication which has been a full-scale ...
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Reserve Email Addresses for old users within Exchange organization
Due to a software dependency, I have an odd requirement in my environment, while trying to clean up stale accounts. I want to remove all the stale AD Users and Exchange mailboxes from the environment, ...
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What's a reasonable max number of users I should put in a mail-enabled security group?
My company uses PowerShell to manage the members of thousands of groups. There are SQL statements and other "rules" that govern who should be a member of a given group. This solution does not really ...
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how to backup/export office 365 email to pst in exchange hybrid environment?
We have a exchange hybrid environment. (some users are in onpremises exchange and some users are office 365. )
When we want to export emails from onpremis we use , below command to export mail box ...
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Exchange 2013 Setup fails - Couldn't find the Enterprise Organization container
I'm working on an Exchange 2013 CU6 installation at a site whose AD was comprised of two Windows 2003 domain controllers (in an odd HA cluster configuration).
New Windows 2012 R2 DCs have been added,...
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Exchange Server Address Resolving to Random String
I am running Exchange 2013 on Windows Server 2012 R2.
When I add my exchange account to Outlook, it seems to work perfectly (sending/receiving email, syncing everything), but when I open the account ...
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Server 2012, Server Manager Dashboard
New installation of Server 2012 R2 with Exchange 2016.
The dashboard is showing 'Microsoft Exchange Notifications Broker' as stopped and giving a red error in the dashboard
It is normal for the ...
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Confusion about Microsoft Exchange 2013 RTM .ISO and Cumulative Updates
What is the best practice regarding deployments of Microsoft Exchange 2013 and the various Cumulative Updates available for the platform?
I've once made the mistake of downloading the Exchange ...
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Why does Exchange 2013 return wrong search results?
When using Outlook (2010 or 2013) in online mode with Exchange 2013, using the instant search field returns very odd search results. Searching in OWA returns correct results. Using an advanced search ...
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Exchange 2013 recipient filtering - reject after RCPT TO
According to this forum thread, exchange 2013 has a new behaviour for recipient filtering. Apparently, mails to unknown users are only rejected after the DATA-Phase, not after RCPT TO as this was the ...
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Exchange reply all copying sender
Symptom:
Users sending emails in Outlook or on a mobile device connected via ActiveSync or Outlook Anywhere reply all to an email message. The sender ends up also being copied on the reply as well ...
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IMAP to Exchange 2013 migration: powershell cmdlets don't recognize -IMAP
I've set up an Exchange 2013 where email is being migrated to. When trying to run the necessary cmdlets to start a migration, the -IMAP switch is not recognized. An example:
[PS] C:\users\...
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how can I make contacts from a shared Exchange mailbox show up in my Outlook address book?
Running Exchange 2013 with Outlook 2013 clients.
I have AD (2012 R2) users with mailboxes, that have also been granted SendAs and Full Access to various shared mailboxes.
These shared mailboxes ...
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Exchange 2013 Internal and External URLs with multiple servers and certificates
I'm building a lab with two Exchange 2013 Servers with different internal names and only one external URL, the naming schema is something like this:
Internal Names:
exchange1.local.example.com
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Office 365 - Outlook shows Global Address List clicking "Rooms" during a meeting request
This appears to be a "known" issue, but apparently no fix for it. However, I've been impressed before at the tenacity of the experts here to figure out an answer/fix.
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When booking a New ...
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Exchange 2013 Autdiscover request from other user
Scenario:
Test environment with Exchange 2013 servers, 1 mbx server, 1 cas server.
Autodiscover configured. This environment is mainly for learning/testing purposes.
Lets say I have 3 users.
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Identifying mailboxes with corruption Exchange 2013
We're preparing to rid ourselves of Exchange on-premise and are migrating from an outsourced hosting provider to go to Office 365. We're running a fully patched version of Exchange 2013, atop Server ...
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Smart Card S/MIME with Exchange 2013
I have an Exchange 2013 environment that I'm trying to implement S/MIME with smart cards. To the best of my knowledge, and the little help I have received on TechNet, I have configured my Exchange ...
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Exchange+Outlook 2013 - Read Mails turn Unread
I have a local EX2013 server and several Outlook 2013 clients. Some of the clients occasionally (once or twice a day) see a random read email turn unread with no apparent reason.
I went through the ...
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Fixing "server unavailable" login problems in exchange 2013 and outlook 2010
We've been facing some problems pertaining to expiring user passwords, causing "server unavailable" login problems for Outlook Outlook 2007 and 2010 clients on exchange 2013. The quick fix to this was ...
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Exchange 2013 Throttling Policy with Windows Server Backup
We have an Exchange 2013 Server having issues after the daily backup procedure from Windows Server Backup. Clients (mainly ActiveSync devices) try to access the Exchange Server during the backup ...
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How to get AD user's "Display name" instead of logon name (domain\userid) while exporting "send as" and "full" permissions?
I have googled and created two scripts . (1), (2)
(1)First one is to export "Full Access" of a shared email box called "ap.cz"
Get-Mailbox ap.cz | Get-MailboxPermission | where {$_.user.tostring() -...
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add exchange extensions to AD
we have a windows server 2012 with AD on it. we sync that to office 365 but a few of the options like moderated email groups are not present.
I contacted Microsoft tech support about this and they ...
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HTTP to HTTPS redirect with Exchange 2013 OWA
I'm trying to set up an automatic redirect from http://webmail.domain.com to https://webmail.domain.com/owa of our Exchange Server 2013 CU1 using the IIS interface.
The old trick to just redirect the ...
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Prevent Exchange 2013 from skipping large items (TooManyLargeItemsPermanentException)
I'm experimenting with Exchange 2013. After importing my mailbox using
New-MailboxImportRequest -FilePath \\path\import.pst -Mailbox test
I get the message, that importging completed with errors. ...
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