Exchange Server and Office 365 offer many different options for forwarding messages to different recipients. Some of these options exist for users and others are for administrators. Administrators can also control how forwarding is handled within the organization. The forwarding options available to clients and administrators are described below. Each of these methods has…
Part 10: Datacenter Activation Coordination – My nodes not invalid!
The Start-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup cmdlet is used to restore failed nodes in a Database Availability Group (DAG) by joining the evicted nodes back to the existing cluster. When a node joins a cluster it is assigned a unique decimal value ID. For example, the first node is assigned Node ID 1, the second node Node ID 2,…
Office 365: Add an embedded link to an object in Outlook Web App
Outlook Web App offers the ability for users to add hyper links to certain objects within a message. Commonly this feature is utilize when converting a text statement to a particular URL. To invoke this feature the message author would highlight a section of text and select the Insert HyperLink action on the toolbar….
Office 365: Mail to deleted mail enabled user accounts results in NDR
Customers may have users with a security principal within their domain that do not have a mailbox hosted within their messaging solution. In this event customers choose to mail enable the user accounts. In an Exchange environment mail enabled users accounts appear in the address list as if a local mailbox exists but mail destined…
Exchange 2010 / 2013: What constitutes a failure of the replication network…
In both Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013, customers can deploy one or more replication networks in a database availability group (DAG). There can be many reasons for using a replication network, but in most cases they are used to provide a dedicated log shipping channel between members of the same DAG. As documented on…
Office 365: More options button missing when configuring migration batch
In Office 365 mailboxes are migrated to the service by configuring a migration batch. When establishing the move configuration settings a “More Options” button was present. The “More Options” button allowed administrators to configure the bad item limit and large item limit when the migration batch is created. In current versions of the…
Office 365: Why do my distribution group names change?
I recently worked with a customer that was utilizing directory synchronization to create distribution groups in their on-premises active directory and have them mail enabled within Office 365. They noticed that when creating these distribution groups the display name in Office 365 was automatically changed and differed from the display name set on-premises. Let’s…
Cluster Network Thresholds – A Good Read
Recently I was re-reading a blog post from 2012 about on Tuning Failover Cluster Network Thresholds that was posted by Elden Christensen, a Principal PM on the Windows Failover Cluster team. I think Elden’s post is a must-read for anyone planning a highly-available Exchange deployment. One of the reasons I find this post an excellent…
Office 365: Manage Office 365 features when Outlook Web Access is disabled on a mailbox.
When accounts are provisioned in Office 365, there are certain self-service features that end users have access to without administrator interaction. For example, when logging in and selecting Office 365 settings, provisioned accounts have access to software downloads and the change password feature. When an account has an Exchange license added to…
Database Availability Groups – Storage Swing Migrations
In some circumstances it becomes necessary to migrate users quickly between servers within Database Availability Groups. In some instances move mailbox is not an option. When storage can be maintained we can utilize the swing method to complete the migration. Some instances where these instructions have been implemented include: Replacement of off lease…