I am trying to document a SoP (Standard Operating Procedure) document for Exchange Server 2013 which includes the administration tasks, backup etc.
Can someone help please?
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Require help for a SoP(Standard Operating Procedure) Document
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Exchange 2010 cluster and VSS writer errors
Hi-
We have Exchange2010 with 3 CAS/Hub servers and 3 mailbox servers in a DAG - all are VMWare VMs. One of the mailbox servers just has some passive copies; two of the mailbox servers have active and passive copies and do the backups. We use EMC Networker 8.1 with the Networker Module for Microsoft Applications for backups. Those backups run successfully most of the time.
I'm experiencing the following issue:
Occasionally, the backups fail, and the next morning the system logs on the mailbox servers have cluster related errors. Also, VSSadmin shows the Exchange writer in a retryable error state. The backups will continue to fail until the writers are reset with a reboot.
This morning, the backup did NOT fail, but there were cluster related errors, causing me to check the writers on the mailbox servers. They were again in the error state.
The event logs point to a network error, but I assume the failure of the cluster could be related to unresponsive machines. I've asked our infrastructure team to investigate, and they have found no indication of a problem at the network, vm, or storage level.
Has anyone seen this, or could point me to diagnostic information?
Thanks
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Shared Mailbox Permissions
We've had users deleting messages out of a shared mailbox. We cannot have users removing messages. Currently they have FullAccess on the Shared Mailbox. I'm working in PowerShell and trying the commands:
Add-MailboxPermission -Identity xxx@xxx.com -User xxx@xxx.com -AccessRights ReadPermissions
However, I cannot open the mailbox via Outlook or OWA.
I've also tried:
Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity xxx@xxx.com:\Inbox -User xxx@xxx.com -AccessRights ReadItems
Neither of those commands are allowing users to open the mailbox to view the messages. The only way I get get the shared mailbox to open on another user account (via Outlook or OWA) is to give them FullAccess.
Are there any other options, or can I actually get the results I want? We're using Office 365, but it's Exchange 2013.
Thank you.
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Exchange Server 2013
I have installed Exchange 2013 on new server & migrated all accounts to new server including the arbitration & discovery ones. & after that I shutdown previous Exchange server 2013 to check everything is working fine. After shutdown the
server I am able to send mails outside but I am unable to receive emails from outside of organization.It would be great if you can let me know if I missing something or not migrated any mailbox (delivery)... please suggest me what to do?
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Database filter not working in Powershell command
I'm trying to run a powershell query to find what users have a retention policy applied to them. However, I'm also trying to filter out a database that contains service accounts, which should be excluded. The issue I'm running into is that the database filter doesn't seem to be working. if I use "database -ne mydb" I get all accounts, including from that db. If I use "database -eq mydb" I get zero results. I can see on the MS doc about filterable properties that this is one of them that should work with get-mailbox. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738155(v=exchg.150).aspx
Can anybody point me towards what I have wrong in this command:
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited -Filter {(ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy -eq $null) -and (database -ne "Service Accounts - DAG")} | fl name,database
I'm running exchange 2010 but I can't seem to find the right forum for that, is it in the archives somewhere?
Thanks in advance,
Joel
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Exchange 2013 EAC Service Pack 1 New mailbox cannot see all OUs when selecting Browse with "Exchange Organization Management " permissions
Single forest 2 Domains. When I go to create a new mailbox in the Exchange Admin Centre and "Browse" the Organizational Unit. I can only see a few OU in the Parent Domain and most in the Child Domain. I have tried "expand All" and
cannot see anywhere in the EAC to set a "Recipient Scope". The account I am using has "Exchange Organization Management" rights and is a Domain Admin as well.
The Exchange servers are members of the Root Domain.
In the "Select an Organizational Unit" menu there is a message "There are more results available than are currently displayed". I have tried searching as well and cannot find OUs that I should be able to.
All the servers have had Exchange 2013 Service pack 1 installed.
Any suggestions?
Regards,
John
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Exchange 2013 - Client Access Servers - Disk Space C:\ Running Low Space
Currently having an issue with both of our client access servers with exchange 2013.
The issue is that the C:\ drive will run low on disk space on one of the cas server and the other one will be fine. We have cleaned up all the logs etc to free space on the cas server that is running low on space but its not sufficient enough as it keeps on running low on space, then what we do the free up the space is to reboot the cas server that runs low on space, and it free the space up after it has been restarted, then the other cas server starts running low on space.
has anyone seen this before?
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Exchange 2013 stops receiving external email after about 8 hours
Hello,
Just installed 2013 excahnge server 3 days ago. We noticed after the first night that we did not receive any external emails throughout the night. I could not find anything wrong with receive connectors. Telnet works internally when this happens but NO access from public side testing with telnet. After I reboot the exchange server everything functions just fine and normal for about 8 hours until it happens again.
I dont know what to check or look for at this point. Very new to exchange 2013. Any kind of advice would be helpful at this time.
It is not a firewall issue. Same firewall and set of rules that we use for other/old mail servers. We only have 1 exchange server that has all roles.
Lead Pusher
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Exchange 2013 SearchAdminAuditLog Empty results
Hello,
I am using the following cmdlet Search-AdminAuditLog -cmdlets Add-MailboxPermission -startDate 05/03/2014 -endDate 06/03/2014 and get empty results.
The Add-MailboxPermission was executed 06/03/2014.
Could You help me to obtain the expected result?
Regards
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Lync 2013 'wipping' proxyaddress attribute in AD when provisioning accounts
We have a 2013 on premises server running Lync. We have noticed when provisoning users that the proxyaddress SMTP attribute is showing as being wiped out
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Exchange 2013 Monitoring Mailboxes
I'm running exchange 2013 and it seems to have problems with health mailboxes (monitoring mailboxes). I have 5 mailbox databases on this server, DB1, DB2, DB3, DB4 and DB5.
I know there are 2 health mailboxes per mailbox database.
The command `Get-Mailbox -monitoring | Get-MailBoxStatistics` shows that several of these have not been accessed since December, even though they are in mounted Databases and powershell shows they are healthy.
There is also 2 health mailboxes that are missing from the below output because I got warninings saying these mailboxes have not been logged into yet.
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[PS] C:\windows\system32> Get-Mailbox -monitoring | Get-MailBoxStatistics
DisplayName : HealthMailbox98fb2dc7692341ad8a3325ea2b14bbcc
ItemCount : 17426
LastLogonTime : 12/8/2012 3:28:04 PM
Database : DB1
DisplayName : HealthMailboxe27d88df28ae4d53af620604a83aca4d
ItemCount : 12386
LastLogonTime : 2/4/2013 3:29:46 PM
Database : DB1
DisplayName : HealthMailbox815f0ff077a342f7889a53ef38e40256
ItemCount : 291
LastLogonTime : 12/8/2012 3:26:43 PM
Database : DB3
DisplayName : HealthMailboxbca2f3409f1d4ae99098f48b574fc36d
ItemCount : 579
LastLogonTime : 12/8/2012 3:26:05 PM
Database : DB2
DisplayName : HealthMailbox2412e1a0e5d9415b8328f653b2e42efe
ItemCount : 209
LastLogonTime : 2/3/2013 6:08:41 PM
Database : DB3
DisplayName : HealthMailbox594b739a129941e688eafee6bbdfece6
ItemCount : 209
LastLogonTime : 2/3/2013 6:09:52 PM
Database : DB2
DisplayName : HealthMailboxc401cae2a70d4d659f5758908582406e
ItemCount : 210
LastLogonTime : 2/4/2013 3:28:59 PM
Database : DB4
DisplayName : HealthMailbox4b81211d555c4accad1f61a98700382e
ItemCount : 212
LastLogonTime : 2/3/2013 6:09:46 PM
Database : DB5
Warning: The user hasn't logged onto mailbox `<AD Domain>/users/HealthMailbox2c62876ca1bb45849c0daf2ecee6d715`, so there is no data to return. After the user logs on, this warning will no longer appear.
Warning: The user hasn't logged onto mailbox `<AD Domain>/users/HealthMailbox4399c592609a464d95c993ecee46f671`, so there is no data to return. After the user logs on, this warning will no longer appear.
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I am also getting a lot of queued messages in the inboundproxy.com queue that have the subject line "Undelieverable: Inbound Proxy Probe". I dont know how to get these to stop. I just have to clean out the queue once a day to prevent it from getting to large.
The last thing I notice is that I get a lot of audit errors in the event log when the system is trying to login to these mailboxes. That might be what is causing the issue. Here is one of the messages:
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An account failed to log on.
Subject:
Security ID:SYSTEM
Account Name:<computer name here>$
Account Domain:<AD DOMAIN>
Logon ID:0x3E7
Logon Type:8
Account For Which Logon Failed:
Security ID:NULL SID
Account Name:HealthMailboxbca2f3409f1d4ae99098f48b574fc36d@<domain.tld>
Account Domain:
Failure Information:
Failure Reason:Unknown user name or bad password.
Status:0xC000006D
Sub Status:0xC0000064
Process Information:
Caller Process ID:0x1265c
Caller Process Name:C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe
Network Information:
Workstation Name:<computer name here>
Source Network Address:::1
Source Port:34602
Detailed Authentication Information:
Logon Process:Advapi
Authentication Package:Negotiate
Transited Services:-
Package Name (NTLM only):-
Key Length:0
This event is generated when a logon request fails. It is generated on the computer where access was attempted.
The Subject fields indicate the account on the local system which requested the logon. This is most commonly a service such as the Server service, or a local process such as Winlogon.exe or Services.exe.
The Logon Type field indicates the kind of logon that was requested. The most common types are 2 (interactive) and 3 (network).
The Process Information fields indicate which account and process on the system requested the logon.
The Network Information fields indicate where a remote logon request originated. Workstation name is not always available and may be left blank in some cases.
The authentication information fields provide detailed information about this specific logon request.
- Transited services indicate which intermediate services have participated in this logon request.
- Package name indicates which sub-protocol was used among the NTLM protocols.
- Key length indicates the length of the generated session key. This will be 0 if no session key was requested.
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As you can see, the system can not login to to this health mailbox account. The one in my example one of the mailboxes that has not been logged into since december.
Is there anywhere to troubleshoot these? or possibly rebuild them? The is a huge lack of documentation on these mailboxes from microsoft, I can not find any commands to interact with these other then 'get-mailbox -monitoring'
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RPC request to the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service for log truncation
Hello all
Running Exchange 2013 CU3 on Windows 2008R2 sp1 in a two node DAG. We are seeing the bellow warning when running a backup. How to resolve this?
RPC request to the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service for log truncation failed for database CoramB3\Servername. Error: Failed to notify source server 'servername.coram.com' about the local truncation point. Hresult: 0xc8000713. Error: Unable to find the file. Also log files are not being flushedBulls on Parade
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Event id 10029 MSExchangeIS - Store maintenance assistant didn't perform maintenance
I'm receiving event id 10029, MSExchangeIS in my application event log every 30 minutes. All four databases report the same warning.
Store maintenance assistant didn't perform maintenance StoreScheduledIntegrityCheck for database DB01 during last maintenance control period (00:30:00).
Store maintenance assistant didn't perform maintenance StoreOnlineIntegrityCheck for database DB01 during last maintenance control period (00:30:00).
Store maintenance assistant didn't perform maintenance StoreUrgent for database DB01 during last maintenance control period (00:30:00).
Store maintenance assistant didn't perform maintenance DirectoryServiceAndStore for database DB01 during last maintenance control period (00:30:00).
Store maintenance assistant didn't perform maintenance Store for database DB01 during last maintenance control period (00:30:00).
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Event id 1012, MSExchangeIS
I'm receiving the following in my application event log.
Exchange Server Information Store has encountered an error while executing a full-text index query ("and(subject:string("SearchQueryStxProbe*", mode="and"), folderid:string("5642D8B75123CF4193D7F0C9F53C3C6300000000010D0000"))"). Error information: System.TimeoutException: Failed to open a channel.
at Microsoft.Exchange.Search.OperatorSchema.PagingImsFlowExecutor.ExecuteServiceCall(IProcessingEngineChannel& serviceProxy, Action`1 call, Int32 retryCount)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Search.OperatorSchema.PagingImsFlowExecutor.ExecuteSearchFlow(String flowName, Dictionary`2 inputData)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Search.OperatorSchema.PagingImsFlowExecutor.<ExecuteInternal>d__1f.MoveNext()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Search.OperatorSchema.PagingImsFlowExecutor.<ExecuteSimple>d__a.MoveNext()
at Microsoft.Exchange.Server.Storage.FullTextIndex.FullTextIndexQuery.ExecutePagedFullTextIndexQuery(Guid databaseGuid, Guid mailboxGuid, Int32 mailboxNumber, String query, CultureInfo culture, Guid correlationId, Boolean needConversationId, QueryLoggingContext loggingContext, PagedQueryResults pagedQueryResults)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Server.Storage.StoreCommonServices.StoreFullTextIndexQuery.ExecuteOnePage(Context context, MailboxState mailboxState, Boolean needConversationDocumentId, SearchExecutionDiagnostics diagnostics)
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Notification for new mailbox creation
I want to be able to get notification when a new mailbox has been created. Either when we create a new mailbox using EMC or Powershell the command is "New-Mailbox", but I cannot find it in the event logs that this has happen.
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How do you assign a user or group FULL access to all Exchange 2013 DAG mailbox databases?
How do you assign a group or user FULL mailbox access rights to ALL mailboxes in the Organization or DAG mailbox databases?
Commands I've tried with no avail:
get-mailboxdatabase -server “exch01″ | add-adpermission -user “domain admins” -AccessRights GenericAll
get-mailboxdatabase -identity "DAG database" | add-adpermission -user "user" -accessrights FullAccess
Please let me know if you can help! Thanks.
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LastLoggedOnUserAccount in Exchange Online/Exchange 2013
I know that the new version does not populate the LastLoggedOnUserAccount parameter of get-mailboxstatistics, but can someone link me official article that confirms this? I remember seeing this on TechNet, along with a brief explanation on why the PG decided to ditch this, however I am no longer able to find the article.
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who did mailbox moves
Exch2010 is there a cmdlet to view did that last move of a user's mailbox?
Thanks...
TM
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Cross forest migration mailbox permissions
Hello
i am in an environment that is currently in the middle of a cross forest Exchange migration. The company is migrating user accounts to target AD forest, and then creating Linked mailboxes in the Source AD forest. They are also setting mailbox permissions on shared mailbox that live in the source forest to user accounts that now live in the target forest. My questions are
#1 how is it possible to translate mailbox folder permissions on a shared mailbox that lives in source forest to user accounts that now live in target AD forest?
#2 When a user account has been migrated to target forest, is the mailbox that lives in the source forest automatically configured as a "linked mailbox" ? or does this have to manually be configured?
ADMT is not being used, we are using the preparemoverequest script and MRSProxy (2013 exchange server installed in the source forest)
Thanks
Bulls on Parade
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Issues with setting up Exchange Server 2013
Hi All
Not sure what im doing wrong yet i am having issues with exchange server 2013.
Currently I have got general SMTP Mail flow working. as long as i log onto the local servers OWA (https://10.x.x.x/owa) i can log into a users mailbox. i have tested sending and recieving mail using this and it works.
My main issue now is with accessing the OWA externally via our website. (owa.xx.xx.au/owa) or connecting ANY Outlook to the server.
When i connect to the exchange server via outlook it asks for the password again multiple times never authenticating it then time's out and says:
" the action cannot be completed. the connection to microsoft exchange is unavailable, outlook must be online or
connected to complete this action "
then when i click on OK it goes to the General Tab and under microsoft exchange server: the name for it appears as
0612bab0-7bfd-4ea2-ae31-3bec2370c8e1@xx.xx.au
with mailbox set as:
=SMTP:u.name@xx.xx.au
Currantly on our DNS i have
mx= 10 mail.xx.xx.au
CNAME= autodiscover = mail.xx.xx.au
CNAME= OWA = mail.xx.xx.au
A = mail = 12.34.56.78
On our modem/router i have set one-to-one nat to our firewall IP
On our firewall i have
SMTP SAT and NAT to Exchange server
HTTPS Sat and NAT to exchange Server
HTTP Sat and Nat to exchange Server
Port 587 SAT and Nat to exchange server
pop SAT and NAt to exchange server
Im willing to bet its something stupid i have overlooked but i was wondering if anyone would be able to help me out
Regards
Sibsy
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