Hi,

Can I delegate access to users to create/edit/delete contacts in Exchange 2013, if yes, how?

Hello,

we use 3rd party tool for antispam and I'm unable to configure recipient verification on Exchange 2013 with SP1.

Basically i have done all steps described in article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125187.aspx and still i am able to send mail to non existent users (Exchange sends NDR)

My recipient filter config looks like this:

RunspaceId                 : a4ec4d9b-a68d-43e2-beb9-c397505d1321
Name                       : RecipientFilterConfig
BlockedRecipients          : {}
RecipientValidationEnabled : True
BlockListEnabled           : True
Enabled                    : True
ExternalMailEnabled        : True
InternalMailEnabled        : True
AdminDisplayName           :
ExchangeVersion            : 0.1 (8.0.535.0)
DistinguishedName          : CN=RecipientFilterConfig,CN=Message Hygiene,CN=Transport
                             Settings,CN=secureemail,CN=Microsoft
                             Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=domain,DC=priv
Identity                   : RecipientFilterConfig
Guid                       : d34e78fa-bc92-44db-80bb-85e300135422
ObjectCategory             : domain.priv/Configuration/Schema/ms-Exch-Message-Hygiene-Recipient-Filter-Config
ObjectClass                : {top, msExchAgent, msExchMessageHygieneRecipientFilterConfig}
WhenChanged                : 30/04/2014 10:29:43 AM
WhenCreated                : 01/10/2011 12:34:08 PM
WhenChangedUTC             : 30/04/2014 2:29:43 PM
WhenCreatedUTC             : 01/10/2011 4:34:08 PM
OrganizationId             :
OriginatingServer          : server01.domain.priv
IsValid                    : True
ObjectState                : Unchanged

I have allowed anonymous connection on default connector.

Also, transport agent is enabled.

My problem is that mail gets in queue even i don't wanna this to happen.

Any advice is more then welcome.

Thanks,

Ivica

Hi

After installing new updates for MS Exchange 2010 and PowerShell 4.0 I've got problems with PS scripts using buil-in

exchange commands.

I wrote interactive script for searching e-mails. Here is a pice of code where I get error after installing PS v4.

....

$SearchContent=Read-Host "Write sentence to find"

Get-Mailbox | Search-Mailbox -SearchQuery "$SearchContent" -TargetMailbox "Discovery Search Mailbox" -TargetFolder "Inner box" -LogOnly -Loglevel Full | Out-Null

....

After installing PowerShell 4.0 I get that bug and report in TargetMailbox is not genereated.

The property keyword isn't supported.

At C:\Administration\Scripts\T-SearchMail.ps1:122 char:1
+ Get-Mailbox | Search-Mailbox -SearchQuery "$SearchContent" -TargetMailbox "Disco ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   

+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [], ParserException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : 35E6C841

Using PowerShell 2.0 everything was ok.

How to solve this problem?

Tomasz

Kind Regards Tomasz

Hello!

Maybe this question should be posted on the Windows Server forum, but there's a chance that some one did experience the same issue exactly with the same network configuration as I did.

I have a testing environment containing two host servers (Host1 and Host2). Host1 contains the VM with the domain controller (DC), OS = Windows Server 2012 R2. Host2 contains the VM with Exchange 2013. All firewalls are turned off.

Starting today I began getting this error on my Exchange 2013 VM (and Exchange whould stopp responding):

This error means Exchange can't contact Active Directory, but the DC VM is up and running, DC does not have any errors in the logs, it can be easily accessed from the Exchange server machine.

I've eventually managed to find out that the cause of this issue is the DC's firewall: it either spontaneously turns on or keeps turned off but behaves as if it was turned off. Switching it ON-OFF resolves the problem.

I deployed Windows Server 2012 R2 on my test DC  for the first time, all my previous test labs were built on DC with Windows Server 2012 and I never had this issue before.

Is it a Windows Server 2012 R2 bug?

Thank you in advance,

Michael

Dears,

As I know by default in-place archive has De-duplication feature enabled, what I need to know is when this task is run is it once a day or it is a weekly task.

In case I need to reconfigure this De-duplication schedule how can I mange it.

Please note the exchange server version is 15.0 ‎(Build 775.38)‎

Thanks,

Ayman Saleh

http://WrinkleFreeIT.com/

Have been using Paul Cunningham's most excellent Test-ExchangeServerHealth script.  It has been running flawlessly on Exchange 2010 for sometime.  I moved it to 2013 and immediately encountered errors.  The error occurs down in the DAG test routine.  The error I get:

Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup : Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Exchange.Data, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=xxxxxxxxx' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. At C:\Scripts\TestExchangeServerHealth\Test-ExchangeServerHealth.ps1:1159 char:15
+     $tmpdags = @(Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup -Status)
+                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup], FileNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=CAS2,RequestId=xxxxx,TimeStamp=4/30/2014 1:04:38 PM] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-FileNotFoundException] CB830B58, Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.GetDatabaseAvailabilityGroup

Hoping this is an easy fix.  Also making sure SP1 is supported with the script?

Skip

Skippy

Hi 

Do you know how to add a multiple existing users in Exchange 2013,only permits add one user at time. I need add 200 users.

In exchange 2007 and 2010 this feature is possible through the management console

It´s possible in Exchange 2013?

Hi,

I have noticed that the file name format is changed for exchange server 2013 sp1.

Now it will have hh attached to it like

• MSGTRKMSyyyymmddhh-n.log;

• MSGTRKMDyyyymmddhh-n.log:
• MSGTRKyyyymmddhh-n.log.

So the "hh" will goes from 00 to 23 for single day.

So Lets say at 24 april 2014 first fill is created @7.30 AM, so the first file name will beMSGTRK2014042400-1.log. Now exchange server will create new file every hour by incrementing hh part of file name. Now the last file i.eMSGTRK2014042423-1.log will be created on 25 April 2014 at 6.30 AM.

I am not able to understand why exchange server is creating the file with old date on next day ( with 24 April on file name time stamp on 25 April).

And also how it will be decided to create the first file @ 7.30 AM.

Can anyone explain to me about this ? Why it is happening like this?

Thanks

Sandeep Gupta

I had a set of 2013 DAG Exchange servers with windows 2012 OS in virtual environment( VMware vCenter ):

A Domain controller, two mailboxes, a client access.

Recently when I tried to access https://<CASServerName>/ecp I got the following error page:

Then I  found some errors in Event Viewer:

Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Date:          4/21/2014 2:43:10 PM
Event ID:      10028
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      zhuvm-fog-2928.qa2013dag.local
Description:
DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer ZHUVM-FOG-2927.qa2013dag.local using any of the configured protocols; requested by PID      95c (C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\MSExchangeHMWorker.exe).
Event Xml:<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"><System><Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM" Guid="{1B562E86-B7AA-4131-BADC-B6F3A001407E}" EventSourceName="DCOM" /><EventID Qualifiers="0">10028</EventID><Version>0</Version><Level>2</Level><Task>0</Task><Opcode>0</Opcode><Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-04-21T06:43:10.813315700Z" /><EventRecordID>24185</EventRecordID><Correlation /><Execution ProcessID="640" ThreadID="544" /><Channel>System</Channel><Computer>zhuvm-fog-2928.qa2013dag.local</Computer><Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /></System><EventData><Data Name="param1">ZHUVM-FOG-2927.qa2013dag.local</Data><Data Name="param2">     95c</Data><Data Name="param3">C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\MSExchangeHMWorker.exe</Data><Binary>3C5265636F726423313A20436F6D70757465723D286E756C6C293B5069643D3634303B342F32312F3230313420363A34333A31303A3831333B5374617475733D313732323B47656E636F6D703D323B4465746C6F633D313731303B466C6167733D303B506172616D733D313B7B506172616D23303A307D3E3C5265636F726423323A20436F6D70757465723D286E756C6C293B5069643D3634303B342F32312F3230313420363A34333A31303A3831333B5374617475733D313732323B47656E636F6D703D31383B4465746C6F633D313434323B466C6167733D303B506172616D733D313B7B506172616D23303A5A4855564D2D464F472D323932372E7161323031336461672E6C6F63616C7D3E3C5265636F726423333A20436F6D70757465723D286E756C6C293B5069643D3634303B342F32312F3230313420363A34333A31303A3831333B5374617475733D313732323B47656E636F6D703D31383B4465746C6F633D3332323B466C6167733D303B506172616D733D303B3E3C5265636F726423343A20436F6D70757465723D286E756C6C293B5069643D3634303B342F32312F3230313420363A34333A31303A3831333B5374617475733D31313030313B47656E636F6D703D31383B4465746C6F633D3332303B466C6167733D303B506172616D733D313B7B506172616D23303A5A4855564D2D464F472D323932372E7161323031336461672E6C6F63616C7D3E</Binary></EventData></Event>

Log Name:      Application
Source:        MSExchange ADAccess
Date:          4/24/2014 9:58:02 AM
Event ID:      4027
Task Category: General
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      zhuvm-fog-2928.qa2013dag.local
Description:
Process MSExchangeHMWorker.exe (ExHMWorker) (PID=544). WCF request (Get Servers for qa2013dag.local) to the Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service on server (TopologyClientTcpEndpoint (localhost)) failed. Make sure that the service is running. In addition, make sure that the network ports that are used by Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service are not blocked by a firewall. The WCF call was retried 3 time(s). Error Details 
 System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: Could not connect to net.tcp://localhost:890/Microsoft.Exchange.Directory.TopologyService. The connection attempt lasted for a time span of 00:00:02.0436133. TCP error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:890.  ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:890
   at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress)
   at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Connect(EndPoint remoteEP)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SocketConnectionInitiator.Connect(Uri uri, TimeSpan timeout)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Server stack trace: 
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SocketConnectionInitiator.Connect(Uri uri, TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.BufferedConnectionInitiator.Connect(Uri uri, TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ConnectionPoolHelper.EstablishConnection(TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ClientFramingDuplexSessionChannel.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)

Exception rethrown at [0]: 
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
   at System.ServiceModel.ICommunicationObject.Open()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Net.ServiceProxyPool`1.GetClient()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Net.ServiceProxyPool`1.TryCallServiceWithRetry(Action`1 action, String debugMessage, WCFConnectionStateTuple proxyToUse, Int32 numberOfRetries, Boolean doNotReturnProxyOnSuccess, Exception& exception)
Event Xml:<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"><System><Provider Name="MSExchange ADAccess" /><EventID Qualifiers="49156">4027</EventID><Level>2</Level><Task>1</Task><Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-04-24T01:58:02.000000000Z" /><EventRecordID>3810658</EventRecordID><Channel>Application</Channel><Computer>zhuvm-fog-2928.qa2013dag.local</Computer><Security /></System><EventData><Data>MSExchangeHMWorker.exe (ExHMWorker)</Data><Data>544</Data><Data>Get Servers for qa2013dag.local</Data><Data>TopologyClientTcpEndpoint (localhost)</Data><Data>3</Data><Data>System.ServiceModel.EndpointNotFoundException: Could not connect to net.tcp://localhost:890/Microsoft.Exchange.Directory.TopologyService. The connection attempt lasted for a time span of 00:00:02.0436133. TCP error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:890.  ---&gt; System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:890
   at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress)
   at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Connect(EndPoint remoteEP)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SocketConnectionInitiator.Connect(Uri uri, TimeSpan timeout)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Server stack trace: 
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SocketConnectionInitiator.Connect(Uri uri, TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.BufferedConnectionInitiator.Connect(Uri uri, TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ConnectionPoolHelper.EstablishConnection(TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ClientFramingDuplexSessionChannel.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.OnOpen(TimeSpan timeout)
   at System.ServiceModel.Channels.CommunicationObject.Open(TimeSpan timeout)

Exception rethrown at [0]: 
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData&amp; msgData, Int32 type)
   at System.ServiceModel.ICommunicationObject.Open()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Net.ServiceProxyPool`1.GetClient()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Net.ServiceProxyPool`1.TryCallServiceWithRetry(Action`1 action, String debugMessage, WCFConnectionStateTuple proxyToUse, Int32 numberOfRetries, Boolean doNotReturnProxyOnSuccess, Exception&amp; exception)</Data></EventData></Event>

Log Name:      Application
Source:        MSExchangeDiagnostics
Date:          4/24/2014 9:56:45 AM
Event ID:      1015
Task Category: General
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      zhuvm-fog-2928.qa2013dag.local
Description:
Unable to contact the active directory. Inner Exception System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.ActiveDirectoryObjectNotFoundException: The computer is not in a site.
   at System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.ActiveDirectorySite.GetComputerSite()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.Service.MachineInformationSource.PollMachineInformation()
Event Xml:<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"><System><Provider Name="MSExchangeDiagnostics" /><EventID Qualifiers="49156">1015</EventID><Level>2</Level><Task>1</Task><Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords><TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-04-24T01:56:45.000000000Z" /><EventRecordID>3810649</EventRecordID><Channel>Application</Channel><Computer>zhuvm-fog-2928.qa2013dag.local</Computer><Security /></System><EventData><Data>System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.ActiveDirectoryObjectNotFoundException: The computer is not in a site.
   at System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.ActiveDirectorySite.GetComputerSite()
   at Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.Service.MachineInformationSource.PollMachineInformation()</Data></EventData></Event>

Besides, there are many services in Exchange server stopped & could not be started:

I observed no ERRORs in Domain Controller, the firewall of all servers had been turned off and IPv6 enabled.

I  could not determine what happened to my server, it's really urgent issue for me!!!

How could I fix these servers?

We migrated our Exchange server from 2007 to 2013. My email worked fine for two months. Now I have a problem.

1. A couple times per day, my outlook 2013 prompts me for credentials.
2. In most cases, this problem is fixed automatically. Even I don’t enter the password, Outlook woks after it prompts for the credentials for a couple minutes.
3. It is not connectivity issue because all computers I try have the same problem. Also my emails on iPhone and OWA have the same problem.
4. I am only user have this problem.
5. I don’t have credential problem when I login the network.
6. When I see NEED PASSWORD warning on the right bottom, I don't need to enter the password. I double click on NEED PASSWORD, then Outlook works and change back to CONNECTED TO.

7. sometimes, I see this message and it tries to connect to https://exchange.ourdomain.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml that is exchange 2007. the new exchange server should be mail.ourdomain.com.

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Hello,

I recently installed a new Windows Server 2012 R2 environment with Exchange Server 2013.

The following error occurs when i double click a user in the Exchange Admin Center:

Can't find the organizational unit that you specified. Make sure that you have typed the OU's identity correctly.

I know there is already a question about this error, but it differents from my error.

Some things i notice:

• User Logon name: Name is specified correctly
• DNS Suffix is missing here. I can not use the drop down menu as it is blanc.

When i click on "More options" i can see the Organizational unit without problems.

If i use the AD to create a new user, go to ECP and create new mailbox to existing user, this works without problems.

I can not update any info on the new or existing users though.

I then get the error:

With kind regards, René de Meijer. MIEGroup.

Hi All,

I recently migrated from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013. Prior to the migration the daily health check was being used daily to send my team and I the HTML report.

I have downloaded the new v1.07 script and followed the same rules and settings I used for Exchange 2010 when setting up the script.

The script only runs now via Exchange shell and does not send the HTML report and I am unable to run the script via a batch file that called the ./ps1 file in a windows command prompt and am also unable to as a result, use the task scheduler to schedule this task.

I am desperately in need of getting this morning report as its been so useful, I cant do without it now.

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much

Alton

Hi all,

I’ve two different companies with different networks.

Each company has one Exchange server, one is 2010 and the other has 2013.

The domain name are diferent. Example : @cp1.com and @cp2.com

The networks are connected to each other with one optical cable to share some file on one server.

When I send a e-mail to my partner on company 2, the e-mail takes too long to arrive at destination.

Can I config the Exchange Server to when I send a e-mail between the companies that e-mails is like a internal e-mail?

For example When one user send a e-mail from @cp1.com to another user on @cp1.com that e-mail arrives instantly.

Can you help me?

Thank for your help

Best Regards

José Isidro

Hi All,

I'm using Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange in my office environment. We are booking the meeting rooms through outlook and the meeting reminder pops up as per the settings. However, due to lack of enough meeting rooms and also due to sloppy usage of meeting rooms, such rooms are not being utilized properly and I was wondering if it is possible to configure Outlook and/or MS Exchange to get a reminder post meeting start time(say a pop up after 30 minutes that checks with the meeting organizer that he/she is still in the meeting room and based on the answer from the organizer, takes appropriate action). People generally book the room for an hour, but a lot of time, they use it only for 15-30 mins and thus for those 45 or 30 minutes, the same meeting room can not be booked by anyone else. If such kind of configuration/customization to outlook and/or Exchange is possible, then that would be great for us and I'd be very happy to propose this solution to IT staff in our organization

Thanks,

Kumar

Hi all,

I would like to raise an inquiry and appreciate your assistance.

I have extracted the last login statistics from our exchange server 2013 (for all databases), and found that the majority of the users (more than 70%) are showing the last login as 9 May 2014, whereby we didn’t perform any major activity on that date.

The migration of all users from exchange 2010 to 2013 has been done on 2 May 2014, and many users were logged in to their mailboxes since that date and start working immediately.

Then why the statistics doesn’t show the login activity for those users who logged in the period from 2 May – 9 May 2014?

Another question just came in mind, does this login statistics report shows the login records from all exchange channels (Outlook, OWA and ActiveSync)?

Appreciate your reply.

I've installed a fresh copy of Server 2012 and Exchange 2010. When I try to open the EMC I get an Initialization failed, below is the screen shot.

I've tried numerous of things to fix this issue. Restarted IIS, WS-Management, WinRm command.

Any help will be appreciated 

hallow, I just created a few user accounts in exchange server 2007 and put then in group but these users can sent emails but they cants receive emails, I removed them from active directory then recreate them again in AD and make new mailbox in exchange server again and the same issue cant receive emails. I made another group and I put one of the user in that group but the same thing happen.

I have more than 1000 users and all working fine, and its internal mail.

thank u

i need to export all mailboxes to psts for a project and i need to have each users exported pst mailbox named with their email address.

i have get-mailbox - database "server\storage group\mailbox database" | export-mailbox -PSTfolderpath c:\?

what is the best way to finish this off so each mailbox is exported with their email address?

Hi,

when migrating mailbox between 2 exchange 2013 servers,it s horribly slow. I have found some articles which describing problems about content indexing and missing AD group. This is not my problem, I have tried solutions but it didn't work. Both exchange are next to each one, same VLAN, same switch. Just migrating between databases.

When I start batch jobs it is migrating only 1 mailbox at once and speed is really slow (2000 - 3000 mail items per 5 minutes). So mailboxes which have 10GB it's migrating 3 hours. My server is on 1gbps LAN.

I have also checked MsExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config on both servers:

    MaxActiveMovesPerSourceMDB="20"
    MaxActiveMovesPerTargetMDB="20"
    MaxActiveMovesPerSourceServer="100"
    MaxActiveMovesPerTargetServer="100"
    MaxTotalRequestsPerMRS="100"

Do you have any idea where to look why only 1 mailbox is migrating at once?

Thanks