Category: 2013
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Exchange DLP Rules in Exchange Management Shell
This one took a while to work out, so noting it down here! If you want to create a transport rule for a DLP policy that has one data classification (i.e. data type to look for such as ‘Credit Card Number’) then that is easy in PowerShell and an example would be as below. New-TransportRule…
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An “Inexpensive” Exchange Lab In Azure
This blog post centres around two scripts that can be used to quickly provision an Exchange Server lab in Azure and then to remove it again. The reason why the blog post is titled “inexpensive” is that Azure charges compute hours even if the virtual machines are shut down. Therefore to make my Exchange lab…
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Highly Available Office 365 to On-Premises Mail Routing
This article looks at how to configure mail flow from Office 365 (via Exchange Online Protection – EOP) to your On Premises organization to ensure that it is highly available and work in disaster recovery scenarios with no impact. It is based on exactly the same principle to that which I blogged about in 2012:…
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Errors in Moving Exchange Archive Mailboxes to Office 365
I was trying to move an Archive mailbox to the Office 365 service from my demo environment the other day when I came across an error I thought I would note down here for completion. I could not find the error elsewhere on the internet An archive mailbox must be enabled before it can be…
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Enabling and Configuring AADRM in Exchange Online
This article is the fourth in a series of posts looking at Microsoft’s new Rights Management product set. In the previous post we looked at turning on the feature in Office 365 and in this post we will look at how to manage the service in the cloud. In this series of articles we will…
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Managing Azure Active Directory Rights Management
This article is the third in a series of posts looking at Microsoft’s new Rights Management product set. In the previous post we looked at turning on the feature in Office 365 and in this post we will look at how to manage the service in the cloud. In this series of articles we will…
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Message Classifications, Exchange 2013, Exchange Online and Outlook
Message Classifications are a way to tag email with a property that describes the purpose of the email, for example “Internal Use Only” might be a classification to tell the recipient of the email that the message should not be forwarded. Classifications are configured by administrators and appear shortly after creation in Outlook Web App,…
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Cannot Send Emails To Office 365 or Exchange Online Protection Using TLS
I have found this is a common issue. You set up an Exchange Online Hybrid or Exchange Online Protection (EOP) stand alone service and follow all the instructions for the creating of the connectors needed, only to find that your emails queue in your Exchange Server. If you turn on protocol logging you get this…
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Rebuilding Search Catalogs on Exchange Server 2013
In Exchange 2010 there was a PowerShell script for rebuilding the search catalog. This is depreciated in Exchange 2013. TechNet contains instructions on copying the catalog from a working server in the DAG – but what about if the database is not a member of a DAG or all the catalog’s in the DAG are…
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Secret NSA Listening Ports in Exchange Server 2013? Of Course Not…
But what do those extra ports in Exchange Server 2013 that are listening actually do. If you bring up a command prompt on an Exchange Server 2013 machine and run netstat –ano | find “:25”. You will get back a list of IP addresses that are listening on any port starting 25. The last number…
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Ensuring Email Delivery Security with Exchange 2013
To force Exchange 2013 to guarantee the secure delivery of a message can be done a few different ways. In this version of the product and in previous versions it was possible to create a send connector for a given domain and enable Mutual TLS on the connector. Then all messages to the domain(s) that…
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Moving Exchange Online Protection Junk Mail to the Junk Email Folder
If you use Exchange Online Protection (EOP) to filter your email in the cloud and to remove spam and malware before onward delivery to you, and if you use Exchange 2007 or later on-premises, then you need to configure Exchange to move detected spam to the Junk Email folder in Outlook. By default EOP detects…
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Removing Edge Subscription When Exchange 2013 Installed
Exchange 2013 does not have an Edge role (at the time of writing – Aug 2013). It is possible to use Exchange 2010 SP3 and install the Edge role should you need one. There is a problem though when it comes to removing the Edge Subscription between an organization that contains Exchange 2013 servers and…
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Journal Alternative Mailbox and No Inbox Rules
In the event of your journal mailbox going offline, any journal reports destined for these mailboxes will queue. After two days (though this time is the expiry time for messages in your Exchange organization, so may be different) the message will expire and an NDR sent to the sender of the journal report. The problem…
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Queues Building to inboundproxy.com Domain
In Exchange 2013 there are a series of probes that monitor the health of the different components of the servers. One of these probes monitors the health of each Frontend Transport server and its ability to proxy messages to each of the 2013 mailbox databases in the Exchange organization. The monitoring happens by sending emails…
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Removing Old Exchange 2013/2016 Log Files
Update: 18th Sept 2014. An updated version of this script has been written by Thomas Stensitzki and can be downloaded from http://www.sf-tools.net/Messaging/tabid/55/EntryId/213/Updated-script-to-purge-Exchange-and-IIS-log-files.aspx. This updated version works on systems that have not used the default installation paths and it reads them automatically from the server. The below still works for users with default installation paths. Exchange 2013…
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Domain Secure and Edge Servers
I was asked a question recently on the Microsoft Certified Master course for Exchange 2010 and was told that the answer was not clearly written up on the internet. So I thought I would write this blog post. The question was based on the idea that Domain Secure worked from a Hub Transport server in…
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Forefront Online Protection for Exchange Spam Filtering to Outlook’s Junk E-Mail Folder
Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) is a cloud hosted email anti-spam and antivirus filtering system. Amongst the options to filter away your spam, one of the options to to allow the email to be flagged and sent on into your on-premises email system, and then managing it there. If you have Exchange 2007 or…
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Enabling Exchange 2013 to Filter OneNote and Publisher Files
Exchange Server 2013 includes the Search Foundation product to index and search most of the file types that needed IFilters installed for in previous versions including PDF files, so the Adobe IFilter is no longer needed. That said, it does not filter OneNote and Microsoft Publisher files. To filter these files so that you can…
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Missing the Message Tracking Log Explorer in Exchange 2013? Not anymore…
Exchange 2013 has removed a number of user interfaces that existed in Exchange 2010, one of them being the Message Tracking toolbox utility: In Exchange 2013 you can search for an individual messages in the Exchange Control Panel (https://servername/ecp) by selecting mail flow > delivery reports. But this tool requires you to specify the source…
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Placing Exchange 2013 Into Maintenance Mode
Updated 5 Feb 2013 to include Redirect-Message cmdlet Exchange 2013 has a feature called Managed Availability. This feature detects issues with a server and in the event of an issue attempts to fix the component at issue. Fixes range from simple restarts of the component (for example restarting the service) to doing what is called…