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Author Archives: mell9185
A single server can serve as a witness for multiple DAGs. However, each DAG requires its own witness directory.
This recently trip us up when bringing up new 2016 servers in our existing 2013 environment. We and used the same witness directory for both DAGS (e.g. \\MGMT500\C$\DAGFileShareWitnesses) under the assumption that the witness directories would be different. While it … Continue reading
Sending an email with X-Headers in EWS via powershell
I recently needed to test sending an email via EWS with a bunch of custom X-headers. While I have worked with EWS in PowerShell before I couldn’t find any examples of how to do so but found plenty in Java … Continue reading
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Undocumented Change in 2016 MessageID header behavior
At my company, we recently migrated from 2013 to 2016, but had to keep a 2013 footprint around for support of older Blackberry 5 devices. In our environment, we have a SendMail farm that is an internal open relay as … Continue reading
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How to remove a user from a security group in a different domain in PowerShell
Recently I ran into an issue at my company removing a user in our primary domain from a group in our root domain using the AD cmdlets in PowerShell. All my company’s user, computer, and group objects are in our … Continue reading
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Getting Exchange 2013/2016 Add-ins (Outlook Apps) working through a proxy
Like most companies, my organization uses a proxy for all internet traffic. This presented a problem when we tried using Add-ins for Exchange 2013. At the time we could not figure out how to get the subsystem that pulled down … Continue reading
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Log parser query to get Exchange clients below a certain patch level
At my company we are currently in the early stages of an Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016 migration and we needed to identify any Outlook clients below a certain patch level (ones we identified as having issues with Mapi over … Continue reading
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“Message Trace” option missing from the Exchange Admin Center in Office 365
Recently I created an RBAC role group for some of my team members so that they could manage a subset of Exchange features in one of our O365 instance. While the Role group I created had the following roles Distribution … Continue reading
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Unable to delete items in modern public folders : “Some Items cannot be deleted. They were either moved or already deleted, or access was denied”
Recently we had reports from a subset of users that they received the following error when they tried to deleted items from a specific set of public folders using their Outlook client: “Some Items cannot be deleted. They were either … Continue reading
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Using script blocks within doubled quoted strings in PowerShell
While working on a script to convert an XML export of a new chat application to EML files for ingestion into my company’s compliance system (A task I’ve been doing a lot of over the past year or so), I … Continue reading
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Creating an array of arrays in powershell
Recently I had a need to convert a series of messages from one of my company’s Slack instances into EML files so they could be ingested into our compliance system. In the process of parsing the export file via PowerShell, … Continue reading
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