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Restoring or Purging Hard Deleted Messages in Outlook

May 22, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
Are emails deleted forever in Exchange? Obviously if you delete an email the normal way, it will be put in the "Deleted Items" folder inside your mailbox. But what happens if you delete them even from there? Or straight hard-delete ... [Read More]
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How to Find SMTP address owner in Exchange

May 21, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
There are scenarios where we need to know if an email address already exists inside the organization. At first glance it might not be obvious what object has a specific email address, as in Exchange any mail enabled objects can ... [Read More]
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Reclaim the so called Exchange Database Whitespace

May 13, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
When data is deleted from an Exchange database, the size of the actual EDB file does not decrease.Imagine the following situation: your server runs out of disk space, so you decide to move a few mailboxes away from the database, ... [Read More]
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How to list all Database sizes with Whitespace and Mailbox count

May 12, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
This script lists the database sizes in our environment. Not only the used space is retrieved, but the whitespace and the number of mailboxes is displayed in each databases as well. When data is deleted from a database - either ... [Read More]
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Exchange DAG failover procedure with a Real Life Example

May 11, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
From time to time performing maintenance on a DAG member server might be necessary. For example, cumulative updates for Exchange are released quarterly, installing them requires stopping services and rebooting the server. During the process we want the mail flow, ... [Read More]
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Quickie – How to Move Exchange Database File Location

May 9, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
As a rule of thumb, it's a good practice to place the Exchange databases in a dedicated location. By default, in Exchange 2013, 2016 and 2019 both the EDB file (the database itself) and the log files are created under:C:\Program ... [Read More]
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How to Create an Exchange 2019 Database Availability Group

May 7, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
It this article we'll create basic, single site Exchange 2019 DAG (Database Availability Group). We already installed two mailbox servers with the same specifications (detailed here). Each of them has a single database configured already, MAIL has DB01 and MAIL2 ... [Read More]
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Quickie – Exchange mailbox sizes exported in numeric format

May 6, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
Export a CSV list of all the mailboxes with names and sizes in a fully numeric format, so they can be ordered, summed, etc. The script works on Office365 and on-prem servers as well ... [Read More]
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PowerShell script for mass-creating Distribution Groups

May 5, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
Do you want to automate distribution group creation, making your job easier? With this script you'll be able to mass-create distribution groups. It takes a simple text file as an input that contains a list of delivery group names, and ... [Read More]
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The New Way to connect to Office 365 with PowerShell

May 4, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
Office365 is increasingly popular among businesses as a managed email service with a plethora of features and competitive pricing. The best and most efficient way to administer your Exchange Online tenant is via Exchange PowerShell. It comes with no surprise ... [Read More]
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Configure enforced TLS with a partner in Office365

April 29, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
In our previous article we discussed enforced TLS with Exchange. More precisely with on-premises Exchange servers. We established that Exchange uses opportunistic TLS, meaning it prefers encryption but it is not enforced if the other party only supports plain SMTP ... [Read More]
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Enabling users to manage Distribution Groups in Outlook

April 28, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
Most of the time administrators manage distribution group memberships. But it is absolutely possible for selected users to add/remove group members as needed, using simply their Outlook client. Before You Begin - Enabling MyDistributionGroupManagement
In our example a user called ... [Read More]
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Set up Enforced TLS for on-prem Exchange 2019

April 27, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
This guide is for on-premises Exchange deployments. If you are interested in enforced TLS on Office365 tenants, please click HERE Opportunistic Exchange - like most modern email systems - has the facility to transfer email messages encrypted. It is to ... [Read More]
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Max SEND/RECEIVE sizes in Exchange 2019

April 25, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
Exchange - like most of the other email systems - limits the maximum size of incoming and outgoing messages. There are three layers where these limits can be set: system-wide, on the send- and receive connectors and on individual mailboxes ... [Read More]
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How to Delete Exchange TRANSACTION LOG Files

April 23, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
Huge Logs Sometimes the Exchange server runs out of space. As it happens often, the transaction log files use up all the free space, causing the transport service to stop as there is no more room to write messages to ... [Read More]
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How to Create and Use Custom Powershell Commads

April 20, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
Custom commands John needs to access Exchange PowerShell a lot. He's tired of logging in the actual Exchange server all the time, he prefers to use his local computer to run cmdlets and manage mailboxes. He created a script, called ... [Read More]
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How to Configure DKIM on Exchange 2019 – The Simple Way

April 19, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
Installation In Exchange Online DKIM is a built-in service, but on an on-prem Exchange 2019 deployment we need a 3rd party application to add this functionality to our Exchange infrastructure. In this guide we use Stefan Profanter's excellent dkim-exchange application ... [Read More]
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Understanding SPF, DKIM and DMARC

April 18, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
Spam messages have become a huge issue. They are both annoying, flooding our mailboxes with unneeded content and they are a security risk too, as many of them contain links to malicious websites or even viruses. To fight spamming SPF, ... [Read More]
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Accessing Microsoft Exchange: the GUI vs Shell

April 16, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
You have a new Exchange installation. You've just clicked on the Setup Finished window, lean back in your chair and sip on your steamy coffee, saying to yourself: great, now I have a mail server, I could start setting up ... [Read More]
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How to Install a new Microsoft Exchange 2019 Server – Step by Step

April 15, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
Our local diner, AlwaysHot Café hired us to build a mail server. They have a small network that consists of a switch and a firewall with a single static public IP. After discussing our options we decided to go with ... [Read More]
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Exchange Powershell Login to Office365 and Exchange 2016, 2019

April 4, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
Making the PowerShell connection to the remote Exchange Online Office365 servers and connecting to an on premises server that is local to the organization are slightly different. Connect to Office365 Connecting to Office365 consists of three different, separate connections. One ... [Read More]
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Install Let’s Encrypt SSL for IIS – Step by Step

March 31, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
If you desperately need an SSL certificate signed by a publicly trusted CA, and you want it for free, Let’s Encrypt is certainly an option. They are valid for 3 months, and even though linux boxes are equipped to request ... [Read More]
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Office365 to Office365 Migration for FREE – Step by Step

March 21, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
These days it’s a common scenario to see a company acquiring another, and having both organizations hosting their email service in the cloud using Office 365. Unfortunately Microsoft doesn’t provide us with easy to use tools - and ways - ... [Read More]
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