Quick Fix: Installing Exchange 2019 Management Tools fails on Windows 11

October 16, 2023 by Leave a comment

Helping a co worker this morning troubleshooting the installation of Exchange 2019 Management Tools.

A second Windows 11 VM had also already been tried just to rule out anything with the OS on the machine.

The first error which appears to be a common one is the installation of the ‘IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility’ components were missing.

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Quick Fix: New-FederationTrust 426 Upgrade Required

July 31, 2023 by Leave a comment

I am working on an Exchange migration project currently, and setting up some things in a lab. As part of that I am converting what was a Modern Hybrid setup with the Hybrid Agent, to a Classic Hybrid, using connectors and what not.

I was trying to use New-FederationTrust setup a Federation trust and received the following:

Unable to access the Federation Metadata document from the federation partner. Detailed information “The remote server returned an error: (426) Upgrade Required.”

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Quick Fix: Office 365 DirSync Hide a user from Global Address List

November 20, 2015 by 18 Comments

This week i have been working on some process automation, around a user leaving an organisation using Office 365.

DirSync (and it’s newer iterations) has been a very useful for Password Sync and User creation, however it can be a bit of a drag when it comes to editing mailbox settings. In this case, Hiding a user from the Global Address List.

Set-Mailbox Error On Prem

So to hide the Mailbox from our Office 365 Address List we need to use ADSIEdit and change the msExchHideFromAddressLists attribute to True, then wait for DirSync to do it’s thing. Read more of this post

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Quick Fix: Cancel Email Forwarding Exchange 2007/10

October 24, 2012 by 2 Comments

powershell2xa4Had a call from a client who needed to cancel all automatic forwarding of email to one recipient.

Easy you might think. Read more of this post

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Outlook is losing my email?!? Event ID 9646 (Application Log)

August 7, 2012 by Leave a comment

iconRecently at a client of mine, we had an issue where one users Outlook would continually stop displaying new email. The inbox would show ‘last updated at..’ and would not move on from that time but, Outlook would correctly display ‘Connected’ in the bottom right corner. Read more of this post

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On Premises Exchange Integration Windows Server 2012 Essentials

July 11, 2012 by 66 Comments

LogoYes, you heard me right. Hopefully by now the news of the end of development, shall we say, of SBS 2011 Standard has settled in, and you are ready for how to tackle the void left in the market. I know many partners and folks are talking about alternatives, Kerio, Hosted Exchange2Exchange or any number of other solutions, but i wanted to demonstrate how easy it is to setup the OnPrem (OP) integration with an Exchange server, and how it is possible to access both, using 1 single public IP address.

I have no idea how much it would actually cost to do in production though!

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Windows Server 2012 Essentials Public Beta

July 5, 2012 by Leave a comment

LogoIf you are interested there is now a public beta of ‘SBS8’ or Windows Server 2012 Essentials.

I am certainly not the best person to ask for a reasoned business argument about why the loss of SBS Standard is good or bad thing. Read more of this post

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