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QuickTip – Which Managed Availability Components Are Unhealthy

WEBThe main commands to monitor the server are: Get-ServerComponentState. Get-HealthReport. Get-ServerHealth. Typically we are interested in the latter as that will show us the actual monitor/probe/responder that is not happy. In order to turn it's frown …

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Is Exchange Fully Updated

WEBIf Not, Go Update Now. Posted on 22nd September 2021 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT] The Exchange team just posted that the September 2021 updates are going to be slightly delayed. The priority will always be to ship quality updates rather than force …

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Why Is The Exchange Security Update Not Installed

WEBThis is because the server is running and old and unsupported Cumulative Update (CU). At the time of writing this server has Exchange 2016 CU20 installed. CU21 and Cu22 are available. Due the the N and N-1 support policy this means that CU20 no …

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Script To Automate Exchange Health Manager Service For …

WEBThe above bullets do not contain all the details, please see the referenced post for the entire process. Since we can remove all monitoring mailboxes with quick and simple commands, the act of having to stop the Exchange Health Manager service on …

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Exchange Managed Availability State Unknown

WEBAfter remediating multiple other issues on the server, we decided to review Managed Availability to ensure there were no errors. We can use commands such as: Get-ServerHealth TO-Exch-2 | Where-Object {$_.Alertvalue -eq "UnHealthy"} Get …

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Exchange Healthcheck Script– Unable to Connect to Server

WEBBelow is a repro of a customer situation where the Exchange Healthcheck script was unable to connect to a remote Exchange server. The Healthcheck script would run locally with no issues, and reported a clean bill of health. Note that the expected …

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Low Exchange Disk Space Monitors

WEBExchange 2013 introduced us to the concept of Managed Availability. This reduced the reliance on external entities such as System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) or other 3rd party monitoring tools. Exchange became self aware, started to monitor itself and …

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Troubleshooting Exchange 2013 and 2016 Search

WEBExchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 search is again a huge improvement and work area in the same vein as the search improvements in Exchange 2007 compared to Exchange 2003. Exchange Search is important for many reasons. Users running …

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Exchange 2013 Performance Health Check Script

WEBThe below shows the tool running against a single Exchange 2013 server. This is also logged to the HealthCheck output file. This defaults to the local folder when the script was executed from. Thanks Marc for the tool! Cheers, Rhoderick. One of the …

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Exchange Self Signed SHA2 Certificates

WEBIn recent builds, Exchange has been updated to support the newer SHA2 certificates. Exchange 2010 SP3 RU13 and Exchange 2013 CU 12 updated the SMIME control’s certificate to SHA2. Additionally, Exchange 2013 CU13 and Exchange 2016 …

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Upgrade to Azure Standard Load Balancer

WEBOn September 30, 2025, the Azure Basic Load Balancer will be retired. For more information, see the official announcement.If you are currently using Basic Load Balancer, make sure to upgrade to Standard Load Balancer prior to the retirement date.

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Exchange Server Extended Protection

WEBWe know there is work to do as the wonderful Exchange HealthChecker script has identified that there is an issue. It has detected that Extended Protection is not enabled properly. Security Vulnerability: CVE-2022-24516, CVE-2022-21979, CVE-2022-21980, CVE …

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Arbitration Mailboxes – Lay of The Land

WEBAt this point in time, most Exchange administrators will have seen and worked with arbitration mailboxes. Chances are that the first encounter was somewhat unexpected and revolved around an issue with Exchange 2013 health mailboxes or …

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Disabling IPv6 And Exchange – Going All The Way

WEBDisabling IPv6. As discussed in KB 929852 the IPv6 configuration can be tuned or disabled via the registry. This is the DisabledComponents REG_DWORD entry which is located here: …

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Connect to AD FS 2016 WID Using SQL Server Management Studio

WEBDownload and Install SQL Server Management Studio. At the time of writing, the latest version of SSMS available from the Microsoft download centre was 17.8.1 - this will change over time. SSMS was downloaded and installed onto the primary AD FS …

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Updated Guidance On Exchange Server Extended Protection

WEBThere was an update in September 2022 for Extended Proection on Exchange Server. This update was to provide a workaround for Message Record Management (MRM) activities. There was a subsequent update in the October 2022 …

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Active Directory Replication Status Tool Expired

WEBUpdate 25-4-2016 - The tool has been updated and should be functional. The feedback pages referenced at the bottom are now closed. Back in 2012 the Active Directory Replication Status Tool (ADREPLSTATUS) was released. The below is from one of my …

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Defender For Identity Sensor Service Fails To Start on AD FS – …

WEBAfter installing Defender for Identity sensor onto AD FS, you may experience an issue where the service does not enter the running state. In the Microsoft Defender for Identity portal the sensor is reported as "Not Configured" Lab Starting Reference Point …

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PSA – AAD Connect Released Also AAD Connect Health Released

WEBAzure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect) was released today along with Azure Active Directory Connect Health (AAD Connect health). AAD Connect continues to drive the investments that are made to assist with on-boarding to Microsoft Azure and …

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