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Tim McMichael

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Navigating the world of high availability...and occasionally sticking my head in the cloud...

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2019 3

  1. Office 365: Challenges with Distribution Groups for Migrated Mailboxes and a Script Based Solution ( Script Version 1.4 )
  2. Office 365: Tracking last run times of the managed folder assistance / exchange life cycle.
  3. Office 365: Dynamic distribution lists created by email domains.

2018 22

  1. Office 365: Challenges with Distribution Groups for Migrated Mailboxes and a Script Based Solution ( Script Version 1.1 )
  2. Office 365: Challenges with Distribution Groups for Migrated Mailboxes and a Script Based Solution ( Script Version 1.0 )
  3. Office 365: Stale Information in the Offline Address Book and Individual Contact Cards
  4. Office 365: A different approach to handling Office 365 group mail flow…
  5. Office 365: Unable to modify group membership in the Office 365 portal…
  6. Office 365: Correcting users who have had a mailbox in the cloud and on-premises…
  7. Office 365: Exchange Migrations and the data migrated information…
  8. Office 365: The mystery of mobile phone…
  9. Office 365: Unable to locate an Azure Active Directory user for an Exchange Online Mailbox
  10. Office 365: Mail disable an on premises security group…
  11. Office 365: Resetting a migrated users Azure Active Directory account….
  12. Office 365: Trusting application emails sent through internal relay…
  13. Office 365: Detecting and preventing duplicate mailboxes between On-Premises and Exchange Online
  14. Office 365: Internal forwarding and remote domains…
  15. Office 365: Licensing mail users results in mailbox objects.
  16. Office 365: Adding a cloud only distribution group as a member of a distribution group on premises…
  17. Office 365: SPAM detection and reverse DNS lookups.
  18. Office 365: Start-ManagedFolderAssistant in Office 365
  19. Office 365: Troubleshooting distribution lists and distribution list membership…
  20. Office 365: Office 365 Groups and External / Guest Accounts
  21. Office 365: ADConnect synchronization interval changed automatically…
  22. Office 365: Office 365 Groups and domain removals…

2017 17

  1. Office 365: Organization Queue Quota Exceeded
  2. Office 365: Enabling and creating a distribution list for first release users.
  3. Office 365: Domain verification by email validation…
  4. Office 365: Create a report of distribution group usage…
  5. Office 365: Mail flow delays through third party SPAM gateways…
  6. Office 365: Bulk enabling auditing on Exchange Online Mailboxes
  7. Office 365: Messages from external senders are originating directly on Office 365 servers….
  8. Office 365: DNS health checks and the Office 365 Portal
  9. Office 365: Who can receive the weekly digest email…
  10. Exchange, Cluster, and Network Thresholds
  11. Office 365: Upgrading legacy distribution lists to Office 365 Groups
  12. Office 365: Converting a remote mailbox to a mail user…
  13. Office 365: Fatal error RecipientNotFoundPermanentException has occurred
  14. Office 365: Users have both a cloud and on premises mailbox.
  15. Handling Migrations - StalledDueToTarget_MdbFull or TargetDatabaseFullPermanentException
  16. DNS Errors and Warnings in the Office 365 Portal
  17. Configure Auto Reply for a Mailbox

2016 1

  1. Office 365: Clutter Enabled and Outlook Web Access

2015 13

  1. Exchange – No log files can be truncated.
  2. Office 365 / Exchange Online – Disable One Drive for Business Integration
  3. Exchange and Office 365: Mail Forwarding
  4. Office 365: Manage distribution groups that I own…
  5. Office 365: Bulk update email addresses
  6. Exchange 2010 / Exchange 2013 – Determining the repair count of a database.
  7. My Exchange 2013 DAG has gone commando…
  8. Office 365: Determine accounts that have forwarding enabled.
  9. Office 365: Move requests return status of Completed with Errors.
  10. Office 365: Directory synchronization and object attributes…
  11. Exchange / Office 365: Have a centralized mailbox for application processing with individual customer SMTP addresses
  12. Exchange 2010 / Exchange 2013: Attempting to mount a new database results invalidOperationException
  13. Office 365: Large item migration limits did not apply…

2014 14

  1. Outlook: SMTP Address displayed in profile does not change when the users primary email address changes.
  2. Exchange 2013: In place upgrade places components in an offline state.
  3. Exchange 2010 / 2013 – PAM and the Cluster Core Resources
  4. Exchange 2013 / Exchange 2010: Database availability groups with shared storage on Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2
  5. Exchange and Office 365: Mail Forwarding
  6. Part 10: Datacenter Activation Coordination – My nodes not invalid!
  7. Office 365: Add an embedded link to an object in Outlook Web App
  8. Office 365: Mail to deleted mail enabled user accounts results in NDR
  9. Exchange 2010 / 2013: What constitutes a failure of the replication network…
  10. Office 365: More options button missing when configuring migration batch
  11. Office 365: Why do my distribution group names change?
  12. Cluster Network Thresholds – A Good Read
  13. Office 365: Manage Office 365 features when Outlook Web Access is disabled on a mailbox.
  14. Database Availability Groups – Storage Swing Migrations

2013 16

  1. Exchange 2013: Health Manager service may not reliably start after server boot.
  2. Office365: POP and IMAP clients receive OWA links for calendar invitations
  3. Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 2 – Where are my databases?
  4. Exchange 2010: Remove-databaseavailabilitygroupserver–configurationOnly does not evict the member from the cluster.
  5. RPC Filtering and Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups
  6. Exchange 2013: OutlookMailboxDeeptTestProbe fails with Access Denied
  7. Part 9: Datacenter Activation Coordination: An error caused a change in the current set of domain controllers
  8. Part 8: Datacenter Activation Coordination: Stop! In the Name of DAG…
  9. Part 7: Datacenter Activation Coordination: When to run start-databaseavailabilitygroup to bring members back into the DAG after a datacenter switchover…
  10. Exchange 2010: Page Zeroing and VSS Based Backups
  11. Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups and Disk Sector Sizes
  12. Exchange 2010: StopDagServerMaintenance.ps1 resets server and database suspension states…
  13. Part 6: Datacenter Activation Coordination – Who has a say?
  14. Part 4: Datacenter Activation Coordination and the Prevention of Split Brain
  15. Part 3: Datacenter Activation Coordination and the Single Node Cluster
  16. Part 5: Datacenter Activation Coordination: How do I force automount consensus?

2012 14

  1. Exchange 2010: Adding database copies to databases with a single copy results in copy status failed after seeding is completed…
  2. Another good read on vss backups…
  3. A good read on VSS backups…
  4. Exchange 2010: The mystery of the 9223372036854775766 copy queue…
  5. Part 2: Datacenter Activation Coordination and the File Share Witness
  6. Exchange 2010: Using seedingPostponed results in a seeded database…
  7. Exchange 2010: Mapping DAG network states to cluster network states…
  8. Part 1: My databases do not automatically mount after I enabled Datacenter Activation Coordination
  9. Verifying log file truncation…
  10. Backup dates and times are incorrect even though data has been committed to backup media successfully….
  11. Backups fail due to consistency check failure…
  12. Exchange 2010: Log Truncation and Checkpoint At Log Creation in a Database Availability Group
  13. Verifying the file share witness server / directory in use for Exchange 2010
  14. Exchange and VSS -- My Exchange writer is in a failed retryable state…

2011 28

  1. Extra Extra: Recommended hotfix for your dag…
  2. Exchange 2010: Implementing a dedicated backup network for a Database Availability Group…
  3. Exchange 2010: Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup does not return all attributes of a DAG
  4. Error–567 ( JET_errDbTimeTooNew )
  5. Exchange 2010: HomeMTA and msExchHomeServerName are not updated on mailboxes.
  6. Exchange Server 2010 and System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
  7. Exchange 2010: Collapsing DAG Networks
  8. Exchange 2007 - Standby clustering with pre-staged resources (part 2)
  9. Exchange 2007 - Standby clustering with pre-staged resources (part 1)
  10. Exchange 2010: VSS backups of passive database copies fail with error C7FF07D7 when preparing snapshot.
  11. Exchange 2010 SP1: StartDagServerMaintenance.ps1 fails on databases that have only two database copies.
  12. Exchange 2010 and Windows 2008–Partitioned Cluster Networks
  13. Another recommended read….
  14. Exchange 2010 SP1: StartDagServerMaintenance.ps1 fails when a server contains databases with a single copy.
  15. Exchange 2010 - Using VSS to perform an online offline database seed.
  16. Exchange online streaming backups…
  17. Exchange and Windows Server Backup
  18. Do I need to do a backup after I do a restore?
  19. Exchange 2007 / 2010: Windows Server Backup and Backup Completion Times
  20. Exchange 2007 / 2010: Windows Server Backup and Performance Issues
  21. Exchange / VSS / and differential block size…
  22. Another good read….
  23. Recommended reading - Exchange 2010 Data Guarantee API
  24. Exchange 2010: Restore-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup fails to evict nodes error 0x46.
  25. Exchange 2007–Using LCR to perform an online offline database seed.
  26. Exchange 2010: Third party replication API and the DataMoveReplicationConstraint
  27. Exchange 2010: Error 0x721 - A security package specific error occurred
  28. My LCR / CCR / SCR / DAG database copy is in dirty shutdown state…

2010 28

  1. Exchange 2010: Move-DatabasePath results in an InvalidOperationException when mount points are utilized for storage.
  2. Database copies fail to display after upgrading to Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1
  3. READ ALL ABOUT IT!! Designing a Highly Available Database Copy Layout
  4. Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 Cluster Logs
  5. Exchange 2010 SP1: Error when adding or removing a mailbox database copy
  6. Exchange Databases and Date Modified Timestamps
  7. Exchange 2007 – Upgrading a service pack on a single copy cluster instance when SAN based replication is utilized.
  8. Continuous Replication Hostnames fail to create or function correctly with Exchange 2007 SP3 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) on Windows 2008 R2
  9. Exchange 2010 – File Share Witness oddities…
  10. Mount point design and MSSearch
  11. MSExchangeRepl 2147 / MSExchangeRepl 2104 / MSExchangeRepl 2127 occurring on Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 with Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR)
  12. Network port design and Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups
  13. Upgrading service packs on a single node Exchange 2007 cluster.
  14. Exchange 2010: Cluster core resources, the replication service, and active manager…
  15. Exchange 2010 – Stopping the Information Store Service does not failover database copies.
  16. Exchange 2007 – Using VSS to perform an online offline database seed.
  17. Using a Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 File Server Cluster to host the File Share Witness for an Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group
  18. Cluster Core Resources fail to come online on some Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG) nodes.
  19. Ever have disk performance issues? Check this out…
  20. Exchange 2007 / Exchange 2010 – Interesting recipient update service issue…
  21. Exchange 2010 > Add-mailboxdatabasecopy does not utilize replication enabled networks for seeding operations.
  22. Exchange 2007 / Exchange 2010: False warning in ExBPA regarding maximum log generation.
  23. KB978790 – Update to Windows 2008 to change the failure behavior of the File Share Witness Quorum resource.
  24. Installing Exchange 2010 rollups on DAG servers…
  25. Do I need to move my cluster core resources?
  26. Exchange 2010 – Pre-staging the Cluster Name Object (CNO) to support a Database Availability Group (DAG)
  27. Windows 2003 / Exchange 2007 SP1 – Alternate Cluster Setup
  28. Windows 2008 – Exchange 2007 SP1 – Alternate Cluster Setup

2009 37

  1. An interesting issue with file level antivirus…
  2. Considerations when using mountpoints with Exchange 2007 clusters.
  3. ‘ClusteredMailboxServer’ is partially configured – ExBPA.
  4. Log files required to be copied after an update-storagegroupcopy / re-seed has been successfully completed.
  5. Exchange 2007 SP1 / Windows 2008 – How to recover a deleted VCO…
  6. I accidentally deleted an Exchange 2007 clustered resource…what should I do?
  7. Exchange 2007 SP1 - /recoverCMS and version errors.
  8. An additional consideration for Exchange log file drive sizing…
  9. Enabling Standby Continuous Replication to use an alternate network interface in Exchange 2007 SP1
  10. Kerberos authentication, dns suffix lists, the replication service, and Exchange management commandlets…
  11. Setting up a Windows 2008 cluster where nodes reside in a disjointed DNS namespace…
  12. Windows 2008 / Exchange 2007 Single Copy Clusters (SCC) – Disk Is-Alive Checking
  13. Exchange 2007 SP1 CCR / LCR / SCR – Transaction Log Roll
  14. When to use restore-storagegroupcopy with the –force switch and standby continuous replication (SCR)
  15. Evicting an Exchange 2007 clustered node.
  16. Testing SCR in a production environment.
  17. ExBPA incorrectly flags Windows 2003 cluster rules on Windows 2008
  18. Exchange 2010: Two HA features which are no longer present…
  19. Network port design and Exchange 2007 clusters.
  20. File Share Witness (FSW) placement and the cluster group.
  21. Windows 2008 / Multi-subnet clusters and using static routes.
  22. One thing not to do when Exchange 2007 cluster setup fails…
  23. Exchange 2007: Renaming the default storage group / mailbox database or deleting and recreating.
  24. EXTRA!! EXTRA!! Read all about it…get your SCR fixes here (aka Exchange 2007 SP1 RU7 released!)
  25. Running setup.com /clearLocalCMS on a Windows 2008 cluster disables the machine accounted (VCO) associated with the CMS name.
  26. Exchange 2007 /newCMS or /recoverCMS fails when installing on Windows 2003 clusters.
  27. A lossy failover causes duplicate mails to be delivered to clients from the hub transport dumpster when using Exchange 2007 SP1 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR).
  28. Using Standby Continuous Replication in both single node cluster implementation and database portability implementation when only a single machine is available.
  29. Restore-StorageGroupCopy –standbymachine requires use of –force in order to complete successfully when activating a Standby Continuous Replication target in Exchange 2007 SP1.
  30. Permissions recommended for the CNO (Cluster Name Object) in Windows 2008 for Exchange 2007 SP1 setup operations.
  31. Errors with Test-ReplicationHealth when using a multi-subnet Windows 2008 Cluster.
  32. Recommendations for enabling a two node Standby Continuous Replication target based on a Single Copy Cluster (Exchange 2007 SP1)
  33. Get-storagegroupcopystatus = Initializing
  34. Cluster stability issues with Exchange 2007 SP1 RU5 Single Copy Clusters (SCC) enabled for Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) on Windows 2008
  35. Inconsistent results when enabling standby continuous replication (SCR) in Exchange 2007 SP1.
  36. Exchange 2007 SP1 CCR- Windows 2008 Clusters - File Share Witness (FSW) failures.
  37. The Windows Cluster service encountered and error during function OpenCluster.

2008 3

  1. Exchange Replication Service (Exchange 2007 SP1) and Windows 2008 Clusters
  2. Exchange 2007 SP1 RU5 - Error regarding replication between computers in different domains when using standby continuous replication (SCR).
  3. Windows 2008 / Exchange 2007 SP1 - ESE 522 errors on CCR passive or SCR target machine.