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Exchange ApplicationImpersonation != SMTP Impersonation

Recently I was troubleshooting an issue where a service account was granted the Exchange RBAC ApplicationImpersonation role for another account. The following PowerShell cmdlets were used to configure the impersonation permissions: New-ManagementScope -Name "Generic Mailboxes" -RecipientRestrictionFilter "DisplayName -like 'Generic*'" New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Name "Impersonate Generic Mailboxes&

Exchange

The case of the missing Meeting Room

I was working recently on an issue where a small number of meeting room mailboxes needed to be hidden from the Global Address List in Exchange Online. This is normally accomplished by setting the HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled attribute on the mailbox to $True and within a short period of time it is

Exchange

Exchange server and EMS startup issues

"So I just installed Exchange on my server and I'm unable to connect locally via Exchange Management Shell (EMS) or Exchange Control Panel (ECP). Here is the error that I get in EMS.Do you have any ideas?" This is a question that I get frequently enough I

Commands

Useful Commands - Pt 3.

In this installment of useful commands we will look at checking SSLBindings, viewing installed software and checking Exchange Transport Rule update times. Command 5 Recently while working on a issue where IIS certificate bindings were getting reset on Exchange. When working on a single server this isn't too hard but

Commands

Useful Commands - Pt 2.

In this installment of useful commands we will look at monitoring Mailboxes for item counts and size as well as managing wireless LAN profiles. Command #3 Getting a count of how many items are in a mailbox can be accomplished very easily using Exchange PowerShell. Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity testuser | Where-Object {$_.Identity

Troubleshooting

Useful commands

Today it occurred to me that there are commands and code snippets that I keep having to hunt down that I should start documenting for myself but also for others who might benefit from having them. Below is what I hope to be the beginning of an ongoing series of