Troubleshooting - Bruce's Blog

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

Troubleshooting

How to verify certificates with openssl

From time to time it may be necessary to verify what certificate is being presented by the server that you are connecting to. Sometimes this is a SMTP server or it could be

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

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

Troubleshooting

Working with netsh network traces

In my previous post regarding useful commands I showed how to perform a packet capture between a client machine and a remote machine using IP filters. When the capture is complete you will

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