Microsoft Exchange

If you’re like us you still have old legacy applications that use POP3 for various things. On Exchange 2013 the way POP3 works has changed slightly. Now you access a POP3 mailbox via the CAS servers that proxy you to the mailbox on the Mailbox role server(s). Our application only supports plain text authentication, but … Read more

There’s some basic tasks which are good to automate, to save you some time, you can configure them to run as a scheduled task. First step is to create a user account to run the scripts, this account should have access to change Exchange and change Active Directory, lets call the account: exchangeserviceuser. To run … Read more

In Exchange 2013 the message tracking log viewer has gone, you need to view the tracking logs from PowerShell. Here’s a basic command to make that happen: Okay this shows you the logs from a particular sender to a particular recipient and shows it in the GridView, this is a nice GUI type view with … Read more

I’m in the middle of a migration from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 at the moment. All was going well until I repointed the DNS records to the Exchange 2013 CAS servers. In Exchange 2013 all client connectivity is now made using RPC over HTTPS (a.k.a Outlook Anywhere) unlike Exchange 2010 where only external clients … Read more

You’ve just installed your new Exchange 2013 server but there is a mailbox already there with a default name e.g. “Mailbox Database 0100716264”, if you are like me you’ll want to get rid of that and create a nice new one in a more sensible location but if you try to delete it you’ll get … Read more

Here’s a weird one, When going into OWA from IE 9 or IE 10, using premium mode you can’t send an email to someone who you never have before i.e. you can send emails fine to someone that OWA puts in the autocomplete (NK2 nickname dropdown) but for a brand new address it doesn’t work. … Read more

I was getting the errors of “The Certificate is Invalid for Exchange Server Usage” to “The certificate status could not be determined because the revocation check failed.” Here is how I fixed them in our test environment before we deployed to live, the first error is a common one, the second one seems to only … Read more

I kept getting this bloody ‘440 Authentication Timeout’ page in IE. And I would get it instantly, so there was no way it was actually timing out. A quick google on this error returned a half dozen pages of threads, with no resolutions. As a result, I figured I’d better blog this for future reference … Read more