Issue After installing a fresh copy of Exchange 2016 CU9 on my lab machine, which was running Server 2016 (patched as of March 22nd 2018) I would get following error when attempting to access OWA, ECP, EWS or any other Exchange 2016 virtual service over the loopback address Troubleshooting First thing I…

I strongly believe most MS Exchange engineers / administrators biggest nightmares are spiders… I mean who likes spiders (I strongly dislike, dare I say hate walking into a spider web — it sucks), but next up would be a full DR incident where your primary site goes down and now…

(Late) Sunday nights are not a fun time to get paged about a customer down… Situation Engineer reboots an Exchange 2010 server that is apart of a two node DAG, but when the server comes back online the MS Exchange Information Store service is stuck in the “Starting” phase within the…

So I was recently tasked with a pretty interesting case escalation this week, which was in regards to an address book sync failure from a third party application (EMC SourceOne). Environment For the sake of this blog, the environment was pretty simple. A single Exchange 2010 SP3UR5 CAS / HUB…

This post is circa 2014, and was migrated from Wordpress (note: TL;DR at the bottom in bold) Its 11PM after a long day and I am here trying to rebuild my lab. I sit back, copy over the VHD templates for the VM I need (Exchange 2010 is what I…

This post is circa 2014 and migrated from Wordpress So it’s been a while, so as my “comeback” post I decided to make a post on something we all can relate to … creating a home lab. In this first post I will be going over the networking aspect within…

This post is circa 2014 and migrated from Wordpress After having this issue at a customer, and finding the information on the internet to be a bit old (and haste) I wanted to post what occurred and how to solve it. So over the weekend I had DR testing at…

Original post is circa 2014, and migrated from Wordpress I had a particular issue that is not well documented on the Technet site so I decided I would blog about it and share my experience. Today I was doing an Exchange 2003 to 2010 upgrade for a customer. Their AD…

There has been a lot of discussion recently around proxy/redirection with Exchange 2007/2010 so I wanted to clear the air about what each one does, and how they work with CAS services. What is the real definition of Proxying and Redirection? To understand proxying and redirection, you should understand the…