• Exchange 2010: HomeMTA and msExchHomeServerName are not updated on mailboxes.

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by TIMMCMIC}
    In Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 when clients would attempt to connect to a mailbox it would be based on the server where that mailbox was homed.   Specifically these attributes would contain information about the server where a particular...

  • Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 2 – Where are my databases?

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by TIMMCMIC}
    In Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) we introduced support for a maximum of 100 mounted mailbox databases per server (active or passive) when an Enterprise Edition license is applied.  This was an increase from Exchange Server 2013 RTM...

  • Exchange 2010: Remove-databaseavailabilitygroupserver–configurationOnly does not evict the member from the cluster.

    Posted over 1 year ago
    by TIMMCMIC}
    Administrators may encounter conditions where DAG members cannot be gracefully removed from a database availability group.  For example, a member server may have encountered an unrecoverable failure or the server may need to be removed from the DAG...

  • Exchange 2010 – File Share Witness oddities…

    Posted over 4 years ago
    by TIMMCMIC}
    In Exchange 2010 when a Database Availability Group (DAG) it utilized, and there is an even number of DAG members, the underlying cluster is implemented utilizing the quorum type Node and File Share Majority.  The settings utilized for the File Share...

  • Exchange 2010 SP1: StartDagServerMaintenance.ps1 fails when a server contains databases with a single copy.

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by TIMMCMIC}
    In Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 we introduced some new DAG management scripts.  These scripts can be found in the Exchange Server installation directory \ scripts.  (This is usually c:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\v14\scripts).  ...