Hello Everyone! I need some help with the script below. I have an Exchange On Prem environment and I just can't seem to make this work the way I want it to work. I'm trying to automate some of these tasks so it's not so cumbersome, but I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

So my script that I'm writing is below. The objective is I'm trying to go into a mailbox search for a message that meets the criteria of matching subject and from a specific e-mail address and matching the date range of the mailboxes outlined in a txt file that I have a variable tied to.

The question I have is the following:

I can't seem to figure out how to include multiple parameters to be taken into consideration. IE If I run the script with just the $subject, $From, $date i can get results. If I join them with AND i do not get any results.

What syntax am I missing here to achieve the results I outlined above? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

#####THIS SCRIPT MUST BE RUN ON AN EXCHANGE SERVER########

#This script is for removing items from multiple mailboxes such as in the instance of a virus or emergency

#The contents are exported to MBRestored mailbox before deletion in case of a need to restore something erroneously deleted.

#Create a text file list of usernames or e-mail addresses and enter the path in the line below. Please format the file as the Ticket#.txt You will have to edit line below to match your file name. The FILENAME MUST MATCH.

$userlist = 'c:\temp\TESTINC.txt'

# Define the date range for the search

$StartDate = "2024/10/30" # Adjust to your start date

$EndDate = "2024/10/31" # Adjust to your end date

# Define the subject, sender email, and date range in the KQL query

$subject = "Test Message to remove 2"

$senderEmail = "E-mail@domain.com"

#In the line below, SearchQuery uses KQL syntax (Keyword Query Language).

#Samples:

#$searchquery = 'Attachment:"Technical Services 10192015.pdf"'

#$searchquery = 'From:foo@example.com'

#$searchquery = 'Subject:"misleading subject here"'

#$searchquery = "Subject:'$subject' AND From'$senderEmail' AND received>='$StartDate' AND received<='$EndDate'"

#$searchquery = "Subject:'Quarterly Report' AND from:'manager@domain.com'"

$searchquery = "Subject:'$subject' AND From'$senderEmail' AND received>='$StartDate' AND received<='$EndDate'"

#Adding Exchange Snap In to execute Exchange CmdLets in this script

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.SnapIn

$users = Get-Content -Path $userlist

Foreach ($user in $users) #loops through each user in the text file

{

`$user`

Add-MailboxPermission -Identity $user -User $env:username -accessright Fullaccess

Search-Mailbox -Identity $user -SearchQuery $searchquery –TargetMailbox MBRestore –TargetFolder "TESTINC" -Confirm:$false -DeleteContent -force -LogLevel Full

Remove-MailboxPermission -Identity $user -User $env:username -accessright Fullaccess -Confirm:$false

}

#After running this script, log onto the MBRestore mailbox, verify the data is the intended e-mails, and delete them.

Hello, I'm not too well versed in exchange so I apologize if I don't explain this well, I'm having a bit of an issue finding a sustainable solution to this problem; I have a single user whose emails are not synching that emails were moved or deleted when off the network. Within the network works as expected. For all other users

I can fix the issue temporarily by restarting the users IMAP service, however this doesn't usually last long, sometimes up to a month but usually only a few days. The server itself also has the IMAP services enabled and set to start automatically. I was hoping someone may have some insight into the cause of this issue and how to possibly fix it for a longer period. Thank you

Hi all

I have Exchange Server 2019 and SkypeforBusiness Server both onprem.
Recently deployed Hybrid for exchange.
After migrating onprem mailbox to ExchangeOnline the onprem Sfb client lost possibility to store conversation history to mailbox.
Sfb configuration info saying "EWS not deployes, MAPI unavailable".
But outlook connects to cloud mailbox without any problem.

I couldn't find any information on how it can work under the hood and what should be done and even is this supported/working scenario for SfB?

Hey all, apologies if this is the wrong subreddit for this but I do not know much when it comes to this subject.

We have a need to find a email that a staff sent/forwarded in 2017. When looking at the users archive, in place archive, and scavenging Veeam for O365 it appears as all of this users sent items from 2017 are just missing?

The sent emails stop January 16th, 2017 and no new ones until January 2nd, 2018. We know this user sent the email, as we can find the original forwarded email (it says you forwarded this on x date) but I can't find anyother trace. I'm in over my head here, I cant explain how those emails are just missing as I thought Veeam would back it up even the deleted items? And I know this user sent hundreds of emails in 2017...

I wasn't with this company in 2017, so I don't know all that happened around then... But if anyone can give me some insight/tips to find this email it'd be greatly appreciated.

Hallo Leute,

ich habe vor kurzem einen neuen Kunden incl. Netzwerk übernommen. Dabei habe ich voller entsetzen festgestellt, dass noch ein SBS2011 im Einsatz ist.

Deshalb führe ich zur Zeit eine Migration Exchange 2010 nach 2016 durch.

Nach den ersten Vorarbeiten wollte ich als erstes das Admin-Postfach nach Exchange 2016 migrieren.

Allerdings läuft diese Migration extrem langsam. Von den 2000 Mails (76MB) sind von Montag bis heute nur etwa 85 übertragen worden. Etwa jede halbe Stunde eine Mail.

Das sehe ich an den Log-Dateien im Verzeichnis der Datenbank. Für jede übertragene Email wird eine Log-Datei (E000000XXXX.log) erstellt.

Es sind insgesamt nur 15 Benutzer-Postfächer zu übertragen.

Ich habe die Migration des Kontos über die Exch-Powershell am Exchange 2016 angestoßen.

Seit dem erscheint die Meldung beim Get-MoveRequest:  Admin     InProgress    DB2016

Zu dem System (eigentlich beste Voraussetzungen):

Virtualisierte Windows Server 2022 - Umgebung

- Windows Server 2016 Std - Exchange 2016 - CU23

- Festplattenspeicher SSD-NVMe (sehr flott) 300GB frei

- 128GB Arbeitsspeicher

- 8 Prozessorkerne 4GHz

- System-Festplatte 100GB (60GB frei) - Festplatte für Exchange-Daten 400GB (320GB frei)

- Netzwerk 10G

Auch der SBS2011 hat jede Menge Arbeitsspeicher u. Festplattenkapazitäten.

Ich hatte bereits im Vorfeld einen Testlauf mit den Original-Voraussetzungen (SRV AD, Server SBS 2011, SRV 2016 Exchange 2016) durchgeführt.

Da wurden jede Sekunde etwa 5 Mails übertragen - es lief also normal und verhältnismäßig flott durch.

Habe solche Exchange-Migrationen schön öfters durchgeführt. Solch ein Problem hatte ich noch nie!

Wäre toll, wenn jemand eine zündende Idee hätte, woran diese verzögerte Mail-Migration liegen könnte?

Gruß LeoLe

Hello

I had a problem with an on premises exchange database (it was in a dirty shutdown state and i couldn't repair it)

so as a workaround i disabled the mailboxes that are on that database, created a new database, and recreated the mailboxes and then restored the content with a backup solution.

the problem i'm getting with this new database, that only intern users can't reach them out , with a bounce back error mail that contains this " Remote Server returned '550 5.1.11 RESOLVER.ADR.ExRecipNotFound; Recipient not found by Exchange Legacy encapsulated email address lookup"

but external senders can perfectly send email. so i guess it's a problem related to GAL

I tried to update it but the same issue persists

I even added the X500 address as a secondary one.

i need help please
Update : internal users senders when they use OWA (exchange web access), they don't receive the bounce back error mail

I'm going nuts

We have two rules for Exchange Online; #1 adds a disclaimer to every outbound email, #2 adds an external sender warning to all inbound mail. We have an internal service account (it@domain.com) that staff email for help, that now is forwarded to a ticketing system (ticketing address ex support@mydomain.ticketcompany.com). I also have all DMARC/SPF/etc. set up to allow the ticketing company to use my same service email as the sending address.

Forwarded is working perfectly, however I CANNOT figure out how to stop both rules from applying to emails sent from, or received to, our internal service account between the ticketing services address. Some emails are honoring it, some aren't.... I feel like I have logical rules setup but the banners still show :(

EDIT!!!

External Sender Rules for all Inbound Mail

Disclaimer Rules for all Outbound Mail

Hey people,

We run exchange on-prem and have several users on litigation hold. One of these users is seeing extreme growth in the size of their deleted items, around 1TB a month. The users mailbox is now over 2TB and still growing.

I assume this is a bugged calendar invite or something of the sort. Is there any easy way to identify duplicated emails in the users deleted items? Our legal team is happy for us to temporarily take this user off lit hold to clean up the mailbox, however they will not approve of us blanket removing emails unless we can prove we don't need them.

Any suggestions would be appreciated

Announcing General Availability of Inbound SMTP DANE with DNSSEC for Exchange Online - Microsoft Community Hub

Hopefully this will fix me having to change the Office 365 Connector to IP instead of DNS name for on-prem server. (Turning DNSSEC on for domain breaks our Exchange online connector)

Hello all,

Exchange 2016, hybrid setup. Trying to set cert on Send connectors using syntax that (of course) worked fine last renewal time. I am getting this error when running the Set command:

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>$TLSCert = Get-ExchangeCertificate -Thumbprint "(numbers here)"

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>$TLSCertName = "<I>$($TLSCert.Issuer)<S>$($TLSCert.Subject)"

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Set-SendConnector "Outbound to Office 365" -TlsCertificateName $TLSCertName

Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'TlsCertificateName'. Cannot convert value "<I><S>" to type

"Microsoft.Exchange.Data.SmtpX509Identifier". Error: ""<I><S>" isn't a valid Certificate Identifier."

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Set-SendConnector], ParameterBindin...mationException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentTransformationError,Set-SendConnector

+ PSComputerName : foo(dot)com

Not finding much information online about this one, and am about to go to the MS folks. Any ideas, info appreciated.

Migrated a on prem User mailbox to M365, but they are missing emails prior to 10/28. The mirgration tools shows Completed, Perfect, 9500+ items synched, but his mailbox Inbox shows 20. How do I go about finding the missing emails?

I am trying to use this command "Set-MailboxJunkEmailConfiguration" to set the junk email in all mailboxes. However I received an error "Stderr: Set-MailboxJunkEmailConfiguration: Ex9E65A2|Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.ManagementObjectAmbiguousExcepti

on|The operation couldn't be performed because 'Morny James' matches multiple

entries."

I am aware that in admin.exchange.microsoft.com I have two users with same display name 'Morny James' but their email addresses and alias is different. How do I get over this error without changing the display name? I want to add the junk email addresses to all mailboxes regardless of whether there are multiple users with same display name

As the title says, I moved about 16GB of mailboxes data from a DB to another on my Exchange 2019 box. I do not see the available space in the source DB freed up. Is the dumpster/thombstone setting at the db level involved by any chance?

I used the basic new-moverequest cmdlet. The move requests show completed and users are using their moved mailboxes correctly.

The move was completed the last night, on Tuesday 29th at 3:00AM.

Disks hosting DB and DB Logs are ReFS, 64KB unit sized, with integrity features disabled as per MS docs.

OS Windows server 2022 Datacenter Core.

Edit: I'm talking about the logical space inside the Edb file itself. Not the Edb file size, I know it doesn't get shrunk.

EDIT: Solution provided by u/enzulu:

After migrating to another db the mailbox on the source will be moved to a softdeleted state and only completely removed after retention period of the db (30 days by default)

You can manually delete the mailbox in the source database via shell.

To list all disconnected/disabled mailboxes you can use Get-MailboxDatabase | Get-MailboxStatistics | Where { $_.DisconnectReason -ne $null } | ft DisplayName,MailboxGuid,Database,DisconnectReason

My emails from my inbox are randomly being moved to my archive folder and I dont know why. Now i dont get notifications on my phone as well when new emails come in sometimes. When i move the emails back to inbox they move right back to archive.

I checked the rules and permission, can check again, but didnt see anything related to archive. Im on mac, use outlook 365 and its on exchange server.

Now i have two emails i live in, archive and inbox. I just want it to go back to normal with just inbox no archive. Any help?

I have a calendar that is supposed to be configured to do the following:

1. There are delegates listed on the calendar.
2. Only members of a specific distribution group are permitted to book against the calendar.
3. All meeting requests from those members have to be approved by a delegate.
4. Meeting requests from members are emailed to the delegates.

See the attached pic. Everything functions properly except the delegates never receive the meeting request emails. They have to go to the calendar to see tentative meetings and accept them. Anyone see anything amiss with the calendar processing settings that would lead to this? This is a migrated room mailbox in a hybrid environment. Thanks in advance!

https://preview.redd.it/2qs3ue76lqxd1.png?width=1352&format=png&auto=webp&s=23face1fc5827136c4195941ac1f7002914fb1b8

Hi .Hoping someone might be able to help shed some light on a strange situation I’m having.

Yesterday, about a half-dozen of my users on EXO received an e-mail from an external sender. Today, one of them went looking for the e-mail in Outlook and could not find it in their mailbox. It did not turn up in a search of the mailbox, was not in Deleted Items, and was not in Recoverable Items.

Here’s the kicker—24 hours after the e-mail was sent NONE of the people who received the e-mail can find in their inbox, and this includes those who remember receiving it and who opened it at the time of receipt. Same situation for all users—the e-mail is nowhere to be found in the mailbox, including Deleted Items and Recoverable items.

It’s like the e-mail never existed, but I can check the mail flow from yesterday and see that it was delivered to all the users, so I know I am not dealing with a case of mass delusion.

I’ve never encountered a situation like this and I am at a loss to explain it. My only thought is that the sender somehow recalled the e-mail, but I’m told the sender is not tech savvy and it seems highly unlikely he would know how to do that. Plus, it was an aol.com e-mail account, so I’m not even sure there would be recall capability across disparate e-mail systems like that.

If any has experienced something like this before or might have an inkling of what might be going on here, I’d be grateful for some suggestions. Thanks!

Hi, i have a problem while trying to send authnRequest to adfs4 using ArtifactBinding i get this error: Error details: MSIS3114: SAML request for relying party trust 'microsoft:identityserver:test' required artifact and was rejected because artifact service is not enabled. My party trust: Binding BindingUri Index IsDefault Location

Artifact urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-Artifact 0 False /localhost:8883/test

If you need something to verify settings, lmk

Is it even possible to use artifact binding with adfs 4?

Hi, i have a problem while trying to send authnRequest to adfs4 using ArtifactBinding i get this error: Error details: MSIS3114: SAML request for relying party trust 'microsoft:identityserver:test' required artifact and was rejected because artifact service is not enabled. My party trust: Binding BindingUri Index IsDefault Location

Artifact urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-Artifact 0 False https://localhost:8883/test

If you need something to verify settings, lmk

Is it even possible to use artifact binding with adfs 4?

I manage a few domains on a Exchange account hosted by Microsoft. For organizational and biz separation reasons I now need to move what's actually a personal domain to a different Exchange account.

The thing is the original account was initially set up with my personal domain, so it has "personaldomain".onmicrosoft.com attached to the account. Apparently this underlying onmicrosoft domain is perpetually attached to the Exchange account even if I remove "personaldomain" from there, meaning I can't open a new Exchange account with Microsoft as the onmicrosoft domain already exists in the first account.

I assume this means I have to use a different Exchange provider than Microsoft? Not opposed to that, just wondering if that is the case and I can stop trying to make it work with MS.

Good Morning,

I have a long-standing user that wants to start their mailbox from scratch. Is it better to Disable the Mailbox in the admin panel and create a new one for the user, or use the Mailbox-Search powershell command to find all the contents of the mailbox and delete it? Obvisouly we are backing up the mailbox to a pst file first for archive, but not sure the functional ramification of one over the other.

Hi, we are encountering this message "Socket error 10061 - The other host is either down or has refused to connect with you at that IP and/or on that port." It only happened when sending email to few particular domain name, need some help on this.

Migrating to Exchange 2019 and I'm at the uninstall stage of the process to get rid of the 2016 server. The server has Exchange 2016 CU22 and all connectors have been transferred and databases removed.

When I attempt to run "setup /mode:uninstall" i get the following error. Can someone suggest how to proceed? Do I even need to uninstall the application or can I just proceed and clean up AD of the computer account etc?

Performing Microsoft Exchange Server Prerequisite Check

Configuring Prerequisites COMPLETED

Prerequisite Analysis FAILED

The Windows component NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45 isn't installed on this computer and needs to be installed before

Exchange Setup can begin.

For more information, visit: http://technet.microsoft.com/library(EXCHG.150)/ms.exch.setupreadiness.WcfHttpActivation45I

nstalled.aspx

The Windows component Web-Net-Ext45 isn't installed on this computer and needs to be installed before Exchange Setup

can begin.

For more information, visit: http://technet.microsoft.com/library(EXCHG.150)/ms.exch.setupreadiness.WebNetExt45NotInstal

led.aspx

The Windows component Web-ASP-NET45 isn't installed on this computer and needs to be installed before Exchange Setup

can begin.

For more information, visit: http://technet.microsoft.com/library(EXCHG.150)/ms.exch.setupreadiness.WebASPNET45NotInstal

led.aspx

I am receiving the following Event ID 1 error in the Application log. The history is this is a sinlge Exchange Server 2016 site with an Exchange Server 2019 server deployed alongside it to migrate to.

Unhandled Exception "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

Stack trace:    at Microsoft.Exchange.AutoDiscoverV2.FlightSettingRepository.GetHostNameFromVdir(ADObjectId serverSiteId, String protocol)

   at Microsoft.Exchange.AutoDiscoverV2.AutoDiscoverV2.ExecuteOnPremEndFlow(AutoDiscoverV2Request request)

   at Microsoft.Exchange.AutoDiscoverV2.AutoDiscoverV2.Execute(AutoDiscoverV2Request request, ITenantRepository tenantRepository)

   at Microsoft.Exchange.AutoDiscoverV2.AutoDiscoverV2HandlerBase.<>c__DisplayClass11_0.<ProcessRequest>b__0()

   at Microsoft.Exchange.Common.IL.ILUtil.DoTryFilterCatch(Action tryDelegate, Func`2 filterDelegate, Action`1 catchDelegate)

The issue seems to match up with Microsoft support article https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/topic/autodiscover-event-id-1-after-installing-exchange-server-2019-cu3-or-exchange-server-2016-cu14-93850e62-4cf4-8a76-5fd4-c8ce6f032015 but the workaround doesn't work as 'ExternalUrl' isn't available and the suggested 'Add-PSSnapin' for '2010' doesn't help.

If I try configure a client when pointing at the new Exchange server this error Event ID 1 error appears in the logs.

Internal and External URLs are configured as per https://www.alitajran.com/configure-internal-external-url-exchange and seem OK.

I can't seem to find any further information on it so thought I would ask here.

EDIT: I've run 'Test-OutlookWebServices' and it returns 'Failure' with error 'The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized'. I'll investigate this.

Hi, everyone. We are running an on-prem Exchange 2016 environment at a few different physical locations, and users get their mailboxes moved between those locations as they themselves move around.

I moved a user’s mailbox from one database/location to another as I normally do using the New-MoveRequest command, and the move finished and it said ‘Completed’ with no errors attached to the move. I removed the move request using Remove-MoveRequest as is standard, but the user’s Outlook wouldn’t connect and gave a timeout error. When the user tries to login to the mailbox via OWA it gives a ‘MailboxInTransitException’ like the system thinks it is still being moved, but no move exists.

Looking at the mailbox with Get-Mailbox, it returns like the mailbox is still on the original/source server, but in ECP it shows it on the target/destination server/database. If I try to make a new move request to “move” it back to the original server, I get the following error/report over and over (edited to not show server names or domain name):

Report : 10/26/2024 8:02:44 PM [SERVER-NAME] ‘’ created move request. 10/26/2024 8:02:51 PM [SERVER-NAME] The Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Replication service ‘SERVER-NAME.domain’ (15.1.2507.39 caps:3FFFFF) is examining the request. 10/26/2024 8:02:51 PM [SERVER-NAME] Connected to target mailbox ‘fed5049c-80e8-4490-8204-38dd3a74e75e (Primary)’, database ‘Target2016Database’, Mailbox server ‘SERVER-NAME.domain’ Version 15.1 (Build 2507.0). 10/26/2024 8:02:59 PM [SERVER-NAME] Connected to source mailbox ‘fed5049c-80e8-4490-8204-38dd3a74e75e (Primary)’, database ‘Source2016Databse’, Mailbox server ‘SERVER-NAME.domain’ Version 15.1 (Build 2507.0), proxy server ‘SERVER-NAME.domain’ 15.1.2507.39 caps:0FFD6FFFBF5FFFFFCB07FFFF. 10/26/2024 8:03:02 PM [SERVER-NAME] Request processing started. 10/26/2024 8:03:03 PM [SERVER-NAME] Source mailbox information: Regular Items: 2390, 238.4 MB (249,987,456 bytes) Regular Deleted Items: 1582, 214.8 MB (225,284,041 bytes) FAI Items: 41, 1.215 MB (1,274,098 bytes) FAI Deleted Items: 0, 0 B (0 bytes) 10/26/2024 8:03:03 PM [SERVER-NAME] Cleared sync state for request fed5049c-80e8-4490-8204-38dd3a74e75e due to ‘CleanupOrphanedMailbox’. 10/26/2024 8:03:04 PM [SERVER-NAME] Transient error MapiExceptionNoSupport has occurred. The system will retry (1/600).

I have checked all of our databases/locations/servers, and the mailbox is not orphaned or disconnected at all. If I try to kickoff another move I get the error ‘TransientFailureSource’ over and over.

All of our DAGs and our databases show as healthy with no errors in ECP.

Lastly, if I try to do anything else with the mailbox aside from move it (like clear the dumpster), I get the following error (also edited for security):

Search-Mailbox : Cannot open mailbox /o=ORG/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Configuration/cn=Servers/cn=SERVER-NAME/cn=Microsoft System Attendant. At line:1 char:1

Search-Mailbox -Identity USERNAME -SearchDumpsterOnly -DeleteContent CategoryInfo : ReadError: (0:Int32) [Search-Mailbox], MailboxInTransitException FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=SERVER-NAME,RequestId=996e5ca5-7d8b-4048-bc27-5833cc6aad47,TimeStamp=10/27/202 4 1:29:22 AM] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-MailboxInTransitException] 3632BC2E,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.Sear chMailbox

…again, it thinks the mailbox is still in transit like the final sync didn’t happen even though there were no errors during/after the completed move.

The main thing that I am seeing as an issue that stands out most obviously is that the system things that the mailbox is still on the source server/database, but in ECP is shows it in the destination database like the move actually happened. I have confirmed that the data is physically there by downloading the PST to my local machine, and the speed at which it downloaded 100% confirms that it made it to the destination server (also where I am located) because if it wasn’t here it would have taken ages to actually export/download the PST.

I am completely at a loss, and would like some insight/help before I download another latest PST and nuke the mailbox to start fresh. Thank you for your time.

As the title says. We recently moved to a Hybrid configuration. We have already instructed our users the OWA has moved, they can't log into the on-prem anyway. We want to disable/redirect/block/make unavailable OWA but ECP uses it for authentication. How are you all accomplishing this? I don't see leaving OWA open as a good security practice.

so, with the EOL coming up for 16/19, is there any official documentation on removing 16/19 and having all services in Exchange 365 ?

My concerns are :

Updating Active Directory attributes to reflect not going through on premise (our 365 tenant also does not allow write back)

SMTP - We are currently doing smtp with on premise. What is the best option ?

Thanks guys.

For a recent migration going to happen in weeks time, the mailboxes from third party org will be migrated to Exchange online (around 60 users) but there is one application that is still not migrated and wont be till the end of this year (due to some Network limitations). They use it for sending emails currently. Is there a way the application can talk to our Network without being migrated ( i.o.w , can it still send mails using an email account migrated to our environment).

Their vendor suggests to use POP account. They use Email id and password in that application. Can it work since MS has deprecated Basic auth for POP. Just looking for a way to make that application work by using the Exchange online Migrated account to send emails, if its possible.

The domain will also be cutover in few weeks time.

We have decommissioned on-prem Exchange Servers many years ago and tried to decommission the last Exchange server by following the steps in scenario 2 here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/decommission-on-premises-exchange

The last step in that process is to run: Remove-HybridConfiguration

Unfortunately, Exchange PowerShell no longer works on that ancient server so I cannot run that command.

Exchange PowerShell on that server produces this error:

"The WinRM client received an HTTP server error status (500)"

This error indicates that the required “Microsoft Exchange RPC Client Access” service is not running, but attempts to start it don't succeed. Attempts to start it changes status to “Starting”, then nothing else. No logs are formed in C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Logging\RPC Client Access\

I don't want to waste excessive time troubleshooting a server that I want to decommission, so is there a way to make whatever changes Remove-HybridConfiguration makes without running it on that now failed last Exchange server?

I didn't know exactly what the Remove-HybridConfiguration does, but today I came up against an issue:

Our offboarding script used to establish a PowerShell connection to the last Exchange server to run a "Disable-RemoteMailbox" command in order to delete a mailbox out of Exchange Online, which is no longer works due to broken RPC Client Access service. (I know I can delete the AD account, but we prefer to disable it and not delete for various reasons.)

I thought I could replace command with an Exchange Online Remove-Mailbox command, but this fails with a "not within a valid server write scope" error. I suspect it will work after running the Remove-HybridConfiguration command, but I'm not sure.

Any advice of what to do?

Hello,

We have a couple of meeting rooms defined in Exchange Online. Is it possible to configure them in such a way so that the address of the meeting room is included in the invite? I have added the address in the "Resource contact information" section but when add the room to an invite and send it to an external party, they don't see this info anywhere. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.