Exchange 2016 consists of two roles, Mailbox server role and Edge Transport server role. Before you install new Exchange 2016 in your organization there are many prerequisites that you need to prepare and go through. In this post, I will show prerequisites of installing Exchange 2016. Prerequisites of installing Exchange 2016 There is a nice hardware […]
When you install Exchange 2016, a default mailbox database is created automatically. This database is created in default Exchange installation location. The default mailbox database name is automatically created which doesn’t meet any naming convention. So you have few options to get the mailbox database name right. First, you can rename the database which is […]
Shared mailbox is a mailbox which is accessed by multiple users at the same time. You can accomplish this by creating a shared mailbox or by creating a user mailbox. You can use user mailbox as shared mailbox by providing required permission to multiple users to access the mailbox. Email addresses like info @company.com, contact@company.com can […]
Mailbox Database is a critical part of Exchange infrastructure. Sometimes mailbox database can get corrupted for some reason. For Exchange admin it can be a nightmare when mailbox database fails. There are different ways to recover mailbox database. You can recover the volume where databases are stored or you can recover single database instead of recovering all available database. Similarly, you also […]
Sometimes users can delete important emails and ask for help to recover the deleted items. There are different ways to recover deleted mailbox items. Exchange mailbox database retains deleted mailbox items for 14 days by default. You can use this feature to recover deleted mailbox item. You can also restore mailbox database to restore mailbox item. […]
In an organization, there can be multiple Exchange admins making changes to Exchange server. At some point you might want to know who made the changes and what changes were made. Instead of just asking them, you can audit and view changes made to Exchange server. Administrator audit logging feature was introduced in Exchange 2010. Admin […]
Disclaimers are some legal statements that are added at the bottom of each emails that are coming or going out your organization. In Exchange 2016, disclaimers are configured as transport rules. Transport rule consists of one or more conditions, exceptions and actions. Transport rules are applied on Hub Transport or Edge Transport servers by transport agents. In this post, I will […]