Exchange Server corruption is a common issue which causes trouble for many administrators and users. Such corruption often leads to inaccessibility of the mailbox(es). Another similar issue, which leads to inaccessibility of mailboxes but for a period of time is the quarantine issue. It is common in Exchange Server 2010 and above versions. Let us…

The Exchange mailbox of a user is the repository of all the professional communication. As the number of mailboxes increases in the database and the volume of data increases in mailboxes, the size of the Exchange database file (EDB) grows. There are many examples when the users are unable to open a specific mailbox which…

Database Availability Groups (DAGs) keep multiple copies of an Exchange database for automatic failover recovery. Though these copies may remain on different servers, the database copies should have a path similar to that of the original database. For example, if the primary database has a path like Documents\database\mailbox1.edb, then the copy database should have the…

In-place archiving, the archiving feature of Exchange on-premises and Exchange Online, gives total control over the mailbox data as the user can now place the data in the archive mailbox rather than the PST file. Archive mailbox is similar to the primary mailbox and can be accessed in Outlook or Outlook on the Web. You…

Microsoft Exchange Server has earned the trust of the majority of its users because they know that their data is safe at the Exchange Server. Microsoft always puts the security measures of Exchange Server at a high pedestal and use various techniques to safeguard the data. The latest version of Exchange Server 2019 has increased…

When you copy a database from an Exchange Server and place it on a different Exchange Server, then you may call the process ‘Seeding.’ Thus, it becomes a replica of your database where the entire data is present. Seeding is performed using the ‘Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy’ cmdlet. Here are some points which you should understand before running…

When you have installed the new Exchange Server 2016 at you Windows Server and want to configure the Exchange account in the Outlook, then there is a useful feature called Autodiscover. The Autodiscover feature facilitates the user to only input the user ID, and password and the account gets configured automatically. The Autodiscover finds the…

If you think that you get spammy and fishing emails in your personal email account only, and not in the professional email account, then you are wrong. Whenever you use your professional email account at a suspicious website, then get ready to face the spammy and phishing emails. The phishing email is a direct attack…

Being a widely used cloud platform, Office 365 holds almost every bit of email data of an organization. Users even store contacts and calendar information in their Office 365 accounts. Storing contacts in Office 365 is very helpful as it makes sending and receiving emails easier. But, users need to delete some contacts that are…

When you conduct a migration of Exchange Server to either another version of Exchange Server or Exchange Online, then you need to run the move request to complete the migration. The Move Request uses many parameters and switches, and each parameter has a dedicated task to complete. One of these parameters is Bad Item List….