Earlier this week, I was moving one of our Exchange 2013 servers from Trend Micro WFBS Exchange Agent (or Messaging Security Agent) over to their ScanMail for Exchange product. The first part of this was to uninstall the Trend Micro Message Security Agent, which I did via the Control Panel. This appeared to go according to plan, and I was not expecting any downtime on my … [Read more...]
Exchange Management Shell not working–Powershell unable to connect to Exchange Server
I connected into a clients server today to do some maintenance for them. When I opened up PowerShell, it gave me a stack of errors indicating failure to connect to the remote server. The key issue it described was below The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The load quota for the system has been exceeded. Send future requests at a slower rate or … [Read more...]
Public Folder Limits for Exchange
Doing a bit of migration work for clients at the moment, and one of the things we are striking with one of the projects are limitations on Public Folders. I hear you ask “What limits on Public Folders??” Well Microsoft has some time after the release of Exchange 2013 decided to publish what they call supported limits on Public Folders. Note that to the best of … [Read more...]
Faster Mailbox moves on Exchange 2013
I’ve been involved in a large 2500 seat Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 migration and consolidation project recently. During the mailbox moves, I found that often the move requests were being stalled with a status of RelinquishedWLMStalled. I tried to change many things to improve the migration including modifying the MSExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config file to … [Read more...]
Renewing SSL certificates with Digicert
My SSL certificate expired tonight. I’ve used Digicert certificates for SBSfaq.com for a while now and I’ve got to say I like there customer service. Normally renewing an SSL certificate can be painful. You’ve got to generate a CSR, upload that to the website of the SSL provider, wait for the returning certificate, then install that on the server, before then … [Read more...]