An Exchange Receive Connector requires a configuration for who can submit messages to the connector. The original TechNet description of the Set-ReceiveConnector cmdlet and the PermissionGroups attribute is as follows:
"The PermissionGroups parameter specifies the groups or roles that can submit messages to the Receive connector and the permissions assigned to those groups. A permission group is a predefined set of permissions granted to well-known security principals. The valid values for this parameter are as follows: None, AnonymousUsers, Custom, ExchangeUsers, ExchangeServers, ExchangeLegacyServers, and Partners. The default permission groups assigned to a Receive connector depend on the connector usage type specified by the Usage parameter when the Receive connector was created. "
The description implies that it is possible to set the PermissionGroups attribute to Custom.
When you try to set the permission group to Custom, you will notice that this results in an error. You will encounter this error especially when you try to copy a receive connector from one Exchange Server to another Exchange Server.
The attribute itself is being set to Custom by Exchange itself when add AD permission explicitly.
The example shows the configuration of a FerrariFax receive connector that needs to be configured across all Exchange 2013 DAG member servers.
Receice connector set to None
Add a dedicated Permission
Get-ReceiveConnector "SERVER\Connector for UMS (SERVER-FAX)" | Add-ADPermission -User DOMAIN\FaxUser -ExtendedRights ms-Exch-SMTP-Submit,ms-Exch-Bypass-Anti-Spam,ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient
Receive connector set to Custom by Exchange
You can copy a receive connector across a number of Exchange servers using the PowerShell script Copy-ReceiveConnector.ps1 hat has been published at TechNet Gallery.
The script has not been modified to handle this situation, yet. The source code repository is available at Github
The standard configuration of the ENow Management System (EMS) provides automatic Refresh for the One-View Dashboard Homepage only.
If an automatic refresh is required for any other page of the EMS Dashboard, i.e. Exchange 2013 Namespace, you need to modify the associated ASPX file.
Modification of ExchangeWorkloadTest.aspx
Original ASPX file:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" > <HTML> <HEAD> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> <title><%=GetHeadTitle()%></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1"> <meta name="CODE_LANGUAGE" Content="C#"> <meta name="vs_defaultClientScript" content="JavaScript"> <meta name="vs_targetSchema" content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5"> <% skin.WriteCommonHtmlHeadEntries(Response); %> </HEAD>
Modified ASPX file:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" > <HTML> <HEAD> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> <title><%=GetHeadTitle()%> </title> <meta name="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1"> <meta name="CODE_LANGUAGE" Content="C#"> <meta name="vs_defaultClientScript" content="JavaScript"> <meta name="vs_targetSchema" content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5"> <% skin.WriteCommonHtmlHeadEntries(Response); skin.WriteAutoRefreshHeader(Response); %> </HEAD>
Be aware that changes made to the APSX files will be overwritten by a software update. Any changes made need to be applied after updating the ENow Management System.
Mailscape is a component of the ENow Management System to monitor your Exchange Server Infrastructure. To learn more about Mailscape visit https://www.granikos.eu/en/Products/ENowManagementSuite
Changes to AutoDiscover settings in Exchange are cached by each AutoD IIS application for approximately 2 hours. If you want to have configuration changes available quickly, it required to restart the AutoD application pool on each Client Access Server serving AutoD request. Additionally you have top restart the MSExchangeServiceHost process as well.
You can use the following PowerShell code to restart the application pool and the MSExchangeServerHost process across all Exchange 2013 servers.
Restart Application Pool
Get-ExchangeServer | ? { $_.AdminDisplayVersion -like '*15.*'} | % { Invoke-Command -ComputerName $_.Name -ScriptBlock {Restart-WebAppPool MSExchangeAutodiscoverAppPool } }
Restart MSExchangeServiceHost
Get-ExchangeServer | ? { $_.AdminDisplayVersion -like '*15.*'} | % { Invoke-Command -ComputerName $_.Name -ScriptBlock {Restart-Service MSExchangeServiceHost } }
Enjoy.
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When you run your Exchange Organization in hybrid mode with Office 365 and you migrate your on-premise Public Folders to Office 365, you are required to configure a remote Public Folder Mailbox in the Exchange Organization settings.
With Public Folders on-premise your Exchange Online Org looks like this:
Get-OrganizationConfig | fl *public* DefaultPublicFolderAgeLimit : DefaultPublicFolderIssueWarningQuota : 1.7 GB (1,825,361,920 bytes) DefaultPublicFolderProhibitPostQuota : 2 GB (2,147,483,648 bytes) DefaultPublicFolderMaxItemSize : Unlimited DefaultPublicFolderDeletedItemRetention : 30.00:00:00 DefaultPublicFolderMovedItemRetention : 7.00:00:00 PublicFoldersLockedForMigration : False PublicFolderMigrationComplete : False PublicFoldersEnabled : Remote PublicComputersDetectionEnabled : False RootPublicFolderMailbox : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 RemotePublicFolderMailboxes : {PublicFolder-Mailbox001}
With Public Folders on-premise your On-Premise Exchange Org looks like this:
Get-OrganizationConfig | fl *public* DefaultPublicFolderAgeLimit : DefaultPublicFolderIssueWarningQuota : Unlimited DefaultPublicFolderProhibitPostQuota : Unlimited DefaultPublicFolderMaxItemSize : Unlimited DefaultPublicFolderDeletedItemRetention : 30.00:00:00 DefaultPublicFolderMovedItemRetention : 7.00:00:00 PublicFoldersLockedForMigration : True PublicFolderMigrationComplete : True PublicFoldersEnabled : Local PublicComputersDetectionEnabled : False RootPublicFolderMailbox : ae0ef819-90d2-45d0-92b6-8b2062cf71a3 RemotePublicFolderMailboxes : {}
With Public Folders in Exchange Online your Exchange Online Org looks like this:
Get-OrganizationConfig | fl *public* DefaultPublicFolderAgeLimit : DefaultPublicFolderIssueWarningQuota : 1.7 GB (1,825,361,920 bytes) DefaultPublicFolderProhibitPostQuota : 2 GB (2,147,483,648 bytes) DefaultPublicFolderMaxItemSize : Unlimited DefaultPublicFolderDeletedItemRetention : 30.00:00:00 DefaultPublicFolderMovedItemRetention : 7.00:00:00 PublicFoldersLockedForMigration : False PublicFolderMigrationComplete : False PublicFoldersEnabled : Local PublicComputersDetectionEnabled : False RootPublicFolderMailbox : 5810bb30-cdda-4287-85a4-8a2547bb9b01 RemotePublicFolderMailboxes : {}
With Public Folders in Exchange Online your Exchange On-Premise Org looks like this:
Get-OrganizationConfig | fl *public* DefaultPublicFolderAgeLimit : DefaultPublicFolderIssueWarningQuota : Unlimited DefaultPublicFolderProhibitPostQuota : Unlimited DefaultPublicFolderMaxItemSize : Unlimited DefaultPublicFolderDeletedItemRetention : 30.00:00:00 DefaultPublicFolderMovedItemRetention : 7.00:00:00 PublicFoldersLockedForMigration : True PublicFolderMigrationComplete : True PublicFoldersEnabled : Remote PublicComputersDetectionEnabled : False RootPublicFolderMailbox : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 RemotePublicFolderMailboxes : {mcsmemail.de/Users/PF365-Mailbox-01-55e3d544-ed5a-4557-9008-d8c1b6f06d86}
The remote public folder mailbox has been added to the on-premise Exchange confguration by using:
Set-OrganizationConfig -RemotePublicFolderMailboxes PF365-Mailbox-001 -PublicFoldersEnabled Remote
To be able to add the remote public folder mailbox in a hybrid configuration you are required to add the public folder mailbox (or mailboxes, if you have more than one serving the hierarchy) as a mail user.
Microsoft provides a PowerShell script as part of a script collection here.
When you run the Import-PublicFolderMailboxes.ps1 script you might run into the following error:
Cannot bind parameter 'Name' to the target. Exception setting "Name": "The length of the property is too long. The maximum length is 64 and the length of the value provided is 65." + CategoryInfo : WriteError: (:) [New-MailUser], ParameterBindingException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterBindingFailed,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.NewMailUser + PSComputerName : ex2013.mcsmemail.de
The name attribute for a mail user is limited to 64 characters. But why are you exceeding the length when the mailbox name is only 17 characters long?
It turns out that the PowerSheel script adds a prefix name "" and ther mailbox GUID as a suffix. And voilá, the name exceeds the allowed length for the mail user name attribute.
Don't use more than 16 characters when naming the Public Folder mailboxes in Office 365.
Or modify the Import-PublicFolderMailboxes.ps1 script to fit your needs.
$hasPublicFolderServingHierarchy = $true; $displayName = $publicFolderMailbox.Name.ToString().Trim(); # ORIG: $name = "RemotePfMbx-" + $displayName + "-" + [guid]::NewGuid(); $name = $displayName + "-" + [guid]::NewGuid(); $externalEmailAddress = $publicFolderMailbox.PrimarySmtpAddress.ToString();
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This script removes orphaned ActiveSync device partnerships from Exchange Server 2010 user mailboxes. Run the script as a scheduled job to maintain your Exchange Server environment properly.
Modifiy the script path variables to fit your requirements. The variables are configured in the ### BEGIN Variables section.
Steps being executed by the script:
Remove-ActiveSyncDevicePartnership
Additional credits go to Sebastian Rubertus