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The Exchange PowerShell script (Set-ReceiveConnectorIpAddress) to add or remove remote IP address ranges to/from Exchange Server 2013+ receive connectors received an update.

The script now checks if the required PowerShell modules are available before failing to load the modules.

Get the most recent version at Github or TechNet Gallery

• https://github.com/Apoc70/Set-ReceiveConnectorIpAddress
• https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Add-or-Remove-Rremote-IP-e53e6f45

As always, enjoy Exchange Server On-Premises.

On Saturday, May 11th, the SharePoint Saturday Cologne will take place at Microsoft Office.

My session covers the migration of legacy public folders to modern public folders in the cloud.

Migrating from legacy public folders to modern public folders in Exchange Online is an error-prone process. Especially for Exchange organizations using legacy public folders since the early days. Real world examples from the field will show you how to determine the right migration approach. Additional information will help you to avoid the most common errors when migrating to modern public folders to the cloud. But what about after migrating to the? There is more. Prepare for decommissioning Public Folders by moving content to Microsoft Teams.

Links

• SharePoint Saturday Cologne Website
• SPSCGN Agenda

See you in Cologne.

Exchange Server 2019 is the most recent release of the successful email messaging solution, introduced by Microsoft in 1996. Since the early days of the product supported a single primary email address only. The primary email address is used as the sender address when a user composes a new email message and sends the message. A mailbox can have multiple email addresses to receive messages for, but only one so-called reply-address. 

But the limitation is not valid anymore.

A recent build of the Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 1 released to VLSC contains a new feature called Multi-Reply Addresses. 

This new feature is very helpful in scenarios where a single user sends email messages for multiple companies. Think of a business owner who is responsible for two or more companies. In the past, it was required to configure a mailbox account per primary email address used as a reply address. Such a configuration resulted not only on multiple inboxes but in multiple calendars and contact folders as well. 

The new Multi-Reply Addresses feature of Exchange Server 2019 provides a much better solution. Moreover, it is a CEO-safe solution.

How it works

After enabling the multi-reply feature in your Exchange Organization the new functionality is available in Exchange Admin Center and Exchange Management Shell.

When you edit the email address properties using the Edit User Mailbox dialogue of an existing mailbox you can add additional reply addresses. 

• Click Add reply address button to add an additional textbox to add a new reply address
• Select the checkbox to ensure that all addresses are used as available reply addresses
• Click OK to save the changes

The following screenshot illustrates the steps.

When you close the Edit User Mailbox dialogue the additonal reply addresses and the status are displayed in the recipient list view and the detail pane.

The following screenhot shows how the reply addresses are displayed in the list view and how the status is displyed in the detail pane. 

You can verify the updated proxyAddresses Active Directory attibute using ADSIEdit or the Attribute Viewer of the ADUC MMC. 

When you compose a new email message using Outlook on the Web, the From selector is displayed automatically. You can select one of the configured reply email addresses as the sender address. 

You can configure separate email signatures for each available reply address.

A user can select Options - Mail - Email signature to open the Email signature form. The form provides a new option to set a different email siganture for each reply address. 

This is a really exciting new feature.

How to enable the Multi-Reply feature

You can enable the new multi-reply function using the following new Exchange Cmdlet:

# Enable Multi-Reply functionality in Exchange Server 2019
Enable-SmtpMultiReply 

# Disable Multi-Reply functionality in Exchange Server 2019
Disable-SmtpMultiReply -CleanupPrimarySmtp -Force 

When disabling the Multi-Reply feature a all but one primary SMTP address is converted to a legacy proxy smtp address.

You need to be assigned permissions before you can run this cmdlet. It is required to be assigned to the Elevated Exchange Organization Management role.

Things to come

• The multi-reply or multi-primary email address engine does not support email address policies. You must activate and manage additional address manually using the Exchange Admin Center or Exchange Management Shell.
• Another interesting feature on the roadmap is the feature to include the management of multi-reply address to the users' mailbox policy. This option will allow end users to edit configured reply-addresses on their own.
• Outlook 2019 support for this feature. It's currently availabke in on-premises Outlook on the Web only.

I do not know if the new feature had been exposed accidentally, but the on-premises version of the Exchange Server 2019 benefits from this new feature. This is a true differentiator to the cloud-based service of Exchange Online.

Links

• Download Exchange Server 2019 from VLSC
• Exchange Server 2019 - Multi-Reply Documentation

Enjoy Exchange Server 2019!

Sometimes you might be interested in gathering a list of all computer from an Active Directory domain in preparation for migration.

You can gather a list of all computer objects using the following command.

# Fetch a sorted list of all computer objects
Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Property * | Sort-Object Name 

The wildcard used with the Property parameter fetches all available attributes for a computer object. Check the available attributes in the result set to identify the attributes you are interested in.

# Example output for the first computer object gathered from Active Directory
(Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Property * | Sort-Object Name)[0]

AccountExpirationDate                : 
accountExpires                       : 9223372036854775807
AccountLockoutTime                   : 
AccountNotDelegated                  : False
AllowReversiblePasswordEncryption    : False
BadLogonCount                        : 0
badPasswordTime                      : 0
badPwdCount                          : 0
CannotChangePassword                 : False
CanonicalName                        : DOMAIN.local/Computers/COMPUTER01
Certificates                         : {}
CN                                   : COMPUTER01
codePage                             : 0
CompoundIdentitySupported            : {False}
countryCode                          : 0
Created                              : 9/2/2013 3:01:13 PM
createTimeStamp                      : 9/2/2013 3:01:13 PM
Deleted                              : 
Description                          : 
DisplayName                          : 
DistinguishedName                    : CN=COMPUTER01,CN=Computers,DC=DOMAIN,DC=local
DNSHostName                          : COMPUTER01.DOMAIN.local
DoesNotRequirePreAuth                : False
dSCorePropagationData                : {12/31/1600 7:00:00 PM}
Enabled                              : True
HomedirRequired                      : False
HomePage                             : 
instanceType                         : 4
IPv4Address                          : 
IPv6Address                          : 
isCriticalSystemObject               : False
isDeleted                            : 
KerberosEncryptionType               : {RC4, AES128, AES256}
LastBadPasswordAttempt               : 
LastKnownParent                      : 
lastLogoff                           : 0
lastLogon                            : 130942520427754509
LastLogonDate                        : 12/10/2015 3:02:53 PM
lastLogonTimestamp                   : 130942513734007331
localPolicyFlags                     : 0
Location                             : 
LockedOut                            : False
logonCount                           : 194
ManagedBy                            : 
MemberOf                             : {}
MNSLogonAccount                      : False
Modified                             : 12/10/2015 3:02:53 PM
modifyTimeStamp                      : 12/10/2015 3:02:53 PM
msDS-SupportedEncryptionTypes        : 28
msDS-User-Account-Control-Computed   : 0
Name                                 : COMPUTER01
nTSecurityDescriptor                 : System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectorySecurity
ObjectCategory                       : CN=Computer,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=DOMAIN,DC=local
ObjectClass                          : computer
ObjectGUID                           : da59afcc-e00a-430b-9cbc-01adeed568f3
objectSid                            : S-1-5-21-3143343262-845931634-422089675-1179
OperatingSystem                      : Windows 7 Professional
OperatingSystemHotfix                : 
OperatingSystemServicePack           : Service Pack 1
OperatingSystemVersion               : 6.1 (7601)
PasswordExpired                      : False
PasswordLastSet                      : 12/2/2014 7:21:09 AM
PasswordNeverExpires                 : False
PasswordNotRequired                  : False
PrimaryGroup                         : CN=Domain Computers,CN=Users,DC=DOMAIN,DC=local
primaryGroupID                       : 515
PrincipalsAllowedToDelegateToAccount : {}
ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion      : False
pwdLastSet                           : 130619964697110685
SamAccountName                       : COMPUTER01$
sAMAccountType                       : 805306369
sDRightsEffective                    : 15
ServiceAccount                       : {}
servicePrincipalName                 : {RestrictedKrbHost/COMPUTER01, HOST/COMPUTER01, 
                                       RestrictedKrbHost/COMPUTER01.DOMAIN.local, HOST/COMPUTER01.DOMAIN.local}
ServicePrincipalNames                : {RestrictedKrbHost/COMPUTER01, HOST/COMPUTER01, 
                                       RestrictedKrbHost/COMPUTER01.DOMAIN.local, HOST/COMPUTER01.DOMAIN.local}
SID                                  : S-1-5-21-3143343262-845931634-422089675-1179
SIDHistory                           : {}
TrustedForDelegation                 : False
TrustedToAuthForDelegation           : False
UseDESKeyOnly                        : False
userAccountControl                   : 4096
userCertificate                      : {}
UserPrincipalName                    : 
uSNChanged                           : 1721509
uSNCreated                           : 45981
whenChanged                          : 12/10/2015 3:02:53 PM
whenCreated                          : 9/2/2013 3:01:13 PM

As a next step, you gather the selected information and 

# Fetch data for an operating system overview, sorted by property Name only
Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Property * | Sort-Object Name | Select Name,OperatingSystem,OperatingSystemServicePack,OperatingSystemVersion 

# Fetch data for an operating system overview, sorted by property OperatingSystem first, then Name 
Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Property * | Sort-Object OperatingSystem,Name | Select Name,OperatingSystem,OperatingSystemServicePack,OperatingSystemVersion 

You can export the gathered information to a comma separated file easily using the Export-Csv cmdlet.

# Export the gathered and sorted information to a CSV file using a semicolon as the delimiter
# Adjust the file path for the CSV file to fit your environment
Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Property * | Sort-Object OperatingSystem,Name | Select Name,OperatingSystem,OperatingSystemServicePack,OperatingSystemVersion | Export-Csv -Path C:\SCRIPTS\ComputerOverview.csv -NoClobber -NoTypeInformation -Delimiter ';' 

Link

• Inventorying Computers with AD PowerShell

Enjoy!

A new Exchange Server Conference is coming to Europe. 

The REAL Exchange Experience

In recent years, the main topics of the major Microsoft conferences have changed more and more towards cloud topics. The simplicity of migrating from on-premises Exchange Server mailboxes to Exchange Online is emphasized at each event. Also, new options have been made available to establish a full hybrid setup with Exchange Online more easily.

Topics covering the stable and secure operation of on-premises Exchange Server organizations have no room at these events. The REAL Exchange Experience wants to address the demand for topics related to the operation of Exchange Server in an on-premises IT infrastructure.

The conference will be held as a 1-day conference in different cities in Europe.

Read more about the conference and register for the conference newsletter here: https://www.granikos.eu/en/Events/TheREALExchangeExperience

Enjoy Exchange Server 2019!