Category Archives: Exchange 2013

Exchange 2010, Exchange 2013, Office 365

Sync disabled users (shared mailboxes) to Office 365 with Azure Active Directory Sync

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I often hear customers who run an onpremises Exchange 2010 or 2013 environment in Hybrid mode with Office 365 complain about their Shared Mailboxes not appearing in Office 365 when using AADSync (or AADConnect).

This is important for mail routing if they don’t exist as contacts, or if you are using Exchange Online Protection for these mailboxes.

So, two quick steps to configure AADSync to also sync disabled users to Office 365. Continue reading Sync disabled users (shared mailboxes) to Office 365 with Azure Active Directory Sync →

Automation, Exchange 2013, Powershell

Multi-Threading Powershell script to Check and Repair numerous Exchange databases

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For a global customer with terrabytes of Exchange 2013 data, I recently wrote a multi-threading powershell script I’d like to share with everyone.

The use case was an integrity check of the database backups prior to Exchange maintenance. First we have to commit all log files to a large number of databases, then run a surface or deep check on these databases before we can be relatively sure a restore won’t fail. Continue reading Multi-Threading Powershell script to Check and Repair numerous Exchange databases →