I’m Microsoft MVP Exchange Server Again

I’m a Microsoft MVP Exchange Server Again I am pleased to announce that I have been re-given the Microsoft MVP award for Exchange Server for another year. This is my Fourth Year MVP award after quite an exciting year, the last 12 months has been an incredible experience. I have so many plans for the …

Creating a new OAB in Exchange 2013

Open Exchange management shell New-OfflineAddressBook –name “OAB yshvili” –Addresslists “\Default Global Address List” Get-OfflineAddressBook Get-OfflineAddressBook | Update-OfflineAddressBook Get-OfflineAddressBook –Identity “oab yshvili” | fl

Create Email enabled contacts bulk

many organizations we need to create bulk contacts  Create an input file name contacts1.csv with the following attributes and values Open the Exchange management shell and run the below cmd after copying all contacts to the path of shell Import-Csv “contacts1.csv” | ForEach {New-MailContact -Name $_.Name -Firstname $_.FirstName -LastName $_.LastName -ExternalEmailAddress $_.ExternalEmailAddress -OrganizationalUnit “Domainname/OUname”}

The case of failed VSS backups on Windows Server 2012 with KB2996928 & KB3000853

By: Netanel Ben-Shushan & Yaniv Totshvili Special thanks to Mr. Kobi Ghan for allowing us to share his issue and take screenshots.  Background and Symptoms On a customer environment which running Windows Server 2012 and Exchange Server 2013 at Database Availability Group (DAG) for short we found that Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) not truncating …