Exchange Server 2016 Architecture

have removed the Client Access server (CAS) role and added the client access services to the Mailbox role. Even without the CAS role, the system maintains loose coupling in terms of functionality, versioning, user partitioning and geographical affinity.

How to Removing unwanted plug-ins from vCenter Server

Start your web browser, go to https://vcenter server name or IP/mob Click Content. Click ExtensionManager. Select and copy the name of the plug-in you want to remove from the list of values under Properties. For a list of default plug-ins, see the Additional Information section of this article. Click UnregisterExtension. A new window appears. Paste …

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 …