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Moving an on premise mailbox to Office 365 gives the error “Transient error StoragePermanentException has occurred. The system will retry (6/640).”
One of my colleagues battled to migrate an on premise Exchange 2010 mailbox to Office 365. After trying to repair the mailbox and numerous other things he still received the below error: Transient error StoragePermanentException has occurred. The system will retry (6/640). Eventually he appended the -SkipMoving:FolderRestrictions to the New-MoveRequest cmdlet and managed to migrate the user’s mailbox to Office 365.
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Messages awaiting directory lookup – Queue Build up on Exchange
We had an Exchange 2003 server that had a queue build up. The messages were building up in the “Messages awaiting directory lookup” queue. After investigation we found that the server had old DNS entries which were removed and new entries were added. The queue cleared almost immediately. If you see build up in the Messages awaiting directory lookup queue then be sure to check DNS is working as expected.
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Lync client drops voice calls
We had an interesting issue a while back where a user was able to use the Lync (Skype for Business) client for IM, desktop sharing etc. The problem was the user could not make/receive any peer to peer or Enterprise Voice calls. The call would try and connect and then cause the Lync/Skype for Business client to hang. A malware scan was run after some troubleshooting and malware was found. The user was able to make and receive calls after we got rid of the malware
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Exchange 2010 Queue Build up with Event ID 1035
We had an interesting issue with queues building up to remote sites. In queue viewer we noted errors sending mail to different remote sites as per below: 451 4.4.0 Primary Target IP Address responded with: “235 00000xxxxxxxxx” And in the Event Viewer we noticed event ID 1035 , MSExchangeTransport At first we thought the issue has to be on the specific Exchange 2010 server trying to send the mail as it was the only server in the DAG that could not send mail to the remote servers. However, the problem was still present after restarting the Hub Transport Service on the server experiencing the above issues. As a shot in…
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Provisioning Layer initialization failed error when running a cmdlet in Exchange Management Shell
I’ve had the below error a few times this year when trying to open the Exchange Management Shell or running a cmdlet. To get this working browse to another Exchange 2010 server and copy the ScriptingAgentConfig.xml file from the working server and paste it in the same directory (as per below) on the non-working server. The file can be found under your Exchange Installation by default c:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Bin\CmdletExtensionAgents\
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How to install “Brackets” in Ubuntu 15.10 – Get around Dependency is not satisfiable: libgcrypt11 >=1.4.5 error
In this post I will show you how to install Brackets , an open source code editor from Adobe and how to get around the dependecy error (Dependency is not satisfiable: libgcrypt11 >=1.4.5) if it pops up when you try to install Brackets. I’m using Brackets as part of a web development course and really like it. Installing is quite easy as per below: Open your browser and go to the Brackets Website. Click on Download Brackets without Extract to download the deb package file. Browse to the downloaded deb package file and double click it. This action will open the Ubuntu Software Center. Brackets should install and you you will be…
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Old Out of Office message is sent even after a new message has been created
We had a few instances this year where users create a new Out of Office message but then report that the previous Out of Office message is sent instead of the new Out of Office message or both are sent to people that sent mail to them. I found that most of the time running outlook.exe /cleanrules works if that does not work please see method 2 below. Method 1 Close Outlook Click on start and in run type Outlook.exe /cleanrules then hit enter Wait for replication and send a test mail to the mailbox to see if the old Out of Office message is not sent out anymore If…
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Could not start the Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service on Local Computer. Error 1058: The Service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
A while ago we had an Exchange 2003 server on which the IMAP service would not start. The below error was displayed after trying to start it. We found that the Logon Profile was disabled. To resolve this do the following: Click on Start and in Run type services.msc then hit enter Look for the Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service. Right Click it and choose Properties When the properties dialog opens click on the Log On tab Under Hardware Profile click on the profile (i.e. Profile 1) and then click on Enable Click on Apply and OK Right click the Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service and click on Start. The Microsoft Exchange…
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Unable to Update a Storage Group copy and the event log shows – Event ID 2059, MSExchangeRepl
We had failed data base copies on a CCR cluster and running Update-StorageGroupCopy failed. The backups have not run for a while but I could verify that the logs were indeed present. The best way to get around this is to run an Exchange backup and the Update the Storage Group Copy. This was not possible as wee needed to urgently get the database copies healthy. We then had to dismount all the databases, checked that they are in a clean shut down state using eseutil.exe /mh and move the logs to a different folder. We then mounted the databases and were then able to seed the database copies.
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Event ID 490, ESE – edgetransport (7868) Transport Mail Database: An attempt to open the file “\Queue\trn.chk” for read / write access failed with system error 5 (0x00000005): “Access is denied”
Yes I know. The title for this post is extremely long but thought that it would be easier to find if it’s more descriptive. In any case. We had to rebuild a multi role server and the Hub Transport role was also installed. After the install we checked that all is good and I found that mail were queued up on the server. Further investigation showed that the Hub Transport service was not started so I tried to start it, which failed. The event logs showed the below error. I then checked the permissions of the trn.chk file and the queue folder and found that it did not match the…
