New-ComplianceSearch BUG – ExchangeLocation gets cleared.

Just creating some script for GDPR email removal mechanism, and noticed one interesting thing – already reported this bug to MS.

Last time when I got issue about Compliance Searches it was that when telling it to “purge” the messages it was not really purging the messages – I flagged that you need to use Search-Maibox to actually do it – case was submitted to MS and they changed the documentation.

There is something more – when creating a compliance search and assigning it to the case I noticed that when triggering a command the ExchangeLocation was…empty. It wouldn’t be weird but I explicitly told  I want to have “all” there.

Get-InboxRule and “You may need elevated permissions. isn’t within your current write scopes. Can’t perform save operation.”

Reminder – for myself as well.

When granting permissions for the role group to get the inbox rules (Get-InboxRule), do not copy role from “View-Only Recipients” or anything else that has:

Get-ManagementRole “” | fl
…
ImplicitRecipientWriteScope : None

Otherwise, even you if you’ve left the Role Group in the default scope you will get an error.

“Mailbox size exceeds target quota 2.3 GB” when moving the mailbox between databases / servers.

When receiving such error please check you quota on mailboxdatabase:

[PS] D:\Exchange Server\V15\Bin>Get-MailboxDatabase | fl

RunspaceId : 5aa6941c-eadf-4c8e-b9fb-8163b7426622
JournalRecipient :
MailboxRetention : 30.00:00:00
OfflineAddressBook :
OriginalDatabase :
PublicFolderDatabase :
ProhibitSendReceiveQuota : <strong>2.3 GB</strong> (2,469,396,480 bytes)
ProhibitSendQuota : 2 GB (2,147,483,648 bytes)
RecoverableItemsQuota : 30 GB (32,212,254,720 bytes)
RecoverableItemsWarningQuota : 20 GB (21,474,836,480 bytes)

Set it up ou to your needs, in my case this database will be hosted only to export mailboxes to PST files:

 Get-MailboxDatabase WROMR0-DB001 | Set-MailboxDatabase -ProhibitSendReceiveQuota 120GB -ProhibitSendQuota 120GB 

Exchange 2016, owa/auth.owa and error 500 on ECP.

I was receiving error 500 and website was landing on owa/auth.owa on my Exchange 2016 server.

Interesting thing was – that happened to all admins but me  – who installed the server.

I found this blog post:

https://blog.ollischer.com/exchange-2016-http-error-500-after-logging-into-ecpowa

I’ve done all the steps, I ran UpdateCas.ps1 – that didn’t help, so I ran multiple commands that Alexander proposed – unfortunately that didn’t help out as well, additionally now I was getting popup asking me for to log in instead of nice Exchange website.

So I thought at least I will get back to the settings I had – removed Windows authentication and enabled form based authentication on ECP and OWA virtual directories, so basically I went back to previous settings:

Get-owaVirtualDirectory "\owa (Default Web Site)" | Set-owaVirtualDirectory -FormsAuthentication $true -BasicAuthentication $true -WindowsAuthentication $false

Get-ecpVirtualDirectory "\owa (Default Web Site)" | Set-ecpVirtualDirectory -FormsAuthentication $true -BasicAuthentication $true -WindowsAuthentication $false

Done iisreset, and once again wanted to see my error, I refreshed the page on the test user I made aaaaaaannndd… it was all working well.

A mystery…

Get pending windows updates status on ZABBIX using custom LLD (Low Level Discovery) and PowerShell

Just recently I got some time, and was rethinking the solution of reading windows updates.

At the beginning I thought I will use PowerShell to get update list and later use dependent items to parse the script output, but this wouldn’t be so nice, as I would need to manually work on parsing the file on the zabbix side, create items etc. + so far zabbix does not offer (I work on 3.4, at the time being 4.0 available) LLD on dependent items.

Well, why not use current LLD to read them?

You can do it – I will show you how.

Low Level Discovery (LLD) for PostgreSQL on ZABBIX using ODBC.

How about ZABBIX PostgreSQL monitoring with LLD without custom addons installed on the server or milions of very heavy userparameter? 🙂

I’ve been searching for some way to monitor PostgreSQL database, all the solution I’ve found were based either on some custom addon:

https://share.zabbix.com/databases/db_postgresql/postgresql-monitoring-for-zabbix

http://cavaliercoder.com/libzbxpgsql/

Or had tooooonnns of userparameters that were just killing the server:

https://share.zabbix.com/databases/db_postgresql/template-postgresql

Well I though there is a better way, and you know what? I think there is.

Folder named “Files” disappears after mailbox is moved to O365 Exchange Online.

Lets say a user had (pleas note the past simple time ^^) a folder named “Files” in the mailbox on the top level, you have moved the mailbox to O365 Exchange Online…