Category Archives: Exchange 2016

Exchange, Disable spam filter for a receive connector

You may want to disable the spam filter for e.g. a connector that sends your invoices. Get-ReceiveConnector “SERVER\ReceiveConnector” | Add-ADPermission -User “NT Authority\Anonymous Logon”  -AccessRights ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights ms-exch-ypass-anti-spam Hope this helps you!  

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Exchange 2016 Have a receive connector relay outside the domain.

There’s a powershell cmd for that: New-ReceiveConnector -Name “Anonymous Relay” -Usage Custom -AuthMechanism ExternalAuthoritative -PermissionGroups ExchangeServers -Bindings x.x.x.x:25 -RemoteIpRanges x.x.x.x (or create a receive connector with the right settings) And then Get-ReceiveConnector “Anonymous Relay” | Add-ADPermission -User “NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON” -ExtendedRights … Continue reading

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Exchange 2016 Restart Transport Service powershell

Ran into this earlier today, had to restart the Exchange 2016 transport service using powershell only! It turned out to be easy. Restart-Service MSExchangeTransport To list all Exchange services: Get-Service *Exchange*

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Get all different types of mailboxes in Exchange 2010 and 2016

I had to get the amount of the different types of mailboxes that are available in Exchange. Exchange 2010 and 2016 in this case. As I had to execute this as a script I ran into the problem that you … Continue reading

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Exchange 2016 and SMTP speed

In order to have Exchange SMTP speed up a little you can change some default values. Some of those values can be found here https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232205(v=exchg.160).aspx So if you want to change some of those value, to accept more mail at … Continue reading

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Exchange 2016, receive connector, enable relaying, powershell

In order to have a certain receive connector to be able to relay (other than local delivery: actually route the mail to the outside) perform the following powershell command: Set-ReceiveConnector “SERVER\Receive Connector” -PermissionGroups AnonymousUsers Above command enables “Anyonymous user” delivery. … Continue reading

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