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Running Remote Connectivity Analyzer against Exchange 2013/2016/2019 fails with: “MAPI over HTTP connectivity failed.”

Problem You use the Remote Connectivity Analyzer to test external connectivity for an Exchange 2013/2016/2019 environment but notice that it fails with the following error: Testing MAPI over HTTP connectivity to server mail.contoso.com      MAPI over HTTP connectivity failed.       Additional Details      Elapsed Time: 11 ms.      

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Attempting to execute Exchange PowerShell cmdlets on objects in another domain fails with: “The operation couldn’t be performed because object ‘alias@domain.com’ couldn’t be found on ‘DC01.domain.com’.”

One of the common questions I have been asked over the years is why the following error is thrown when an Exchange PowerShell cmdlet is executed on an object in another domain where the Exchange Organization is not installed with.  The following is an example

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Attempting to enable a user for Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2016 fails with: “Extension xxxx is already assigned to another user on the dial plan UMDialPlan or on an equivalent dial plan.”

Problem You attempt to enable a user for Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2016 but receive the following error: Extension xxxx is already assigned to another user on the dial plan UMDialPlan or on an equivalent dial plan. You know that this extension was previously

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Deploying Exchange Server 2019 on Windows Server 2019

I’ve recently had the opportunity to deploy Exchange Server 2019 CU1 on Windows Server 2019 and decided to capture the process so I can write this blog post demonstrating what the deployment process looks like. Before I proceed, the following are some URLs that will

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