Exchange – Remove List of Permissions from Exchange Mailboxes

The PowerShell code below will take a CSV list of mailboxes and Users/Groups to remove from that mailbox. This allows you to quickly and efficiently remove old permissions across Exchange.

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Exchange 2016 – User account isn’t a member of the ‘Schema Admins’ or ‘Enterprise Admins’ group

This is a frustrating issue to come across when trying to roll out AD Schema Updates during an Exchange Cumulative Upgrade. But luckily it’s normally quite simple to resolve, this article will cover the various solutions from most to least likely to fix the issue.

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Exchange – Extend Email Approval Expiration

Exchange has a brilliant feature called ‘Email approval’ that can be configured using mail flow rules. This allows emails to configured recipients to be redirected to a user or a mailbox where it must be approved before reaching it’s final destination.

By default, any emails awaiting approval for between 2-7 days will expire and will be automatically rejected and this is entirely dependent on when the system task runs to clear the mailboxes.

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