Exchange forward email to external address

There are many reasons to need to forward on email collected by Microsoft Exchange, such as vacation planning, change of domains or migration to a new system using dual delivery. This is how you set up Exchange forward email to external address.

Its done in two steps because you need to create a contact for Exchange to send too. If you were forwarding internally you only need the first step as the mailbox exists in Exchange already. 

Create a MailContact

Create a MailContact using the EMC:

1. Expand Recipient Configuration | Mail Contact

2. In the Action pane, click New Mail Contact

3. To create a new Contact object, leave the default (New Contact) selected | click Next

Leaving New Contact selected to move to the extended settings

4. Type First name, Last name

Adding detail to the new user

5. Click Edit to add the external email address

6. Click New to complete creation of new MailContact

Showing new user created in Mail Contact’s

Forward the Email

Now that we have a MailContact created for the external recipient’s email address, we can forward mail for the Exchange recipient to the MailContact. To configure mail forwarding using the EMC:

1. Expand Recipient Configuration | Mailbox | select mailbox | properties | Mail Flow Settings tab | Delivery Options

Finding delivery options for a microsoft exchange mailbox

2. Under Forwarding address, select Forward to
3. Click Browse to select the MailContact

Browse to select the mail contact

4. Optional: If a copy of the message needs to be delivered to both the external recipient and the original recipient’s mailbox, select the Deliver message to both forwarding address and mailbox

Opting to send the email to both internal and external addresses

OWA Forms Based Authentication Failing

Unable to logon to OWA using forms-based authentication

When a user enters valid credentials, they are taken to a blank page https://ExchCASServerName.domain.com/owa/auth.owa.  But if they enter bad credentials, it just redirects to the logon page and asked them to logon again.

"Microsoft Exchange Forms-Based Authentication service." need to be started.

This service was not running and it was set to "Automatic (Delayed Start)" changing it to just "Automatic" allowed it to start properly.

Enable Built-in Administrator Account

Open cmd

net user administrator /active:yes 

Hyper-V Commands

Stop-VM –Name SBS2011

Get-VM

Start-VM-name SBS2011

Get-netadapter
Get-netadapter | select *

You've been logged on with a temporary profile

Log on as a local administrator. Take ownership to the user profile folder.

Method 2

1. If you have another administrator account that is not affected by this user profile error, then sign out of the affected account (ex: Brink), and sign in to the other administrator account. 

2. Back up anything that you do not want to lose in the C:\Users\(user-name) profile folder (ex: Brink) of the affected user account to another location. When finished, delete the C:\Users\(user-name) folder.

3. Press the  + R keys to open the Run dialog, type regedit, and click/tap on OK.

4. If prompted by UAC, then click/tap on Yes.

5. In Registry Editor, navigate to the location below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Trust Relationship Between Workstation and Domain Fails

Log on locally as a local administrator . In the Network tool of Control Panel, select Change and enter a Workgroup name, leaving the domain. Restart the computer and log on locally as a local administrator and then rejoin the domain.

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