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How to determine if remote wipe succeeded?

As written in the MS documentation here: The remote device wipe feature also includes a confirmation function that writes a time stamp in the sync state data of the user's mailbox. This time ...
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Email from IOS with attachments larger than 7.5Mb gets stuck in outbox and constantly tries to resend. Costs us hundreds in data fees

Take a look at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/hh529949(v=exchg.150).aspx There is an interesting line at the bottom of that page that implies the effective maximum limit is about 33% ...
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Extend Dovecot/Postfix setup with Calendar/Contact Sync

Horde Although I don't know if your also using Plesk/Odin, which I am, I ran in the same problem. After some search it seems Horde Webmail has some built-in functionality for that and if that is not ...
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Recommended way to migrate MS Exchange mailboxes to Dovecot

Dovecot's integrated dsync (usually used to replicate between Dovecot servers) can be used to migrate from arbitrary IMAP servers including Exchange. Basically, you will run doveadm dsync backup -R &...
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Recommended way to migrate MS Exchange mailboxes to Dovecot

I would also use IMAPSync here it would preserved all flags: unread will stay unread, read will stay read, deleted will stay deleted. If you wish to more commercial solution then you can check ...
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Exchange 2016 account will not perform activesync. Setup but no connectivity

As suggested, I ran: https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/ Which returned lots of successes, and this failure: The test of the FolderSync command failed. Exchange ActiveSync returned an HTTP 500 ...
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Are Exchange ActiveSync .xsd schemas available outside of documentation?

Should be on your DVD/ISO. EX 2010 location example: x:\Setup\ServerRoles\ClientAccess\sync\xsd\v2.0 Directory of x:\Setup\ServerRoles\ClientAccess\sync\xsd\v2.0 09/25/2009 01:14 PM <...
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Exchange reply all copying sender

I ran into this yesterday and figured others might want to see this in the future. Didn't see this particular issue listed on SF. This seems to be a known issue. See here: Senders receive a ...
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When configuring a Citrix Netscaler for use with Exchange 2010, what should the persistence timeout be?

Don't claim to have all of the answers (haven't support Exchange in many years), but... Not sure what guidance you used, but the Citrix NetScaler Deployment Guide for Microsoft Exchange 2010 suggests ...
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Is there a non-mobile based tool for testing ActiveSync?

There are a few things you can do. Try browser You can visit http(s)://YOURFQDNHERE/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync to see if you get an authentication prompt. You can set up a script to keep checking ...
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Does Exchange ActiveSync save mails in phone?

Normally the items that the clients have already been downloaded from the server they are stored offline on the client, except there are e.g. some attachments that are not automatically downloaded to ...
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Exchange 2016 account will not perform activesync. Setup but no connectivity

You should do a test by using https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/ on broken accounts. It should give you an idea. However what I encountered in my setup is: Start Active Directory Users and ...
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Windows Exchange Logon Hours Restriction

Logon hours restriction isn't going to work with ActiveSync for a number of reasons - the main one being that the client holds open an extended session for many hours and will only re-authenticate ...
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AAD Connect "Soft match issue"

This is by design, you cannot simultaneously run two sync engines with the same source/target. AADconnect allows you to pre-stage a single sync engine and have it configured in cold/warm standby using ...
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iOS Outlook Activesync works, iOS Mail Activesync doesn't

The Outlook app doesn't connect to Exchange directly - that is the difference. All traffic for the Outlook app goes to servers under Microsoft's control (they were in Amazon AWS, I think they have ...
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Forwarding Meeting invites to Teams Rooms

The easiest solution might be to configure the Teams Room to accept meeting invites from external senders and then send the meeting invites directly to the Teams Room, rather than forwarding the ...
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Exchange mailbox stopped syncing on mobile - work with a weird behavior

No, there was no policy.I found a way to bypass this error : the mailbox have 2 domain name alias on the Exchange server : 1 in @domain.local and another one in @domain.fr I used the .local to log in ...
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Exchange 2016 ActiveSync in Edge Server

Exchange Edge Transport servers only do mail flow (SMTP) and anti-spam protection. If you want publish ActiveSync to the internet, then there are only two options for you: forward HTTP and HTTPS ...
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Exchange 2016 OWA and ActiveSync 503 error

I have done some research, this issue may be related with certificate. Check from IIS to confirm which certificate that used for IIS service(Make sure the bind certificate is correct): Then run ...
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Outlook 2016 ignoring cache ost settings

Except SyncWindowSetting, another DWORD key is also required to be added in registry: DWORD: SyncWindowSetting Value: 12 DWORD: SyncWindowSettingDays Value: 0 The following table records the ...
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Postfix does not pass mails to Amavis, when received from Z-push

After a bit of more tweaking I finnally got it to work. Here is an explanation of what is going on. Z-push is written in PHP and what I could find on the Internet, was that PHP mail settings is ...
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Does sendmail have active sync like functionality along with calendar?

Sendmail can only act as "email Server". However you can use another Products which offer such ActiveSync features like: Open-Xchange Kolab Z-Push SoGo Zimbra Only to name some
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Windows Exchange Logon Hours Restriction

Network security: Force logoff when logon hours expire - This disconnects users from any shared folders they are connected to. It does not log them out of their workstation nor does it log them out of ...
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Error connecting mobile device to Exchange - missing permissions

The issue was that by default a user can only connect to 10 ActiveSync devices, and this user had reached that limit. Run the following commands in your Exchange management shell to correct the ...
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Enable Exchange 2013 activesync quarantine

If you enable quarantine, then everything gets quarantined, including existing devices. There are various scripts around that will approve everything that already exists. I found this one in about 30 ...
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ActiveSync only works if the user's mailbox is on one mailbox server

Is this a new setup? or it once worked on those other mailbox servers before? You want to make sure your IIS is configured properly on those other servers as well. Please compare the settings to the ...
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ActiveSync folder sync issues following import from IMAP

We ended up writing a PowerShell script to export all the folders, re-create them, then reimport them. Not really an ideal solution, but it did accomplish what we needed. After we did this we had to ...
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Changing default UPN for iPhone/ActiveSync seamless Setup: any downsides?

In general you will be fine. I'm not 100% sure if all possible UPNs work or just the configured suffix and the suffix matching the actual domain name of the domain, but both of those definitely will ...
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How to turn off MS Exchange Server requests for “Activate Device Administrator” permissions on mobile devices

This might work: From the Exchange Management Console: Navigate to Organization Configuration > Client Access Click on the tab labelled Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Policies Right-click an existing ...
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