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Depending on your computer language settings, Exchange Admin Center can take those and open in a language you actually don't want to use. You'll Google that this can be changed if administrator/ admin user has mailbox by openening OWA settings and changing Regional parameters. But usually Admin user does not have mailbox or you don't want her/him to have it. You will search again and find that you can add mkt=en-US (as an example) to the URL of the Exchange Admin Center (https://yourexchangehostname/ecp?ExchClientVer=15&mkt=en-US) Third option you have is opening Internet Explorer settings (I am using Windows 2016) Click languages Click Set Language Preferences Add language you want to use by clicking Add language Use Move up or Move Down options to put desired language on top Close Internet Explorer Open it again and login again to Exchange Admin Center

You installed Exchange 2016 on top of Windows 2016 and when you try to access ECP or OWA with newest Google Chrome you get an error  ERR_SPDY_INADEQUATE_TRANSPORT_SECURITY . All works well in Internet Explorer. The reason behind this are obsolete (security) protocols used by default. One option is to change settings in Windows registry, but my suggestion is to download a free copy of CryptoIIS from Nartac Software, run it on the server and press Best practices button then Apply. After restarting the server there will be no ERR_SPDY_INADEQUATE_TRANSPORT_SECURITY error and your server will be a little bit more secured :)

UPDATED for Exchange 2019!!! Batch Add Microsoft Exchange 2019 exclusions to Windows Defender on Windows 2019/2022 (exchangelog.info) When you install Microsoft Exchange 2016 on Windows 2016 server it is suggested to add some exclusions to Windows Defender. Since the list is quite large, use PowerShell to add exclusions. Exclusion list can be found at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332342(v=exchg.160).aspx SECURITY PRECAUTION  - Don't just blindly copy below commands and exclusions but check them. If anyone manipulated the below list on this site without my knowledge you will end adding exclusions you don't want to have. Run PowerShell on Windows 2016 Exchange 2016 server as administrator. Add Folder Exclusions Set-MpPreference -ExclusionPath $env:SystemRoot"\Cluster",$env:ExchangeInstallPath"ClientAccess\OAB",$env:ExchangeInstallPath"FIP-FS",$env:ExchangeInstallPath"GroupMetrics",$env:ExchangeInstallPath"

You might find the attachments are being stripped from some email entering your organization despite recipient and sender domain have been added to the "whitelist" in Sender ID Agent. Agents on Exchange Edge server are as follows: Each of the agents has its own priority, meaning which of the agent will be first, second, third,... in line to filter. Filters take precedence over another just in case spam is found. For example: If Connection Filtering Agent finds spam (connection verification fails) it discards the message and none is processed any further. If the message passes Connection Filtering Agent it then goes to Address Rewriting Inbound Agent , which is next on priority list etc. So, if we put a recipient to BypassedRecipients list in Sender ID Agent , it will be bypassed only for  Sender ID Agent   filter and not for example Attachment Filtering Agent. As per Microsoft. " The BypassedRecipients parameter specifies one or more SMTP email address

Go to http://spamcannibal.org/cannibal.cgi In the right side menu click Lookup IP Enter mail server IP address into the field and click Lookup IP Check why you got listed in the first place If your mail server is missing PTR (reverse DNS) record, add it If other problem resolve it first If the problem is resolved go again to http://spamcannibal.org/cannibal.cgi Click Contact in the right side menu Scroll to the bottom Enter your IP address Enter your Email Describe why you got listed and what you did to solve the problem Submit NOTE: Don't try to get de-listed from any blacklist BEFORE you solved the problem added you to the blacklist in the first place

You might find messages staying in queue on your email server (mixed environment 2007/2010 Exchange) and Error showing: 451 4.4.0 Primary target IP address responded with: "23500000870YIIGUAYJKoZIhvcSAQICAQBuggY/MIIGO6ADAgEFoQMCAQ6iBwMFAAAAAACjggTEYYIwDCCBLygAwIBBaEPGw1JTkNPSVMuR09WLklOoigwJqADAgECoR8wHRsHU01UUFNWQxsSTUFJTC5pbmNvaXMuZ292Lmluo4IEeDCCBHSgAwIBEqEDAgFMooIEZgSCBGIjDRqyadXg4Y1GQAcMZKo9KfI/2l1JPauKHPjVxyi3sP+6PV8wXjzRn36QjnIsLu7OPtzWDRkJBR/VFnJMLT3wTpg0uEe4eAr7kAgJ+mo4vbuFdlYb+ns23tnLO2kyt3dfXgrPF5Ulm4C6me734JrfOrkT51UCliUMKmlcDAhcPEmDUagjCg9XmLatKNTn41sFZktRjFs8bXexAacl/Wil+gFI5qZbh9nrs922FUoLhmX1U7dS6xiyH2VHaxCAodcbNh14apN/rK0SvjQZi+L2bO2RSF3Rx5LO4zAPfn9LAlNQRwQo8U8NR7J1JACBUwe3t3InTRA0TXyJNCxVGZBM5QjgeJFgBRN6pqa6jZyT7tUgURrG1fHFs4fV77jyxgKjxcrUdc5n7MWT77sfLlb4Ao5HJukOnWlBVUyoDCDvVarc+8/5VJdWFxnNUkohaVUPnDYMMGiGsadDYy39omsSasFkLShLqE7vBGx3WdsvQQnH2kOTwS4mfbWsuulDUfgHOoBg4AW/fB1oxCUT5E3/siLDdurZX/LEjSCmwxbtzzLJ9IGhAlMb+WUUhlZiNb2mn3pZAUlQnDip0ZkXi2nYm71FaTnBb1chScpn