June, 2014 - 250 Hello

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Exchange and AntiVirus Exclusions – Still A Critical Conversation

Posted on 30th June 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In a previous post we saw the Microsoft requirements for the exclusions that must be added to file system AV on Exchange servers. In a recent CritSit, basically an uber urgent support request where the customer is down or as good as down, I also got to examine some of the other causes for file system AV not being correctly configured for Exchange.

In the aforementioned post the majority of the… Read the rest “Exchange and AntiVirus Exclusions – Still A Critical Conversation”

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PowerShell Pipeline Perversion

Posted on 27th June 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Every so often I see folks run into issues with scripts/one-liners that they obtained from a blog or crafted themselves. One common issue is when they think the command is perfect and then when they go to dump the output to a file, the content is mince. **

Imagine your surprise when you open up the output file expecting pristine data, and it starts with:

#TYPE Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Interna

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Exchange Scripting Agent – The Power Of Script

Posted on 24th June 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2010 introduced a very interesting feature – the Scripting Agent. The intent for this component is to provide extensibility to the base management tools and ensure consistency for the execution of cmdlets in the environment. The feature is not enabled by default and you must manually enable it if you want to leverage the Scripting Agent.

If you are looking for a way to set default optio… Read the rest “Exchange Scripting Agent – The Power Of Script”

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How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange

Posted on 17th June 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The blog post on how to integrate Office 365 with Windows 2012 R2 AD FS raised an interesting question from a reader (Hi Eric!) on how should he request a certificate for the AD FS instance since there is no longer an IIS dependency. This means that there is no longer an IIS console to generate a certificate request with. What to do?

You could generate a certificate request, complete it and then e… Read the rest “How To Request Certificate Without Using IIS or Exchange”

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How To Disable Remote Desktop Printer Mapping

Posted on 2nd June 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

After doing Exchange Risk Assessment (ExRAP) and Exchange Risk Assessment As A Service for almost four years, one thing continues to irritate my OCD personality! When I look at the event logs on an Exchange server, the logs should be a sea of blue. That is there should be no errors as that indicates something is not quite right and should be addressed.

Opening up the system event log on numerous c… Read the rest “How To Disable Remote Desktop Printer Mapping”