July, 2014 - 250 Hello

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Save The Date – End of Exchange 2010, Windows 7 and 2008 Mainstream Support – T Minus 6 Months

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

In a little under 6 months, multiple products will experience a support life cycle change. As indicated by the space shuttle being readied, the countdown has started and the dates are set. Make sure you are aware of what is happening on the 13th of January 2015.

2014 has already been a busy year for product transitions, with Exchange 2003, Office 2003 and Windows XP Pro all exiting out of extended… Read the rest “Save The Date – End of Exchange 2010, Windows 7 and 2008 Mainstream Support – T Minus 6 Months”

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VMware Issues With Exchange DAG

Posted on 21st July 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

When resolving issues with on-premises Exchange sometimes the issue may be directly within Exchange, other times the root cause may lie outside Exchange. Depending upon the exact nature of the case we may have to investigate network switches, load balancers or storage. When Exchange is virtualized then the hypervisor and it’s configuration also may require attention.

This was the case with a rece… Read the rest “VMware Issues With Exchange DAG”

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Retrieving Packets Received Discarded Perfmon Counter From Multiple Servers

Posted on 18th July 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Whilst working on a customer’s Exchange 2010 DAG issue, I wrote a quick script to quickly grab some performance monitor counters from all of their Exchange servers. The issue that we were investigating was related to discarded packets when the VM was running on a certain hypervisor host. The customer had moved their Exchange VMs to a new host and after doing so they were experiencing cluster iss… Read the rest “Retrieving Packets Received Discarded Perfmon Counter From Multiple Servers”

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PFE Canada Is Hiring For Exchange And Office 365!

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

Want to grow and expand your technical, customer and soft skills? Do you dream of working with the product groups at Microsoft to influence future product updates? Want to have fun while delivering true mission critical support to top tier Microsoft customers? Then you are in luck!

Microsoft Canada GBS is looking for Exchange and Office 365 experts. Micros… Read the rest “PFE Canada Is Hiring For Exchange And Office 365!”

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AD FS 2012 R2 – An Error Occurs When BadPwdCount Not Set

Posted on 16th July 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

AD FS 2012 R2 provides an interesting feature called Extranet Lockout Protection, where the intent is to protect AD accounts from malicious lockout from external access attempts. Previous versions of AD FS had no native mechanism to protect AD from such hammering attempts. For details on the feature please review this post.

One issue that can occur when extranet lockout pro… Read the rest “AD FS 2012 R2 – An Error Occurs When BadPwdCount Not Set”

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Outlook 2013 Distorted Display Issues

Posted on 8th July 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

After a recent video driver update, my corporate Outlook client started to do some strange things. Within Office 2013, the screen output would be distorted. Menu bars were not painted properly until I mouse-over them again, or moved Office programs around. Other times the display would look corrupted and the navigation tree would not be properly rendered.

Update 16-7-2014: Adding link to Office 2… Read the rest “Outlook 2013 Distorted Display Issues”