December, 2014 - 250 Hello

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Save The Date – End Of Forefront Protection 2010 For Exchange — T Minus 12 Months

Posted on 31st December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Since the Forefront brand of products have been retired, yes I miss TMG, please be aware of the extended support date for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange.

This product is slated to exit extended support on the 31st of December 2015:

On a semi-related aspect, Exchange 2010 will transition into its extended support phase on the 13th of January 2015. Please see this post for details.

Cheers,

Rhod… Read the rest “Save The Date – End Of Forefront Protection 2010 For Exchange — T Minus 12 Months”

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Most Popular Blog Posts For 2014

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

Since 2014 is drawing to a close, I thought it would be interesting to see what were the 10 most popular articles on the blog. For reference purposes, the top 10 from 2013 were also included for comparison.

I also wanted to wish everyone a great holiday. If you are going skiing, staying home with family or slipping an extra shrimp on the barbie, take the time to enjoy it with your friends and fam… Read the rest “Most Popular Blog Posts For 2014”

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Using Out-GridView With Exchange 2010 PowerShell

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

Using Out-GridView with Exchange 2010 will result in an error. This happens running the commands directly in the Exchange Management Shell or using the Out-GridVew as part of a script.

Some examples:

The below is the typical error received:

Out-GridView : To use the Out-GridView cmdlet, install the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment feature from Server Manager. (Could not load file o… Read the rest “Using Out-GridView With Exchange 2010 PowerShell”

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PowerShell Script To Get Exchange 2010 Active CAS Connections

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

Purpose of this script is to report on particular performance monitor counters for Outlook RPC Client Access, OWA and Exchange ActiveSync on multiple servers. This was required as during the course of the year there have been a few issues where the third party load balancer device was not really doing equitable load balancing. In some cases 60% of the user load of 50,000 mailboxes was directed … Read the rest “PowerShell Script To Get Exchange 2010 Active CAS Connections”

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Outlook December 2014 Updates

Posted on 14th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The below is an excerpt from the December 2014 Office and Outlook updates. This was the first release of an Outlook 2010 build which supported MAPI/HTTP.

However there were some serious issues, and the documentation states that the January 2015 build is the first release that should actually be used.

Description of the Office updates: December 9, 2014

KB2899591 for Outlook 2010 December 9, 2014

… Read the rest “Outlook December 2014 Updates”

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Windows Update Fail – 0xC80003F3

Posted on 12th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is the case of one of those bizarre and very annoying issues to tack down. The server in question is one of my lab servers where an automated build was used to create it. It is a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 based server which has TMG 2010 SP2 installed as a reverse proxy. Said server has been a little “squirrely”, and some “interesting things have happened where a … Read the rest “Windows Update Fail – 0xC80003F3”

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Exchange 2013 CU7 Released

Posted on 9th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU7 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2013 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2013 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange 2013 S… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU7 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU8 Released

Posted on 9th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU8 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins. In addition to addressing previous security issues, Exchange 2010 SP3 RU8 also corrects the security issue MS… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU8 Released”

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Office 365 Workshop Links – December 2014

Posted on 5th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is a link throw-down for the items that we discussed during a recent Office 365 workshop that I delivered to customers in sunny Calgary.

I’m posting the links here since they will be available to all of the attendees, and thought that others may also find them useful/interesting.

Service Descriptions

Exchange Online Service Description – required reading! Especially the limits … Read the rest “Office 365 Workshop Links – December 2014”

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Exchange ServerName Points To Wrong Or Decommissioned Server

Posted on 4th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This post was promoted from the draft bin to production after a customer visit a couple of weeks ago. When onsite we were looking at how the environment was configured. The admins had written a series of scripts to determine the environment state which was excellent to see! One thing that they had assumed though was that the ServerName attribute on a mailbox was where the database was currently … Read the rest “Exchange ServerName Points To Wrong Or Decommissioned Server”