March, 2017 - 250 Hello

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Blog Code Examples Not Running Due to Smart Quotes

Posted on 31st March 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

During an excellent trip to see a local customer *, it was noted that some of the script examples on the blog were not working as expected. The post we were looking at was the Check Exchange 2013 Schema and Object Information in AD. When the sample commands were copied, the Exchange administrator was not able to immediately use them, even after editing to suit their environment.

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Unexpected Exchange AD Object Values

Posted on 29th March 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Imagine this scenario; you have deployed an Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016 Cumulative update successfully in your environment and you think that all is fine. However you then receive an unpleasant surprise when you go to verify the details of the Exchange Schema and Exchange AD object versions. You can review the process to review the Exchange AD Objects and Schema in addition to the different b… Read the rest “Unexpected Exchange AD Object Values”

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Exchange 2013 CU16 and Exchange 2016 CU5 .NET Framework Requirement

Posted on 27th March 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

As mentioned in the release posts for Exchange 2013 CU16 and Exchange 2016 CU5, both of these Exchange versions now require .NET framework 4.6.2 on all supported OS platforms. This post focusses on Windows 2012 and 2012 R2 installations, see note below about Windows 2016.

Update 25-1-2018 Since the older versions of Exchange 2013 and 2016 CUs are no longer available, the Exchange Support Matrix has be… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU16 and Exchange 2016 CU5 .NET Framework Requirement”

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Exchange 2016 CU5 Released

Posted on 23rd March 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2016 CU5 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2016 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 2016 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange 2013 ha… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU5 Released”

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Exchange 2013 CU16 Released

Posted on 23rd March 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU16 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 … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU16 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU17 Released

Posted on 23rd March 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

March 21st heralded the arrival of Rollup Update Rollup 17 (RU17) for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU17 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. All updates are delivered via a RU for Exchange 2010 and 2007. Exchange 2013 and 2016 have a different release model, where security updates are decoupled from the standard cumulative updates.

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