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Exchange CAS Namespace Planning

CAS Namespace planning is frequently an issue with Exchange deployments.  Why?  For the simple reason that it is either totally skipped or glossed over.

Any Exchange design worth its salt must have careful attention applied to the CAS role.  While it is possible to drop in the HUB role, and it works well in the default configuration this is not also true for CAS.  Unless your org… Read the rest “Exchange CAS Namespace Planning”

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Back In Business

Well, finally we are back online!  It's been a long sorry saga over the last couple of years for the MSDN and TechNet blog platforms. In some ways this is not a new phenomena for bloggers at Microsoft. Things have not always been easy.  Initially the culture was not so open and allowed staff to share externally.  Really, it was not all that long ago when FTEs were able to sign up and create a blog… Read the rest “Back In Business”

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Exchange 2019 CU5 Released

Exchange 2019 CU5 has been released to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center!  Exchange 2019 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 2019 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange… Read the rest “Exchange 2019 CU5 Released”

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Exchange 2016 CU16 Released

Exchange 2016 CU16 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 h… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU16 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU30 Released

Today is patch Tuesday for February 2020  and contains a security advisory bulletin for Exchange 2010.  Due to the way that Exchange 2010 is serviced, security updates are released as a new update rollup (RU).

You can visit the Microsoft Security  Response Center to read the details about this and the other released security updates.

Download Exchange 2010 SP3 RU30

This is build 14.03.0496.000 of Exchange 2010, and KB 4536989 has the… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU30 Released”

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Most Popular Blog Posts For 2019

Hello to 2020!  Just like last year, let's take a peek at the top 10 most popular blog posts based on hit count.

As previously noted, there is more of a demand for Office 365 and Exchange Online content.  The steps to run a manual sync cycle was the most popular post.  Remaining current on support life cycle is also critical, and the Windows 2008/R2 and Exchange 2010 aspect is an issue many compani… Read the rest “Most Popular Blog Posts For 2019”

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Exchange 2016 CU15 Released

Exchange 2016 CU15 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 h… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU15 Released”

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Exchange 2019 CU4 Released

Exchange 2019 CU4 has been released to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center!  Exchange 2019 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 2019 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange… Read the rest “Exchange 2019 CU4 Released”

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Outlook 2016 Autodiscover Implementation

It’s time that we revisited the implementation of Autodiscover in current builds of Outlook, as there have been some changes that are worth noting.

The latest public article which discusses Outlook and Autodiscover is: Outlook 2016 implementation of Autodiscover.

You can take a look at the previous posts on the blog which feature the #Autodiscover tag.  They show the "classic" Outlook 2007 impl… Read the rest “Outlook 2016 Autodiscover Implementation”

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Exchange 2010 Uninstall Screenshots

We are now almost at the end of the Exchange 2010 support life cycle.  While it has certainly been a blast, it is now time to move on to bigger and better things with the new versions of Exchange and Exchange Online.

This post is a quick recap of the expected process to run the uninstall commands using graphical setup and also command line.  Note that there is a separate post for all of the require… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Uninstall Screenshots”