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Outlook 2016 Autodiscover Implementation

Posted on 9th December 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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

Posted on 17th November 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”

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Managed Availability Resources

Posted on 8th November 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Managed Availability (MA) feature provides a very capable automated monitoring and management framework. Managed Availability allows Exchange to self diagnose and to self correct issues without having to escalate to a human. The requirement for this feature was born out of necessity for Exchange Online. MA was one of the things released with Exchange 2013 but not every Exchange admin was im… Read the rest “Managed Availability Resources”

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Office 365 Welcome Pages – Circa 2019

Posted on 17th October 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The below is the current Office 365 logon page as of 2019.

For reference, the below shows the page load time and amount of data transferred.

Once signed in, the Office 365 admin portal is shown below.

Cheers,

Rhoderick

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End of Outlook 2010 Support – T Minus 1 Year

Posted on 13th October 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

For awareness, Office 2010 has one year remaining of its extended support lifecycle. Office 2010 SP2 has been required since October 2014. All Office 2010 installs must be running SP2 in order to receive security updates since that time.

On the 13th of October 2020, Office 2010 will exit out of extended support. Please plan to transition to a support client well in advance.

There are many feature … Read the rest “End of Outlook 2010 Support – T Minus 1 Year”

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Exchange 2019 CU3 Released

Posted on 17th September 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2019 CU3 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 CU3 Released”

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Exchange 2016 CU14

Posted on 17th September 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2016 CU14 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 CU14”

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Windows 10 FlushDNS

Posted on 6th September 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One issue when cutting over services or performing datacentre disaster recovery operations consists of three little letters - DNS.

DNS records have a time to live (TTL) and depending on the zone file configuration, it could be several hours or even measured in days. So if a record was changed, this means that in normal run state clients would continue to connect to the old IP rather than the new I… Read the rest “Windows 10 FlushDNS”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU29 Released

Posted on 9th July 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Today is patch Tuesday for July 2019 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.

This is build 14.03.0468.000 of Exchange 2010, and KB 4509410 has the full… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU29 Released”

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Exchange 2019 CU2 Released

Posted on 18th June 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2019 CU2 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! 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 o… Read the rest “Exchange 2019 CU2 Released”