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Exchange 2010 Support For Windows Server 2016 Domain Controllers

Posted on 21st June 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Previously Exchange 2010 was not supported with Windows Server 2016 Domain Controllers. The support position was discussed in the Exchange Support For Windows Server 2016 post back in 2016. This was a challenge for organisations who still had Exchange 2010 deployed yet wanted to move forward with AD DS upgrades so that they could take advantage of the newer AD features. While people would try … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Support For Windows Server 2016 Domain Controllers”

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Exchange 2016 CU10 Released

Posted on 19th June 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2016 CU10 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 CU10 Released”

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Exchange 2013 CU21 Released

Posted on 19th June 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU21 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 CU21 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU22 Released

Posted on 19th June 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 22 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU22 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.

This is build 14.03.0411.000 of Exchange 2010, and KB4295699 has the full details for the release. The update… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU22 Released”

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Exchange Null Path Statement

Posted on 30th May 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Update 16-11-2020 - Issue still persists. Currently see the same behaviour on an Exchange 2016 CU18 server and a fresh Exchange 2013 Cu23 build.

Travelling to see different customers from one side of Canada to the other is always interesting. This post is written whilst in Vancouver and is from a reported customer issue waaaaay out East.

The Exchange admins pointed out that they were consistently r… Read the rest “Exchange Null Path Statement”

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Easy Way To Retrieve Certificate Thumbprint Using PowerShell

Posted on 14th May 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Since many certificate operations involve knowing the certificate’s thumbprint, it is always useful to to have an easy way to get this information. In some of the online documentation it mentions you can copy the thumbprint out of the Certificate MMC snap-in and then manually delete the spaces between the data. No thanks.

However, if you *really* want to do that, or a quick and easy way to launch… Read the rest “Easy Way To Retrieve Certificate Thumbprint Using PowerShell”

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End of Exchange 2013 and Office 2013 Mainstream Support

Posted on 10th April 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Time marches on. Exchange 2013 and Outlook 2013 have now exited out of mainstream support and will be serviced as per their extended support life cycle policy.

Several years Ready For The Next Episode? and The New Exchange were the first posts here on Exchange 2013. The latter has an image of how the Exchange team blog used to look. That was back when orange must have been the marketing colour of … Read the rest “End of Exchange 2013 and Office 2013 Mainstream Support”

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Outlook 2013 Autodiscover

Posted on 9th April 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Many, many moons ago, we looked at the functionality of Autodiscover for on-premises Exchange. At the time of writing that post the focus was on Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010. Things change...

In this post we can look at the modifications introduced in Outlook 2013, and we will also need to review the changes in Outlook 2016 which will be in a separate post.

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The documented flows for … Read the rest “Outlook 2013 Autodiscover”

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Exchange 2010 Default Connector Configuration

Posted on 3rd April 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This post is to provide a quick reference to the Exchange 2010 Hub Transport default send and receive connector configuration. There will be a separate one for Exchange 2013 and 2016.

When installing the Exchange 2010 Hub Transport role, two receive connectors are created on each server. They are called:

Client <ServerName>
Default <ServerName>

In the below example, the Exchange 2010 H… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Default Connector Configuration”

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Transport Rule Changes For Next Exchange Cumulative Updates

Posted on 1st April 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Microsoft has provided rich support for Exchange on-premises to integrate with Exchange Online for several years. This coexistence is one of the major strengths of the Microsoft cloud solution as it allows customers to perform Digital Transformation at their own pace.

It is not expected that an organisation will transition all of their on-premises mailboxes overnight, that would be unrealistic for… Read the rest “Transport Rule Changes For Next Exchange Cumulative Updates”