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Quick Tip–Easily Accessing Certificate MMC

Posted on 2nd February 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Having to manually open a blank MMC and add in the certificate MMC every time will quickly bore you. I used to then save it onto my desktop as shown below so I would only have to do this once per server. It could also be copied to other servers. The chosen name goes back to TechEd 2002 – don’t ask…

While that is useful for servers you commonly use, what about other servers? What if you work wit… Read the rest “Quick Tip–Easily Accessing Certificate MMC”

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Unable To Ping Windows Server

Posted on 26th January 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

You have just deployed a shiny new Windows 2012 R2 member server, and joined it to the domain. After the server has restarted you try and ping it from one of the other domain machines, but ping is dropped. You check the Network Location Awareness, as you have been burnt by that before, but that is fine and it can see the AD domain.

In the below example, note that the DNS request was successful. … Read the rest “Unable To Ping Windows Server”

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Save The Date – End of Exchange 2010 Support–T Minus 2 Years

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

Update 16-9-2019 Please note that Exchange 2010 support has been extended to the 13th of October 2020. This does not mean that migration plans can be paused. Also review the aspects of the support for the underlying OS.

January 2020 is going to be a very important month. There are multiple large and important products which will exit out of their extended support lifecycle phase. The list includ… Read the rest “Save The Date – End of Exchange 2010 Support–T Minus 2 Years”

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Most Popular Blog Posts For 2017

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

Well, EHLO to the year 2018! 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 issu… Read the rest “Most Popular Blog Posts For 2017”

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Exchange 2016 CU8 Released

Posted on 19th December 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2016 CU8 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 CU8 Released”

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Exchange 2013 CU19 Released

Posted on 19th December 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU19 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 CU19 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU19 Released

Posted on 19th December 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 19 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU19 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 14.03.0382.000 of Exchange 2010, and KB4035162 has the full details for the release. The update… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU19 Released”

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Office 365 Workshop Links – December 2017

Posted on 19th December 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is a link fest for the items discussed during a recent Office 365 workshop delivered in an unusually tropical Calgary last week. Calgary +12 in December is always a win!!

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

PowerShell Tips And Tricks

Start with these three articles:

How To Maximize Exchange A… Read the rest “Office 365 Workshop Links – December 2017”

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Update WAP Published Application Certificate

Posted on 11th December 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

A base Web Application Proxy (WAP) provides AD FS proxy capability in addition to also publishing on-premises web applications to the Internet. This can be used to publish services such as Exchange OWA and Autodiscover.

Publish Applications using AD FS Preauthentication can used in certain situations to pre-authenticate the incoming request before it is passed onto the internal server. Alternative… Read the rest “Update WAP Published Application Certificate”

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Still Running DirSync and AAD Sync–Really Time To Update

Posted on 5th December 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This post is for those customers who continue to run outdated and legacy versions of the synchronisation tools to connect on-premises Active Directory to Azure Active Directory. It was noted back in April this year that legacy versions of the synchronisation tools should be updated to a supported version of Azure AD Connect. Preferably the latest available version.

If for any reason this was not d… Read the rest “Still Running DirSync and AAD Sync–Really Time To Update”