Author: Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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July 2017 Exchange Security Updates–Have You Updated?

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Patch Tuesday this month featured updates to address security issues in Exchange 2010, 2013 and 2016.   Two weeks ago today, July 11th heralded the arrival of Rollup Update Rollup 18 (RU18) for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 along with updates for Exchange 2013 and 2016.

Exchange 2010 SP3 RU18 is the latest rollup of customer fixes currently available for Exchange Server 2010.  All updates, bo… Read the rest “July 2017 Exchange Security Updates–Have You Updated?”

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Script To Check Exchange NTFS Cluster Size

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

An issue came to light when onsite recently with a customer.  The design specifications from the Exchange team were not being correctly implemented.  In this environment there is a separate Windows team who are responsible for managing the underlying server OS and hardware.  They are to follow the prescribed process and steps laid down by the application owner but this was not consistently happeni… Read the rest “Script To Check Exchange NTFS Cluster Size”

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WAP 2016 Published Application Not Working – HTTP Error 503

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Imagine the situation.  You just finished deploying AD FS 2016 and Web Application Proxy (WAP) servers in a highly available environment with the AD FS namespace load balanced internally and externally.  There are multiple AD FS servers and WAP servers.  This is an interesting deployment project and all is going well.   After verifying that core AD FS and WAP functionality works as expected you th… Read the rest “WAP 2016 Published Application Not Working – HTTP Error 503”

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Exchange 2016 CU6 Released

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Exchange 2016 CU6 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 CU6 Released”

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Exchange 2013 CU17 Released

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Exchange 2013 CU17 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 CU17 Released”

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How to Enable IdpInitiatedSignon Page In AD FS 2016

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of the deployment validation and testing tools which was also present in earlier AD FS releases is the /IdpInitiatedSignon.htm page.  This page is available by default in the AD FS 2012 R2 and earlier versions.  Though it should be noted this page is disabled by default in AD FS 2016.

From the system you wish to test from, navigate to the AD FS namespace's idpinitiatedsignonpage.  This will be i… Read the rest “How to Enable IdpInitiatedSignon Page In AD FS 2016”

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PSRemoting for Office 365 AD FS Configuration

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When configuring AD FS for Office 365, one of the final steps is to link Azure AD with the on-premises AD FS deployment.  This should occur only after AD FS and WAP servers have been fully deployed, verified and tested.

When linking the AD FS infrastructure with Office 365, we must use the Azure AD PowerShell module.  We need to point the module at the primary AD FS server using the Set-MsolADFSCon… Read the rest “PSRemoting for Office 365 AD FS Configuration”

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I Am Zorg – CASArray Destroyer

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This is an interesting tale, and is something I have never seen done before in all my time working with Exchange.  The client had managed to tweak the configuration of Exchange and modify the CAS configuration so significantly that Exchange was absolutely confused.  Specifically, the CAS Array was modified so much that Autodiscover was no longer handing out the CASArray name to clients.  This was … Read the rest “I Am Zorg – CASArray Destroyer”

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Third Century of Blog Posts

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When you have fun time flies, and that has certainly happened with blogging here.  There are now over three hundred posts on the blog dating back to October 2011.  The two hundred mark was in September 2015.

Than you for all the support and feedback over the years – it is very much appreciated!

As always, do leave a comment saying what you found useful and why.  If there are topics that are of intere… Read the rest “Third Century of Blog Posts”

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How To Install AD FS 2016 For Office 365 – Part 3

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Here we are in part three already!  Previously we completed the below two phases in the AD FS deployment.

How To Install AD FS 2016 For Office 365

How To Install AD FS 2016 For Office 365 – Part 2

This post assumes that the domain was previously added as a standard domain, also called managed, and the domain will require conversion. Now we want to change the Office 365 domain to be a federated domain.… Read the rest “How To Install AD FS 2016 For Office 365 – Part 3”