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Quick Tip – Download .NET Framework 4.5 Offline Installer

Posted on 23rd March 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This post will attempt to resolve some download frustration if your are looking for an older version of the .NET Framework. This is an issue with Exchange 2010 as the initial .NET framework for that platform has not been updated, whereas .NET Framework support in Exchange 2013 and 2016 now leverage newer versions of .NET framework, at the time of writing 4.6.2 and 4.7.1 are supported for Exchang… Read the rest “Quick Tip – Download .NET Framework 4.5 Offline Installer”

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Exchange 2016 CU9 Released

Posted on 20th March 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2016 CU9 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 CU9 Released”

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Exchange 2013 CU20 Released

Posted on 20th March 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU20 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 CU20 Released”

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Arbitration Mailboxes – Lay of The Land

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

At this point in time, most Exchange administrators will have seen and worked with arbitration mailboxes. Chances are that the first encounter was somewhat unexpected and revolved around an issue with Exchange 2013 health mailboxes or being unable to delete the default mailbox database in Exchange 2010.

To illustrate where the different arbitration mailboxes were first introduced, multiple ve… Read the rest “Arbitration Mailboxes – Lay of The Land”

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Quick Tip–How To Easily Open Additional Instance or Elevate Applications

Posted on 16th March 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This tip is for all the folks out there who want a quick and easy way to open an additional instance of an application which they are running or to elevate an application.

The below tips were captured from a Windows 10 build 1709 machine.

The below should work for most applications – if you find one that does not, please leave a comment.

Additional Instance

In this example we have a cmd prompt o… Read the rest “Quick Tip–How To Easily Open Additional Instance or Elevate Applications”

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Renewing AD FS Certificates – Updated Guidance

Posted on 15th March 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

TLS certificates come and go. By their nature they have a set life span and then they must be renewed. While this is nothing new, I’ve being doing this since the 1990s, the process may become a little more frequent for some customers as the industry is eliminating three year certificates see 3-Year Certificates to Be Eliminated in Industry-Wide Change for example.

In the posts for deploying AD FS … Read the rest “Renewing AD FS Certificates – Updated Guidance”

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Exchange 2016 Prerequisites AS-HTTP-Activation Missing

Posted on 13th March 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The below was an exercise in paying attention to detail for one of my customers. They were in the middle of an Exchange 2010 to 2016 migration and were attempting to install the first Exchange 2016 server into the organisation. Windows Server 2016 was being used as the OS for these new servers.

However it was not going swimmingly.

As part of the pre-work they were installing the OS, applying Window… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 Prerequisites AS-HTTP-Activation Missing”

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Exchange 2010 Public Folder Migration

Posted on 25th February 2018 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

For so many years organisations have postponed the inevitable. They have refused to clean up Exchange public folders, and content from 1996 is still present. Those Outlook forms that someone wrote in 1999 are still present. Stale Offline Address Book (OAB) folders and OWAScratchPad folders hang on for dear life. None of these are needed, and its high time to remove them.

Prior to starting a pub… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Public Folder Migration”

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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”