In a recent customer conversation, they were excited that PowerShell 5.0 would contain the option to tail a log file. While they were excited to get that feature, they were less excited to hear that PowerShell 3.0 had already added the –Tail parameter to the Get-Content cmdlet. Previously there have been other solutions to get this functionality, but is now native in PowerShell.
As an example:
When attempting to run the Windows Azure Active Directory Module on a Windows 7 or 2008 R2 machine, things did not go swimmingly. In fact they did not work at all. The error message of “This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded” was reported.
The below was tested on a Windows 7 and a separate Windows Server 2… Read the rest “Azure AD Module – This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded”
Windows Server 2016 is available, and it is now supported to install Exchange 2016 onto this version of Windows. Initially this was not the case. Exchange 2016 CU3 added support to install Exchange 2016 onto Windows Server 2016. However, there was an issue with Windows which required based installations to be paused. The required fix has been released by the Windows team in KB3206632. This up… Read the rest “Exchange Support For Windows Server 2016”
Things were running great with my new machine a Lenovo W541 until recently. When browsing email in Outlook it would take several seconds to collapse/expand folders and when selecting an email to read it took several seconds to render the view. Highly frustrating.
As noted in a previous post and a semi-related one related to Outlook displaying corrupted information, one of the first things to revie… Read the rest “Windows 10 Poor Graphics Performance – Part Deux”
In Exchange 2010, the Exchange Management Console allowed us to import certificates to multiple servers and to then assign the certificate to multiple servers simultaneously. In the Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 EAC, the option to enable the certificate for Exchange services is per server.
As you can seen in the Exchange 2016 example below, we need to select each server one by one from the drop … Read the rest “Assigning Exchange 2016 and 2013 Certificate To Multiple Servers At The Same Time”
Renewing certificates breaks down into the following main sections
As always, ensure that the names you have specified on the CAS namespace design are included. Th… Read the rest “Renewing Exchange 2010 Certificate Using Exchange Management Console”
Last week I was in Ottawa to review the process of upgrading to Exchange 2013. Since the focus was upgrading from Exchange 2007, that required blowing the cobwebs off some long term storage brain cells!
Note that Exchange 2007 now has less than a year of extended support left, and if you have not started to migrate to a newer version then it is time to start!
Exchange Support For Windo… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Upgrade Workshop Links – April 2016”
Update 25-4-2016 - The tool has been updated and should be functional. The feedback pages referenced at the bottom are now closed.
Back in 2012 the Active Directory Replication Status Tool (ADREPLSTATUS) was released. The below is from one of my old labs. It was a useful tool to have in environments which had no connectivity to external networks.
To download the tool click the image below.
ADREPLST… Read the rest “Active Directory Replication Status Tool Expired”
Exchange 2007 is now twelve months out from the end of its support lifecycle. If you still have Exchange 2007 deployed, and have not completed the migration to a newer version of Exchange then it is time to accelerate that migration project.
I feel a little bittersweet about this. Yes, the new Exchange versions offer far more functionality, but remember back to when Exchange 2007 was released and… Read the rest “Save The Date – End of Exchange 2007 Extended Support”
Back with Exchange 2010 SP1 a feature was added so that mailbox which were delegated Full Mailbox access to other mailboxes would automatically have the additional mailbox made accessible in Outlook. As an example Debora was granted Full Mailbox access to the mailbox called Postmaster. With no additional configuration, in Debora’s Outlook client (2007 and up) the Postmaster mailbox would automat… Read the rest “Exchange Autodiscover – How Delegate Mailboxes Are Returned”