Author: Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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Script To Automate Exchange Health Manager Service For Monitoring Mailbox Reset

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is a quick tactical script to help Exchange administrators when resetting Exchange Monitoring mailboxes.  Exchange 2013 introduced managed availability which is responsible for evaluating the health of Exchange 2013 and 2016 Exchange servers.  Yes it does also probe downlevel servers, but let’s not get bogged down in that in this post.  In order to do the synthetic user tests, mail and tests … Read the rest “Script To Automate Exchange Health Manager Service For Monitoring Mailbox Reset”

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Setting Backend Exchange 2013 / 2016 Virtual Directory

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is a tale of when a “quick” review of CAS namespaces quickly went off at a tangent.  When working with the messaging administrator, let’s call him “Mike” to protect the innocent, he showed me the below for his Exchange 2013 server.  He was quite happy with the config, but that bubble was about to be popped.  Note that the ShowMailboxVirtualDirectories parameter has been added to allow us to se… Read the rest “Setting Backend Exchange 2013 / 2016 Virtual Directory”

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Script To Remove Windows Update Server Values From Registry

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In some of the lab environments provided to me, the base Windows image has pre-set WSUS updates servers.  When I then move the lab VMs to a different network, the original WSUS servers are no longer available, and I typically point to Microsoft Update or a different WSUS server.

In the case of pointing to Microsoft Update, I wanted to delete the initial WSUS registry values.  In my case, these are … Read the rest “Script To Remove Windows Update Server Values From Registry”

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PowerShell Tail Command

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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:

Gets… Read the rest “PowerShell Tail Command”

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Azure AD Module – This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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. 

 

Repro Steps

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”

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Exchange Support For Windows Server 2016

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Windows Server 2016 And Exchange SupportWindows 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”

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Windows 10 Poor Graphics Performance – Part Deux

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”

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Assigning Exchange 2016 and 2013 Certificate To Multiple Servers At The Same Time

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”

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Renewing Exchange 2010 Certificate Using Exchange Management Console

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Renewing certificates breaks down into the following main sections

  1. Create Certificate Signing Request
  2. Send Certificate Signing Request to the Certification Authourity to be signed
  3. Complete Certificate Signing Request
  4. Install certificate on additional servers
  5. Bind Services to newly completed certificate

 

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”

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Exchange 2013 Upgrade Workshop Links – April 2016

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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 2013

Exchange Support For Windo… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Upgrade Workshop Links – April 2016”