Author: Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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How To Create Public Folder Calendar In Exchange 2013

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is in response to a engagement where the admins were puzzled that they could not create a public folder calendar in Exchange 2013.  That is something that we should be able to do.

Why were they not able to do so?

To creating the public folder calendar, we need to use Outlook.  This is the same as Exchange 2010, so no differences there.

What was stumping them was, when they went to Outl… Read the rest “How To Create Public Folder Calendar In Exchange 2013”

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AD FS 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy – Re-Establish Proxy Trust

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In the Tailspintoys environment, the administrator (moi) was a bit slack.  They let the AD FS 2012 R2 proxy get into a bad state.  The AD FS Proxy was not contacting the AD FS server on the internal network, and this allowed the short lived authentication certificate to expire.  At this point the AD FS Proxy was “dead to me” as far as the AD FS server was concerned.  The internal AD FS server was … Read the rest “AD FS 2012 R2 Web Application Proxy – Re-Establish Proxy Trust”

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DNS or SRV Record For DNS Based Exchange Autodiscover

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

For users and devices that need to use DNS to locate their Exchange Autodiscover endpoint, should I use a SRV record?

The above is a fairly common question, and it almost warrants the consultant’s answer.  It depends...

Multi Site Exchange 2010 CAS Namespaces

As discussed by Ross Smith IV in his introduction to Exchange 2013 CAS post, Exchange 2010 CAS Namespace planning typically requires multiple nam… Read the rest “DNS or SRV Record For DNS Based Exchange Autodiscover”

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Import-Exchange Certificate Ignores Path Provided

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

On an Exchange 2007 SP3 RU15 server, experienced an issue where the path statement on the Import-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet seemed to ignore what it was told to do….

The below PowerShell commands were used:

$Creds = Get-Credential

Import-ExchangeCertificate -Path .cert.pfx -Password $Creds.Password

Which generated an error stating “Import-ExchangeCertificate : The import file name .cert.pfx was not fo… Read the rest “Import-Exchange Certificate Ignores Path Provided”

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End Of Exchange 2013 RTM Support

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

We are now at the end of the Exchange 2013 RTM support lifecycle phase.  Yes, it really has been two years since Exchange 2013 was released…..

At this time Exchange 2013 RTM, CU1, CU2 and CU3 are no longer supported.  Customers should be on a recent Exchange 2013 build.  Exchange 2013 CU4 is also known as SP1.

Whilst the servicing strategy for Exchange 2013 changed compared to E… Read the rest “End Of Exchange 2013 RTM Support”

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Using PowerShell To Filter Multiple Different Values

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This post is to answer one of the many interesting questions that seem to pop up doing Exchange work!  This is for one of my favourite customers in Winnipeg.  Next time, let’s arrange the work for summertime so we can go golfing Tyler, eh?  For some added nostalgia, let’s use Exchange 2007 as the example here as this will likely be one of the last blog posts to feature Exchange 2007 as it goes of … Read the rest “Using PowerShell To Filter Multiple Different Values”

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Viewing Exchange 2013 Public Folders In OWA

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange team have been working very hard to develop the feature set of modern public folders.  Exchange 2013 CU8 added multiple scale increases.  In addition, CU8 also added a feature to allow viewing modern public folders in Exchange 2013 OWA.  Calendar and Contact Modern Public Folders favourites added in Outlook are now accessible in OWA

Let’s take a peek at how to add them to… Read the rest “Viewing Exchange 2013 Public Folders In OWA”

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Exchange 2013 Performance Health Check Script

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of the recent additions to the TechNet script gallery was this nifty little contribution from Marc Nivens.

Exchange 2013 Performance Health Checker Script

This script reports on OS, system, and hardware information in addition to the Exchange 2013 sizing recommendations on TechNet.  It can be ran remotely, against a single server or a group of servers.  It takes some of the most common configuration causes of Exchange 2013 performance cases … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Performance Health Check Script”

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Unable To Run Downloaded PowerShell Script

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

After finding a killer PowerShell script on the interwebs, you download it and then the excitement dies when you get a lovely PSSecurityException error like the example below:

Script Cannot Be Loaded As It Is Not Digitally Signed

File C:ScriptsScript.ps1 cannot be loaded. The file C:ScriptsScript.ps1 is not digitally signed.
You cannot run this script on the current system. For more information about running scripts and setting execution policy, see ab

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Exchange 2010 Search Recommendations

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This article is intended to cover some of the best practices related to Exchange 2010 search.  Whilst the search service has been continuously improved over the lifecycle of Exchange 2010 there are multiple items can need to be addressed.  If these items are not addressed, then there is a very good chance that you will be riding the bus to incident town…

What items and issues do we… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Search Recommendations”