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Exchange 2013 Performance Health Check Script

Posted on 6th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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

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 3rd April 2015 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:

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 2nd April 2015 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”

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Windows Phone Upgraded

Posted on 1st April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Feeling pretty pumped over here as I’ve just deployed the latest and greatest build onto my Windows Phone.

In honour of all things retro, the phone team have gone a little old school and have tweaked the interface a smidgeon.

The interface has been, well let’s just say “streamlined”.

Update 1-4-2015: Yes this was an April 1st prank… You can download the app for your Windows phone.

In addition to the … Read the rest “Windows Phone Upgraded”

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Exchange 2013 Network Port Reference

Posted on 20th March 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

There have been a few requests for an Exchange 2013 network port reference article. Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 both had sections on TechNet with that title.

While the port reference is good to obtain a high level understand what Exchange is doing, many deployments would then start to deploy firewalls which blocked network traffic between Exchange servers and from Exchange to Domain Controllers.… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Network Port Reference”

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Exchange 2013 CU8 Released

Posted on 17th March 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU8 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 o… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU8 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU9 Released

Posted on 17th March 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU9 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins.

Update 25-3-2015 Please see an emerging issue with ActiveSync after deploying Exchange 2010 SP3 RU9 or Exchange 2… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU9 Released”

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Update 015-027 Revised (3002657)

Posted on 17th March 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In the March 2015 security bulletin, update 15-027 was released. This is to address a vulnerability in the Netlogon component of windows that could allow spoofing. The security bulleting for 015-027 is available in the Security TechCenter. KB 3002657 provides details of the update.

Please be aware that the update has been revised, and version 2.0 is now available. Versi… Read the rest “Update 015-027 Revised (3002657)”

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How To Check Exchange Schema And Object Values In AD

Posted on 17th March 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This content was extracted from a separate upcoming Exchange 2013 schema post to maintain focus on viewing the Exchange schema attributes.

Exchange 2013 admins should assume that a Cumulative Update (CU) will have AD schema updates. The release notes and release blog post will discuss this in detail for each CU. This is very similar to the Exchange 2007/2010 service packs of old.

Table Of Exchange

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How To Get Azure VM IP Addresses Using PowerShell

Posted on 13th March 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Curious as to what IPs are used by your Azure VMs? This may seem a simple question, but it was not until last year that Azure allowed you to set static IPs on VMs. Prior to this it was a first come first served basis. The net result was that you powered VMs on in a set order to preserve the IP assignment scheme that you wanted.

The first usable IP address on the Azure VM subnet is the .4 address… Read the rest “How To Get Azure VM IP Addresses Using PowerShell”