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Directly Loading Exchange 2010 or 2013 SnapIn Is Not Supported

Posted on 28th January 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

It is always interesting to see how certain constructs are carried over from previous versions of Exchange without being re-evaluated. The case in point here, is how access is provided to Exchange 2010/2013 PowerShell. Exchange 2010 introduced mail admins to remote PowerShell. At this time we should all be using remote PowerShell for Exchange 2010 and 2013 servers.

However there still seems to b… Read the rest “Directly Loading Exchange 2010 or 2013 SnapIn Is Not Supported”

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Impact Of Changing ActiveSync DefaultAccessLevel

Posted on 26th January 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The default settings in Exchange 2010 and 2013 allow any user to synchronise any device. Depending upon your organisation's viewpoint this default may not be optimal. Ideally this should have been changed when Exchange 2010 or 2013 was first deployed. Doing so would have ensured that the appropriate device rules were created and that unwanted devices would never have been able to connect to Ex… Read the rest “Impact Of Changing ActiveSync DefaultAccessLevel”

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Recommendations For Exchange ActiveSync Organisation Settings

Posted on 21st January 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

It has been 5 years since Exchange 2010 was released and there is still a very common item that a lot of deployments have overlooked. This is the configuration of the ActiveSync Organization settings. These settings set the global options for devices connecting into Exchange 2010 and also Exchange 2013. They are a core part of Exchange 2010 & 2013’s Allow/Block/Quarantine feature.

Rather than… Read the rest “Recommendations For Exchange ActiveSync Organisation Settings”

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Save The Date – End Of Forefront Protection 2010 For Exchange — T Minus 12 Months

Posted on 31st December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Since the Forefront brand of products have been retired, yes I miss TMG, please be aware of the extended support date for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange.

This product is slated to exit extended support on the 31st of December 2015:

On a semi-related aspect, Exchange 2010 will transition into its extended support phase on the 13th of January 2015. Please see this post for details.

Cheers,

Rhod… Read the rest “Save The Date – End Of Forefront Protection 2010 For Exchange — T Minus 12 Months”

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Most Popular Blog Posts For 2014

Posted on 24th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Since 2014 is drawing to a close, I thought it would be interesting to see what were the 10 most popular articles on the blog. For reference purposes, the top 10 from 2013 were also included for comparison.

I also wanted to wish everyone a great holiday. If you are going skiing, staying home with family or slipping an extra shrimp on the barbie, take the time to enjoy it with your friends and fam… Read the rest “Most Popular Blog Posts For 2014”

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Using Out-GridView With Exchange 2010 PowerShell

Posted on 17th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Using Out-GridView with Exchange 2010 will result in an error. This happens running the commands directly in the Exchange Management Shell or using the Out-GridVew as part of a script.

Some examples:

The below is the typical error received:

Out-GridView : To use the Out-GridView cmdlet, install the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment feature from Server Manager. (Could not load file o… Read the rest “Using Out-GridView With Exchange 2010 PowerShell”

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PowerShell Script To Get Exchange 2010 Active CAS Connections

Posted on 17th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Purpose of this script is to report on particular performance monitor counters for Outlook RPC Client Access, OWA and Exchange ActiveSync on multiple servers. This was required as during the course of the year there have been a few issues where the third party load balancer device was not really doing equitable load balancing. In some cases 60% of the user load of 50,000 mailboxes was directed … Read the rest “PowerShell Script To Get Exchange 2010 Active CAS Connections”

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Outlook December 2014 Updates

Posted on 14th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The below is an excerpt from the December 2014 Office and Outlook updates. This was the first release of an Outlook 2010 build which supported MAPI/HTTP.

However there were some serious issues, and the documentation states that the January 2015 build is the first release that should actually be used.

Description of the Office updates: December 9, 2014

KB2899591 for Outlook 2010 December 9, 2014

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Windows Update Fail – 0xC80003F3

Posted on 12th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is the case of one of those bizarre and very annoying issues to tack down. The server in question is one of my lab servers where an automated build was used to create it. It is a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 based server which has TMG 2010 SP2 installed as a reverse proxy. Said server has been a little “squirrely”, and some “interesting things have happened where a … Read the rest “Windows Update Fail – 0xC80003F3”

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Exchange 2013 CU7 Released

Posted on 9th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU7 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 S… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU7 Released”