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Performance Tools That Time Forgot – Perfmon

Posted on 12th October 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Well, OK. Time did not really forget about these poor, un-loved tools – it was us administrators!

There are numerous little tools and utilities that are no longer commonly used by a lot of admins. This may be due to the fact that they are using a different tool, or it may just have faded from memory a little. Or you may be runing in Azure rather than on dated hardware. Or that your storage is al… Read the rest “Performance Tools That Time Forgot – Perfmon”

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Return of The MEC

Posted on 24th September 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This week I am fortunate to be at MEC along with thousands of other people who are passionate about Exchange, and are looking to get the latest information on Exchange Server 2013.

The event is at the Gaylord Palm Hotel in Orlando, and I have to say it is a spiffy place with coy carp, alligators and a really big salt water tank with lots of really nice big fish.

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Exchange 2013 Video Sessions From TechEd Australia 2012

Posted on 18th September 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

If you are looking to see the first public presentations on Exchange 2013, then look no further! Channel 9 has recordings from last week’s TechEd Australia.

You can find these great sessions on Exchange 2013:

Exchange Server 2013 High Availability and Site Resilience - EXL315

Exchange Server 2013 Architecture Deep Dive – EXL311

Exchange Server 2013 Deployment and C

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Upcoming Changes to Forefront Products

Posted on 12th September 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

If you leverage products from the Forefront family, then you will want to read about changes announced today on the Server & Cloud blog.

Today, as a result of our effort to better align security and protection solutions with the workloads and applications they protect, Microsoft is announcing changes to the roadmaps of some of the security solutions made available under the Forefront brand.

As p

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System Center 2012 SP1 Beta Available

Posted on 10th September 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The beta release for System Center 2012 SP1 is now available for you to download and test in your lab environments. This is an interesting release as it is adding support for Windows Server 2012. In the case of SCVMM 2012 SP1, it means that it can only be installed on the RTM version of Windows Server 2012.

At least I know what I’ll be doing this weekend now Smile

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Re-Release Of Exchange 2010 SCOM Management Pack

Posted on 3rd September 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Since the System Centre Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Pack (MP) for Exchange 2010 has been re-released to the Microsoft download center, I thought that it would be worth bubbling this up. The previous post can be found here on the blog.

This is build 14.03.0038.004 of the MP, and is dated August 31st 2012.

The Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Management Pack includes a complete health model, ex… Read the rest “Re-Release Of Exchange 2010 SCOM Management Pack”

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Important Upcoming Certificate Changes

Posted on 3rd September 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Please be aware that there is a pending change for the minimum key length for certificates with RSA keys. The private keys used in these certificates can be derived and could allow an attacker to duplicate the certificates and use them fraudulently to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks.

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Facebook Language Settings – Avast!

Posted on 27th August 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Here I was just trying to update my Facebook profile to use English UK, and what do I see? Entries for not only English Pirate, but also English (upside down)…..

One can only surmise that the (upside down) is meant for our Antipodean chums!

Now for the pirate theme, I guess I have to go and buy one of these:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=pirate+keyboard&FORM=HDRSC2

Arrrgh,

Rhoderick

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Solving Additional Issues With Exchange OAB Download

Posted on 10th August 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Frank Plawetzki posted a great article on issues that can affect how clients retrieve their Offline Address Book (OAB). This has also been the source of some recent work for myself, though with slightly different root causes. The issues that I have encountered were due to:

Invalid SSL Certificate
OAB web.config file
Incorrect process followed for HTTP redirect

Update 4-3-2014: Added link to KB 975341 Ho… Read the rest “Solving Additional Issues With Exchange OAB Download”

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Outlook Fails To Download OAB

Posted on 10th August 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is an article written by Frank Plawetzki, a Senior PFE from Deutschland, and originally published on Opsvault.

Throughout the last weeks I have seen two different issues that prevented Outlook clients from downloading the OAB (Offline Address Book). One affected public-folder based OAB distribution and the other affected web-based distribution.

I want to provide some hints on t… Read the rest “Outlook Fails To Download OAB”