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Updating Windows Server 2012 R2 AD FS SSL and Service Certificates

Posted on 21st March 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The below content is superseded -- for information on updating your certificates please see:

Token signing and decryption
SSL certificate

Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) heavily leverages X.509 certificates to allow the solution to function securely. As with all of the other certificates that you deploy within your enterprise, there must be a process to manage and renew certifica… Read the rest “Updating Windows Server 2012 R2 AD FS SSL and Service Certificates”

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Exchange 2016 CU1 Released

Posted on 16th March 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2016 CU1 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2016 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 2016 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed o… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU1 Released”

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Exchange 2013 CU12 Released

Posted on 15th March 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU12 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 … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU12 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU13 Released

Posted on 15th March 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 13 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU13 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.

This is build 14.03.0294.000 of Exchange 2010, and KB3141339 has the full details for the release. The update… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU13 Released”

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Exchange Services Not Starting on Windows Server 2012 Due to Network Location Profile

Posted on 11th March 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Some of my lab servers run in Microsoft Azure with no redundancy. This is because they are only a lab, and I want to minimise the monthly billing costs for these environments. When the servers are restarted due to patching or maintenance activities, there can be a little fallout.

In the case below, some Exchange services were not running on the Exchange 2010 CAS server in the lab… Read the rest “Exchange Services Not Starting on Windows Server 2012 Due to Network Location Profile”

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Remote Desktop Connection Manager Distorted Display

Posted on 9th March 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) is a very popular remote administration tool with Microsoft admins. RDCMan allows us to minimise the number of open windows on the local machine, when connecting to multiple remote systems. At the time of writing, the latest version is 2.7 which can be downloaded here.

On my Windows 10 1511 laptop, some of my Azure VMs were not correctly rendering the di… Read the rest “Remote Desktop Connection Manager Distorted Display”

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New Blog Platform

Posted on 9th March 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

As of late afternoon yesterday, this blog and a few hundred others were moved from the old TechNet blogs platform to the new one. All of the content, links and ratings should have flowed over. From what I'm seeing so far, performance is also much improved.

The old layout is on the left, and the initial view of the new one is on the right.

One thing that you will notice is that the URL has changed.… Read the rest “New Blog Platform”

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Create Exchange Email Address Policy With Underscore

Posted on 4th March 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

When onsite with a customer last week they were curious as to how they could create an Exchange Email Address Policy (EAP) with an underscore in it. This was because the option to use an underscore is not present within the Exchange graphical tools.

For the record, I’m personally not a fan of using special characters in any situation. I’m a simple creature and do not use undersco… Read the rest “Create Exchange Email Address Policy With Underscore”

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Azure AD Connect Express Install Upgrade – Build 1.1.105.0

Posted on 2nd March 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In February 2016 a new build of the Azure AD Connect tool was released. This is build 1.1.105.0. Multiple features and enhancements were added, and some significant changes were made to Azure AD Connect.

The release history of Azure AD Sync and Azure AD Connect is available on azure.microsoft.com. DirSync is grounded in the years 2013/2014, we will leave that aside. The latest build of Azure AD… Read the rest “Azure AD Connect Express Install Upgrade – Build 1.1.105.0”

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Friday Morning Rant – Premise and Tenents

Posted on 26th February 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Since it’s Friday, let’s have a non-technical post. You will likely have realized that I have some OCD and language issues. This can come through in various forms, it may be how someone insists on saying “anyways” rather than anyway, or the latest internal Microspeak babble. Raymond Chen has a dedicated tag to track the Microspeak nonsense which he hears.&nb… Read the rest “Friday Morning Rant – Premise and Tenents”