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Exchange 2016 Installation Screenshots

Posted on 2nd October 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Now that Exchange 2016 has been released, let’s take a look at the Exchange 2016 installation process. We will see that there are some similarities compared to Exchange 2013 along with some differences.

Exchange 2016 can be downloaded from here.

Planning And Preparation

As with every project proper, planning and preparation is required. Deploying Exchange is no different. TechNet has an overview o… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 Installation Screenshots”

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Exchange 2016 Released

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

It’s the first of October, and this new month brings us a new version of Exchange. Exchange 2016 is now available from the Microsoft download centre.

This is build 15.01.0225.042 of Exchange 2016, and Exchange2016-x64.exe is the downloaded file.

Product Guide

You can access the Product Guide to review the new capabilities of Exchange Server 2016.

Documentation

The… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 Released”

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PFE Blogs Windows 10 Universal App

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

Windows 10 ushers in a new age of application development, the Universal Application. This will allow developers to write applications that will function across multiple devices for example your Xbox, Windows Phone and PC.

Tony Eversole, a Senior PFE in the US, has written a PFE Blogs Universal Application. This app will allow you to read multiple blogs easily, and he intends to … Read the rest “PFE Blogs Windows 10 Universal App”

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Exchange 2013 CU10 Released

Posted on 15th September 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU10 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 … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU10 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU11 Released

Posted on 15th September 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 11 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU11 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 14.03.0266.001 of Exchange 2010, and KB3078674 has the full details for the release. The update … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU11 Released”

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Exchange Attribute Retention After Mailbox Removal

Posted on 14th September 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of my colleagues was wondering what Exchange would do when a user’s mailbox was removed and then re-connected. Would the Exchange custom attributes persist when the mailbox was re-connected?

Test Mailbox

This is our test subject, Mr. Audonet, whose mailbox is held in an Exchange 2010 SP3 RU10 based environment with Windows Server 2012 Domain Controllers.

Some of the mailbox’s property sheets are… Read the rest “Exchange Attribute Retention After Mailbox Removal”

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Issues Verifying Office 365 Domains

Posted on 11th September 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Just like buses, issues seem to come along in batches. In the last few customer engagements there have been a few issues with adding custom DNS domains into Office 365. Should this not be straight forward you say? Yes it should, but when we add in some deployment complexity and some interesting customer activities it leads to challenges….

The crux of the issues that I run into revolve a… Read the rest “Issues Verifying Office 365 Domains”

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How To Use Nslookup To Check DNS TXT Record

Posted on 11th September 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Being able to retrieve DNS TXT records is very useful in multiple scenarios. In this post we will look at checking the TXT domain verification record for Office 365 and also for the Sender protection Framework .

In addition to a MX record, we also have the option to prove domain ownership to Office 365 by using a TXT record. Why do we want to manually check for these Office 365 TXT records? Rat… Read the rest “How To Use Nslookup To Check DNS TXT Record”

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Second Century Of Blog Posts

Posted on 4th September 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

After looking at some of the blog statistics I wanted to take brief moment and say thanks to everyone who has taken the time to read the posts over the last four years.

Time has certainly flown since I first posted this quick note on Exchange 2010 RPC Client Access back in October 2011. And it is almost a full 4 years!

If cricket was my thing, then maybe there would be a cricketing reference embedd… Read the rest “Second Century Of Blog Posts”

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Office 2013–SP1 Now Required

Posted on 3rd September 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In the last several customer engagements, there has been a trend to not install updates for Office 2013. Some admins thought that there was no service pack available, and others thought that the RTM build of Office 2013 was still in support. Unfortunately neither are correct viewpoints.

This means that you now need to have Office 2013 SP1 deployed on all relevant machines, as the … Read the rest “Office 2013–SP1 Now Required”