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Troubleshooting Exchange 2013 and 2016 Search

Posted on 3rd April 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 search is again a huge improvement and work area in the same vein as the search improvements in Exchange 2007 compared to Exchange 2003. Exchange Search is important for many reasons. Users running Outlook in online mode will leverage the Exchange search service, as will those on OWA. Administrators performing discovery searches will also be using Exchange Search… Read the rest “Troubleshooting Exchange 2013 and 2016 Search”

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Exchange 2013 Tips & Tweaks

Posted on 31st March 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Just like the Exchange 2010 version of this post, the intent of this blog post is to be a throwdown of common issues that can arise when deploying Exchange 2013. Issues are not listed in order of significance/priority. Think of this more as a smorgasbord…

Exchange 2013 Servicing Changes

Be aware that Exchange 2013 is not serviced in the same way as Exchange 2010 and 2007. Those older versions use… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Tips & Tweaks”

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The below content is superseded -- for information on updating your certificates please see: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