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Import-Exchange Certificate Ignores Path Provided

Posted on 17th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

On an Exchange 2007 SP3 RU15 server, experienced an issue where the path statement on the Import-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet seemed to ignore what it was told to do….

The below PowerShell commands were used:

$Creds = Get-Credential

Import-ExchangeCertificate -Path .cert.pfx -Password $Creds.Password

Which generated an error stating “Import-ExchangeCertificate : The import file name .cert.pfx was not fo… Read the rest “Import-Exchange Certificate Ignores Path Provided”

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End Of Exchange 2013 RTM Support

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

We are now at the end of the Exchange 2013 RTM support lifecycle phase. Yes, it really has been two years since Exchange 2013 was released…..

At this time Exchange 2013 RTM, CU1, CU2 and CU3 are no longer supported. Customers should be on a recent Exchange 2013 build. Exchange 2013 CU4 is also known as SP1.

Whilst the servicing strategy for Exchange 2013 changed compared to E… Read the rest “End Of Exchange 2013 RTM Support”

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Using PowerShell To Filter Multiple Different Values

Posted on 13th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This post is to answer one of the many interesting questions that seem to pop up doing Exchange work! This is for one of my favourite customers in Winnipeg. Next time, let’s arrange the work for summertime so we can go golfing Tyler, eh? For some added nostalgia, let’s use Exchange 2007 as the example here as this will likely be one of the last blog posts to feature Exchange 2007 as it goes of … Read the rest “Using PowerShell To Filter Multiple Different Values”

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Viewing Exchange 2013 Public Folders In OWA

Posted on 10th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange team have been working very hard to develop the feature set of modern public folders. Exchange 2013 CU8 added multiple scale increases. In addition, CU8 also added a feature to allow viewing modern public folders in Exchange 2013 OWA. Calendar and Contact Modern Public Folders favourites added in Outlook are now accessible in OWA

Let’s take a peek at how to add them to… Read the rest “Viewing Exchange 2013 Public Folders In OWA”

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Exchange 2013 Performance Health Check Script

Posted on 6th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of the recent additions to the TechNet script gallery was this nifty little contribution from Marc Nivens.

This script reports on OS, system, and hardware information in addition to the Exchange 2013 sizing recommendations on TechNet. It can be ran remotely, against a single server or a group of servers. It takes some of the most common configuration causes of Exchange 2013 performance cases … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Performance Health Check Script”

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Unable To Run Downloaded PowerShell Script

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

After finding a killer PowerShell script on the interwebs, you download it and then the excitement dies when you get a lovely PSSecurityException error like the example below:

File C:ScriptsScript.ps1 cannot be loaded. The file C:ScriptsScript.ps1 is not digitally signed.
You cannot run this script on the current system. For more information about running scripts and setting execution policy, see ab

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Exchange 2010 Search Recommendations

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

This article is intended to cover some of the best practices related to Exchange 2010 search. Whilst the search service has been continuously improved over the lifecycle of Exchange 2010 there are multiple items can need to be addressed. If these items are not addressed, then there is a very good chance that you will be riding the bus to incident town…

What items and issues do we… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Search Recommendations”

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Windows Phone Upgraded

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

Feeling pretty pumped over here as I’ve just deployed the latest and greatest build onto my Windows Phone.

In honour of all things retro, the phone team have gone a little old school and have tweaked the interface a smidgeon.

The interface has been, well let’s just say “streamlined”.

Update 1-4-2015: Yes this was an April 1st prank… You can download the app for your Windows phone.

In addition to the … Read the rest “Windows Phone Upgraded”

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Exchange 2013 Network Port Reference

Posted on 20th March 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

There have been a few requests for an Exchange 2013 network port reference article. Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 both had sections on TechNet with that title.

While the port reference is good to obtain a high level understand what Exchange is doing, many deployments would then start to deploy firewalls which blocked network traffic between Exchange servers and from Exchange to Domain Controllers.… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Network Port Reference”

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Exchange 2013 CU8 Released

Posted on 17th March 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU8 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 o… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU8 Released”