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How To Check Exchange Autodiscover SRV Record Using Nslookup

Posted on 2nd October 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Generally the Exchange external Autodiscover DNS entity is configured as a regular A record. Sometimes a service record (SRV) is used instead. Since I have the habit of forgetting the syntax of quickly querying for the SRV record, this is one of those shared bookmark posts!

Nslookup is the tool of choice here! Its documentation can be found on TechNet.

There are two ways to run nslookup – interac… Read the rest “How To Check Exchange Autodiscover SRV Record Using Nslookup”

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How To Run Manual DirSync / Azure Active Directory Sync Updates

Posted on 1st October 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Depending upon the version of the sync solution that you are using to replicate directory data from on-premises Active Directory to Office 365 there are different commands that you will need to use.

We can see a listing of the DirSync versions on the TechNet wiki. And for AAD Sync, the version listings are on MSDN. This has now been superseded with another article which has version information o… Read the rest “How To Run Manual DirSync / Azure Active Directory Sync Updates”

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Awareness – Is Your Federation Trust Metadata Updated?

Posted on 22nd September 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Imagine the scenario -- all is working well with your Office 365 hybrid solution until you come into the office tomorrow morning and you get calls saying on-premises users are unable to see the free/busy information for mailboxes in Office 365. While this sounds like a bad dream, this reality could come true tomorrow morning, so let’s to check to make sure that this does not happen!

The background… Read the rest “Awareness – Is Your Federation Trust Metadata Updated?”

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Using ADPropertiesOnly With Exchange Virtual Directory Cmdlet Shows False Positives

Posted on 12th September 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Previously we discussed an interesting feature of the Exchange virtual directory cmdlets where they check data stored in AD, rather than making a trip to the server and querying its IIS metabase. For the details on this, please read the original post here: Slow Response To Exchange Virtual Directory Cmdlets.

In that article we were using the ADPropertiesOnly switch so that it was very quick to revi… Read the rest “Using ADPropertiesOnly With Exchange Virtual Directory Cmdlet Shows False Positives”

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Awareness – Litigation Hold Or In-Place Hold Folder Deletions Not Preserved in Exchange 2013 OWA

Posted on 9th September 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Please be aware of an emerging issue in Exchange 2013 and Exchange Online. In a delegate scenario it is possible that OWA can be used to delete a folder from the other user’s mailbox and not appear in the Deleted Items section of the recoverable items folder.

This is covered in KB 2996477 -- Folder deletions are not preserved for mailboxes put on litigation or in-place hold in Ex… Read the rest “Awareness – Litigation Hold Or In-Place Hold Folder Deletions Not Preserved in Exchange 2013 OWA”

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Set AdminSessionADSettings ViewEntireForest To True By Default

Posted on 8th September 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In Exchange 2010 the Set-AdServerSettings cmdlet is used to manage the AD environment in the current Exchange Management Shell (EMS) session. In Exchange 2007 there was a variable called AdminSessionADSettings for the same purpose. Exchange admins normally use the Set-AdServerSettings cmdlet to change a session’s view scope, so that they can see objects in multip… Read the rest “Set AdminSessionADSettings ViewEntireForest To True By Default”

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Sharing the Registry Editor Favourites Love

Posted on 5th September 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In the previous post on the topic of the Registry Editor’s favourites menu, Andrew Higginbotham was kind enough to point out that there was also an easy way to export the favourites from one machine and import to another. Since its always good to show how to arrive at a solution, let’s breakdown the process of finding out where this data is squirreled.

As always we can use the venerable Sysinternals… Read the rest “Sharing the Registry Editor Favourites Love”

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Exchange 2013 CU6 Released

Posted on 26th August 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU6 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 SP… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU6 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU7 Released

Posted on 26th August 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU7 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. For example, the security issue that was addressed in Exchange 2010 SP3 RU4 is contained in RU7.

This is b… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU7 Released”

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Back To The Real World

Posted on 18th August 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

You may have noticed that I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog, TechNet forums and also replying to comments. I took some time off to go back to Europe for a few weeks travelling around Malta and Scotland. Will get back to normal soon, just have to slash through my inbox and get that under control!

After enjoying this:

It was time for the below views at Glencoe:

While this is all nice and green (even … Read the rest “Back To The Real World”