Items related to messaging services with a focus on Exchange Online (EXO) and Exchange server (on-premises)
On the MSPFE TechNet blog there are a series of articles there that I wrote previously for OpsVault and will also feature some future guest blogging posts too.
You may have see the MSPFE tag on Twitter, MSPFE Handle or the MSPFE blogs on TechNet and MSDN.
One of these guest posts went live last week and is available here.
It focuses on how to maintain the availability of Exchange, and di… Read the rest “10 Ways To Keep Exchange Up”
The end of Exchange 2010 SP1 support is almost upon us! Is it really that long since Exchange 2010 SP1 was released 
Please review the lifecycle chart here for full details.
So at this point please ensure that you are on SP2, and when SP3 ships later on this year come back and check when support will end for SP2.
For details on SP2 – you can take a peek at these articles.
I also blogged about the expi… Read the rest “End Of Exchange 2010 SP1 Support”
Last Tuesday was December’s Patch Tuesday, it also featured the re-release of Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 as the V2 of the update. As a result Exchange administrators have been busy updating servers and installing patches.
If you read no further, remember only this – do not install Windows Management Framework 3.0 onto Exchange 2010 SP2 or Exchange 2007 servers!
Update 28-2-2014: The system requirements … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 PowerShell 3.0 and WSUS”
The Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 update was removed from the download centre last month. The V2 of this update is now available and resolves issues with the Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup cmdlets. With the v1 of the update installed this error may have been observed:
WARNING: An unexpected error has occurred and a Watson dump is being generated: Could not load type 'Microsoft.Exchange.Rpc.ActiveManager.Am… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5v2 Released”
30-1-2013 Edit – Link to part 3 is here.
In the Exchange 2007 and 2010 world there are definite scenarios where there is a need to add multiple IP addresses to a server so that we can assign specific IP addresses to different web sites. However we do not want clients resolving the Exchange server to multiple A records and getting into a tizzy.
You can a review a previous blog post that I wrote on new… Read the rest “Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses–Part Deux”
One issue that is often encountered on Exchange engagements is that of maintaining the update level of other applications in the environment. This can relate to backup software, management software in addition to just the Exchange server’s service pack and rollup version.
To assist with keeping the Forefront products at the latest patch level, there is a handy dandy guide on TechNet.
And the table a… Read the rest “Forefront Update Page”
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Cheers,
Rhoderick
Update 17-11-2012: 2010 SP2 RU5 is currently not available due to an issue with the update.
Update 11-12-2012 2010 SP2 RU5v2 is now available. Details are here.
Exchange sustained engineering has released Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 to the Microsoft Download Center.
The list of fixes is at the bottom of the post, though one worth mentioning is this: 2733415 Event ID 1 is logged on the Exchange Server… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 Released”
This could be a handy dandy addition to your RSS feed so you can keep track of the updated articles relating to Exchange.
The RSS feed contains a list of the recent KBs for a given version of Exchange, this is the Exchange 2010 feed for example:
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Exchange 2007 feed can be found here.
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Exchange 2003 feed is here.
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Cheers,
Rhoderick
Exchange administrators will inevitably run into issues with the interaction between the Outlook client and Exchange server. So how can we identify the configuration data that is sent to Outlook from the Exchange server, and troubleshoot?
This article will describe how to analyse the data returned to Outlook to assist with troubleshooting Exchange s… Read the rest “How To Read Exchange Autodiscover Response In Outlook”