Office 365 Tech Centre
If you are planning to test or on-board with Office 365, have you seen the Tech Centre over on TechNet?
Some great content is located there, and is well worth a read.
Cheers,
Rhoderick
Messaging
Items related to messaging services with a focus on Exchange Online (EXO) and Exchange server (on-premises)
Exchange 2010 Recommend DAG Update
While working with a customer to resolve networking issues with their DAG last week I enquired if they had installed the recommended update for their DAG. They were not aware of the Exchange product group’s recommendation so I thought I’d bubble this back up again:
The post is on the Exchange team blog site and mentions the following update:
KB2550886 - A transient communication failure causes a Win… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Recommend DAG Update”
Windows Service Log On As Inventory
At a recent engagement a customer wanted to quickly scan through multiple servers to easily determine which services were set to log on as non-standard accounts, i.e. ones like network service, and local service were OK, but which ones were using an Active Directory logon for example? They also wanted to search specific portions of the AD, so logic was added to start searching a collection of com… Read the rest “Windows Service Log On As Inventory”
Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses On a Network Card
Edit: 24-1-2013: A second article using PowerShell 3.0 is here
Edit: 30-1-2013: – A third article is using advanced PowerShell 3.0 is here.
Edit 28-8-2013: – A similar issue with the setting being removed is present in Windows Server 2012. Article with workaround is here.
The previous behaviour in Windows was to register all IP addresses that were entered on the network card’s property sheet into DNS… Read the rest “Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses On a Network Card”
Custom Certificate Template Cannot be Issued
At an engagement yesterday, I ran into an interesting issue where a custom certificate template that was created was unavailable from the Certificate Services Web Enrolment page.
One quick peek into the KB revealed a match for the issue.
You cannot have a Version 2 custom template of Type Minimum Windows 2008 Supported CA to be Available via Web Enrolment in Windows 2008
In Windows 2008, when yo… Read the rest “Custom Certificate Template Cannot be Issued”
Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6 Released
Exchange sustained engineering has released Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6 to the Microsoft download centre as update 2608656.
The description of the update can be located here and the update is located here.
I’ll leave you you to peruse the changes, but there are a couple in particular worth highlighting
2545080 Users in a source forest cannot view the free/busy information of mailboxes in a target forest when… Read the rest “Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6 Released”
Exchange 2010 Component Posters
These are oldies but goodies. Posting links as requested.
Exchange 2010 Component Poster Download
Downloadable from here.
HUB Transport Components Poster Download
Downloadable from here.
HUB Transport Extensibility Poster Download
Downloadable from here.
As a bonus, the Exchange 2007 Component Poster can also be downloaded.
Cheers,
Rhoderick
Exchange 2010 Cross Forest Mailbox Moves
Was discussing cross forest mailbox move operations with a customer last week to review the details around network requirements for remote move requests. This is as opposed to a local move request which is used within the same Exchange Organisation.
Relevant TechNet documentation:
Create a Remote Move Request That has Exchange 2010 in Both Forests
Create a Remote Legacy Move Request Where One of the … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Cross Forest Mailbox Moves”
How To Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell–Part 2
In part one of this series we looked at some of the basic aspects of the PowerShell environment. Let’s now look at the underlying mechanics on Exchange 2007 and 2010 servers. We will need to address some aspects separately due to the different mechanisms that are used between Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010.
For part one please click here.
For part three please click here.
Let’s kick off by looking… Read the rest “How To Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell–Part 2”
Exchange EMC May Not Close – Update
After installing Internet Explorer 9 onto an Exchange server, you may have experienced that the Exchange Management Console (EMC) will not close. The following error is observed:
You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange Management Console
This did not affect everyone, and you may have been blissfully unaware of this 
The Exchange Team Blog originally discussed the issue, an… Read the rest “Exchange EMC May Not Close – Update”