This is the case of one of those bizarre and very annoying issues to tack down. The server in question is one of my lab servers where an automated build was used to create it. It is a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 based server which has TMG 2010 SP2 installed as a reverse proxy. Said server has been a little “squirrely”, and some “interesting things have happened where a … Read the rest “Windows Update Fail – 0xC80003F3”
Exchange 2013 CU7 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 S… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU7 Released”
The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU8 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. In addition to addressing previous security issues, Exchange 2010 SP3 RU8 also corrects the security issue MS… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU8 Released”
This is a link throw-down for the items that we discussed during a recent Office 365 workshop that I delivered to customers in sunny Calgary.
I’m posting the links here since they will be available to all of the attendees, and thought that others may also find them useful/interesting.
Exchange Online Service Description – required reading! Especially the limits … Read the rest “Office 365 Workshop Links – December 2014”
This post was promoted from the draft bin to production after a customer visit a couple of weeks ago. When onsite we were looking at how the environment was configured. The admins had written a series of scripts to determine the environment state which was excellent to see! One thing that they had assumed though was that the ServerName attribute on a mailbox was where the database was currently … Read the rest “Exchange ServerName Points To Wrong Or Decommissioned Server”
Time flies. It’s now been 5 years since I completed the Exchange 2007 Microsoft Certified Master course in not so sunny Redmond. That was MCM rotation 4, which was the last Exchange 2007 rotation. If memory serves me correctly we started on the Monday the 2nd of November 2009 and finished on Saturday the 21st.
During this Exchange love fest we had a total of 4 tests. 3 written tests and the qua… Read the rest “Microsoft Certified Master – 5 Years On”
Update 24-6-2021: RDCMan 2.8.1 is available. Please see here.
The venerable Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) 2.2 was starting to show its age.
After a slight hiatus, RDCMan 2.7 is now available. Please say thank you to Julian Burger for the early Christmas present. Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) is a great tool to consolidate multiple RDP connections into a single window to pr… Read the rest “Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.7”
In some of the recent posts you will have noted that there have been some issues with VMware, and also network cards dropping packets in packets received discarded. One symptom of this is that nodes will be removed from the cluster and EventID 1135 is logged into the System log. EventID 1135 states that the Cluster node was removed from the active failover cluster membership. In Exchange 2010/2… Read the rest “Retrieving Cluster Error 1135 From Servers”
In the November 2014 security bulletin there were 14 updates released. The updates resolved security issues in IE, OLE and Schannel. It is the latter that is worth calling out for attention since this is the basis of the Microsoft implementation of SSL. Exchange makes heavy use of SSL, and is typically connected to the Internet.
You can read about the other security details in the security bullet… Read the rest “Critical Schannel Vulnerability – MS14-066”
Update -- Note that DirSync, Azure AD Sync are no longer supported. The below is for legacy reference only.
Installing and maintaining the directory synchronisation tool is a required step in your hybrid environment. The documentation to Install the AADSync Service is available on TechNet.
The installer will check and verify the current version of synchronisation tool if it is already instal… Read the rest “Upgrading DirSync To Azure Active Directory Sync (AAD Sync)”