250 Hello - Random Musings on Security and Exchange

The Exchange Management Shell helps us discover the amazing capabilities of PowerShell. One way it does this is by displaying a tip of the day so that we are introduced to concepts and topics that inevitably will come in handy one day!

The other Exchange 2013 tips of the day posts can be found here:

Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 26 To 50

Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75

Exchange 2013 Tip of T… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 1 To 25”

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Outlook Unable To Connect To Exchange –Default Gateway Not Found

Posted on 27th March 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

When doing some recent customer work for Exchange 2013, I ran into an annoying issue in one of my labs. Outlook 2013 refused to connect to Exchange 2013. A witch hunt then ensued to ensure that all of my Outlook Anywhere, Autodiscover and authentication settings were correct. Well it turns out that they were, and this was just a client side issue. Legacy IIS permissions when coexisting with E… Read the rest “Outlook Unable To Connect To Exchange –Default Gateway Not Found”

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Exchange PowerShell Filtering Examples

Posted on 24th March 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

When writing Exchange PowerShell scripts it is very useful to target specific machines to either query or set their properties. Thus the ability to generate a query that effectively targets the correct machines is a very good thing to have!

The reason I'm posting this is that I see a lot of people manually specify a list of servers, and then iterate through the list which typically looks like this:… Read the rest “Exchange PowerShell Filtering Examples”

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MEC 2014 – 2 Weeks And Counting

Posted on 20th March 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Wow, time has certainly flown and its now only two weeks until MEC 2014 happens down in sunny Austin, Texas!

My MEC Profile is here. Currently looking at all the sessions and planning that out!

I’m really pumped and am looking forward to meeting a load of virtual friends from a wide range of countries from Sweden, Australia and the UK to name just a few! Having so many community members in a singl… Read the rest “MEC 2014 – 2 Weeks And Counting”

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Exchange 2007 And 2013 Outlook Anywhere Co-Existence

Posted on 19th March 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Since we are still in the early stages of the year, and Exchange 2013 SP1 is now available, we will see lots of migrations to Exchange 2013. Exchange 2013 can be deployed into an existing Exchange organisation where Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10 + and/or Exchange 2010 SP3 exists.

Let's look at an issue that can arise in an Outlook Anywhere co-existence scenario with Exchange 2007 and 2013. After walking … Read the rest “Exchange 2007 And 2013 Outlook Anywhere Co-Existence”

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Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 76 To 101

Posted on 3rd March 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

For the final gripping chapter, here are tips #76 to 101 for your PowerShell pleasure!

For the related articles in this series please see:

Tips 1 – 25

Tips 26 - 50

Tips 51 – 75

Tip of the day #76:

Exchange 2010 uses management role groups and management role assignment policies to manage permissions.
Role groups enable you to grant permissions to groups of administrators and specialist end users. These a… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 76 To 101”

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Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75

Posted on 28th February 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Here are the Exchange 2010 tips of the day from number 51 to 75.

For the related articles in this series please see:

Tips 1 - 25

Tips 26 – 50

Tips 76 - 101

Tip of the day #51:

Want to determine whether a server is running Exchange Server 2010 Standard Edition or Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise Edition? Type:

Get-ExchangeServer <Server Name> | Format-Table Name, Edition

If you want to view which edit… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU5 Released

Posted on 25th February 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU5 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.

The astute reader will note that I did not post about the release of Exchange 2010 SP3 RU4 since that was a secur… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU5 Released”

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Exchange 2013 SP1 Released

Posted on 25th February 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 SP1 has now been released to the Microsoft Download Center!

The build number for Exchange Server 2013 SP1 is 15.00.0847.032

Update 5-3-2014: If you are using custom transport agents please see Third-party transport agents cannot be loaded correctly in Exchange Server 2013 The script you need to remediate the issue is linked from that KB, and is available directly from the download center… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 SP1 Released”