CAS Namespace planning is frequently an issue with Exchange deployments. Why? For the simple reason that it is either totally skipped or glossed over.
Any Exchange design worth its salt must have careful attention applied to the CAS role. While …
Today’s the day to say goodbye to our old friend, Exchange 2007. At this point you should have completed the project to move all mailboxes and resources from Exchange 2007 to a supported version of Exchange, and uninstall the Exchange …
The end of support date for Exchange 2007 is fast approaching. At this time all of your migration projects to transition to a newer version should be done. Note that Exchange 2007 will exit out of extended support on the …
Exchange 2007 is now twelve months out from the end of its support lifecycle. If you still have Exchange 2007 deployed, and have not completed the migration to a newer version of Exchange then it is time to accelerate that …
Exchange 2013 streamlined the connectivity between servers with the “every server is an island” design philosophy. The intent was to remove the strict version dependency hooks which existed in the previous versions of Exchange. For example, the Exchange 2007 HUB …
Exchange 2007 onwards contain a treasure trove of built in scripts to help administer the system. These scripts are listed in TechNet and are found under the Exchange installation path in the scripts folder. Yes – somewhat unsurprisingly.
In this …
On an Exchange 2007 SP3 RU15 server, experienced an issue where the path statement on the Import-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet seemed to ignore what it was told to do….
The below PowerShell commands were used:
…$Creds = Get-Credential
Import-ExchangeCertificate -Path .cert.pfx -Password
In the March 2015 security bulletin, update 15-027 was released. This is to address a vulnerability in the Netlogon component of windows that could allow spoofing. The security bulleting for 015-027 is available in the Security TechCenter. KB 3002657…
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 …
When we are performing the Exchange Risk Assessment, one of things PFE love to check is how servers have been configured for IPv6. There have been numerous occasions where we have found servers whose admin has said that they have …