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Unable To Run Test-ActiveSyncConnectivity – Error Code 1

Posted on 28th February 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The below is an error which an Exchange administrator brought up on an Exchange 2010 engagement. They were trying to use the Test-ActiveSyncConnectivity cmdlet to validate the Exchange infrastructure. However, the cmdlet was not working as expected. In the below image you can see that it starts to perform the test, and then errors out.

Test-ActiveSyncConnectivity -TrustAnySSLCertificate | Format-

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU16 Released

Posted on 13th December 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Today heralded the arrival of Rollup Update Rollup 16 (RU16) for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU16 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. All updates are delivered via a RU for Exchange 2010 and 2007. Exchange 2013 and 2016 have a different release model, where security updates are decoupled from the standard cumulative updates.

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Enable-RemoteMailbox – Is It A Chicken Or An Egg

Posted on 27th October 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This post is to answer a recent customer question regarding if there is a requirement to perform a directory sync cycle after creating a new remote mailbox enabled AD user object before it could have an Office 365 mailbox created.

They believed that the on-premises Exchange tools were directly reaching out to Exchange Online and immediately creating the necessary mailbox in the service. This is w… Read the rest “Enable-RemoteMailbox – Is It A Chicken Or An Egg”

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Exchange 2010 OAB Recommended Configuration

Posted on 6th October 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange 2010 OAB needs some love and attention after it has been created with the default settings. While things may not be broken, they are less than ideal.

The Exchange OAB was last really overhauled with Exchange 2003 SP2 and Outlook 2003 SP2. This was the move to the fourth generation of OAB and was done for many good reasons. They included:

Ability to generate local specific indexes
New

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Remote PowerShell – PSSession WhoAmI

Posted on 19th September 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

For those who worked with NT and Novell Netware many, many moons ago they became familiar with a handy function– who am I. Windows folks may also recall it when working with the Client and Gateway Services for Netware, and whoami.exe was also added to the NT Resource Kit. Remember the days of all the fun res kit tools? *

The whoami command does exactly what you would expect, it tells you who you … Read the rest “Remote PowerShell – PSSession WhoAmI”

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When To Move Arbitration Mailboxes

Posted on 15th September 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The concept of arbitration mailboxes is not really new, they were first introduced in Exchange 2010. Arbitration mailboxes are used for several special tasks within Exchange and for the most part will tick away quite happily with minimal administrator intervention. System mailboxes have existed for much longer in Exchange, and again perform special tasks which are required by Exchange.

A lot of a… Read the rest “When To Move Arbitration Mailboxes”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU15 Released

Posted on 13th September 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Patch Tuesday this week heralded the arrival of Rollup Update Rollup 15 (RU15) for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU15 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains security fixes to address the issues in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-108, in addition to the previous fixes in RU14 and older. Since security updates are delivered via a RU… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU15 Released”

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Unable Connect Exchange Remote PowerShell Using Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Posted on 25th August 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

After updating Windows 10 you may be unable to connect to a remote PowerShell session. This is an issue for versions of Exchange 2010 onwards as we use remote PowerShell for administration. The same applies for Exchange Online in Office 365. Note that directly loading the Exchange PSSnapin is not supported apart from a limited number of documented scenarios, for example this is one of them. For… Read the rest “Unable Connect Exchange Remote PowerShell Using Windows 10 Anniversary Update”

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Dude, Where’s My File Share Witness

Posted on 7th July 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The question of: I have just ran New-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup and I do not see a File Share Witness (FSW) folder or cluster resources. Where are all my Database Availability Group (DAG) and cluster resources…? What went wrong?

This is a common scenario when an admin is building a DAG, and during the process they check to see that what has changed on the servers. One thing that that causes a false … Read the rest “Dude, Where’s My File Share Witness”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU14 Released

Posted on 17th June 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Patch Tuesday this week heralded the arrival of Rollup Update Rollup 14 (RU14) for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU14 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains a security fix to address the issue in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-079, in addition to the previous fixes in RU13 and older. Since security updates are delivered via a RU f… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU14 Released”