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Exchange Support For Windows Server 2012 R2

Posted on 17th September 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Previously Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 were released to the TechNet subscriber download centre. Prior to Windows Server 2012 R2 being tested and validated by the Exchange Product Group, we had asked to pause deployments of 2012 R2 DCs into environments where Exchange was installed.

Exchange 2013 Service Pack 1, Exchange 2010 SP3 RU5 and Exchange 2007 SP3 RU13 were all released today, the 25… Read the rest “Exchange Support For Windows Server 2012 R2”

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Exchange RPC Client Access Service Crash

Posted on 3rd September 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

RPC Client Access is the main conduit for Outlook clients communicating to Exchange 2010. So when something happens to it, the impact can be classified as “not good”…..

While Exchange 2010 SP3 RU2 addresses issues with RPC Client Access that may be caused by RPC Client Access threads hanging on a mailbox server that is experiencing issues, there is an additional update that was recently released to … Read the rest “Exchange RPC Client Access Service Crash”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU2 Released

Posted on 13th August 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2010 SP3 RU2 has been released to resolve the security issues described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-061. Additionally Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 SP2 and Exchange 2013 also received updates to resolve the security issues as mentioned in the MS13-061 bulletin and other product specific fixes.

Click the above image to download, or the direct download link is here.

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU1 Released

Posted on 30th May 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange Team released the first Update Rollup for Exchange 2010 SP3. Exchange 2010 SP3 RU1 is available for download from the download centre as update 2803727.

This is build 14.03.0146.000 of Exchange 2010. Article 2803727 has the full details for this release.

Probably the two biggest changes that we have been waiting on are:

2814847 Rapid growth in transaction logs, CPU use, and memory co… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU1 Released”

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Dude, Where’s My Set-DAG Command

Posted on 14th May 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Have you read a blog or web site that asked you to run the Set-DAG command? Were you told by someone to run the Get-DAG command? You then went to your lab Exchange server to test and validate the command only to find that it does not work. At this point it’s a case of: Dude, where’s my command! **

The Exchange Management Shell will look like the below:

The reason is as mentioned in t… Read the rest “Dude, Where’s My Set-DAG Command”

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Exchange 2010 DAG AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess Reverts to False

Posted on 8th May 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Update 28-7-2013: This issue is now resolved in Exchange 2010 SP3 RU1. See end for details.

When browsing a customer’s Disaster Recovery document I noticed that the Exchange admins had added a step at the end of the document when recovering the DAG back to the primary datacentre. This was to enable AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess in the DAG. This was curious as it had already been enabled when the … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 DAG AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess Reverts to False”

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Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 and SP3 Unable To Delete Messages

Posted on 18th March 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Edit 30-5-2013: Exchange 2010 SP3 RU1 has been released to address this issue. Details and download are here.

Quick heads up on an issue from Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 and that is also in Exchange 2010 SP3. After installing either of these updates, users may report that they are unable to delete certain items when in online mode.

This issue does not surface when running Outlook in cached mode.

Worka

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Exchange 2010 SP3 What You Need To Know

Posted on 12th February 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

OK – so its not just a busy day in the land of Exchange updates, it's a crazy busy day! Not only do we have Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10, Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 now Exchange 2010 SP3 is released to the download centre.

Just like Exchange 2010 SP2 which had four main features

Exchange 2010 SP3 builds on them and adds su… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 What You Need To Know”

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How To Read Exchange Autodiscover Response In Outlook

Posted on 10th November 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Demystifying Outlook Auto-Configuration – Part One

Exchange administrators will inevitably run into issues with the interaction between the Outlook client and Exchange server. So how can we identify the configuration data that is sent to Outlook from the Exchange server, and troubleshoot?

This article will describe how to analyse the data returned to Outlook to assist with troubleshooting Exchange s… Read the rest “How To Read Exchange Autodiscover Response In Outlook”

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Exchange 2010 Recommend DAG Update

Posted on 29th February 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”