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Creating PowerShell Profile For Integrated Scripting Environment – ISE

Posted on 29th January 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In this post we will look at some of the mechanics behind creating a profile file which will customise the start-up behaviour of the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). This will also serve as a precursor to additional posts on tweaking ISE for Exchange purposes. The catalyst for writing this was twofold. Firstly, an administrator was having issues trying to get ISE to process a profile scr… Read the rest “Creating PowerShell Profile For Integrated Scripting Environment – ISE”

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Directly Loading Exchange 2010 or 2013 SnapIn Is Not Supported

Posted on 28th January 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

It is always interesting to see how certain constructs are carried over from previous versions of Exchange without being re-evaluated. The case in point here, is how access is provided to Exchange 2010/2013 PowerShell. Exchange 2010 introduced mail admins to remote PowerShell. At this time we should all be using remote PowerShell for Exchange 2010 and 2013 servers.

However there still seems to b… Read the rest “Directly Loading Exchange 2010 or 2013 SnapIn Is Not Supported”

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Impact Of Changing ActiveSync DefaultAccessLevel

Posted on 26th January 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The default settings in Exchange 2010 and 2013 allow any user to synchronise any device. Depending upon your organisation's viewpoint this default may not be optimal. Ideally this should have been changed when Exchange 2010 or 2013 was first deployed. Doing so would have ensured that the appropriate device rules were created and that unwanted devices would never have been able to connect to Ex… Read the rest “Impact Of Changing ActiveSync DefaultAccessLevel”

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Recommendations For Exchange ActiveSync Organisation Settings

Posted on 21st January 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

It has been 5 years since Exchange 2010 was released and there is still a very common item that a lot of deployments have overlooked. This is the configuration of the ActiveSync Organization settings. These settings set the global options for devices connecting into Exchange 2010 and also Exchange 2013. They are a core part of Exchange 2010 & 2013’s Allow/Block/Quarantine feature.

Rather than… Read the rest “Recommendations For Exchange ActiveSync Organisation Settings”

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Using Out-GridView With Exchange 2010 PowerShell

Posted on 17th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Using Out-GridView with Exchange 2010 will result in an error. This happens running the commands directly in the Exchange Management Shell or using the Out-GridVew as part of a script.

Some examples:

The below is the typical error received:

Out-GridView : To use the Out-GridView cmdlet, install the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment feature from Server Manager. (Could not load file o… Read the rest “Using Out-GridView With Exchange 2010 PowerShell”

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PowerShell Script To Get Exchange 2010 Active CAS Connections

Posted on 17th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Purpose of this script is to report on particular performance monitor counters for Outlook RPC Client Access, OWA and Exchange ActiveSync on multiple servers. This was required as during the course of the year there have been a few issues where the third party load balancer device was not really doing equitable load balancing. In some cases 60% of the user load of 50,000 mailboxes was directed … Read the rest “PowerShell Script To Get Exchange 2010 Active CAS Connections”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU8 Released

Posted on 9th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”

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Exchange ServerName Points To Wrong Or Decommissioned Server

Posted on 4th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”

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Retrieving Cluster Error 1135 From Servers

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

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”

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Critical Schannel Vulnerability – MS14-066

Posted on 13th November 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”