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Creating RBAC Role To Delegate Editing Contacts

Posted on 21st November 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Previously we discussed how to customise Exchange 2010 RBAC to delegate creating mail enabled contacts. The intent of that original post was to allow for the for creation of simple mail enabled contacts that would facilitate sharing the SMTP address of a person outside the Exchange organisation.

Marc commented on that post as the provided solution did not fit his requirements which were different.… Read the rest “Creating RBAC Role To Delegate Editing Contacts”

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Exchange 2010 Tweaks

Posted on 20th November 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Kris Waters, one of my great colleagues from the US, originally posted a really neat list of items which can mitigate issues found in a lot of large scale Exchange deployments. Please take the time to review her post here. There are a lot of valuable pointers in her blog, so definitely check it out!

In addition there are a couple of other items listed below that you may also want to review.

As Kri… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tweaks”

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How To Check Exchange Rollup Version

Posted on 29th October 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Back with the first few releases of Exchange, product updates were made available via service packs. This continued into the Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 days. It seems like an eternity ago, and dinosaurs were still roaming the Earth, when Exchange 2003 SP2 was released in October of 2005 as a whopping 109 MB download.

Exchange 2007 moved to a different servicing strategy which added a predicti… Read the rest “How To Check Exchange Rollup Version”

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Save The Date – End of Exchange 2003 Support–T Minus 6 Months

Posted on 7th October 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

As mentioned 6 months ago, Exchange 2003 is rapidly approaching the end of its extended product lifecycle. The ship is getting ready to launch, and hopefully this should not surprise anyone.

Exchange 2003 certainly has had a good run over the last 10 years since it was released back in back in October 2003. It made ActiveSync available to the mainstream (Mobile Information Server wa… Read the rest “Save The Date – End of Exchange 2003 Support–T Minus 6 Months”

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Quick Tip – Sending Multiple Test Emails Using PowerShell (AKA Mailstorm)

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

Mailstorm.exe was a utility to send multiple test emails to validate and test Exchange in the 5.5 timeframe, and was used on some of the Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courses.

The utility is no longer used since relied upon a local Outlook install, and my fuzzy brain recalls issues with moving to "current" versions of Outlook such as Office XP.

This is no great loss as it is easy to send test … Read the rest “Quick Tip – Sending Multiple Test Emails Using PowerShell (AKA Mailstorm)”

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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 Autodiscover & Lync

Posted on 11th September 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Via this blog we have discussed the fundamentals of Exchange Autodiscover, and also issues around the Set-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory cmdlet.

At this point the message should be out there with regards to how Outlook functions internally and externally to locate Autodiscover and the difference that having the workstation domain joined makes. Lync on the other hand is a different beastie!

Both the O… Read the rest “Exchange Autodiscover & Lync”

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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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Offline Defrag And DAG Databases, Oh My!

Posted on 23rd August 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Even though some of the very old KBs, which now refer to unsupported products, state that taking databases offline to run periodic offline defragmentation with ESEUTIL is not recommended some folks in the field still want to do this.

Previously when there was only a single copy of a database, running offline defragmentation would cause minimal impact, apart from the time required to do the defragm… Read the rest “Offline Defrag And DAG Databases, Oh My!”

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How To Check Database White Space In Exchange

Posted on 20th August 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

From time to time we need to see how our Exchange databases are doing so that they are being managed proactively. One aspect is tracking size and the utilization of each database. At the simplest level we want to ensure that the database and transaction log LUNs do not run out of disk space. That would be bad.

Sometimes we want to take a peek at the database, and check that the size of the datab… Read the rest “How To Check Database White Space In Exchange”