Items specifically related to Exchange 2010
It’s a busy day in the land of Exchange today, with updates also released for Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 SP3, and Exchange 2013.
Exchange 2010 SP2 RU7 is now available as update 2874216.
Exchange 2010 SP2 RU7 is also released as part of Patch Tuesday to resolve the security issues that are addressed in Exchange 2007 SP3 RU11. For reference they are, CVE-2013-2393 and CVE-2013-3776 as discussed in t… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP2 RU7 Released”
In a previous post we discussed a scenario where users were delegated the capability to create Mail Enabled Contacts in Active Directory using a custom RBAC role. As part of the solution, we enabled the MyDistributionGroups Role. While this may meet the needs of most organisations it does introduce one issue where users who are assigned such a Role Assignment Policy can edit Distribution Groups the… Read the rest “Allow Users To Manage Distribution Groups Without Creating New Ones”
Update 21-11-2013: If you want the additional contact fields to be edited then please review this post.
I had an interesting question the other week about solving a business challenge a customer had with regards to delegating the creation of contact objects in Active Directory. In their previous messaging system users were managing their own external distribution groups, adding and removing externa… Read the rest “Creating RBAC Role To Delegate Contact Management”
After seeing several posts and some folks discussing whether or not Exchange supports the Hyper-V Replica feature I thought it would be prudent to address the following:
For some background reading on Hyper-V and the Replica feature; the component poster and downloada… Read the rest “Exchange And Hyper-V Replica Support”
When Microsoft performs an Exchange Risk Assessment Program (ExRAP) with a customer there are several work items related to patching. We discuss how the:
Most customers have an appreciation for properly managing and maintain the above, though … Read the rest “Patching Exchange? Don’t Overlook Outlook”
“Should I install my Exchange 2010 server onto a Domain Controller?”
“What issues will I see by installing Exchange onto my DC?”
“Is installing Exchange on a DC supported?”
“Is this DAG member supported on a DC?”
These are phrases that enterprise customers do not normally say. They are more in the realm of SMB customers, or consultants who are working with one of these smaller customers.
For clarity, … Read the rest “Exchange on a DC”
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”
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”
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”
Well it’s a year from today until a raft of products reach the end of their extended support window. As they say in the boy scouts, better be prepared!
Please make sure that the 8th of April 2014 is in your calendar.
Outlook 2003 will transition out of extended support on 8th of April 2014
Exchange Server 2003 will transition out of extended support on 8th of April 2014
Windows XP will transition out of… Read the rest “Exchange Support – Save The Date 8th April 2014”