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Busting The Set-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory Myth

Posted on 2nd April 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is one of those long overdue posts (and yes there are certainly many more where it came from in my drafts folder) regarding some of the incorrect instructions about setting up Autodiscover which can be found on the Internet.

What am I wibbling about? Well repeatedly over the last 5 years or so since Exchange 2007 shipped, multiple sources have claimed that one *MUST* configure the InternalURL a… Read the rest “Busting The Set-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory Myth”

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Kicking It Old School – Outlook 2003 Partying with Exchange 2010

Posted on 26th March 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Edit 23-5-2013: Added Headers as getting too long

Edit 23-5-2013: Added reference for 940012

Edit 24-7-2013: Added reference for 2557323

While Outlook 2007, 2010 and now 2013 offer many, many, many * improvements over the older Outlook 2003 client there are still many, many, many * large enterprises that use Outlook 2003. At this point in the lifecycle of Outlook 2003, customers should be looking to mi… Read the rest “Kicking It Old School – Outlook 2003 Partying with Exchange 2010”

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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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Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 Released

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

It’s a busy day in the land of Exchange today, with updates for both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 is now available as update 2746164.

Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 is also released as part of Patch Tuesday to resolve the security issues that are addressed in Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10. For reference they are CVE-2013-0393 and CVE-2013-0418 as discussed in the Oracle Critical Pa… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 Released”

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10 Ways To Keep Exchange Up

Posted on 15th January 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

On the MSPFE TechNet blog there are a series of articles there that I wrote previously for OpsVault and will also feature some future guest blogging posts too.

You may have see the MSPFE tag on Twitter, MSPFE Handle or the MSPFE blogs on TechNet and MSDN.

One of these guest posts went live last week and is available here.

It focuses on how to maintain the availability of Exchange, and di… Read the rest “10 Ways To Keep Exchange Up”

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Exchange 2010 PowerShell 3.0 and WSUS

Posted on 18th December 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Last Tuesday was December’s Patch Tuesday, it also featured the re-release of Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 as the V2 of the update. As a result Exchange administrators have been busy updating servers and installing patches.

If you read no further, remember only this – do not install Windows Management Framework 3.0 onto Exchange 2010 SP2 or Exchange 2007 servers!

Update 28-2-2014: The system requirements … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 PowerShell 3.0 and WSUS”

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Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5v2 Released

Posted on 11th December 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 update was removed from the download centre last month. The V2 of this update is now available and resolves issues with the Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup cmdlets. With the v1 of the update installed this error may have been observed:

WARNING: An unexpected error has occurred and a Watson dump is being generated: Could not load type 'Microsoft.Exchange.Rpc.ActiveManager.Am… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5v2 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 Released

Posted on 14th November 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Update 17-11-2012: 2010 SP2 RU5 is currently not available due to an issue with the update.

Update 11-12-2012 2010 SP2 RU5v2 is now available. Details are here.

Exchange sustained engineering has released Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 to the Microsoft Download Center.

The list of fixes is at the bottom of the post, though one worth mentioning is this: 2733415 Event ID 1 is logged on the Exchange Server… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 Released”

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RSS Feed For Recently Updated Exchange Articles

Posted on 13th November 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This could be a handy dandy addition to your RSS feed so you can keep track of the updated articles relating to Exchange.

The RSS feed contains a list of the recent KBs for a given version of Exchange, this is the Exchange 2010 feed for example:

Exchange 2007 feed can be found here.

Exchange 2003 feed is here.

Cheers,

Rhoderick