Items specifically related to Exchange 2010
The time approaches. Exchange 2010 has almost transitioned out of its extended support lifecycle phase, and multiple organisations are completing the final components of their Exchange 2010 migration.
The last act is to uninstall Exchange 2010 once all of the resources have been moved to a newer version of Exchange. There are a few things to consider though and this is post to help organisations … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Decommission Checklist”
When troubleshooting cross-premises calendar availability issues, it can be useful to know the name of the local on-premises endpoint which is used. By knowing the path and URL, you can then search the IIS logs for the path.
This will accelerate finding the correct entry(ies) and assist with troubleshooting.
The full listing of Hybrid deployment prerequisites is available on Docs.
Perhaps the best thing to come to Exchange over the last 10 years was the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW). While many take this feature for granted, if you had to manually deploy Exchange 2010 SP1 hybrid to Exchange Online you will shudder at the mention of the Service domain. But let’s not dredge up those memories…
Recently an update was released to the HCW, and initially the update looke… Read the rest “Beware the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard Doppelganger”
When deploying Exchange hybrid, one of the aspects that can prove to be the most challenging is Exchange Online mailboxes trying to view calendar information for on-premises mailboxes.
This is because there are multiple potential issues which can be caused due to management of Exchange on-premises, firewall rules and reverse proxy configuration issues. What was slightly interesting with this custo… Read the rest “Previously Working Now Unable To See Exchange On-Premises Free/Busy – Redux”
When reviewing a customer’s Exchange server to appraise the current state of their certificates, they saw an "unexpected" certificate on the Exchange server.
The below is an Exchange 2010 SP3 RU24 server with a repro of the issue. There was nothing wrong, but the reason for seeing the additional certificate was not readily apparent to them.
The customer was looking in Exchange Manag… Read the rest ““Unexpected” Exchange Certificate”
Managing and maintaining an Exchange server requires multiple actions. Not only do the Exchange CU and security updates need to be installed along with the Windows OS updates, it is also required to update and maintain the .NET Framework. This is not a new requirement, and has been a required task for many years now. With that being said, there is now a tighter requirement and is enforced by Ex… Read the rest “Expediting NET Framework Install For Exchange”
CAS Namespace planning is frequently an issue with Exchange deployments. Why? For the simple reason that it is either totally skipped or glossed over.
Any Exchange design worth its salt must have careful attention applied to the CAS role. While it is possible to drop in the HUB role, and it works well in the default configuration this is not also true for CAS. Unless your org… Read the rest “Exchange CAS Namespace Planning”
Today is patch Tuesday for February 2020 and contains a security advisory bulletin for Exchange 2010. Due to the way that Exchange 2010 is serviced, security updates are released as a new update rollup (RU).
You can visit the Microsoft Security Response Center to read the details about this and the other released security updates.
This is build 14.03.0496.000 of Exchange 2010, and KB 4536989 has the… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU30 Released”
It’s time that we revisited the implementation of Autodiscover in current builds of Outlook, as there have been some changes that are worth noting.
The latest public article which discusses Outlook and Autodiscover is: Outlook 2016 implementation of Autodiscover.
You can take a look at the previous posts on the blog which feature the #Autodiscover tag. They show the "classic" Outlook 2007 impl… Read the rest “Outlook 2016 Autodiscover Implementation”
We are now almost at the end of the Exchange 2010 support life cycle. While it has certainly been a blast, it is now time to move on to bigger and better things with the new versions of Exchange and Exchange Online.
This post is a quick recap of the expected process to run the uninstall commands using graphical setup and also command line. Note that there is a separate post for all of the require… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Uninstall Screenshots”