Items specifically related to Exchange 2010
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”
Today is patch Tuesday for July 2019 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 14.03.0468.000 of Exchange 2010, and KB 4509410 has the full… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU29 Released”
Today is patch Tuesday for June 2019 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). Separate updates were also released for Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019.
This is build 14.03.0461.001 of Exchange 2010, and KB 4503028 has the full details for the release. The upda… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU28 Released”
Today is patch Tuesday for April 2019 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). Separate updates were also released for Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019.
This is build 14.03.0452.000 of Exchange 2010, and KB 4491413 has the full details for the release. The upd… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU27 Released”
When looking at the details of objects in Exchange Management Shell, it is often useful to know when an object was created or modified. In a recent Office 365 engagement, the customer was convinced that one of the other administrators had made an unauthorised change to their environment as there was an apparent recent change to the Exchange Hybrid Object.
The details of the this object can be view… Read the rest “Incorrect or Misleading Exchange Attribute Date”
Many enterprises are moving forward with their digital transformation plans, and as part of this and server updates Domain Controllers are being updated to newer versions. The Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 end of support in January 2020 is also a business driver.
DC upgrades can happen independently of the Exchange team. In many cases the Exchange admins are not notified of the p… Read the rest “Exchange Not Using New Domain Controller”
One of the edge features in Exchange is the Cmdlet Extension Agent. You can find some documentation online for this component along with some previous blog posts on this site.
What can sometimes take people by surprise is that Exchange setup checks to see if the Cmdlet Extension Agent is enabled during setup. If it is enabled and the necessary configuration XML file is not present on the server b… Read the rest “Cmdlet Extension Agent Blocks New Exchange Server Install”
Installing Exchange 2010 onto Windows Server 2012 R2 is a request that frequently heard on the TechNet Exchange forums. You may have seen posts from me in the past saying that this was not supported, and at the time that was the correct statement. There has been a change though! Exchange 2010 SP3 RU26 added support for installing Exchange 2010 onto Windows Server 2012 R2.
This post will step throu… Read the rest “Installing Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2012 R2”
Today is patch Tuesday for February 2019 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). Separate updates were also released for Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019.
This is build 14.03.0442.000 of Exchange 2010, and KB 44687052 has the full details for the release. The… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU26 Released”
This week I was fortunate to return to one of my favourite customers, to help with Exchange 2010 migration activities. As we all know, Exchange 2010 will exit out of extended support on the 14th of January 2020.
Fortunately they are progressing very well with moving all mailboxes off Exchange 2010, and one of the last remaining items was to review SMTP mail flow through the Exchange 2010 Hub trans… Read the rest “Checking Exchange SMTP Logs To Determine Usage”