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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU12 Released

Exchange 2010 SP3 RU12

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 12 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3.  RU12 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins.

Exchange 2010 SP3 RU12 Download

This is build 14.03.0279.002 of Exchange 2010, and KB3096066 has the full details for the release.  The update… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU12 Released”

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How To Easily Add Public Folder Replicas To Exchange 2010

Exchange 2007 onwards contain a treasure trove of built in scripts to help administer the system.  These scripts are listed in TechNet and are found under the Exchange installation path in the scripts folder.  Yes – somewhat unsurprisingly.

In this post let’s take a look at the scripts that can help with administering public folders, specifically adding new replicas to public folders.  This post wil… Read the rest “How To Easily Add Public Folder Replicas To Exchange 2010”

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Restart Exchange 2010 CAS And Authentication Prompts

There are multiple causes for Outlook clients to receive authentication prompts.  This can be caused by impaired AD performance where the DCs are negatively impacted and cannot respond quickly.  This can be caused by semaphore timeouts, due to NTLM bottlenecks.  In Exchange 2010 the CAS Array uses NTLM by default, and the recommendation is to use Kerberos.

Sometimes the authentication prompts may be… Read the rest “Restart Exchange 2010 CAS And Authentication Prompts”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU11 Released

Exchange 2010 SP3 RU11

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 11 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU11 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins.

Exchange 2010 SP3 RU11 Download

This is build 14.03.0266.001 of Exchange 2010, and KB3078674 has the full details for the release.  The update … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU11 Released”

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Exchange Attribute Retention After Mailbox Removal

One of my colleagues was wondering what Exchange would do when a user’s mailbox was removed and then re-connected.  Would the Exchange custom attributes persist when the mailbox was re-connected?

Test Mailbox

This is our test subject, Mr. Audonet, whose mailbox is held in an Exchange 2010 SP3 RU10 based environment with Windows Server 2012 Domain Controllers.

Some of the mailbox’s property sheets are… Read the rest “Exchange Attribute Retention After Mailbox Removal”

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TechNet Gallery Resources

There are numerous outstanding scripts, tools and resources located in the TechNet Gallery.  In addition to MVPs and community members adding scripts, Microsoft also adds official contributions.  For example, this is where you are downloading the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator and Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator.

Since adding PowerShell scripts to this blog is no… Read the rest “TechNet Gallery Resources”

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Office 365 Mailbox Migration – Target Mailbox Doesn‎’t Have An SMTP Proxy Matching

When migrating mailboxes from on-premises Exchange to Office 365, we can run into the error where the migration fails with an error stating that the target mailbox doesn’t have an SMTP proxy matching the Microsoft Online Routing Domain.

This can happen due to a number of causes.  For example the mailbox is managed by an Email Address Policy (EAP) that was not updated with the online routing domain.… Read the rest “Office 365 Mailbox Migration – Target Mailbox Doesn‎’t Have An SMTP Proxy Matching”

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Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer – You Must Provide A Value For This Property

When creating a new Database Availability Group, there was a bit of rude shock when the installation failed.  This customer had deployed multiple Exchange 2010 DAGs over the lifespan of the product, yet their latest build ran into an issue.  They were able to create the DAG, but when adding the first mailbox server to the DAG, the operation failed.

This was not due to an underlying issue where the W… Read the rest “Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer – You Must Provide A Value For This Property”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU10 Released

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 10 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU10 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins.

Exchange 2010 SP3 RU10 Download

This is build 14.03.0248.002 of Exchange 2010, and KB3049853 has the full details for the release.  The update… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU10 Released”

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Unable to Reply to Old Emails Due to legacyExchangeDN

This is one of those ye olde issues that keep coming back up in Exchange.  Have you every removed a mailbox, re-created it with the exact same SMTP address and then some people complain that they cannot send to the mailbox?

This can happen in a few circumstances.  For example if the Exchange administrator has an “oops”  and accidently deletes the account.  If they do not use the AD DS recycle bin f… Read the rest “Unable to Reply to Old Emails Due to legacyExchangeDN”