Items specifically related to Exchange 2010
Since Exchange servers are now storing an ever increasing amount of data, it is imperative that people can quickly search and retrieve the content from their mailbox. This may have been possible without search capabilities in the past with a 20 MB mailbox quota (remember those days ?!?), but as quotas move to double gigabyte figures effective search is a hard requirement.
Exchange Search is a diffe… Read the rest “Troubleshooting Exchange 2010 Search”
Deploying an Exchange Hybrid solution offers many opportunities to extend messaging services into the cloud. This is one of the biggest strengths of the Microsoft offering. We can provide on-premises, cloud only and hybrid solutions.
One capability is cloud based archives. This allows either:
This p… Read the rest “Enable Remote Archive With Exchange Hybrid”
For users and devices that need to use DNS to locate their Exchange Autodiscover endpoint, should I use a SRV record?
The above is a fairly common question, and it almost warrants the consultant’s answer. It depends...
As discussed by Ross Smith IV in his introduction to Exchange 2013 CAS post, Exchange 2010 CAS Namespace planning typically requires multiple nam… Read the rest “DNS or SRV Record For DNS Based Exchange Autodiscover”
This article is intended to cover some of the best practices related to Exchange 2010 search. Whilst the search service has been continuously improved over the lifecycle of Exchange 2010 there are multiple items can need to be addressed. If these items are not addressed, then there is a very good chance that you will be riding the bus to incident town…
What items and issues do we… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Search Recommendations”
The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU9 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.
Update 25-3-2015 Please see an emerging issue with ActiveSync after deploying Exchange 2010 SP3 RU9 or Exchange 2… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU9 Released”
In the March 2015 security bulletin, update 15-027 was released. This is to address a vulnerability in the Netlogon component of windows that could allow spoofing. The security bulleting for 015-027 is available in the Security TechCenter. KB 3002657 provides details of the update.
Please be aware that the update has been revised, and version 2.0 is now available. Versi… Read the rest “Update 015-027 Revised (3002657)”
This content was extracted from a separate upcoming Exchange 2013 schema post to maintain focus on viewing the Exchange schema attributes.
Exchange 2013 admins should assume that a Cumulative Update (CU) will have AD schema updates. The release notes and release blog post will discuss this in detail for each CU. This is very similar to the Exchange 2007/2010 service packs of old.
As mentioned in the previous posts in this services, the configuration of Exchange ActiveSync was something that is commonly overlooked by many a consultant. Exchange ActiveSync allows any user to synchronise any device by default. If this is what your organisation wants to do, then you are good to go. If not, then changes must be made. The issue is that if you simply change the global Active… Read the rest “Exchange ActiveSync Script To Grandfather Existing Devices”
On the Retrieving Packets Received Discarded Perfmon Counter From Multiple Servers post, Tim commented that he had found the script very useful when troubleshooting discarded packets on Exchange 2013 DAG servers. Using PowerShell it is very easy to extend the search to discover which other servers are impacted by the packets received discarded issue.
Since the initial version of t… Read the rest “Retrieving Packets Received Discarded Perfmon Counter From Multiple Servers–Updated February 2015”
One item that is very prevalent is people directly loading the Exchange PowerShell snapin into the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). This is not supported from the Exchange point of view, as Exchange requires that Remote PowerShell be used with Exchange 2010 and 2013.
Let’s look at how this should be done.
As discussed in the previous post on … Read the rest “Using Exchange PowerShell Remoting With Integrated Scripting Environment–ISE”