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Exchange Self Signed SHA2 Certificates

Posted on 20th July 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In recent builds, Exchange has been updated to support the newer SHA2 certificates. Exchange 2010 SP3 RU13 and Exchange 2013 CU 12 updated the SMIME control’s certificate to SHA2.

Additionally, Exchange 2013 CU13 and Exchange 2016 CU2 added support for generating the self signed certificates as SHA2 certs.

The below is for reference to save having to spin up labs in the future to review differences i… Read the rest “Exchange Self Signed SHA2 Certificates”

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Dude, Where’s My File Share Witness

Posted on 7th July 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The question of: I have just ran New-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup and I do not see a File Share Witness (FSW) folder or cluster resources. Where are all my Database Availability Group (DAG) and cluster resources…? What went wrong?

This is a common scenario when an admin is building a DAG, and during the process they check to see that what has changed on the servers. One thing that that causes a false … Read the rest “Dude, Where’s My File Share Witness”

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Exchange 2013 CU13 Released

Posted on 21st June 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU13 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2013 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2013 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU13 Released”

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Script To Automate Exchange Health Manager Service For Monitoring Mailbox Reset

Posted on 16th June 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is a quick tactical script to help Exchange administrators when resetting Exchange Monitoring mailboxes. Exchange 2013 introduced managed availability which is responsible for evaluating the health of Exchange 2013 and 2016 Exchange servers. Yes it does also probe downlevel servers, but let’s not get bogged down in that in this post. In order to do the synthetic user tests, mail and tests … Read the rest “Script To Automate Exchange Health Manager Service For Monitoring Mailbox Reset”

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Setting Backend Exchange 2013 / 2016 Virtual Directory

Posted on 15th June 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is a tale of when a “quick” review of CAS namespaces quickly went off at a tangent. When working with the messaging administrator, let’s call him “Mike” to protect the innocent, he showed me the below for his Exchange 2013 server. He was quite happy with the config, but that bubble was about to be popped. Note that the ShowMailboxVirtualDirectories parameter has been added to allow us to se… Read the rest “Setting Backend Exchange 2013 / 2016 Virtual Directory”

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Exchange 2013 Upgrade Workshop Links – April 2016

Posted on 2nd May 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Last week I was in Ottawa to review the process of upgrading to Exchange 2013. Since the focus was upgrading from Exchange 2007, that required blowing the cobwebs off some long term storage brain cells!

Note that Exchange 2007 now has less than a year of extended support left, and if you have not started to migrate to a newer version then it is time to start!

Exchange 2013

Exchange Support For Windo… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Upgrade Workshop Links – April 2016”

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Troubleshooting Exchange 2013 and 2016 Search

Posted on 3rd April 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 search is again a huge improvement and work area in the same vein as the search improvements in Exchange 2007 compared to Exchange 2003. Exchange Search is important for many reasons. Users running Outlook in online mode will leverage the Exchange search service, as will those on OWA. Administrators performing discovery searches will also be using Exchange Search… Read the rest “Troubleshooting Exchange 2013 and 2016 Search”

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Exchange 2013 Tips & Tweaks

Posted on 31st March 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Just like the Exchange 2010 version of this post, the intent of this blog post is to be a throwdown of common issues that can arise when deploying Exchange 2013. Issues are not listed in order of significance/priority. Think of this more as a smorgasbord…

Exchange 2013 Servicing Changes

Be aware that Exchange 2013 is not serviced in the same way as Exchange 2010 and 2007. Those older versions use… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Tips & Tweaks”

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Exchange 2013 CU12 Released

Posted on 15th March 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU12 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2013 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2013 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU12 Released”

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Exchange 2013 CU11 Released

Posted on 15th December 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU11 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2013 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2013 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU11 Released”