A Tale of Two Certificates–SHA1 Certificate Created During Exchange 2016 Installation
The security space is constantly evolving, and while a lot of the recent work has been on moving to TLS 1.2, a previous focus in the industry was to stop …
Exchange 2013
Exchange Setup – Certificate Is Expired – Part Deux
Previously I managed to break one of my labs when replicating a customer situation and then had to fix it as noted in this post from 2017.
This time …
QuickTip – Which Managed Availability Components Are Unhealthy?
Exchange 2013 introduced the Managed Availability feature, so Exchange can self monitor and perform recovery actions upon itself. While this has greatly helped Exchange become more self-healing, one of the …
Local Endpoint Used For Cross-Premises Free Busy Lookup
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 …
Beware the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard Doppelganger
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 …
Remove-HybridConfiguration Cmdlet
For various reasons, the aforementioned Remove-HybridConfiguration cmdlet has been something that has been something I've had to review recently.
This cmdlet is not present in Exchange 2010, it is only …
"Unexpected" Exchange Certificate
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 …
Expediting NET Framework Install For Exchange
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 …
Exchange CAS Namespace Planning
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 …
Exchange 2013 CU23 Released
Exchange 2013 CU23 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 …