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 downsides is that there is no real UI for Managed …
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 then search the IIS logs for the path.
This will …
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 manually deploy Exchange 2010 SP1 hybrid to Exchange Online you …
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 available in newer versions of Exchange. For example if we …
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 SP3 RU24 server with a repro of the issue. There …
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 also required to update and maintain the .NET Framework. This …
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 must have careful attention applied to the CAS role. While …
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 Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete …
After installing Exchange 2013 CU22, you might notice that there is a cosmetic issue with how the update is listed in Add/Remove programs. In the screenshot below, note that Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 20 is listed, but the version number …
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 …