Why Is The Exchange Security Update Not Installed?
The issue of "Why is the Exchange Security Update not installed?" has popped up frequently over the last few months due to the number of security …
Exchange 2013
Unable To Renew Exchange Certificate – Friendly Name Is Too Long
Your Exchange certificate is about to expire, so you initiate a standard process to renew it. It's only a 5 minute job as that's how long it took l…
Is Exchange Fully Updated? If Not, Go Update Now
The Exchange team just posted that the September 2021 updates are going to be slightly delayed. The priority will always be to ship quality upd…
Does Exchange Setup Automatically Run PrepareSchema?
The question "Does Exchange setup automatically run /PrepareSchema?" was something that came up many times in the recent Hafnium remediatio…
Unable to Run Exchange Setup–Pending Reboot From a Previous Installation
When installing Exchange updates, I place the server into maintenance mode and restart it prior to installing the actual Exchange update. Th…
Exchange Managed Availability State Unknown
The below is one of the cases where the "Zen of Exchange Management" is what fixes the issue. I've been know to say that sometimes you just need to …
Should I Overwrite The Default Exchange SMTP Certificate?
When adding a TLS certificate on an Exchange server, the inevitable prompt will appear to enquire if you wish to overwrite the default SMTP cert…
Can You Fix This? Exchange 2013 Setup – Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra Isn’t Installed
There was a request to fix the issue below when installing Exchange 2013 CU23. When running setup the error received was "Installing Exchange …
April 2021 Exchange Security Updates
Today is patch Tuesday for April 2021 and there are critical Exchange server security updates in the release. You can review all of the affecte…
Exchange & TCP/IP Port Range
The below is an interesting result after installing Exchange. The act of installing Exchange will change how TCP/IP operates on the server wi…