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DNS or SRV Record For DNS Based Exchange Autodiscover

Posted on 18th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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...

Multi Site Exchange 2010 CAS Namespaces

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”

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End Of Exchange 2013 RTM Support

Posted on 14th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

We are now at the end of the Exchange 2013 RTM support lifecycle phase. Yes, it really has been two years since Exchange 2013 was released…..

At this time Exchange 2013 RTM, CU1, CU2 and CU3 are no longer supported. Customers should be on a recent Exchange 2013 build. Exchange 2013 CU4 is also known as SP1.

Whilst the servicing strategy for Exchange 2013 changed compared to E… Read the rest “End Of Exchange 2013 RTM Support”

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Viewing Exchange 2013 Public Folders In OWA

Posted on 10th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange team have been working very hard to develop the feature set of modern public folders. Exchange 2013 CU8 added multiple scale increases. In addition, CU8 also added a feature to allow viewing modern public folders in Exchange 2013 OWA. Calendar and Contact Modern Public Folders favourites added in Outlook are now accessible in OWA

Let’s take a peek at how to add them to… Read the rest “Viewing Exchange 2013 Public Folders In OWA”

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Exchange 2013 Performance Health Check Script

Posted on 6th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of the recent additions to the TechNet script gallery was this nifty little contribution from Marc Nivens.

This script reports on OS, system, and hardware information in addition to the Exchange 2013 sizing recommendations on TechNet. It can be ran remotely, against a single server or a group of servers. It takes some of the most common configuration causes of Exchange 2013 performance cases … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Performance Health Check Script”

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Exchange 2013 Network Port Reference

Posted on 20th March 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

There have been a few requests for an Exchange 2013 network port reference article. Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 both had sections on TechNet with that title.

While the port reference is good to obtain a high level understand what Exchange is doing, many deployments would then start to deploy firewalls which blocked network traffic between Exchange servers and from Exchange to Domain Controllers.… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Network Port Reference”

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Exchange 2013 CU8 Released

Posted on 17th March 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU8 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 o… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU8 Released”

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Update 015-027 Revised (3002657)

Posted on 17th March 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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)”

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How To Check Exchange Schema And Object Values In AD

Posted on 17th March 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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.

Table Of Exchange

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Exchange 2013 Workshop Links – February 2015

Posted on 3rd March 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is link throw down for items that we discussed in a recent Exchange 2013 workshop. Well, actually two workshops. Depending upon which one you attended the additional links will be slightly different.

Exchange 2013

Client Connectivity in an Exchange 2013 Coexistence Environment

Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2010 Coexistence with Kerberos Authentication - beware the prerequisites and review closely.… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Workshop Links – February 2015”

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Exchange ActiveSync Script To Grandfather Existing Devices

Posted on 25th February 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”