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Retrieving Packets Received Discarded Perfmon Counter From Multiple Servers–Updated February 2015

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

On the Retrieving Packets Received Discarded Perfmon Counter From Multiple Servers post, Tim commented that he had found the script very useful when troubleshooting discarded packets on Exchange 2013 DAG servers. Using PowerShell it is very easy to extend the search to discover which other servers are impacted by the packets received discarded issue.

Since the initial version of t… Read the rest “Retrieving Packets Received Discarded Perfmon Counter From Multiple Servers–Updated February 2015”

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Quick Tip: What Restarts Has Managed Availability Issued

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

Exchange 2013 introduced the Managed Availability feature to provide a very capable automated monitoring and management framework. Managed Availability allows Exchange to self diagnose and to self correct issues without having to escalate to a carbon life based unit for every issue. Whilst Managed Availability may still have to page humans, the frequency is certainly reduced compared to Exchange… Read the rest “Quick Tip: What Restarts Has Managed Availability Issued”

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Using Exchange PowerShell Remoting With Integrated Scripting Environment–ISE

Posted on 2nd February 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One item that is very prevalent is people directly loading the Exchange PowerShell snapin into the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). This is not supported from the Exchange point of view, as Exchange requires that Remote PowerShell be used with Exchange 2010 and 2013.

Let’s look at how this should be done.

Choosing The Correct Profile

As discussed in the previous post on … Read the rest “Using Exchange PowerShell Remoting With Integrated Scripting Environment–ISE”

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Creating PowerShell Profile For Integrated Scripting Environment – ISE

Posted on 29th January 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In this post we will look at some of the mechanics behind creating a profile file which will customise the start-up behaviour of the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). This will also serve as a precursor to additional posts on tweaking ISE for Exchange purposes. The catalyst for writing this was twofold. Firstly, an administrator was having issues trying to get ISE to process a profile scr… Read the rest “Creating PowerShell Profile For Integrated Scripting Environment – ISE”

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Directly Loading Exchange 2010 or 2013 SnapIn Is Not Supported

Posted on 28th January 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

It is always interesting to see how certain constructs are carried over from previous versions of Exchange without being re-evaluated. The case in point here, is how access is provided to Exchange 2010/2013 PowerShell. Exchange 2010 introduced mail admins to remote PowerShell. At this time we should all be using remote PowerShell for Exchange 2010 and 2013 servers.

However there still seems to b… Read the rest “Directly Loading Exchange 2010 or 2013 SnapIn Is Not Supported”

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Impact Of Changing ActiveSync DefaultAccessLevel

Posted on 26th January 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The default settings in Exchange 2010 and 2013 allow any user to synchronise any device. Depending upon your organisation's viewpoint this default may not be optimal. Ideally this should have been changed when Exchange 2010 or 2013 was first deployed. Doing so would have ensured that the appropriate device rules were created and that unwanted devices would never have been able to connect to Ex… Read the rest “Impact Of Changing ActiveSync DefaultAccessLevel”

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Recommendations For Exchange ActiveSync Organisation Settings

Posted on 21st January 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

It has been 5 years since Exchange 2010 was released and there is still a very common item that a lot of deployments have overlooked. This is the configuration of the ActiveSync Organization settings. These settings set the global options for devices connecting into Exchange 2010 and also Exchange 2013. They are a core part of Exchange 2010 & 2013’s Allow/Block/Quarantine feature.

Rather than… Read the rest “Recommendations For Exchange ActiveSync Organisation Settings”

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Exchange 2013 CU7 Released

Posted on 9th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU7 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 one. Exchange 2013 S… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU7 Released”

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Exchange ServerName Points To Wrong Or Decommissioned Server

Posted on 4th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This post was promoted from the draft bin to production after a customer visit a couple of weeks ago. When onsite we were looking at how the environment was configured. The admins had written a series of scripts to determine the environment state which was excellent to see! One thing that they had assumed though was that the ServerName attribute on a mailbox was where the database was currently … Read the rest “Exchange ServerName Points To Wrong Or Decommissioned Server”

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Microsoft Certified Master – 5 Years On

Posted on 24th November 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Time flies. It’s now been 5 years since I completed the Exchange 2007 Microsoft Certified Master course in not so sunny Redmond. That was MCM rotation 4, which was the last Exchange 2007 rotation. If memory serves me correctly we started on the Monday the 2nd of November 2009 and finished on Saturday the 21st.

During this Exchange love fest we had a total of 4 tests. 3 written tests and the qua… Read the rest “Microsoft Certified Master – 5 Years On”