Exchange 2013

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Script To Automate Exchange Health Manager Service For Monitoring Mailbox Reset

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is a quick tactical script to help Exchange administrators when resetting Exchange Monitoring mailboxes.  Exchange 2013 introduced managed availability which is responsible for evaluating the health of Exchange 2013 and 2016 Exchange servers.  Yes it does also probe downlevel servers, but let’s not get bogged down in that in this post.  In order to do the synthetic user tests, mail and tests … Read the rest “Script To Automate Exchange Health Manager Service For Monitoring Mailbox Reset”

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Setting Backend Exchange 2013 / 2016 Virtual Directory

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is a tale of when a “quick” review of CAS namespaces quickly went off at a tangent.  When working with the messaging administrator, let’s call him “Mike” to protect the innocent, he showed me the below for his Exchange 2013 server.  He was quite happy with the config, but that bubble was about to be popped.  Note that the ShowMailboxVirtualDirectories parameter has been added to allow us to se… Read the rest “Setting Backend Exchange 2013 / 2016 Virtual Directory”

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Exchange Support For Windows Server 2016

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Windows Server 2016 And Exchange SupportWindows Server 2016 is available, and it is now supported to install Exchange 2016 onto this version of Windows.  Initially this was not the case.  Exchange 2016 CU3 added support to install Exchange 2016 onto Windows Server 2016.  However, there was an issue with Windows which required based installations to be paused.  The required fix has been released by the Windows team in KB3206632.  This up… Read the rest “Exchange Support For Windows Server 2016”

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Assigning Exchange 2016 and 2013 Certificate To Multiple Servers At The Same Time

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In Exchange 2010, the Exchange Management Console allowed us to import certificates to multiple servers and to then assign the certificate to multiple servers simultaneously.  In the Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 EAC, the option to enable the certificate for Exchange services is per server.

As you can seen in the Exchange 2016 example below, we need to select each server one by one from the drop … Read the rest “Assigning Exchange 2016 and 2013 Certificate To Multiple Servers At The Same Time”

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Exchange 2013 Upgrade Workshop Links – April 2016

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Last week I was in Ottawa to review the process of upgrading to Exchange 2013.  Since the focus was upgrading from Exchange 2007, that required blowing the cobwebs off some long term storage brain cells!

Note that Exchange 2007 now has less than a year of extended support left, and if you have not started to migrate to a newer version then it is time to start!

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Exchange Support For Windo… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Upgrade Workshop Links – April 2016”

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Exchange Autodiscover – How Delegate Mailboxes Are Returned

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Back with Exchange 2010 SP1 a feature was added so that mailbox which were delegated Full Mailbox access to other mailboxes would automatically have the additional mailbox made accessible in Outlook.  As an example Debora was granted Full Mailbox access to the mailbox called Postmaster.  With no additional configuration, in Debora’s Outlook client (2007 and up) the Postmaster mailbox would automat… Read the rest “Exchange Autodiscover – How Delegate Mailboxes Are Returned”

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Troubleshooting Exchange 2013 and 2016 Search

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 search is again a huge improvement and work area in the same vein as the search improvements in Exchange 2007 compared to Exchange 2003.  Exchange Search is important for many reasons.  Users running Outlook in online mode will leverage the Exchange search service, as will those on OWA.  Administrators performing discovery searches will also be using Exchange Search… Read the rest “Troubleshooting Exchange 2013 and 2016 Search”

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Exchange 2013 Tips & Tweaks

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Just like the Exchange 2010 version of this post, the intent of this blog post is to be a throwdown of common issues that can arise when deploying Exchange 2013.  Issues are not listed in order of significance/priority.  Think of this more as a smorgasbord…

Exchange 2013 Servicing Changes

Be aware that Exchange 2013 is not serviced in the same way as Exchange 2010 and 2007.  Those older versions use… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Tips & Tweaks”

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Exchange 2013 CU12 Released

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU12 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 … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU12 Released”

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Exchange Services Not Starting on Windows Server 2012 Due to Network Location Profile

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Some of my lab servers run in Microsoft Azure with no redundancy.  This is because they are only a lab, and I want to minimise the monthly billing costs for these environments.  When the servers are restarted due to patching or maintenance activities, there can be a little fallout. 

In the case below, some Exchange services were not running on the Exchange 2010 CAS server in the lab… Read the rest “Exchange Services Not Starting on Windows Server 2012 Due to Network Location Profile”