Items specifically related to Exchange 2016
Exchange 2016 CU6 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2016 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 2016 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange 2013 ha… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU6 Released”
There have been many great improvements to the Exchange Server installation process in recent years. Exchange 2010 gave us the ability to perform incremental deployment, where all mailbox servers start off as a regular mailbox server and then we can add it to a Database Availability Group (DAG). Exchange 2007 introduced the ability to run a recover server operation in a nice easy format with the… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 RecoverServer”
When designing an upgrade strategy from an older version of Exchange to a newer one, a question that needs to be addressed is do we need to introduce a version of Exchange that may not currently be present? This may be when upgrading from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016. If that organisation currently does not have any Exchange 2013 servers, you need to evaluate if there may be a future requireme… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 Upgrades–The Point Of No Return”
The below post was promoted from the draft bin due to a recent customer engagements. Exchange admins have grown very used to the message tracking UI tools that have shipped with the previous Exchange builds. This is completely understandable since they are required to investigate and resolve numerous issues. There may be a question of did Steve in accounting get that email last week, or why are… Read the rest “Exchange Message Tracking Log Examples”
Imagine this scenario; you have deployed an Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016 Cumulative update successfully in your environment and you think that all is fine. However you then receive an unpleasant surprise when you go to verify the details of the Exchange Schema and Exchange AD object versions. You can review the process to review the Exchange AD Objects and Schema in addition to the different b… Read the rest “Unexpected Exchange AD Object Values”
As mentioned in the release posts for Exchange 2013 CU16 and Exchange 2016 CU5, both of these Exchange versions now require .NET framework 4.6.2 on all supported OS platforms. This post focusses on Windows 2012 and 2012 R2 installations, see note below about Windows 2016.
Update 25-1-2018 Since the older versions of Exchange 2013 and 2016 CUs are no longer available, the Exchange Support Matrix has be… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU16 and Exchange 2016 CU5 .NET Framework Requirement”
Exchange 2016 CU5 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2016 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 2016 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange 2013 ha… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU5 Released”
Exchange 2016 CU4 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2016 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 2016 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange 2013 ha… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU4 Released”
This post is to answer a recent customer question regarding if there is a requirement to perform a directory sync cycle after creating a new remote mailbox enabled AD user object before it could have an Office 365 mailbox created.
They believed that the on-premises Exchange tools were directly reaching out to Exchange Online and immediately creating the necessary mailbox in the service. This is w… Read the rest “Enable-RemoteMailbox – Is It A Chicken Or An Egg”
The Exchange 2010 OAB needs some love and attention after it has been created with the default settings. While things may not be broken, they are less than ideal.
The Exchange OAB was last really overhauled with Exchange 2003 SP2 and Outlook 2003 SP2. This was the move to the fourth generation of OAB and was done for many good reasons. They included: