Items specifically related to Exchange 2016
In the initial versions of Exchange, there was no Active Directory. In this land before time, Windows NT directory services was available and Primary Domain Controllers and Backup Domain Controllers ruled the roost. Exchange 4.0 to 5.5 maintained a separate directory in Exchange over and above the Windows NT directory. This all changed with the advent of Active Directory and Exchange 2000. I w… Read the rest “How To Compare Exchange Schema Changes”
Exchange 2016 CU7 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 CU7 Released”
While operating in an Exchange hybrid model, users expect to see a consistent GAL no matter if they or other people to be contacted are on-premises or in Exchange Online. In order for the Exchange on-premises servers to be able to build up a complete GAL there needs to be at least some mailbox information added to the AD user object. If Exchange Online mailboxes are added by simply assigning an … Read the rest “Automating Enable-Remote Mailbox”
Patch Tuesday this month featured updates to address security issues in Exchange 2010, 2013 and 2016. Two weeks ago today, July 11th heralded the arrival of Rollup Update Rollup 18 (RU18) for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 along with updates for Exchange 2013 and 2016.
Exchange 2010 SP3 RU18 is the latest rollup of customer fixes currently available for Exchange Server 2010. All updates, bo… Read the rest “July 2017 Exchange Security Updates–Have You Updated?”
An issue came to light when onsite recently with a customer. The design specifications from the Exchange team were not being correctly implemented. In this environment there is a separate Windows team who are responsible for managing the underlying server OS and hardware. They are to follow the prescribed process and steps laid down by the application owner but this was not consistently happeni… Read the rest “Script To Check Exchange NTFS Cluster Size”
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”