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Office 365 Exchange Hybrid Deployments Busting The Autodiscover Myth

When configuring an Exchange Online hybrid deployment, there are many things to consider.  Asides from the various networking, certificate and client discussions there is also a requirement to ensure that Autodiscover is functioning correctly.  In addition to having Autodiscover correctly published to the Internet an additional wrinkle commonly pops up, which takes people down the wrong garden pat… Read the rest “Office 365 Exchange Hybrid Deployments Busting The Autodiscover Myth”

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Azure AD Module – This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded

When attempting to run the Windows Azure Active Directory Module on a Windows 7 or 2008 R2 machine, things did not go swimmingly.  In fact they did not work at all.  The error message of “This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded” was reported. 

 

Repro Steps

The below was tested on a Windows 7 and a separate Windows Server 2… Read the rest “Azure AD Module – This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded”

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Unable to Reply to Old Emails Due to legacyExchangeDN

This is one of those ye olde issues that keep coming back up in Exchange.  Have you every removed a mailbox, re-created it with the exact same SMTP address and then some people complain that they cannot send to the mailbox?

This can happen in a few circumstances.  For example if the Exchange administrator has an “oops”  and accidently deletes the account.  If they do not use the AD DS recycle bin f… Read the rest “Unable to Reply to Old Emails Due to legacyExchangeDN”

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Quick Tip – Sending Multiple Test Emails Using PowerShell (AKA Mailstorm)

Mailstorm.exe was a utility to send multiple test emails to validate and test Exchange in the 5.5 timeframe, and was used on some of the Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courses.

The utility is no longer used since relied upon a local Outlook install, and my fuzzy brain recalls issues with moving to "current" versions of Outlook such as Office XP.

This is no great loss as it is easy to send test … Read the rest “Quick Tip – Sending Multiple Test Emails Using PowerShell (AKA Mailstorm)”