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Exchange Not Using New Domain Controller

Posted on 20th March 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Many enterprises are moving forward with their digital transformation plans, and as part of this and server updates Domain Controllers are being updated to newer versions. The Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 end of support in January 2020 is also a business driver.

DC upgrades can happen independently of the Exchange team. In many cases the Exchange admins are not notified of the p… Read the rest “Exchange Not Using New Domain Controller”

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Exchange 2019 CU1 Now On Visual Studio Downloads

Posted on 6th March 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2019 CU1 was recently released as part of the February 2019 patch Tuesday updates. This was originally discussed here on the blog. Exchange 2019 is intended for large enterprise customers, and as such is distributed through the Volume License Centre.

Exchange 2019 CU1 is now available for evaluation on the Visual Studio download centre.

In my Visual Studio this is file:

mu_exchange_server_2… Read the rest “Exchange 2019 CU1 Now On Visual Studio Downloads”

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Cmdlet Extension Agent Blocks New Exchange Server Install

Posted on 1st March 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of the edge features in Exchange is the Cmdlet Extension Agent. You can find some documentation online for this component along with some previous blog posts on this site.

What can sometimes take people by surprise is that Exchange setup checks to see if the Cmdlet Extension Agent is enabled during setup. If it is enabled and the necessary configuration XML file is not present on the server b… Read the rest “Cmdlet Extension Agent Blocks New Exchange Server Install”

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Exchange 2019 CU1 Released

Posted on 12th February 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2019 CU1 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2019 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 2019 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange 2013 an… Read the rest “Exchange 2019 CU1 Released”

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Exchange 2016 CU12 Released

Posted on 12th February 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2016 CU12 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 h… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU12 Released”

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Exchange 2013 CU22 Released

Posted on 12th February 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU22 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 … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU22 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU26 Released

Posted on 12th February 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Today is patch Tuesday for February 2019 and contains a security advisory bulletin for Exchange 2010. Due to the way that Exchange 2010 is serviced, security updates are released as a new update rollup (RU). Separate updates were also released for Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019.

This is build 14.03.0442.000 of Exchange 2010, and KB 44687052 has the full details for the release. The… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU26 Released”

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Checking Exchange SMTP Logs To Determine Usage

Posted on 25th January 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This week I was fortunate to return to one of my favourite customers, to help with Exchange 2010 migration activities. As we all know, Exchange 2010 will exit out of extended support on the 14th of January 2020.

Fortunately they are progressing very well with moving all mailboxes off Exchange 2010, and one of the last remaining items was to review SMTP mail flow through the Exchange 2010 Hub trans… Read the rest “Checking Exchange SMTP Logs To Determine Usage”

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Save The Date – End of Exchange 2010 Support–T Minus 1 Year

Posted on 14th January 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

End of Exchange 2010 Support January 2020 is going to be a very important month. There are multiple large and important products which will exit out of their extended support lifecycle phase. The list includes Exchange 2010.

We reviewed this a year ago, to provide additional warning and notification as many customers still run Exchange 2010 on-premises. For those who are not in the middle of upgrade or migration activities t… Read the rest “Save The Date – End of Exchange 2010 Support–T Minus 1 Year”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU25 Released

Posted on 8th January 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Today is patch Tuesday for January 2019 and contains a security advisory bulletin for Exchange 2010. Due to the way that Exchange 2010 is serviced, security updates are released as a new update rollup (RU). Separate updates were also released for Exchange 2013, Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019.

This is build 14.03.0435.00 of Exchange 2010, and KB 4468742 has the full details for the release. The up… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU25 Released”