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End of Exchange 2013 and Office 2013 Mainstream Support

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Time marches on.  Exchange 2013 and Outlook 2013 have now exited out of mainstream support and will be serviced as per their extended support life cycle policy.

Several years Ready For The Next Episode? and The New Exchange were the first posts here on Exchange 2013.  The latter has an image of how the Exchange team blog used to look.  That was back when orange must have been the marketing colour of … Read the rest “End of Exchange 2013 and Office 2013 Mainstream Support”

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Outlook 2013 Autodiscover

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Many, many moons ago, we looked at the functionality of Autodiscover for on-premises Exchange.  At the time of writing that post the focus was on Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010.  Things change...

In this post we can look at the modifications introduced in Outlook 2013, and we will also need to review the changes in Outlook 2016 which will be in a separate post.

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The documented flows for … Read the rest “Outlook 2013 Autodiscover”

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Exchange 2010 Default Connector Configuration

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This post is to provide a quick reference to the Exchange 2010 Hub Transport default send and receive connector configuration.  There will be a separate one for Exchange 2013 and 2016.

When installing the Exchange 2010 Hub Transport role, two receive connectors are created on each server.  They are called:

  • Client   <ServerName>
  • Default <ServerName>

In the below example, the Exchange 2010 H… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Default Connector Configuration”

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Transport Rule Changes For Next Exchange Cumulative Updates

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Microsoft has provided rich support for Exchange on-premises to integrate with Exchange Online for several years.  This coexistence is one of the major strengths of the Microsoft cloud solution as it allows customers to perform Digital Transformation at their own pace.

It is not expected that an organisation will transition all of their on-premises mailboxes overnight, that would be unrealistic for… Read the rest “Transport Rule Changes For Next Exchange Cumulative Updates”

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March 2018 Exchange Security Updates–Have You Updated?

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Patch Tuesday this month featured updates to address security issues in Exchange 2010, 2013 and 2016.   Tuesday the 13th heralded the arrival of Rollup Update Rollup 20 (RU20) for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 along with updates for Exchange 2013 and 2016.

Exchange 2010 SP3 RU20 is the latest rollup of customer fixes currently available for Exchange Server 2010.  All updates, both security an… Read the rest “March 2018 Exchange Security Updates–Have You Updated?”

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Quick Tip – Download .NET Framework 4.5 Offline Installer

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This post will attempt to resolve some download frustration if your are looking for an older version of the .NET Framework.  This is an issue with Exchange 2010 as the initial .NET framework for that platform has not been updated, whereas  .NET Framework support in Exchange 2013 and 2016 now leverage newer versions of .NET framework, at the time of writing 4.6.2 and 4.7.1 are supported for Exchang… Read the rest “Quick Tip – Download .NET Framework 4.5 Offline Installer”

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Exchange 2016 CU9 Released

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2016 CU9 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 CU9 Released”

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Exchange 2013 CU20 Released

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU20 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 CU20 Released”

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Arbitration Mailboxes – Lay of The Land

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

At this point in time, most Exchange administrators will have seen and worked with arbitration mailboxes.  Chances are that the first encounter was somewhat unexpected and revolved around an issue with Exchange 2013 health mailboxes or being unable to delete the default mailbox database in Exchange 2010.

To illustrate where the different arbitration mailboxes were first introduced, multiple version… Read the rest “Arbitration Mailboxes – Lay of The Land”

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Exchange 2016 Prerequisites AS-HTTP-Activation Missing

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The below was an exercise in paying attention to detail for one of my customers.  They were in the middle of an Exchange 2010 to 2016 migration and were attempting to install the first Exchange 2016 server into the organisation. Windows Server 2016 was being used as the OS for these new servers.

However it was not going swimmingly.

As part of the pre-work they were installing the OS, applying Window… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 Prerequisites AS-HTTP-Activation Missing”