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For so many years organisations have postponed the inevitable. They have refused to clean up Exchange public folders, and content from 1996 is still present. Those Outlook forms that someone wrote in 1999 are still present. Stale Offline Address Book (OAB) folders and OWAScratchPad folders hang on for dear life. None of these are needed, and its high time to remove them.
Prior to starting a pub… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Public Folder Migration”
Update 16-9-2019 Please note that Exchange 2010 support has been extended to the 13th of October 2020. This does not mean that migration plans can be paused. Also review the aspects of the support for the underlying OS.
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 includ… Read the rest “Save The Date – End of Exchange 2010 Support–T Minus 2 Years”
Exchange 2016 CU8 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 CU8 Released”
Exchange 2013 CU19 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 CU19 Released”
The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 19 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU19 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins.
This is build 14.03.0382.000 of Exchange 2010, and KB4035162 has the full details for the release. The update… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU19 Released”
The end of Outlook Anywhere support in Office 365 is almost upon us. In a weeks time support for Outlook Anywhere (OA) will be removed in Office 365. Note that this does not impact on-premises deployments. This change is in Office 365. The replacement client connectivity protocol is MAPI/HTTP. MAPI/HTTP is not a new protocol, it was introduced with Exchange 2013 SP1 and Outlook 2013 SP1.
The Of… Read the rest “Reminder–End of Office 365 Outlook Anywhere Support October 31st 2017”
When initially deploying and configuring Office 365, one of the initial questions is to select the on-premises objects which will be replicated to Azure Active Directory. It is strongly recommended that all of the required directory and user hygiene is fully completed prior to the installation of Azure AD Connect. It is easier and simpler to remediate UPN, invalid SMTP domains and other issues p… Read the rest “Office 365 Pilot Group Mail Flow Issues”
In September 2016, just over a year ago from the time of writing, Exchange 2016 CU3 added support for Windows 2016. Exchange 2016 CU3 added support for installing Exchange 2016 onto Windows Server 2016 and also to have Windows 2016 Domain Controllers (DCs) in the environment. There is a nuance with the latter. In order to be supported with Windows 2016 DCs, the Active Directory (AD DS) had to be… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU7 AD Forest Function Level Requirements”
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”