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Exchange 2016 Upgrades–The Point Of No Return

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”

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Exchange Setup – Certificate Is Expired

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The below is one of my Exchange 2013 lab servers which ran into an error when upgrading to Exchange 2013 CU13.  This was because I had deliberately broken Outlook Anywhere in order to replicate a customer situation where they had let the Outlook Anywhere certificate expire.    When running the CU upgrade process, setup failed when restoring the Mailbox Role Transport Service:

setup.exe /Mode:Upgrad… Read the rest “Exchange Setup – Certificate Is Expired”

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Exchange Message Tracking Log Examples

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
Exchange Message Tracking Log Examples

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”

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End of Exchange 2007 Support

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Today’s the day to say goodbye to our old friend, Exchange 2007.  At this point you should have completed the project to move all mailboxes and resources from Exchange 2007 to a supported version of Exchange, and uninstall the Exchange 2007 servers.

Thanks to Exchange 2007 I went to MCM, and discovered just how badly Greg Taylor and accomplices can break an Exchange environment and turn it into a qu… Read the rest “End of Exchange 2007 Support”

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Transport Rule To Force On-Premises Terminology In a Not So Subtle Way

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

There are many memes doing the rounds inside Microsoft which are sent out when someone uses the term on-premise rather than on-premises.  Note the extra"S" in the latter.  This is not new, and the last rant on this subject was a year ago Friday Morning Rant – Premise and Tenents.

 

For another bit of Friday morning fun, how about we provide some rather unsubtle feedback via an Exchange transpor… Read the rest “Transport Rule To Force On-Premises Terminology In a Not So Subtle Way”

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Decomissioning Exchange 2007 – Public Folder Migration

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The end of support date for Exchange 2007 is fast approaching.  At this time all of your migration projects to transition to a newer version should be done.  Note that Exchange 2007 will exit out of extended support on the 11th of April 2017.  The Office 2007 suite has a slightly later end of extended support date which is the 10th of October 2017.

It is necessary to properly decommission Exchange … Read the rest “Decomissioning Exchange 2007 – Public Folder Migration”

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Unexpected Exchange AD Object Values

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
Unexpected Exchange AD Values

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”

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Exchange 2013 CU16 and Exchange 2016 CU5 .NET Framework Requirement

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

As mentioned in the release posts for Exchange 2013 CU16 and Exchange 2016 CU5, both of these Exchange versions now require .NET framework 4.6.2 on all supported OS platforms.  This post focusses on Windows 2012 and 2012 R2 installations, see note below about Windows 2016.

Update 25-1-2018  Since the older versions of Exchange 2013 and 2016 CUs are no longer available, the Exchange Support Matrix has be… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU16 and Exchange 2016 CU5 .NET Framework Requirement”

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Exchange 2016 CU5 Released

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2016 CU5 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 CU5 Released”

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Exchange 2013 CU16 Released

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU16 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 CU16 Released”