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How To Easily Add Public Folder Replicas To Exchange 2010

Posted on 27th November 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2007 onwards contain a treasure trove of built in scripts to help administer the system. These scripts are listed in TechNet and are found under the Exchange installation path in the scripts folder. Yes – somewhat unsurprisingly.

In this post let’s take a look at the scripts that can help with administering public folders, specifically adding new replicas to public folders. This post wil… Read the rest “How To Easily Add Public Folder Replicas To Exchange 2010”

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Restart Exchange 2010 CAS And Authentication Prompts

Posted on 22nd October 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

There are multiple causes for Outlook clients to receive authentication prompts. This can be caused by impaired AD performance where the DCs are negatively impacted and cannot respond quickly. This can be caused by semaphore timeouts, due to NTLM bottlenecks. In Exchange 2010 the CAS Array uses NTLM by default, and the recommendation is to use Kerberos.

Sometimes the authentication prompts may be… Read the rest “Restart Exchange 2010 CAS And Authentication Prompts”

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Exchange 2016 Installation Screenshots

Posted on 2nd October 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Now that Exchange 2016 has been released, let’s take a look at the Exchange 2016 installation process. We will see that there are some similarities compared to Exchange 2013 along with some differences.

Exchange 2016 can be downloaded from here.

Planning And Preparation

As with every project proper, planning and preparation is required. Deploying Exchange is no different. TechNet has an overview o… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 Installation Screenshots”

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Exchange 2016 Released

Posted on 1st October 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

It’s the first of October, and this new month brings us a new version of Exchange. Exchange 2016 is now available from the Microsoft download centre.

This is build 15.01.0225.042 of Exchange 2016, and Exchange2016-x64.exe is the downloaded file.

Product Guide

You can access the Product Guide to review the new capabilities of Exchange Server 2016.

Documentation

The… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 Released”

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Exchange 2013 CU10 Released

Posted on 15th September 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU10 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 CU10 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU11 Released

Posted on 15th September 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 11 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU11 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 14.03.0266.001 of Exchange 2010, and KB3078674 has the full details for the release. The update … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU11 Released”

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Exchange Attribute Retention After Mailbox Removal

Posted on 14th September 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of my colleagues was wondering what Exchange would do when a user’s mailbox was removed and then re-connected. Would the Exchange custom attributes persist when the mailbox was re-connected?

Test Mailbox

This is our test subject, Mr. Audonet, whose mailbox is held in an Exchange 2010 SP3 RU10 based environment with Windows Server 2012 Domain Controllers.

Some of the mailbox’s property sheets are… Read the rest “Exchange Attribute Retention After Mailbox Removal”

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Issues Verifying Office 365 Domains

Posted on 11th September 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Just like buses, issues seem to come along in batches. In the last few customer engagements there have been a few issues with adding custom DNS domains into Office 365. Should this not be straight forward you say? Yes it should, but when we add in some deployment complexity and some interesting customer activities it leads to challenges….

The crux of the issues that I run into revolve a… Read the rest “Issues Verifying Office 365 Domains”

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TechNet Gallery Resources

Posted on 21st August 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

There are numerous outstanding scripts, tools and resources located in the TechNet Gallery. In addition to MVPs and community members adding scripts, Microsoft also adds official contributions. For example, this is where you are downloading the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator and Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator.

Since adding PowerShell scripts to this blog is no… Read the rest “TechNet Gallery Resources”

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Office 365 Mailbox Migration – Target Mailbox Doesn‎’t Have An SMTP Proxy Matching

Posted on 20th August 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

When migrating mailboxes from on-premises Exchange to Office 365, we can run into the error where the migration fails with an error stating that the target mailbox doesn’t have an SMTP proxy matching the Microsoft Online Routing Domain.

This can happen due to a number of causes. For example the mailbox is managed by an Email Address Policy (EAP) that was not updated with the online routing domain.… Read the rest “Office 365 Mailbox Migration – Target Mailbox Doesn‎’t Have An SMTP Proxy Matching”