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Office 365 Autodiscover Lookup Process

Posted on 29th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Update 12-1-2022 Please see this post which covers the newer Outlook client logic. Content below will be left as-is for a historical perspective.

This is a post for reference purposes. The intent is to look at how Outlook will locate the correct Autodiscover endpoint in a hybrid environment. This Exchange 2010 SP3 lab has a hybrid configuration with Office 365. The tenant is called TailspinToysC… Read the rest “Office 365 Autodiscover Lookup Process”

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How To Create Public Folder Calendar In Exchange 2013

Posted on 24th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is in response to a engagement where the admins were puzzled that they could not create a public folder calendar in Exchange 2013. That is something that we should be able to do.

Why were they not able to do so?

To creating the public folder calendar, we need to use Outlook. This is the same as Exchange 2010, so no differences there.

What was stumping them was, when they went to Outl… Read the rest “How To Create Public Folder Calendar In Exchange 2013”

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DNS or SRV Record For DNS Based Exchange Autodiscover

Posted on 18th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

For users and devices that need to use DNS to locate their Exchange Autodiscover endpoint, should I use a SRV record?

The above is a fairly common question, and it almost warrants the consultant’s answer. It depends...

Multi Site Exchange 2010 CAS Namespaces

As discussed by Ross Smith IV in his introduction to Exchange 2013 CAS post, Exchange 2010 CAS Namespace planning typically requires multiple nam… Read the rest “DNS or SRV Record For DNS Based Exchange Autodiscover”

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Import-Exchange Certificate Ignores Path Provided

Posted on 17th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

On an Exchange 2007 SP3 RU15 server, experienced an issue where the path statement on the Import-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet seemed to ignore what it was told to do….

The below PowerShell commands were used:

$Creds = Get-Credential

Import-ExchangeCertificate -Path .cert.pfx -Password $Creds.Password

Which generated an error stating “Import-ExchangeCertificate : The import file name .cert.pfx was not fo… Read the rest “Import-Exchange Certificate Ignores Path Provided”

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End Of Exchange 2013 RTM Support

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

We are now at the end of the Exchange 2013 RTM support lifecycle phase. Yes, it really has been two years since Exchange 2013 was released…..

At this time Exchange 2013 RTM, CU1, CU2 and CU3 are no longer supported. Customers should be on a recent Exchange 2013 build. Exchange 2013 CU4 is also known as SP1.

Whilst the servicing strategy for Exchange 2013 changed compared to E… Read the rest “End Of Exchange 2013 RTM Support”

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Using PowerShell To Filter Multiple Different Values

Posted on 13th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This post is to answer one of the many interesting questions that seem to pop up doing Exchange work! This is for one of my favourite customers in Winnipeg. Next time, let’s arrange the work for summertime so we can go golfing Tyler, eh? For some added nostalgia, let’s use Exchange 2007 as the example here as this will likely be one of the last blog posts to feature Exchange 2007 as it goes of … Read the rest “Using PowerShell To Filter Multiple Different Values”

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Exchange 2013 Performance Health Check Script

Posted on 6th April 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of the recent additions to the TechNet script gallery was this nifty little contribution from Marc Nivens.

This script reports on OS, system, and hardware information in addition to the Exchange 2013 sizing recommendations on TechNet. It can be ran remotely, against a single server or a group of servers. It takes some of the most common configuration causes of Exchange 2013 performance cases … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Performance Health Check Script”

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Exchange 2010 Search Recommendations

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

This article is intended to cover some of the best practices related to Exchange 2010 search. Whilst the search service has been continuously improved over the lifecycle of Exchange 2010 there are multiple items can need to be addressed. If these items are not addressed, then there is a very good chance that you will be riding the bus to incident town…

What items and issues do we… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Search Recommendations”

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Exchange 2013 Network Port Reference

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

There have been a few requests for an Exchange 2013 network port reference article. Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 both had sections on TechNet with that title.

While the port reference is good to obtain a high level understand what Exchange is doing, many deployments would then start to deploy firewalls which blocked network traffic between Exchange servers and from Exchange to Domain Controllers.… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Network Port Reference”

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Exchange 2013 CU8 Released

Posted on 17th March 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU8 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 o… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU8 Released”