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MEC 2014 Content Available

MEC 2014 session recordings and slides are now available for everyone’s enjoyment!

MEC 2014 Sessions Available For Everyone - Yay !!!!

As always Ross Smith, Scott Schnoll and Brian Day deliver some great content that you must check out!  If you are in the throes of deploying Exchange 2013 SP1 right now, then please do look at Brian Day’s session.  You will not regret it!

Take some time to go through these 74 awesome sessions.

74 Awesome MEC Sessions - Nice !!

My MEC 2014 write-… Read the rest “MEC 2014 Content Available”

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Exchange 2013 SP1 Architecture Poster

In the smelly MEC 2014 man purse, there was  a shiny Exchange 2103 SP1 architecture poster.  The MEC attendees were the first ones to get the update to the older Exchange 2013 RTM poster, which is now published for everyone! 

I created a deep zoom of the poster so that it is easy to scroll around on phones and tablet devices.  Click theUse This Control Box In the Zoom Poster To Navigate toggle  button at the bottom right hand… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 SP1 Architecture Poster”

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Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 76 To 93

The other Exchange 2013 tips of the day posts can be found here:

Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 1   To 25

Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 26 To 50

Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75

To obtain the listing below, the following command was used:

$Int = 76;While ($Int -le 100){Get-Tip $Int;  Write-Host; $Int+=1}

 

Tip of the day #76:

To get a list of all parameters available for a cmdlet, type:

(Get-… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 76 To 93”

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DirSync Error 87 – The parameter Is Incorrect

DirSync in one of my O365 test labs started to complain that there were some issues with objects synching to Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD).  EventID  0 was logging into the application event log, and stated:  “The Management Agent 'Active Directory Connector' reported  errors on execution”.

Dirsync Management Agent Reported Errors on Execution

This is a an Exchange 2010 SP3 RU 7 based hybrid solution.  Exchange 2013 is not present.  DirSync is … Read the rest “DirSync Error 87 – The parameter Is Incorrect”

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Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75

The other Exchange 2013 tips of the day posts can be found here:

Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 1   To 25

Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 26 To 50

Exchange 2013 Tip of The Day – 76 To 93

 

To obtain the listing below, the following command was used:

$Int = 51;While ($Int -le 75){Get-Tip $Int;  Write-Host; $Int+=1}

 

 

Tip of the day #51:

Want to know what permissions an Active D… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75”

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End Of Exchange 2010 SP2 Support

Time files and we are now at the end of the Exchange 2010 SP2 support lifecycle. And as previously discussed Windows XP and Office 2003 left extended support yesterday.   It seems like only yesterday when Exchange 2010 SP2 was released in November 2011.

The support lifecycle marker is the Exchange 2010 Service Pack.  Exchange 2010 Rollup Updates (RU), are not milestones in the support lifecycle.  So… Read the rest “End Of Exchange 2010 SP2 Support”

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MEC 2014 – The Aftermath

MEC 2014 has now come and gone, and it's been both an exciting and tiring week!  There was always so much going on that it was a constant battle to decide what to go and see next.  But that is  a great dilemma to face.  I will be spending a lot of time in the coming weeks looking at the recordings on the IamMEC.com site.  Jon Orton just commented that the content will be release in the coming weeks… Read the rest “MEC 2014 – The Aftermath”

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Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 26 To 50

The other Exchange 2013 tips of the day posts can be found here:

Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 1   To 25

Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75

Exchange 2013 Tip of The Day – 76 To 93

To obtain the listing below, the following command was used:

$Int = 26;While ($Int -le 50){Get-Tip $Int;  Write-Host; $Int+=1}

 

Tip of the day #26:

Forget a property name? Not a problem because you can use wildcard charact… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 26 To 50”

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Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 1 To 25

The Exchange Management Shell helps us discover the amazing capabilities of PowerShell.  One way it does this is by displaying a tip of the day so that we are introduced to concepts and topics that inevitably will come in handy one day!

The other Exchange 2013 tips of the day posts can be found here:

Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 26 To 50

Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75

Exchange 2013 Tip of TRead the rest “Exchange 2013 Tip Of The Day – 1 To 25”

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Exchange PowerShell Filtering Examples

When writing Exchange PowerShell scripts it is very useful to target specific machines to either query or set their properties.  Thus the ability to generate a query that effectively targets the correct machines is a very good thing to have!

The reason I'm posting this is that I see a lot of people manually specify a list of servers, and then iterate through the list which typically looks like this:… Read the rest “Exchange PowerShell Filtering Examples”