All things Exchange
Wow, time has certainly flown and its now only two weeks until MEC 2014 happens down in sunny Austin, Texas!
My MEC Profile is here. Currently looking at all the sessions and planning that out!
I’m really pumped and am looking forward to meeting a load of virtual friends from a wide range of countries from Sweden, Australia and the UK to name just a few! Having so many community members in a singl… Read the rest “MEC 2014 – 2 Weeks And Counting”
Since we are still in the early stages of the year, and Exchange 2013 SP1 is now available, we will see lots of migrations to Exchange 2013. Exchange 2013 can be deployed into an existing Exchange organisation where Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10 + and/or Exchange 2010 SP3 exists.
Let's look at an issue that can arise in an Outlook Anywhere co-existence scenario with Exchange 2007 and 2013. After walking … Read the rest “Exchange 2007 And 2013 Outlook Anywhere Co-Existence”
The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU5 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.
The astute reader will note that I did not post about the release of Exchange 2010 SP3 RU4 since that was a secur… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU5 Released”
Exchange 2013 SP1 has now been released to the Microsoft Download Center!
The build number for Exchange Server 2013 SP1 is 15.00.0847.032
Update 5-3-2014: If you are using custom transport agents please see Third-party transport agents cannot be loaded correctly in Exchange Server 2013 The script you need to remediate the issue is linked from that KB, and is available directly from the download center… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 SP1 Released”
Leading on where the previous post left off, here are the Exchange 2010 tips of the day from number 26 to 50.
For the related articles in this series please see:
Forget a property name? Not a problem because you can use wildcard characters to retrieve all properties that match the part of the name that you specify:
Get-Mailbox | Format-Table Name… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 26 To 50”
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!
Since I had not see a complete list of the Exchange 2010 ones, I thought I’d jot them down. Exchange 2007 Tips are listed on TechNet.
Scroll down to the bottom for … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 1 To 25”
Most of the time when working with RBAC in Exchange we are not using large scripts to create and manage roles. Generally we use one-liners to configure RBAC. So I thought it would be useful to post some of the ones that I find myself frequently using.
As always please add a comment, or hit me up on the contact page and tell me want topics you want to see added here!
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 2003 to Exchange 2010. If that organisation does not have any Exchange 2007 servers, you need to evaluate if there may be a future requireme… Read the rest “Exchange Upgrades–The Point Of No Return”
Scanning Exchange databases with file system antivirus is a recipe for disaster. This really should not come as a surprise for admins running Exchange services within the enterprise, since this has been the field requirement for a long time. The documentation provided by Microsoft is very clear in what exclusions are required for file system antivirus and Exchange to coexist. For reference the … Read the rest “Exchange and AntiVirus Exclusions – A Critical Conversation”
Some folks in the field may have seen this before, but it’s worth bubbling up to make sure everyone is aware of it!
I was sitting with one of my esteemed consulting colleagues today and he remarked that it was talking a long time to run one of his Exchange PowerShell scripts. The customer in question is a global organisation with hundreds of Exchange servers in all corners of the globe. My collea… Read the rest “Slow Response To Exchange Virtual Directory Cmdlets”