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Slow Response To Exchange Virtual Directory Cmdlets

Posted on 21st January 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”

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Kicking The Tires With Office 365

Posted on 20th January 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

If you are looking for a “How To” guide to assist with getting started with Office 365 then you will want to take a look at the latest Test Lab Guides that are now available to TechNet. They were published last week and are hot off the virtual press!

The Test lab Guides are intended to be a series of documents that all leverage a common platform so you do not have to spend time creating a lab from… Read the rest “Kicking The Tires With Office 365”

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How To Set Mailbox Quarantine In Exchange

Posted on 13th January 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2010 added multiple features to improve the resiliency of messaging services. Notable additions included client throttling to ensure that a single mailbox would not consume excessive resources and mailbox quarantine.

Mailbox quarantine is enabled by default, and the first time a lot of admins discover the feature is when a mailbox gets quarantined and the user loses access to their mailbo… Read the rest “How To Set Mailbox Quarantine In Exchange”

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How To Add Or Remove Cmdlet Parameter From RBAC Management Role

Posted on 16th December 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In the previous posts on RBAC we have looked at customising various roles to ensure that the role contained the minimum amount of cmdlets. RBAC provides even more granularity, and we can add or remove specific parameters from a cmdlet. Since some folks asked for examples on this topic here are a couple of quick examples and some considerations….

If you want to use ECP, please read all the way down… Read the rest “How To Add Or Remove Cmdlet Parameter From RBAC Management Role”

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Exchange Security Update Available For MS13-105

Posted on 10th December 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

To address the security issues present in bulletin MS13-105 all supported versions of Exchange 2007, 2010 and 2013 are receiving updates to allow customers to address the security vulnerabilities. Depending upon the version of Exchange the delivery method will vary. Exchange 2007 and 2010 provides updates and security fixes via Rollup Updates (RUs). Exchange 2013 has a different servicing strat… Read the rest “Exchange Security Update Available For MS13-105”

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6 Mistakes To Avoid With Exchange 2013 CU Command Line Installations

Posted on 5th December 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The syntax to install Exchange Cumulative Updates (CU) via the command line is pretty straight forward. However there are some common themes that still pop up in the TechNet forums, cases and customers that I speak with. So I wanted to discuss some of the issues that can and will arise. There are a range of issues in here from:

Setup can't continue with the upgrade because the PowerShell has open

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DAC And Should I Enable DAC For DAG In A Single AD Site

Posted on 4th December 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2010 introduced the concept of Datacentre Activation Coordination (DAC). DAC is a property found on a Database Availability Group (DAG). It still remains slightly mysterious to some folks out in the field, so its certainly worth bringing it back up for discussion.

Tim McMichael’s famous paper plate demo with lots of willing participants was one of my MCM 2010 highlights!

Typically we see t… Read the rest “DAC And Should I Enable DAC For DAG In A Single AD Site”

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Exchange 2013 RTM CU3 Released

Posted on 25th November 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 RTM CU3 has now been released to the download centre.

CU3 includes fixes for customer reported issues, minor product enhancements and previously released security bulletins. A complete list of customer reported issues resolved in Exchange Server 2013 CU3 can be found in Knowledge Base Article KB2892464.

Note that the filename now reflects the actual CU!

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU3 Released

Posted on 25th November 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU3 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.

Update: 6-2-2014 Folder views are not updated when you arrange by categories in Outlook after you apply Exchange… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU3 Released”

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Creating RBAC Role To Delegate Editing Contacts

Posted on 21st November 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Previously we discussed how to customise Exchange 2010 RBAC to delegate creating mail enabled contacts. The intent of that original post was to allow for the for creation of simple mail enabled contacts that would facilitate sharing the SMTP address of a person outside the Exchange organisation.

Marc commented on that post as the provided solution did not fit his requirements which were different.… Read the rest “Creating RBAC Role To Delegate Editing Contacts”