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PowerShell Resources For The Exchange Administrator

Posted on 28th July 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

A long time ago, in a continent far, far away from where I currently live there was a younger, fitter and better looking version of me. One of the few woes that this chap had, was that on a Friday afternoon he would be struggling to delete enough files off a server to allow that day’s event log archive process to run. Site Server 3.0 ( yes, I’m really dating myself now….) was used to replicate th… Read the rest “PowerShell Resources For The Exchange Administrator”

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Patching Exchange? Don’t Overlook Outlook

Posted on 18th July 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

When Microsoft performs an Exchange Risk Assessment Program (ExRAP) with a customer there are several work items related to patching. We discuss how the:

Server hardware, firmware and drivers get updated
Server OS gets updated
Desktop OS gets updated
AV gets updated
Exchange Service Packs and Rollups get installed

Most customers have an appreciation for properly managing and maintain the above, though … Read the rest “Patching Exchange? Don’t Overlook Outlook”

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Exchange 2013 RTM CU2 Released

Posted on 9th July 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Update 12-7-2013: Please note there is an issue with Public Folder Permissions in CU2. Details here.

Update 29-7-2013: Please note CU2 has been re-released to resolve the Public Folder issue. Details here.

The Exchange team have announced the second instalment of love for Exchange 2013 RTM – Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) is now available on the download centre. Knowledgebase article 2859928 contains a d… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 RTM CU2 Released”

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Exchange on a DC

Posted on 3rd July 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

“Should I install my Exchange 2010 server onto a Domain Controller?”

“What issues will I see by installing Exchange onto my DC?”

“Is installing Exchange on a DC supported?”

“Is this DAG member supported on a DC?”

These are phrases that enterprise customers do not normally say. They are more in the realm of SMB customers, or consultants who are working with one of these smaller customers.

For clarity, … Read the rest “Exchange on a DC”

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Exchange 2010 DAG AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess Reverts to False

Posted on 8th May 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Update 28-7-2013: This issue is now resolved in Exchange 2010 SP3 RU1. See end for details.

When browsing a customer’s Disaster Recovery document I noticed that the Exchange admins had added a step at the end of the document when recovering the DAG back to the primary datacentre. This was to enable AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess in the DAG. This was curious as it had already been enabled when the … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 DAG AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess Reverts to False”

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Exchange 2013 CU1 Released

Posted on 2nd April 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

After a small delay the Exchange team have announced the eagerly awaited release of Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 1! Knowledge base article 2816900 contains a description of CU1. This update will allow on premise installations to co-exist with Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010.

CU1 marks a change in how updates are going to be released and supported by the Exchange team, and this is detailed in a… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU1 Released”

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Exchange 2013 Jetstress Now Available

Posted on 19th March 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Reading and writing data to disk is one of the core performance aspects of the Exchange mailbox role. Exchange uses the Jet Blue Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), do not confuse this with an Access database else you will invoke the mighty wrath of the squeaky lobster!

ESE is responsible for the physical structure of the database on disk. ESE does not actually know or care that it is storing email, … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Jetstress Now Available”

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Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 and SP3 Unable To Delete Messages

Posted on 18th March 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Edit 30-5-2013: Exchange 2010 SP3 RU1 has been released to address this issue. Details and download are here.

Quick heads up on an issue from Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 and that is also in Exchange 2010 SP3. After installing either of these updates, users may report that they are unable to delete certain items when in online mode.

This issue does not surface when running Outlook in cached mode.

Worka

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End Of Exchange 2010 SP1 Support

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

The end of Exchange 2010 SP1 support is almost upon us! Is it really that long since Exchange 2010 SP1 was released Smile

Please review the lifecycle chart here for full details.

So at this point please ensure that you are on SP2, and when SP3 ships later on this year come back and check when support will end for SP2.

For details on SP2 – you can take a peek at these articles.

I also blogged about the expi… Read the rest “End Of Exchange 2010 SP1 Support”

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Exchange 2010 PowerShell 3.0 and WSUS

Posted on 18th December 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Last Tuesday was December’s Patch Tuesday, it also featured the re-release of Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 as the V2 of the update. As a result Exchange administrators have been busy updating servers and installing patches.

If you read no further, remember only this – do not install Windows Management Framework 3.0 onto Exchange 2010 SP2 or Exchange 2007 servers!

Update 28-2-2014: The system requirements … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 PowerShell 3.0 and WSUS”