All things Exchange
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”
The Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 update was removed from the download centre last month. The V2 of this update is now available and resolves issues with the Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup cmdlets. With the v1 of the update installed this error may have been observed:
WARNING: An unexpected error has occurred and a Watson dump is being generated: Could not load type 'Microsoft.Exchange.Rpc.ActiveManager.Am… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5v2 Released”
Update 17-11-2012: 2010 SP2 RU5 is currently not available due to an issue with the update.
Update 11-12-2012 2010 SP2 RU5v2 is now available. Details are here.
Exchange sustained engineering has released Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 to the Microsoft Download Center.
The list of fixes is at the bottom of the post, though one worth mentioning is this: 2733415 Event ID 1 is logged on the Exchange Server… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 Released”
This could be a handy dandy addition to your RSS feed so you can keep track of the updated articles relating to Exchange.
The RSS feed contains a list of the recent KBs for a given version of Exchange, this is the Exchange 2010 feed for example:
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Exchange 2007 feed can be found here.
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Exchange 2003 feed is here.
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Cheers,
Rhoderick
Exchange administrators will inevitably run into issues with the interaction between the Outlook client and Exchange server. So how can we identify the configuration data that is sent to Outlook from the Exchange server, and troubleshoot?
This article will describe how to analyse the data returned to Outlook to assist with troubleshooting Exchange s… Read the rest “How To Read Exchange Autodiscover Response In Outlook”
The evaluation build of Exchange 2013 is now available on the TechNet Evaluation Centre.
That’s a lot of Exchange 2013 loving in the last week -- enjoy!
Cheers,
Rhoderick
11-10-2012 is an interesting number as this is the date when the Exchange product group signed off on the build to release Exchange 2013 to Manufacturing. If you are in the UK, yes I know the month and year are the “wrong” way around 
That aside, the other magic number is 15.00.0516.032 which is the RTM build # for Exchange 2013.
This and other interesting deta… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Hits RTM”
Please be aware that there is a pending change for the minimum key length for certificates with RSA keys. The private keys used in these certificates can be derived and could allow an attacker to duplicate the certificates and use them fraudulently to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks.
The update is available on the Download Center as well as… Read the rest “Important Upcoming Certificate Changes”
Frank Plawetzki posted a great article on issues that can affect how clients retrieve their Offline Address Book (OAB). This has also been the source of some recent work for myself, though with slightly different root causes. The issues that I have encountered were due to:
Update 4-3-2014: Added link to KB 975341 Ho… Read the rest “Solving Additional Issues With Exchange OAB Download”
To make a change from the way that a Monday typically starts, Rajesh Jha (Corporate Vice President, Exchange) posted a great overview on Exchange 2013’s features.
This is published on the Exchange team blog.
Here are some of the great benefits you get with the next release of Exchange:
Exchange can now support up to 8TB disks, by reducin… Read the rest “The New Exchange”