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Expediting NET Framework Install For Exchange

Posted on 6th April 2020 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Managing and maintaining an Exchange server requires multiple actions. Not only do the Exchange CU and security updates need to be installed along with the Windows OS updates, it is also required to update and maintain the .NET Framework. This is not a new requirement, and has been a required task for many years now. With that being said, there is now a tighter requirement and is enforced by Ex… Read the rest “Expediting NET Framework Install For Exchange”

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Exchange CAS Namespace Planning

Posted on 2nd April 2020 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

CAS Namespace planning is frequently an issue with Exchange deployments. Why? For the simple reason that it is either totally skipped or glossed over.

Any Exchange design worth its salt must have careful attention applied to the CAS role. While it is possible to drop in the HUB role, and it works well in the default configuration this is not also true for CAS. Unless your org… Read the rest “Exchange CAS Namespace Planning”

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Exchange 2019 CU5 Released

Posted on 17th March 2020 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2019 CU5 has been released to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center! Exchange 2019 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2019 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange… Read the rest “Exchange 2019 CU5 Released”

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Exchange 2016 CU16 Released

Posted on 17th March 2020 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2016 CU16 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2016 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2016 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange 2013 h… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU16 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU30 Released

Posted on 11th February 2020 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Today is patch Tuesday for February 2020 and contains a security advisory bulletin for Exchange 2010. Due to the way that Exchange 2010 is serviced, security updates are released as a new update rollup (RU).

You can visit the Microsoft Security Response Center to read the details about this and the other released security updates.

This is build 14.03.0496.000 of Exchange 2010, and KB 4536989 has the… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU30 Released”

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Exchange 2016 CU15 Released

Posted on 17th December 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2016 CU15 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2016 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2016 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange 2013 h… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU15 Released”

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Exchange 2019 CU4 Released

Posted on 17th December 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2019 CU4 has been released to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center! Exchange 2019 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2019 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange… Read the rest “Exchange 2019 CU4 Released”

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Outlook 2016 Autodiscover Implementation

Posted on 9th December 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

It’s time that we revisited the implementation of Autodiscover in current builds of Outlook, as there have been some changes that are worth noting.

The latest public article which discusses Outlook and Autodiscover is: Outlook 2016 implementation of Autodiscover.

You can take a look at the previous posts on the blog which feature the #Autodiscover tag. They show the "classic" Outlook 2007 impl… Read the rest “Outlook 2016 Autodiscover Implementation”

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Exchange 2010 Uninstall Screenshots

Posted on 17th November 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

We are now almost at the end of the Exchange 2010 support life cycle. While it has certainly been a blast, it is now time to move on to bigger and better things with the new versions of Exchange and Exchange Online.

This post is a quick recap of the expected process to run the uninstall commands using graphical setup and also command line. Note that there is a separate post for all of the require… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Uninstall Screenshots”

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Managed Availability Resources

Posted on 8th November 2019 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Managed Availability (MA) feature provides a very capable automated monitoring and management framework. Managed Availability allows Exchange to self diagnose and to self correct issues without having to escalate to a human. The requirement for this feature was born out of necessity for Exchange Online. MA was one of the things released with Exchange 2013 but not every Exchange admin was im… Read the rest “Managed Availability Resources”