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Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses–Part Trois

Posted on 24th January 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

You may have seen the previous articles, part one and two, where I’d blogged about controlling DNS registration for network interfaces with multiple IP addresses. For Exchange administrators this is a a concern because sometimes we have to create multiple web sites on a Client Access Server (CAS). This is typically done so that OWA can have different authentication flags (Forms, NTLM, Basic) or a… Read the rest “Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses–Part Trois”

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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”

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Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses–Part Deux

Posted on 30th November 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

30-1-2013 Edit – Link to part 3 is here.

In the Exchange 2007 and 2010 world there are definite scenarios where there is a need to add multiple IP addresses to a server so that we can assign specific IP addresses to different web sites. However we do not want clients resolving the Exchange server to multiple A records and getting into a tizzy.

You can a review a previous blog post that I wrote on new… Read the rest “Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses–Part Deux”

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Forefront Update Page

Posted on 23rd November 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One issue that is often encountered on Exchange engagements is that of maintaining the update level of other applications in the environment. This can relate to backup software, management software in addition to just the Exchange server’s service pack and rollup version.

To assist with keeping the Forefront products at the latest patch level, there is a handy dandy guide on TechNet.

And the table a… Read the rest “Forefront Update Page”

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Using A PAL Template To Easily Capture Performance Data

Posted on 19th July 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

I recently blogged about using PAL to analyse an existing performance monitor log file. That is great if you have an existing log, but what if this is not the case? How can we easily capture the correct counters in the log file? Again PAL can come to the rescue!

Let's assume that PAL is installed as detailed in the previous blog post, if not hit that post and get the tool running. I’ll wait for y… Read the rest “Using A PAL Template To Easily Capture Performance Data”

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Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell-Part 3

Posted on 19th July 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In the previous articles in this series we looked at the basic aspects of PowerShell and then the underlying mechanisms that are used to connect both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 management tools to Exchange. These articles can be found as follows:

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How to Fix: Log Parser – Log Row Too Long

Posted on 5th July 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Microsoft Log Parser is a trusted and venerable tool to have when you are analysing log files.

One issue that does come up when analysing larger Performance Monitor files is that of the default buffer setting in Log Parser. Typically you will see an error message saying “log row too Long”.

When running the ExRAP toolset this will be shown in the console:

Error parsing query: Log row too long
LogF… Read the rest “How to Fix: Log Parser – Log Row Too Long”

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Download Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)

Posted on 8th May 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This tool has been out for a while, but have seen multiple customers not leveraging it on their Hyper-V servers as it is not installed by default on Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V hosts.

It is particularly useful for ensuring that the integration components inside the VM are the correct version. Note the Best Practices Analyzer section at the bottom of this screenshot:

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Windows Service Log On As Inventory

Posted on 28th February 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

At a recent engagement a customer wanted to quickly scan through multiple servers to easily determine which services were set to log on as non-standard accounts, i.e. ones like network service, and local service were OK, but which ones were using an Active Directory logon for example? They also wanted to search specific portions of the AD, so logic was added to start searching a collection of com… Read the rest “Windows Service Log On As Inventory”

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Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses On a Network Card

Posted on 8th February 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Edit: 24-1-2013: A second article using PowerShell 3.0 is here

Edit: 30-1-2013: – A third article is using advanced PowerShell 3.0 is here.

Edit 28-8-2013: – A similar issue with the setting being removed is present in Windows Server 2012. Article with workaround is here.

The previous behaviour in Windows was to register all IP addresses that were entered on the network card’s property sheet into DNS… Read the rest “Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses On a Network Card”