I have come across this issue enough times that even if it is documented on TechNet it deserves mention here. When you launch Exchange Management Shell or try to connect to an Exchange 2010 Server remotely using PowerShell, you get error “500 – Internal Server Error. There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.” Error details also show the following: For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic. + CategoryInfo...

Recently I came across a CAS server that was rebuilt. Think of it as a new server you are introducing in your environment.   Everything looked good except certificate that we imported. The certificate looked good when looking at validity, issuing authority certificate and other dependencies. However, Exchange Management Console complained: “The certificate status could not be determined because the revocation checked failed.” Since the error seemed clear enough, we checked...

Exchange 2010 introduced RBAC as a mechanism to manage access to administrative tasks at granular level which was not possible in previous versions of Exchange. While you may know how to use RBAC to create custom roles that maps to job functions in your environment, one particular feature tends to get easily overlooked, mostly because it is least understood I believe. It is Unscoped Top Level Management Roles. So, I wrote a blog post on it detailing what it is, and how to configure...

This article was originally posted on my personal blog here . Since I don't actively maintain it anymore, I am publishing it here. When you run Exchange Setup to prepare schema, usually the very next question is, how do I verify schema was updated successfully? Verifying only the values of attributes as mentioned below is not a good verification of Exchange setup completion. This article is intended to only provide reference to attributes and their values. Let’s start...

With release of Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2010, you gain few new features such as Cross-Site Silent Redirection for OWA , Address Book Policies , Mailbox Auto-Mapping and few other additions ( What’s new in Exchange 2010 SP2 ). With it, comes new pre-requisites if you are installing/updating Client Access Server (CAS) role. You will need to install the following components on the server that will be running CAS role (or existing CAS you are planning to update...

There is nothing new about this. If you have been reading about Exchange Server 2010 or have it deployed with hardware load balancer, chances are, you have read how to configure static ports on Exchange Server 2010 on TechNet Social wiki for Exchange 2010 . Chances are that you have also used my script (referenced in the post above) to set static ports on your servers. Lastly, chances are that you have read all about it on my previous post here . If so, why am I even talking about...

Did you ever wanted to modify your registry or add a key/value pair to registry? Wished there was a script to help you do that? Even better, wished it can run remotely without PowerShell WinRM listener configured on target server? I had custom script that would modify certain registry entry but it was inflexible and in my recent rewrite of another script, I wanted more flexibility. So out of necessity, I decided to rewrite my registry script  and made it independent script...

A misconception that WinRM listener needs to be configured in order to be able to connect to Exchange Server 2010 had popped up a couple times in my conversations recently so I decided to clear the confusion. Guest blogging for my friends at IT Pro Africa, I have written the details on the blog post here: http://itproafrica.com/technology/exchange/exchange-server-2010-and-powershell-remoting/ Check it out and feel free to post comments either there or directly here.

While it is easy for us grown ups to get used to all the chatter on radio and television and not pay enough attention to anything that isn’t of utmost importance to our personal lives or goals, my 5 yr. old today reminded me of why a 5 yr. old is better than grown ups. While driving him around town on errands, as I usually do, I was listening to the public radio broadcast on WHYY . While it was good conversation, it was more or less a blur to my grown up brain and while sobering...

I just posted this article at our PFE site Mr. Proactive . Here’s the excerpt of the article: While this is fairly documented on TechNet, it sometimes takes a bit to find and memory usually fails us when the question of precedence comes up. I figured documenting it here would help readers. So the classic question of how to handle message size limits comes up very often and ever changing technology in pursuit of improvement never stays the same. This adds to the confusion of understanding...