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Exchange 2010 SP2 RU3 and later support the AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess capability, and our old Scottish-sounding but Canada-based friend* Rhoderick Milne ran across an interesting mention of it while reviewing disaster recovery operations with one of his customers : The admins were running: Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup...

Summary: Milad Aslaner , a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Germany, gives us a quick peek at System Center Advisor (SCA), a freely available cloud-based service from Microsoft that enables you to assess your server configurations and proactively avoid problems. As you probably know by...

Summary : Shamsher Dhanoa , a Microsoft Senior Premier Field Engineer based in the US , tells us why you would want to block the ever-valuable Exchange Autodiscover feature, along with detailed steps and options on how to do it. Microsoft Exchange Administrators may well remember setting up Outlook...

Mike O’Neill guest blogs on the Exchange Team’s blog (still sporting the wonderfully punny “ you had me at EHLO ” tagline) on setting up a shared mailbox to send something akin to canned responses . As a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE), I assist companies with Lotus Notes and GroupWise migrations...

Lalita Jat is a Premier Field Engineer from India who works on Exchange Server technologies. In this post she talks about Site Mailboxes, an exciting new collaboration feature. This is the concluding post in the series on Site Mailboxes in Exchange 2013. Hello again! In my previous post , we discussed...

Lalita Jat is a Premier Field Engineer from India who works on Exchange Server technologies. In this post she talks about Site Mailboxes, an exciting new collaboration feature. This is the first post in a two part series in which we will discuss an exciting new feature in Exchange 2013 –...

Summary : This article was contributed by Mohammed Abdul Rafey , a Premier Field Engineer based in Bangalore, India.  He shows us how to take advantage of scripting to quickly zero in on who has the ability to do what in an Exchange organization. In Exchange 2010 and above, permissions are granted...

Summary: Jaroslav Zikmund, one of our Czech Republic-based Microsoft Premier Field Engineers who focuses on Messaging, provides us with some insights and details on enhancements in Exchange 2013 for protecting email via Active Directory Rights Management. Better safe than sorry! Enjoy. When it...

This post was contributed by Rhoderick Milne , everyone’s favourite Canadian-Scottish Premier Field Engineer. Microsoft Exchange Server is the leading messaging platform in the world today, and can be found in SMBs, large enterprises and also behind cloud services of unimaginable scale. Exchange has...

Sachin Shah , a PFE from the eastern United States has an interesting walkthrough on migrating Exchange 2007 Managed Folders to Exchange 2010 'Retention Policies’. His blog post is very detailed and has numerous screenshots to explain the process. Check out his post here , and some related tips like...

This article has been contributed by Ryan Doon , a PFE working with Microsoft Canada. In this post, he talks about why storing PST files on a file server will lead to performance issues, and presents some options to proactively avoid those issues. As a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft I am always...

Written by Jaroslav Zikmund, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. This article discusses the recommendations around the placement of the Microsoft Exchange Server File Share Witness (FSW) in Database Availability Groups (DAG) where the DAG member is placed in two or more physical locations. Microsoft’s...

You’re trying to recover your Exchange database from the “dirty shutdown” state to “clean shutdown.”  You use ESEUTIL /R and after several ill-fated attempts the databases remain dirty.  What’s happening?  Danijel Klaric. a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer based in Germany , sheds some...

Let’s say you want to block ActiveSync for mobile devices. Did you know that some clients will use Exchange Web Services as a fallback? If you just gasped, this post is for you! (Also: calm down) Disabling EWS isn’t really an option, as quite a lot of Outlook functionality relies on EWS. However, we...

Written by Rhoderick Milne , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. 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...

Article by Danijel Klaric, Premier Field Engineer. One of my customers came to me with the following issue and asked if there were “better” solutions available than they found using their own Internet research. They use a mix of Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 clients and a lot of shared mailboxes. The...

Written by Rhoderick Milne , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Since Exchange servers are now storing an ever increasing amount of data, it is imperative that people can quickly search and retrieve the content from their mailbox.  This may have been possible without search capabilities in the past...

Article by Pascal L’Huriec, Senior Premier Field Engineer. I recently faced an issue with Out-of-Office (OOF) replies not working properly under Exchange 2007 SP3 with RU3 which was not easy to identify, and I thought it was interesting enough to share with you, along with the associated solution. The...

Article by Matt Abraham, Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. A common issue with Exchange 2010 is that you are unable to allow a Distribution list to be managed by a “group”. This was changed by design in Exchange 2010 to allow greater separation of Active Directory and Exchange management...

Written by Rhoderick Milne , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. 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. ...

Written by Rhoderick Milne , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. The venerable Personal Storage Table (PST) file has been present in Microsoft Exchange environments for many years.  In some ways its success has lead to its downfall.  With the proliferation of PST files on a network, multiple...

Written by Frank Plawetzki, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Throughout the last weeks I have seen two different issues that prevented Outlook clients from downloading the OAB (Offline Address Book) . One affected public-folder based OAB distribution and the other affected web-based distribution...

Written by Samuel Drey , Premier Field Engineer. T his article is meant to be a hopefully useful guide to help Microsoft Exchange Server IT Operations teams understand, troubleshoot and remedy situations where users are experiencing issues connecting to the Exchange messaging service via Outlook or OWA...

Written by Rhoderick Milne , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. The Exchange team recently released SP2 for Exchange 2010 over on the Exchange team blog , and I wanted to use this blog entry to provide links to all the relevant content for SP2 and to raise awareness of some specific issues so that these...

Written by Rhoderick Milne , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. In part one of this series we looked at some of the basic aspects of the PowerShell environment.  Let’s now look at the underlying mechanics on Exchange 2007 and 2010 servers.  We will need to address some aspects separately due...