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SkipAsSource Flag Cleared In Windows 2012
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over 1 year ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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For a while now I’ve been using the Netsh SkipAsSource Flag to allow multiple IPs on a server and only the primary IP registers in DNS. The previous series of articles in this series are here: Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple...
Offline Defrag And DAG Databases, Oh My!
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over 1 year ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Even though some of the very old KBs, which now refer to unsupported products, state that taking databases offline to run periodic offline defragmentation with ESEUTIL is not recommended some folks in the field still want to do this. Previously when...
How To Check Database White Space In Exchange
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over 1 year ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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From time to time we need to see how our Exchange databases are doing so that they are being managed proactively. One aspect is tracking size and the utilization of each database. At the simplest level we want to ensure that the database and...
Exchange 2013 Security Update Available For MS13-061
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over 1 year ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Update 14-8-2013: The security update for Exchange 2013 has been temporarily removed due to an issue with the search infrastructure. If you have installed it please refer to article “Update 2874216 breaks the content index in Exchange Server 2013” Update...
Exchange 2010 SP3 RU2 Released
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over 1 year ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU2 has been released to resolve the security issues described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-061 . Additionally Exchange 2007 , Exchange 2010 SP2 and Exchange 2013 also received updates to resolve the security issues as mentioned...
Exchange 2010 SP2 RU7 Released
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over 1 year ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
It’s a busy day in the land of Exchange today, with updates also released for Exchange 2007 , Exchange 2010 SP3 , and Exchange 2013 . Exchange 2010 SP2 RU7 is now available as update 2874216 . Exchange 2010 SP2 RU7 is also released as part...
Exchange 2007 SP3 RU11 Released
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over 1 year ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Exchange sustained engineering has released Exchange 2007 SP3 RU11 to the Microsoft download centre as update 2873746 . Just like with Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10 , which was released on Patch Tuesday, SP3 RU11 is the same. And to increase...
Allow Users To Manage Distribution Groups Without Creating New Ones
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over 1 year ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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In a previous post we discussed a scenario where users were delegated the capability to create Mail Enabled Contacts in Active Directory using a custom RBAC role. As part of the solution we enabled the MyDistributionGroups Role. While this may meet the...
Creating RBAC Role To Delegate Contact Management
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Update 21-11-2013: If you want the additional contact fields to be edited then please review this post . I had an interesting question the other week about solving a business challenge a customer had with regards to delegating the creation of contact...