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  • Blog Post: PowerShell Script To Get Exchange 2010 Active CAS Connections

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Purpose of this script is to report on particular performance monitor counters for Outlook RPC Client Access, OWA and Exchange ActiveSync on multiple servers. This was required as during the course of the year there have been a few issues where the third party load balancer device was not really doing...
    on 17 Dec 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 SP3 RU8 Released

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 . RU8 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins.  In addition...
    on 9 Dec 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange ServerName Points To Wrong Or Decommissioned Server

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    This post was promoted from the draft bin to production after a customer visit a couple of weeks ago. When onsite we were looking at how the environment was configured. The admins had written a series of scripts to determine the environment state which was excellent to see! One thing that they had assumed...
    on 4 Dec 2014

  • Blog Post: Retrieving Cluster Error 1135 From Servers

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    In some of the recent posts you will have noted that there have been some issues with VMware , and also network cards dropping packets in packets received discarded . One symptom of this is that nodes will be removed from the cluster and EventID 1135 is logged into the System log. EventID 1135 states...
    on 19 Nov 2014

  • Blog Post: Critical Schannel Vulnerability - MS14-066

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    In the November 2014 security bulletin there were 14 updates released. The updates resolved security issues in IE, OLE and Schannel. It is the latter that is worth calling out for attention since this is the basis of the Microsoft implementation of SSL. Exchange makes heavy use of SSL, and is typically...
    on 14 Nov 2014

  • Blog Post: Disabling IPv6 And Exchange – Going All The Way

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    When we are performing the Exchange Risk Assessment, one of things PFE love to check is how servers have been configured for IPv6. There have been numerous occasions where we have found servers whose admin has said that they have disabled IPv6, but when you look at the server it is not really disabled...
    on 30 Oct 2014

  • Blog Post: Awareness – Is Your Federation Trust Metadata Updated?

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Imagine the scenario -- all is working well with your Office 365 hybrid solution until you come into the office tomorrow morning and you get calls saying on-premises users are unable to see the free/busy information for mailboxes in Office 365. While this sounds like a bad dream, this reality could come...
    on 23 Sep 2014

  • Blog Post: Using ADPropertiesOnly With Exchange Virtual Directory Cmdlet Shows False Positives

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Previously we discussed an interesting feature of the Exchange virtual directory cmdlets where they check data stored in AD, rather than making a trip to the server and querying its IIS metabase. For the details on this, please read the original post here: Slow Response To Exchange Virtual Directory...
    on 12 Sep 2014

  • Blog Post: Set AdminSessionADSettings ViewEntireForest To True By Default

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    In Exchange 2010 the Set-AdServerSettings cmdlet is used to manage the AD environment in the current Exchange Management Shell (EMS) session. In Exchange 2007 there was a variable called AdminSessionADSettings for the same purpose. Exchange admins normally use the Set-AdServerSettings cmdlet to change...
    on 8 Sep 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 SP3 RU7 Released

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 . RU7 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins. For example...
    on 27 Aug 2014

  • Blog Post: How To Rename DAG Network Using PowerShell

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Quick post for a Friday! A customer had an “interesting” issue where the DAG networks were not being displayed inside the Exchange Management Console. The underlying reason is because the implemented firewalls between Exchange servers, and then restricted network traffic between Exchange...
    on 1 Aug 2014

  • Blog Post: Retrieving Packets Received Discarded Perfmon Counter From Multiple Servers

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Whilst working on a customer’s Exchange 2010 DAG issue, I wrote a quick script to quickly grab some performance monitor counters from all of their Exchange servers. The issue that we were investigating was related to discarded packets when the VM was running on a certain hypervisor host. The customer...
    on 18 Jul 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange and AntiVirus Exclusions – Still A Critical Conversation

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    In a previous post we saw the Microsoft requirements for the exclusions that must be added to file system AV on Exchange servers. In a recent CritSit, basically an uber urgent support request where the customer is down or as good as down, I also got to examine some of the other causes for file system...
    on 30 Jun 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange Scripting Agent - The Power Of Script

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Exchange 2010 introduced a very interesting feature – the Scripting Agent. The intent for this component is to provide extensibility to the base management tools and ensure consistency for the execution of cmdlets in the environment. The feature is not enabled by default and you must manually enable...
    on 24 Jun 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 SP3 RU6 Released

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 . RU6 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins. For example...
    on 28 May 2014

  • Blog Post: End Of Exchange 2010 SP2 Support

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Time files and we are now at the end of the Exchange 2010 SP2 support lifecycle. And as previously discussed Windows XP and Office 2003 left extended support yesterday. It seems like only yesterday when Exchange 2010 SP2 was released in November 2011, The support lifecycle marker is the Exchange 2010...
    on 9 Apr 2014

  • Blog Post: Outlook Unable To Connect To Exchange –Default Gateway Not Found

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    When doing some recent customer work for Exchange 2013, I ran into an annoying issue in one of my labs. Outlook 2013 refused to connect to Exchange 2013. A witch hunt then ensued to ensure that all of my Outlook Anywhere, Autodiscover and authentication settings were correct. Well it turns out that they...
    on 27 Mar 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange PowerShell Filtering Examples

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    When writing Exchange PowerShell scripts it is very useful to target specific machines to either query or set their properties. Thus the ability to generate a query that effectively targets the correct machines is a very good thing to have! The reason I'm posting this is that I see a lot of people...
    on 24 Mar 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2007 And 2013 Outlook Anywhere Co-Existence

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Since we are still in the early stages of the year, and Exchange 2013 SP1 is now available, we will see lots of migrations to Exchange 2013. Exchange 2013 can be deployed into an existing Exchange organisation where Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10 + and/or Exchange 2010 SP3 exists. Let's look at an issue...
    on 19 Mar 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 76 To 101

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    For the final gripping chapter, here are tips #76 to 101 for your PowerShell pleasure! For the related articles in this series please see: Tips 1 – 25 Tips 26 - 50 Tips 51 – 75 Tip of the day #76: Exchange 2010 uses management role groups and management role assignment policies...
    on 3 Mar 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 SP3 RU5 Released

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU5 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins. The astute...
    on 26 Feb 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 51 To 75

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Here are the Exchange 2010 tips of the day from number 51 to 75. For the related articles in this series please see: Tips 1 - 25 Tips 26 – 50 Tips 76 - 101 Tip of the day #51: Want to determine whether a server is running Exchange Server 2010 Standard Edition or Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise Edition...
    on 28 Feb 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 26 To 50

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Leading on where the previous post left off, here are the Exchange 2010 tips of the day from number 26 to 50. For the related articles in this series please see: Tips 1 – 25 Tips 51 – 75 Tips 76 - 101 Tip of the day #26: Forget a property name? Not a problem because you can use wildcard characters to...
    on 23 Feb 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 Tip Of The Day – 1 To 25

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    The Exchange Management Shell helps us discover the amazing capabilities of PowerShell. One way it does this is by displaying a tip of the day so that we are introduced to concepts and topics that inevitably will come in handy one day! Since I had not see a complete list of the Exchange 2010 ones, I...
    on 21 Feb 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange RBAC Primer

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    After publishing some recent articles on RBAC, there was some feedback that a primer on RBAC would also be welcomed. So here it is! What is RBAC? It is not Really Boring Access Control. RBAC = Role Based Access Control. As a concept it is not new , however Exchange 2010 was the first time that it has...
    on 12 Feb 2014