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  • Blog Post: Exchange Upgrades–The Point Of No Return

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    When designing an upgrade strategy from an older version of Exchange to a newer one, a question that needs to be addressed is do we need to introduce a version of Exchange that may not currently be present? This may be when upgrading from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. If that organisation does not...
    on 6 Feb 2014

  • Blog Post: Slow Response To Exchange Virtual Directory Cmdlets

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Some folks in the field may have seen this before, but it’s worth bubbling up to make sure everyone is aware of it! I was sitting with one of my esteemed consulting colleagues today and he remarked that it was talking a long time to run one of his Exchange PowerShell scripts. The customer in...
    on 21 Jan 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 SP2 – What You Need To Know

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Last week the Exchange team released SP2 for Exchange 2010 over on the Exchange team blog as described in the previous post which announced the upcoming release. 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...
    on 15 Dec 2011

  • Blog Post: RSS Feed For Recently Updated Exchange Articles

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    This could be a handy dandy addition to your RSS feed so you can keep track of the updated articles relating to Exchange.     The RSS feed contains a list of the recent KBs for a given version of Exchange, this is the Exchange 2010 feed for example:       Exchange 2007 feed...
    on 13 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: How To Add Or Remove Cmdlet Parameter From RBAC Management Role

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    In the previous posts on RBAC we have looked at customising various roles to ensure that the role contained the minimum amount of cmdlets. RBAC provides even more granularity, and we can add or remove specific parameters from a cmdlet. Since some folks asked for examples on this topic here are a couple...
    on 16 Dec 2013

  • Blog Post: Exchange RPC Client Access Service Crash

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    RPC Client Access is the main conduit for Outlook clients communicating to Exchange 2010.  So when something happens to it, the impact can be classified as “not good”…..   While Exchange 2010 SP3 RU2 addresses issues with RPC Client Access that may be caused by RPC Client Access threads hanging...
    on 3 Sep 2013

  • Blog Post: Change DAG to DHCP

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    One of the great changes to Exchange 2010 SP1 was that a DAG static IP address can be set using the EMC. Prior to this in RTM the EMS had to be used to set a static IP. An example of this would be: Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup -Identity TailspinDAG1 -DatabaseAvailabilityGroupIpAddresses 192.168.2.150...
    on 24 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Exchange Security Update Available For MS13-105

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    To address the security issues present in bulletin MS13-105 all supported versions of Exchange 2007, 2010 and 2013 are receiving updates to allow customers to address the security vulnerabilities. Depending upon the version of Exchange the delivery method will vary. Exchange 2007 and 2010 provides updates...
    on 10 Dec 2013

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 SP2 RU7 Released

    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 of Patch Tuesday to resolve the security issues that...
    on 14 Aug 2013

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 SP3 RU3 Released

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU3 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. Update: 6-2...
    on 25 Nov 2013

  • Blog Post: 10 Ways To Keep Exchange Up

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    On the MSPFE TechNet blog there are a series of articles there that I wrote previously for OpsVault and will also feature some future guest blogging posts too.    You may have see the MSPFE tag on Twitter, MSPFE Handle or the MSPFE blogs on TechNet and MSDN .    One of these guest...
    on 15 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 Released

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Update 17-11-2012:  2010 SP2 RU5 is currently not available due to an issue with the update. Update 11-12-2012 2010 SP2 RU5v2 is now available.  Details are here . Exchange sustained engineering has released Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 to the Microsoft Download Center .   The list of fixes is...
    on 14 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: Allow Users To Manage Distribution Groups Without Creating New Ones

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    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 needs of most organisations it does introduce one...
    on 9 Aug 2013

  • Blog Post: DNS or SRV Record For DNS Based Exchange Autodiscover

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    For users and devices that need to use DNS to locate their Exchange Autodiscover endpoint, should I use a SRV record?  The above is a fairly common question, and it almost warrants the consultant’s answer.   CAS Namespaces As discussed by Ross Smith IV in his introduction to Exchange 2013 CAS...
    on 12 Sep 2013

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 RPC Client Access

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
      Perhaps the most significant change between Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 is the move to channel Outlook connectivity through the CAS role.  In Exchange 2007 Outlook would connect to the mailbox role, whilst other protocols (POP, OWA, IMAP etc.) would leverage the CAS role.   ...
    on 19 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 and SP3 Unable To Delete Messages

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Edit 30-5-2013:  Exchange 2010 SP3 RU1 has been released to address this issue.   Details and download are here .   Quick heads up on an issue from Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 and that is also in Exchange 2010 SP3.  After installing either of these updates, users may report that they...
    on 18 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2007 & 2010 Least Cost Routing

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Exchange 2007 & 2010 use a different message routing design than Exchange 2003.  This is an important aspect to understand when transitioning from Exchange 2003 upwards due to the change in behaviour.   TechNet has articles that discuses these concepts : Exchange 2010 http://technet...
    on 21 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Creating RBAC Role To Delegate Contact Management

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    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 objects in Active Directory. In their previous...
    on 7 Aug 2013

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 PowerShell 3.0 and WSUS

    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...
    on 18 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: ExMon – A Tool For Every Exchange Administrator

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Since it was first introduced the Exchange User Monitor (ExMon) tool is one of those outstanding Swiss army knife tools that are embedded in the Exchange administrator’s toolbox.  ExMon will allow administrators to see in almost real-time what the user activity on the server is, and how this impacts...
    on 17 Jul 2013

  • Blog Post: Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Released

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    This update contains a number of customer reported and internally found issues since the release of SP1 RU5. In particular we would like to specifically call out the following fixes which are included in this release: 2627769 Some time zones in OWA are not synchronized with Windows in an Exchange Server...
    on 2 Nov 2011

  • Blog Post: Patching Exchange? Don’t Overlook Outlook

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    When Microsoft performs an Exchange Risk Assessment Program ( ExRAP ) with a customer there are several work items related to patching. We discuss how the: Server hardware, firmware and drivers get updated Server OS gets updated Desktop OS gets updated AV gets updated Exchange Service...
    on 18 Jul 2013

  • Blog Post: Exchange RBAC Tips N Tricks - PowerShell

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Most of the time when working with RBAC in Exchange we are not using large scripts to create and manage roles. Generally we use one-liners to configure RBAC. So I thought it would be useful to post some of the ones that I find myself frequently using. As always please add a comment, or hit me up on the...
    on 18 Feb 2014

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5v2 Released

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
      The Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 update was removed from the download centre last month.  The V2 of this update is now available and resolves issues with the Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup cmdlets.  With the v1 of the update installed this error may have been observed: WARNING: An unexpected...
    on 11 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: Offline Defrag And DAG Databases, Oh My!

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    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 there was only a single copy of a database, running...
    on 23 Aug 2013