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  • 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 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 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: 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: 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: How To Automate NetMon Captures

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    When troubleshooting various Exchange issues it can be very beneficial to get a network capture to look at the actual packets going over the wire. For example when looking at Outlook connectivity issues we can enable Outlook client logging and RPC Client Access Logging on the Exchange Server. Both are...
    on 27 Jan 2014

  • Blog Post: How To Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell–Part 1

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    As a Microsoft Exchange Server focused Premier Field Engineer I spend a considerable amount of my time with customers at their work place and also when they attend training courses and workshops that I deliver. Naturally people want to talk and learn about the cool new features in Exchange 2007 and Exchange...
    on 31 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Install Desktop Experience On Windows Server 2012

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Update 28-10-2013: Added PowerShell example to install Desktop Experience While working with one of my consulting colleagues recently on some Windows Server 2012 installations. There was an application requirement to install Media Player onto a couple of the servers. This met with some muttering...
    on 11 Jul 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: Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell-Part 3

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    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 found as follows: How To Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity...
    on 19 Jul 2012

  • Blog Post: Outlook & Restricting DAG Cross-Site Connections

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    EDIT: This feature is now live in the Exchange 2010 SP2 RU3 build of Exchange. Will add a post about this change at a future date . This post is to clarify that a previously discussed feature that was intended for Exchange 2010 SP1 is not in the SP1 final build. The feature I am referring...
    on 21 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Time To Move To SkyDrive From Mesh

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Just in case anyone is still procrastinating about moving over from Mesh to SkyDrive , please note that Mesh will be retired next week on Wednesday February the 13th 2013 .    Believe it or not, but it was back in 2008 when Mesh was released.  Time certainly flies, and the capabilities...
    on 8 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses–Part Deux

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    30-1-2013 Edit – Link to part 3 is here .   In the Exchange 2007 and 2010 world there are definite scenarios where there is a need to add multiple IP addresses to a server so that we can assign specific IP addresses to different web sites.  However we do not want clients resolving the Exchange...
    on 30 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 Tweaks

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Kris Waters, one of my great colleagues from the US, originally posted a really neat list of items which can mitigate issues found in a lot of large scale Exchange deployments. Please take the time to review her post here . There are a lot of valuable pointers in her blog, so definitely check it out...
    on 20 Nov 2013

  • Blog Post: Creating RBAC Role To Delegate Editing Contacts

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Previously we discussed how to customise Exchange 2010 RBAC to delegate creating mail enabled contacts . The intent of that original post was to allow for the for creation of simple mail enabled contacts that would facilitate sharing the SMTP address of a person outside the Exchange organisation. Marc...
    on 21 Nov 2013

  • Blog Post: Download Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    This tool has been out for a while, but have seen multiple customers not leveraging it on their Hyper-V servers as it is not installed by default on Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V hosts. It is particularly useful for ensuring that the integration components inside the VM are the correct version...
    on 8 May 2012

  • Blog Post: 6 Mistakes To Avoid With Exchange 2013 CU Command Line Installations

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    The syntax to install Exchange Cumulative Updates (CU) via the command line is pretty straight forward. However there are some common themes that still pop up in the TechNet forums, cases and customers that I speak with. So I wanted to discuss some of the issues that can and will arise. There are a range...
    on 5 Dec 2013

  • Blog Post: How to Fix: Log Parser – Log Row Too Long

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    The Microsoft Log Parser is a trusted and venerable tool to have when you are analysing log files. One issue that does come up when analysing larger Performance Monitor files is that of the default buffer setting in Log Parser. Typically you will see an error message saying “log row too Long”...
    on 5 Jul 2012

  • Blog Post: How To Import Windows 2008 R2 VM To Windows 2012 or 8.1 Using Boot To VHD

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    One of the popular topics lately has revolved around the Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machines To Import error. This issue can arise when we try and import a VM into Windows Server 2012 R2 or 8.1 which was originally exported from Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2. Such exported VMs from 2008 or 2008 R2...
    on 2 Dec 2013

  • Blog Post: Windows Service Log On As Inventory

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    At a recent engagement a customer wanted to quickly scan through multiple servers to easily determine which services were set to log on as non-standard accounts, i.e. ones like network service, and local service were OK, but which ones were using an Active Directory logon for example? They also wanted...
    on 29 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: How To Check Exchange Rollup Version

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Back with the first few releases of Exchange, product updates were made available via service packs.  This continued into the Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 days.  It seems like an eternity ago, and dinosaurs were still roaming the Earth, when Exchange 2003 SP2 was released in October of 2005...
    on 29 Oct 2013

  • Blog Post: Forefront Update Page

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    One issue that is often encountered on Exchange engagements is that of maintaining the update level of other applications in the environment. This can relate to backup software, management software in addition to just the Exchange server’s service pack and rollup version. To assist with keeping...
    on 23 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: How To Tweak Your TechNet Forum Signature

    Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
    Since I have been asked a few times about how I pimped tweaked my TechNet Forum signature I thought it would be prudent to write it up here. This was one of the main drivers for creating this blog in the first place – so I could avoid having to write the same email several times and instead it would...
    on 31 Jan 2013