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Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.2
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over 2 years ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) is a great tool to consolidate multiple RDP connections into a single window to prevent desktop clutter. The tool can be downloaded from here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang...
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Updated Exchange 2010 SCOM Management Pack – June 2012
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11 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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An updated System Centre Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Pack (MP) for Exchange 2010 has been released to the Microsoft download center . This is build 14.03.0038.004 of the MP. Edit 3-9-2012 Updated MP build 14.03.0038.004 released...
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Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 Released
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6 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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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...
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Required Hotfix For Windows 8 VM Running on Hyper-V 2008 or 2008 R2 Host
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over 1 year ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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EDIT 8-2-2013: A new update KB 2744129 has superseded the original KB 2526776 Please note that this new update now applies to Hyper-V 2008 and 2008 R2 -- the original was only for R2. If you are testing out Windows 8 as a VM which is...
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Exchange & The Autodiscover Web Service
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over 2 years ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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In the Exchange 2003 world and below, those administrators looking to automate and control the behaviour of MAPI profiles on user’s desktops quickly became familiar with tools like: ORK (Office Resource Kit) .PRF Files .OPS files (from the Office Profile...
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Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses On a Network Card
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over 1 year ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Edit: 24-1-2013 : A second article using PowerShell 3.0 is here Edit: 30-1-2013 – A third article is using advanced PowerShell 3.0 is here . The previous behaviour in Windows was to register all IP addresses that were entered on the...
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Exchange 2010 SP2 – What You Need To Know
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over 2 years ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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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...
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Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 Released
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3 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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It’s a busy day in the land of Exchange today, with updates for both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 is now available as update 2746164 . Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 is also released as part of Patch Tuesday to resolve...
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Exchange 2007 & 2010 Least Cost Routing
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over 2 years ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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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...
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Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5v2 Released
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5 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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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...
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Exchange 2010 Recommend DAG Update
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over 1 year ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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While working with a customer to resolve networking issues with their DAG last week I enquired if they had installed the recommended update for their DAG. They were not aware of the Exchange product group’s recommendation so I thought I’d...
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Updated PAL Tool 2.3.1 Released
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10 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Note: The follow-up can be found here : http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2012/07/19/using-pal-template-to-easily-capture-performance-data.aspx Clint Huffman Tweeted that he released an updated build of the PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs...
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Exchange 2013 Video Sessions From TechEd Australia 2012
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8 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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If you are looking to see the first public presentations on Exchange 2013, then look no further! Channel 9 has recordings from last week’s TechEd Australia. You can find these great sessions on Exchange 2013: Exchange Server 2013 High Availability...
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Monitoring Removal of Hyper-V AVHD Files
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10 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Have you used Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V; created a snapshot, deleted it and then wondered why the snapshot files are still hanging around? Like to know what to expect and the EventIDs that are associated with snapshot removal? Likely...
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Using A PAL Template To Easily Capture Performance Data
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10 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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I recently blogged about using PAL to analyse an existing performance monitor log file. That is great if you have an existing log, but what if this is not the case? How can we easily capture the correct counters in the log file? Again PAL can come to...
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Exchange 2010 PowerShell 3.0 and WSUS
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5 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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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,...
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Exchange 2013 RTM Now Available On TechNet
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6 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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If it wasn’t enough to be spoiled with the Exchange 2013 RTM help files being made available yesterday, now you can hit up TechNet and download the actual product. How neat is that? If you are reading this, why are you still...
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How to Fix: Log Parser – Log Row Too Long
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10 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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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...
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Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Released
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over 2 years ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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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...
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End Of Exchange 2010 SP1 Support
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4 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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The end of Exchange 2010 SP1 support is almost upon us! Is it really that long since Exchange 2010 SP1 was released Please review the lifecycle chart here for full details. So at this point please ensure that you...
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Exchange 2010 Cross Forest Mailbox Moves
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over 2 years ago
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Was discussing cross forest mailbox move operations with a customer last week to review the details around network requirements for remote move requests . This is as opposed to a local move request which is used within the same Exchange Organisation....
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End Of Exchange 2010 RTM Support
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over 2 years ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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The Exchange 2010 RTM (Release To Manufacturing) build has now reached the end of its support lifecycle. Customers should upgrade to SP1 to continue to receive support (amongst many other good reasons!). The Exchange 2010 lifecycle...
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Download Hyper-V Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
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over 1 year ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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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...
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Important Upcoming Certificate Changes
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8 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Please be aware that there is a pending change for the minimum key length for certificates with RSA keys. The private keys used in these certificates can be derived and could allow an attacker to duplicate the certificates and use them fraudulently...
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9 Free Microsoft Virtual Academy Courses
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6 months ago
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Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]
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Looking to ramp up on Windows 2012? Look no further then! Prepare for Windows Server 2012 with 9 free courses from @MSVirtualAcademy . You can also follow the #MVA tag to be part of conversation around this offering. ...
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