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As previously announced, Microsoft today release Service Pack 2 for Exchange 2010. Next to a few hundred hotfixes, the Service Pack includes the following enhancements and new features. Many Exchange administrators have been eagerly awaiting these new features, amongst the most important ones are: Hybrid...
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Microsoft just released the long awaited Service Pack 2 for Exchange 2010 . This update collects previous updates and brings some new functionality as well: Address Book Policies (a.k.a. Address List Segregation) Hybrid Configuration Wizard for Office 365 For more information about Exchange 2010 SP2...
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Introduction Recently, I got to a customer that wanted to protect access to Outlook Web App (OWA) with more than just the credentials of the user. At that moment they had already considered other options like using a token (e.g. RSA) or integrating a captcha on the OWA login form. However, these options...
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Introduction Exchange 2010 introduced the concept of Mailbox Database Copies in the scenario of a Database Availability Group. A Mailboxy Database Copy is – as the name might give away – a second (or third, or fourth…) copy of a mailbox database. Mailbox Database Copies are kept up...
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Introduction By default, users are allowed to update/change their personal information through the Exchange Control Panel. However, there might be good reasons for you not wanting your users being able making those changes. Role Based Access Control (RBAC) The ability to change your contact information...
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Microsoft just released Update Rollup 6 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1. This Update Rollup includes a lot of hotfixes for the following issues described in the following Microsoft KB articles: 2431609 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2431609/ ) An update is available that updates the message...
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Introduction When you try to install a new Exchange Server or if make an attempt to recover a failed server, you might run into the following error: This error occurs because the Scripting Agents CmdLetExtentionAgent is enabled but during installation the ScriptingAgentConfig.xml is not found...
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Introduction When we take a look at the past and the present of Exchange, we can definitely state that Microsoft has made great improvements when it comes to the aspect of storage. Although that configuring storage for Exchange Server 2010 might seem an easy task (and up to a certain degree it is an...
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Introduction Hi there! Following my previous blog post about Exchange 2010 and consumerization of mobile devices, I decided to create a little script that might help you find out what mobile devices are actually connecting to your Exchange 2010 environment. Step-by-Step First, I define the variables...
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What is ‘consumerization’? Recently, I was faced with some challenges during a migration to Exchange 2010 that could be contributed as a direct result of consumerization. Reason enough for me to write a blog post about it. First, let’s have a look at what “consumerization” actually means. According...
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Introduction Sometimes when adding member servers to a DAG you might encounter the following error message: “ Network name <DAG> is not online. Please check that the IP address configuration for the database availability group is correct “: Solution There are different reasons why you might...
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A little while ago, I was faced with the following error during Exchange 2010 SP1 setup at a customer: When getting an error during setup, it’s always a good idea to look in the Exchange Setup logs, that you can find under the system root (C:\ExchangeSetupLogs) In the ExchangeSetup log file, you...
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Introduction Recently I was asked to provide an overview of the amount of mails that flow in and out a specific mailbox during a specific timeframe. The purpose was to create some kind of ‘profile’ (baseline) out of this mailbox. Previously, this would typically have been information that you could...
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Today, Microsoft published Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 to the download center. The Update Rollup includes some fixes amongst which are: PDF attachments sent from a Mac Mail Client are not shown in OWA .zip-file download not always working Unable to delete a folder with a certain character...
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Introduction Imagine: the financial director just finished working on the quarterly results and decides to send them out to the different business unit managers for previewing before presenting them at the board. Unfortunately - willingly or by mistake – one of the managers forwards this mail to one...