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If you are running Exchange 2010 in a virtualized environment, chances are that you are doing so in a cluster with multiple host servers; whether they are running VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V or any other’s vendor hypervisor. In this article, we will take a look at how to achieve this for Exchange...
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With Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2, the Hybrid Configuration Wizard was introduced which helps you hooking up your on-premise Exchange Server with Office 365. When the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) is ran, the following tasks are executed: Verifies if both your on-premise and cloud environments meet...
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One of my colleagues, Geert Gijsels , recently came across the following interesting issue. During the moves of different mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 (SP1) there was a mailbox that repeatedly failed at 10% throwing a “MapiExceptionNoSupport”-error. Together with the error, the following...
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When you migrate from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 you may have some problems with xml attachments. Al of a sudden xml attachments are send as application/xml mime type instead of text/xml. In our case the application was specifically looking for text/xml, and thus wouldn’t detect the attachment...
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By the end of last year, Microsoft released an update to fix a vulnerability in the .NET Framework. The vulnerability could lead to an unrightful elevation of privilege. More information about the patch can be found here: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS11-100 Microsoft’s Exchange Team has now fully tested...
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With Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft has changed their strategy on multi-tenancy. Before SP2 multi-tenancy was only supported using the Exchange 2010 hosting mode, but thanks to recent developments (Address Book Policies), you are now allowed to use the “normal” installation to create a multi...
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Hi! here’s the recording of my TechNet Webcast on Integrating Active Directory Rights Management Services with Exchange and Exchange Online. I do apologize for my hoarseness towards the middle and the end of the video. I hope you’ll enjoy it! Michael Session abstract: Integrating AD RMS with Exchange...
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Introduction Both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 are accompanied by a bunch of pre-created scripts that allow you to perform various tasks ranging from configuring some extra services to some basic reporting. These scripts reside in a “scripts”-folder within the Exchange installation folder and can...
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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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Microsoft released a blog post on the 20th November in which is explained how a short network communication failure might lead to the loss of quorum; bringing down all databases in the DAG (failover cluster). The reason this might happen is because the Cluster Service does not handle certain cluster...
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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...