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Everything You Need to Know About Exchange Backups* - Part 3
* But Were Afraid to AskIn Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we looked at the fundamentals of Exchange backups using VSS, and the flow of an active DAG database backup.In Part 3 we break down how a...
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Managing The New Exchange
Last week, we announced The New Exchange. Today, we are excited to share its new, refreshed management experience.For folks familiar with Exchange 2010, there are 3 ways to manage Exchange: the...
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Using EAC to manage multi-forest Exchange deployments
Following our last article, introducing the new Exchange Administration Center (EAC), we follow up on how the new EAC makes it really easy to manage multi-forest Exchange deployments.As described in...
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Exchange Server 2010 Monitoring Management Pack re-released
The changes in the updated Exchange 2010 Monitoring Management Pack include:Fixes to Alerts – at times two events were logged for the same event. Ensure Correct Values are read. Log the event on local...
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RBAC: Walkthrough of creating a role that can wipe ActiveSync Devices
A question that has come up several times in recent months is: How do I create RBAC roles that present only very limited ActiveSync management functionality?Before we dive into the answer let us do a...
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The Cloud On Your Terms (PART II): Managing Hybrid
A brief history of hybrid managementThe release of Exchange Server 2010 brought with it a revolutionary new Cloud based service which we all know today as Exchange Online for Office 365. In the early...
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Managing High Availability with the EAC
You may have seen the introduction to the new Exchange Administration Center (EAC). The EAC is a unified Web-based portal for both on-premises and online Exchange deployments. Managing high...
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OAB in Exchange Server 2013
OAB HistoryOffline Address Books, fondly referred to as OABs, are a critical component in Exchange infrastructure for a long time now. An OAB is used by Microsoft Outlook clients in Cached Exchange...
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Decommissioning your Exchange 2010 servers in a Hybrid Deployment
Many organizations have chosen to configure a hybrid deployment with Exchange Online to take advantage of different features such as rich mailbox moves and cross-premises calendar free/busy sharing....
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Preserve mailbox data for eDiscovery using inactive mailboxes in Exchange Online
In Exchange Online and Exchange Server 2013, you can use In-Place Hold to preserve mailbox content for litigation or investigations. Many organizations also need to preserve mailbox data for users who...
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Preserving Activation Blocks After Performing DAG Member Maintenance
In Exchange 2010, when a database availability group (DAG) member needs service, it can be placed into maintenance mode. Exchange 2010 includes scripts the StartDagServerMaintenance.ps1 and...
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Use Exchange Web Services and PowerShell to Discover and Remove Direct...
Prior to Exchange 2007, there were two primary methods of implementing automated resource scheduling – Direct Booking and the AutoAccept Agent(a store event sink released as a web download for Exchange...
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Comparing public folder item counts
A question that is often asked of Support in regard to legacy Public Folders is whether they're replicating and how much progress they're making. The most common scenario arises when the administrator...
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Cross Org Availability using Federation Trust and Organization Relationship
Organizations often need to share availability (aka Free/Busy) information with other Exchange organizations. Depending on the version of Exchange Server you're on, there are different ways to do this....
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Accepted Domains, Safe Senders List and You
You may have noticed a change in the behavior of the Safe Senders list within Outlook starting in Exchange 2010. Users can no longer add accepted domains to Outlook’s Safe Senders list.Figure 1: Adding...
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Exchange 2010: Support for UPN credentials in OWA change password feature
Last year when we released Exchange 2010 SP1, we posted about the change expired password feature in Outlook Web App and how you can enable it by creating the ChangeExpiredPasswordEnabled registry...
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Configure Automatic Replies for a user in Exchange 2010
A user is out of office for some reason – on vacation, sick, on a sabbatical or extended leave of absence, or traveling to a remote location on business, and forgets to set an automatic reply, also...
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Exchange 2007 or 2010 EMC might fail to close with "You must close all dialog...
Update 10/21/11: There is now a fix for this issue. Please go here to learn how to get it.We wanted to write a blog post about an issue that some of you have reported to us, and has been discussed at...
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A fix for the interoperability issues between Exchange 2007 and 2010 EMC and...
Update 12/13/2011: Please note that starting with today, you do not need to call Microsoft Support to get the fix to resolve this issue. All that is required now is installation of December 13, 2011 IE...
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Demystifying the CAS Array Object - Part 1
Since its release in 2009, the interest in Exchange 2010 has been fantastic. While working with customers to educate them and prep them for moving to Exchange 2010, we've uncovered some common...
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