Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Today was one of those days... let's not go there. It caught me cold today. The monitoring of the Exchange environment was not running properly and the impending catastrophe was only noticed when it had already occurred. Within a few hours the Exchange log partition was full of transaction logs. When users reported that no more mails were being received and ... Read more
Note: This information resulted from a conversation and is therefore to be understood as an unfiltered transcript. The Exchange 2013 environment consists of the "All-in-One" Mailbox Server role and the CAS role, which has little in common with the 2010 CAS role. The CAS role in the sense of 2010 is also located on the Mailbox Server, which ... Read more
The long-awaited update for Sophos UTM was released today. Michel has published a detailed article with changes. With regard to Exchange, this feature is particularly interesting: WAF: Outlook Anywhere Passthrough Support 15089 Support for Outlook Anywhere via the Webapplication Firewall The Webapplication Firewall now supports Outlook Anywhere (RPCoverHTTPS). I will test it ... Read more
The out-of-office assistant can also be conveniently managed via Exchange Management Shell, so if a user has forgotten to switch on the assistant before going on vacation... Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration frank -AutoReplyState Enabled -InternalMessage "I'm not here" -ExternalMessage "Dear customer I'll be back soon" to switch off Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration frank -AutoReplyState Disabled You could also build a nice template, ... Read more
I have already reported on the logging of the Client Access service here. Today I had a specific case in which there were repeated connection errors or interruptions. I therefore created a script that extracts all errors from the RCA log into a CSV file. However, the script is in the category Quick & ... Read more
Hello dear readers, maybe some of you know my Exchange Reporter for Exchange 2010. Michael Kunesch has pointed out to me that there are some problems with Exchange 2013. According to feedback from some users, the update function and the installation are also a bit tricky. Since I have not found the time for a long time now to ... Read more
A simple Powershell command can be used to display the backup status of the mailbox databases Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | ft name,LastFullBackup,LastIncrementalBackup,BackupInProgress In this example, the time of the last full backup and the last incremental backup is displayed. It also shows whether the database is currently being backed up.
If you want to find out which users connect to the Client Access Server, you will find a corresponding log file on the CAS server under the path "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Logging\RPC Client Access" Here you will find corresponding logs which also contain the SID of the user who has connected to the CAS server This information can be important if, for example, ... Read more
In this article I describe the migration from Exchange Server 2010 to Exchange Server 2013. I have created the following test environment for the migration: Test environment DC01 is a Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller that provides the Active Directory forest "frankysweb.local". Exchange 2010 SP3 on Server 2008 R2 is installed on Server EX2010. The Service Pack 3 ... Read more
As previously announced, CU1 for Exchange 2013 was released today. The update now also supports coexistence between Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2007/2010. Details about the CU1 can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/04/02/released-exchange-server-2013-rtm-cumulative-update-1.aspx The Technet articles have not yet been updated. The CU1 includes the complete Exchange setup package. This means that existing Exchange 2013 ... Read more
