Exchange 2010: Offline address book is not created / Update of address lists fails

When trying to update the Exchange address lists via Exchange Management Shell, you may receive this message: WARNING: The recipient "frankysweb.local/Microsoft Exchange System Objects/Schedule+ Schedule Information - Offline Address Book - First Administrative Group" is invalid and could not be updated. The message can occur for one or more address lists. The lists may have different names depending on the environment. This problem ... Read more

Exchange 2007, 2010, 2013: Setting up Windows Phone 8 for ActiveSync

To complete the setup of the Active Sync Clients, here are the instructions for Windows Phone 8. The instructions for the other smartphone operating systems can be found here: Android 4: https://www.frankysweb.de/?p=621 iOS, Android 2.X, Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile: https://www.frankysweb.de/?p=302 But now only setting up Windows Phone 8, by the way, I used the Windows Phone SDK ... Read more

Exchange 2013: Migration and coexistence / News

Exchange 2013 is already available to MSDN subscribers for download. However, it is not yet possible to migrate from previous Exchange versions. Service Pack 3 for Exchange 2010 and an update rollup for Exchange 2007 SP3 (announced for the first quarter of 2013) are still missing. A direct migration from Exchange 2003 will not be possible. ... Read more

Exchange 2007/2010: Active Sync and iOS6 Bug

A bug between iOS6 and Active Sync has been published on the Exchange Team Blog. It is recommended not to update to iOS6. The bug affects meetings in which iOS changes the owner of the meeting. The problem has already been reported to Apple, here is the complete article: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/10/23/ios6-devices-erroneously-take-ownership-of-meetings.aspx When the problem will be fixed by Apple is ... Read more

New Exchange update rollups published

Yesterday the update rollups for Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007 were published. Here you can download the latest URs: Exchange 2010 SP2 UR4v2: http://www.microsoft.com/de-de/download/details.aspx?id=34956 Exchange 2010 SP1 UR7v2: http://www.microsoft.com/de-de/download/details.aspx?id=34957 Exchange 2007 SP3 UR8v2: http://www.microsoft.com/de-de/download/details.aspx?id=34959 Here is also the reason why the update was re-released: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2749655 In addition to the problem mentioned above, this ... Read more

Exchange: New update rollups for Exchange 2007 and 2010 released

New update rollups for Exchange Server versions 2007 and 2010 are available: Exchange 2010 SP2 RollUp 4: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30478 Exchange 2007 SP3 Rollup 8: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30479 A list of changes can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2706690 and here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2734323

OABINTEG: Checking the integrity of the offline address book (OAB)

Although it is an "old" tool, it also works quite well under Exchange 2010, although there are a few limitations (it does not check the web-based publication of the OAB). Nevertheless useful to check the creation process of the OAB and especially to compare the OAB against the Active Directory. OABINTEG can be downloaded here ... Read more

Exchange 2007: Outlook 2010 constantly asks for login information

If Outlook 2010 constantly asks for logon information in an Exchange 2010 environment, the following procedure can help. If you have not already done so, you should first install the latest service pack and update rollup for Exchange 2007. Which rollup is current can be found here. If Outlook still asks for logon information after installing the updates for Exchange 2007, ... Read more

Exchange 2010: Exchange permissions incorrect or console does not open

But then I looked out of the laundry sparingly. I open the Exchange Management Console on an Exchange 2010 and want to make some configuration changes. But the console shows this message as soon as I open it: "Error trying to connect to the specified Exchange Server: ..." The message indicates an authorization problem, although the user ... Read more

Exchange 2007/2010: New update rollups published

The update RollUp 2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 has been released. The update can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de-de/details.aspx?familyid=6b2fb2d9-df78-4cef-8ea3-2a913a89ac4a A list with the included fixes can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2661854 Furthermore the update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 has been released, this rollup can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de-de/details.aspx?familyid=51d1079c-b5e2-418d-9431-0e556917c5de and also ... Read more