Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
A script for detecting Active Sync problems has been published on the Exchange Team Blog. Troubleshooting Active Sync problems is a tedious task. This script can help, have a look at it: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/01/31/a-script-to-troubleshoot-issues-with-exchange-activesync.aspx
By default, Exchange 2010 only allows 2 simultaneous imports of PST files. This value can be adjusted to increase the import speed. However, care must be taken here so that the server is not brought to its knees. The CMDLet "New-MailboxImportRequest" uses the "Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Replication" service to carry out import processes. The same service is also used for moving ... Read more
The PST Capture tool has been published on the Exchange Team Blog. The tool can detect PST files in the organization and import them into Exchange Server 2010. I haven't tested it yet, but it sounds very helpful according to the documentation and the blog entry. If you want to have a look at it: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=28767 Documentation: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh781036.aspx
Auto Mapping was introduced with Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2010. Auto Mapping automatically connects a mailbox if the user has full access to this mailbox. The user did not have to do anything else, but could no longer hide the mailbox. To switch off Auto Mapping for a mailbox, there is now a parameter on ... Read more
The time after a user is automatically logged out of the Outlook Web App (OWA) session can be adjusted via the registry. Since there are two different security levels (public computer or private computer), there are also 2 registry keys that can be adjusted Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\MSExchange OWA] "PrivateTimeout"=dword:000001e0 "PublicTimeout"=dword:0000000f If the two upper values ... Read more
While browsing the vmWare site I found this really good Best Practices Guide: The document contains a lot of important information about Exchange 2010 and virtualization on vmWare products. Just browse through it, it's worth it.
Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 was released today. It can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=28190 In the next few days I will report in more detail about the Service Pack 2.
Microsoft has published a document which describes the Exchange schema extensions to the Active Directory. The Word document (packaged in an MSI file) can be downloaded here. The document also shows that Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 makes changes to the schema. The document contains the schema changes for Exchange Server 2003, 2007 and 2010. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=5401
On request, the script for the basic configuration has been extended by the function to generate an automatic certificate request. A few minor bugs have also been fixed. As always, feedback is welcome. The current version can be downloaded here: https://www.frankysweb.de/download/configure-exchange.v1.10.zip
Error 1053 (source: MSExchange ActiveSync) is logged if an attempt is made to access a mailbox of a domain administrator via Active Sync, or if inheritance has been deactivated on the Active Directory object for other reasons. To resolve the problem, inheritance must be re-enabled for the respective user account or the correct permissions must be ... Read more
