Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
My blog has now moved to a new hoster, availability and performance have made this step necessary (primarily availability). My blog is now hosted at Strato and Strato offers a nice feature that makes it much easier for me to use the Exchange web services. First, let me tell you a bit about the technology that ... Read more
If you only want to allow Active Sync for certain users, you can let a script do the work for you. This small script initially deactivates Active Sync for all mailboxes and then only activates it for the mailboxes in the file "user_with_activesync.csv". Contents of the file "set-activesyncuser.ps1" Set-ADServerSettings -ViewEntireForest $true get-mailboxdatabase | get-mailbox | Set-CasMailbox -ActiveSyncEnabled $false ... Read more
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
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
In this article, I have already described the setup for different smartphone types. Now I will also present the setup for Android 4. The first steps are self-explanatory, switch to the menu and select "Email" In the "Account Setup" dialog, you can enter the email address and password for the Exchange mailbox. Next ... Read more
In this article, I described how to set up current smartphones for Active Sync with Exchange 2010. When setting up the Windows Mobile smartphones, I encountered a problem that can have unpleasant consequences for the administrator. I had set up my test environment as follows: Computer EX1 is a Multi Role Exchange Server with the ... Read more
Not only Outlook is often used as an Exchange client, but also smartphones such as the iPhone or smartphones with Android or Windows Phone as the operating system. However, there are sometimes stumbling blocks when setting up smartphones. I would therefore like to describe how to set up current smartphones in this article. Setting up Windows Phone 7 for Exchange: For the ... Read more
