Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
On December 14, 2010 new Update RollUps for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 were released, here are the download links: Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 2 Exchange Server 2010 RTM Update RollUp 5 Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 Update Rollup 3 Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Update Rollup 5 The Update RollUp 3 ... Read more
If the installation of an Exchange service pack or the setup of Exchange complains that a restart of the server is still pending. However, if the server has just been restarted, a key is probably stuck in the registry. The problem can then be solved as follows: Exchange checks the following registry keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\UpdateExeVolatile HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations To tell Setup ... Read more
A white paper on Jetstress has been published in the Exchange Team Blog. The document describes how Jetstress can be used to determine and test the performance of mailbox servers. In my opinion, the white paper is well worth reading and contains useful information about the Jetstress tool. Here is the link to the document: http://msexchangeteam.com/files/12/attachments/entry456925.aspx
Shadow Redundancy is another way of ensuring high availability for the Exchange 2010 Hub Transport Server. The way it works is quite simple. If a user wants to send a mail, the mail lands in a queue on a Hub Transport Server. The Hub Transport Server then establishes an SMTP connection with an Edge Transport and sends the ... Read more
Microsoft has put the new version of the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer online. The website makes it easy to test the accessibility of the Exchange Server. New configurations or adjustments can be checked quickly. Here is the link: https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/
If you are performing an Exchange migration or simply want to move mailboxes to another database, you can use the Exchange 2010 move request. If you already want to move the mailboxes to the new server or database, but do not want to complete the move request yet so that Outlook 2003 does not have to be restarted, you can use the ... Read more
When users are deleted from the Active Directory, the Exchange mailboxes are not automatically deleted but disconnected. This means that the mailbox still exists in the database, but is no longer assigned to a user. If the user associated with a mailbox has only recently been deleted, the disconnected mailbox is not displayed directly in the ... Read more
Since AutoDiscovery, connecting Outlook to Exchange via the internal network has become child's play. However, if you also want to connect Outlook to Exchange via the Internet, you have several options. The most convenient way is certainly Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTPS), with this option Outlook connects to Exchange via port 443 (HTTPS). Read more
The DAG (Database Availability Group) is a new feature in Exchange 2010. In Exchange 2007 it was still difficult to ensure high availability for the mailbox role. However, the concept has been thoroughly revised with Exchange 2010 and now makes it easy for the administrator to ensure high availability for the mailbox servers. This article deals with the configuration of a ... Read more
If you want to change or add the display name for users, you can easily do this for individual or all users via the Exchange Management Shell. The attribute of the mailbox that contains the display name is called "DisplayName". This command can be used to display the current display names: Get-Mailbox -Database "Name of the mailbox database" |select Name,displayname If you now want to ... Read more
