Category: update

  • Centrally Managing Microsoft 365 Apps Updates

    Centrally Managing Microsoft 365 Apps Updates

    It used to be the domain of 3rd party enterprise apps or Microsoft’s Configuration Manager to control the updates (or servicing) of your Microsoft Office apps (now called Microsoft 365 Apps). With recent additions to the Office Configuration Portal at https://config.office.com you can have central admin of updates including groups to deploy and in which…

  • bin/ExSMIME.dll Copy Error During Exchange Patching

    I have seen a lot of this, and there are some documents online but none that described what I was seeing. I was getting the following on an upgrade of Exchange 2013 CU10 to CU22 (yes, a big difference in versions):      The following error was generated when “$error.Clear();           $dllFile = join-path $RoleInstallPath “bin\ExSMIME.dll”;           $regsvr…

  • Placing Exchange 2013 Into Maintenance Mode

    Updated 5 Feb 2013 to include Redirect-Message cmdlet Exchange 2013 has a feature called Managed Availability. This feature detects issues with a server and in the event of an issue attempts to fix the component at issue. Fixes range from simple restarts of the component (for example restarting the service) to doing what is called…

  • HTTPS Load Balancer Issues with Exchange 2010 SP2

    When you install Service Pack 2 (and maybe SP1 too) on Exchange 2010 it resets the SSL flag on the root directory of the IIS website. You might have removed this setting for a number of reasons, mainly to do with having a HTTP to HTTPS redirect, but it can also be removed if you…

  • Shadow Redundancy Promotion Disabled After Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2

    Shadow Redundancy Promotion Disabled After Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2

    One of the new features added in Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 was called Shadow Redundancy Promotion. Service Pack 1 creates a setting in EdgeTransport.exe.config to control the behaviour of this setting, and it defaults to a value of “False”, so that the feature is turned off. Enabling Shadow Redundancy Promotion is done by…

  • Update Rollup # For Exchange Server 2007

    Blog updated 22nd February 2008 As Microsoft plan to release Update Rollups for Exchange Server 2007 every six to eight weeks (see KB937194), I will use this blog entry to list the current latest update: The latest version of the Exchange 2007 update is Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 – this can be…