Category: 2010
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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…
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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…
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Exchange 2010 SP2 Prerequisites
To upgrade Exchange 2010 SP1 to SP2 requires the addition of an additional Windows server role that was not listed on the RTM and SP1 requirements. Therefore if you try an upgrade you will get errors about “IIS 6 WMI Compatibility” not being installed. To install this feature quickly on Windows Server 2008 R2, bring…
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Exchange Log Truncation Failure in a DAG
Today I visited a client who had noticed that no log files had ever been removed after any backup within Exchange 2010 SP1. It was fortuitous that they had enough log disk space for about eight months of log generations. The disadvantage was that we were four months into this time period, so it was…
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Office 365 Hybrid Coexistence and Edge Server
One of the delights in my job is when Microsoft give me a call and ask me how something works in one of their products! Such a call came today and it involved get Office 365 hybrid coexistence working with an Edge Server. Exchange Server Deployment Assistant does not have the answer to this issue;…
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Shadow Redundancy and Server Outages
Exchange Server 2010 has a feature that tries to ensure that emails in transport cannot be lost. This feature is called Shadow Redundancy and lots of information on how it works can be found on the Internet. But what happens if a mailbox server or site is unavailable? Items will queue in a single location,…
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How to Speed Up Hub Transport Server Selection
Install Exchange 2010 SP1! Installing the service pack fixes the round-robin selection process for remote hub transport servers in other sites (see Hub Transport Load Balancing) so that only the IP addresses of operational servers are used. Exchange 2010 runs on Windows 2008 (or 2008 R2) and this operating system supports IPv4 and IPv6. In…
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Formatting Get-ExchangeDiagnosticInfo
For the last blog post for today, this one looks at formatting the output of Get-ExchangeDiagnosticInfo as the XML that this cmdlet returns can be quite long. For example if you want to see if your server is in backpressure then you need to view the output of the ResourceMonitor component, but as this contains…
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Getting Exchange 2010 SP1 Diagnostics
New with Exchange Server 2010 SP1 is the Get-ExchangeDiagnosticInfo PowerShell cmdlet. This is not documented anywhere online, so I thought I would start a trend! Get-ExchangeDiagnosticInfo reports information on the information and status of Exchange Server as seen by individual processes. The information returned is in the form of a blob of XML data and…
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Hub Transport Load Balancing
In Exchange 2010 (not SP1) and Exchange 2007 there was no memory of unavailable transport servers and so the round robin method of load balancing across the hubs in the target delivery site or smarthosts used by connectors sourced to your current server was just that – round robin. Though if a server was unavailable…
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OWA and Moving Mailboxes to Office 365
Lets imagine a scenario where you are using an on-premises Exchange Server and users’ use Outlook Web App, and then you move some mailboxes to the Office 365 cloud with Hybrid Coexistence enabled. The user might not know their mailbox has been moved and so yesterday they went to https://mail.company.com/owa, but today they need to visit…
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Assign Specific Licences in Office 365 Via PowerShell
To add specific licences to users in Office 365 without using the portal, and to assign subsets of the licences available requires two things. First you need to enumerate the licences and licence service plans, then you need to assign the new plan you have created to your users. This can be performed in…
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Office 365 and Dynamic Distribution Groups
Updated Dec 8th 2011 to remove reference to LegacyExchangeDN In Office 365 with Hybrid Deployment, if you create Dynamic Distribution Groups on the on-premises Exchange organization, these objects are not replicated to Office 365 via DirSync. Therefore for mailboxes in the Office 365 cloud they will not see the Dynamic Distribution Group in their Global…
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Free/Busy Cross-Forest Working One Way Only
Or indeed, not working at all! I had the issue of it working one way only (On-Premise Exchange organization > Office 365) but the other way (cloud to on-premise) did not work at all. The answer is shown in this video http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/a16a9d39-416a-4b01-a88f-5ff511580424 This covers the reasons why Free/Busy (and the other federation features of MailTips,…
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CRM Router and Exchange 2010
To configure the CRM Email Router with Exchange 2010 you need to do the following. Not all of these points are clearly documented on the internet. Create a mailbox (CRM_Router@domain.com) Set password never to expire Ensure that the mailbox is not hidden from the address list Login to above mailbox Enable impersonation with the following…
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Publishing ADFS Through ISA or TMG Server
To enable single sign-on in Office 365 and a variety of other applications you need to provide a federated authentication system. Microsoft’s free server software for this is currently Active Directory Federation Server 2.0 (ADFS), which is downloaded from Microsoft’s website. ADFS is installed on a server within your organisation, and a trust (utilising trusted…
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Changing ADFS 2.0 Endpoint URL for Office 365
If you are configuring single sign-on for Office 365 then you will need a server running Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (ADFS 2.0). When you install this you are asked for a URL that acts as an endpoint for the ADFS service, which if you are publishing that endpoint through a firewall such as TMG…
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Delegate Approval for Meeting Requests Failing
If you require delegates to approval all room bookings in Exchange 2010 and you have the following two settings set to True then rooms will automatically be approved AllRequestOutOfPolicy: True AllRequestInPolicy: True To require that rooms are approved by the delegate regardless of when the room is booked set AllRequestOutOfPolicy to False. These settings require…
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Exchange 2010 Update Rollups and Error 1603
You download and begin to install an Exchange Rollup Update only to find after waiting ages for it do the NGen stuff it fails, and on watching it closely you notice it fails on stopping services. In the event log you are pointed at a website with information on verbose logging for MSI installations. But…
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.DLL Errors and Blackberry Enterprise Server
During a configuration of Blackberry Enterprise Server today I found that I was getting .DLL errors when trying to create a MAPI profile on the BES Server (v5.0.2) when running IEMSTest. Well it was not the usual stuff – it ended up being the alias that had been assigned to the BESAdmin account. The policy…
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Random Chinese Characters in Exchange 2010 SP1 Emails
I have been sent a few emails from a client that start like this: 格tml> 格ead> 猼tyle㰾!– .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Tahoma } –>⼼style> ⼼head> 㰊body class=’hmmessage’> The HTML characters repeat throughout the message, but not on every message, though those sent from Hotmail are typically affected (but it…